Stumbled across this when watching some Saluki videos last night, Mike Reis has a YouTube channel and has uploaded a few classic videos from football/basketball.
This one on the 2002 basketball season is great:
1999 feature on Mike Reis:
FYI, Mike Reis posted more videos.
2002-03 SIU Basketball Highlights:
2003-04 SIU Basketball Highlights:
2003-04 SIU Senior Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOATF8wzSRk&t=219s
2005-06 SIU Basketball Highlights:
He's been adding vids nonstop lately. This is a classic. 2004 at the Arena, SIU-Badley.
Proud Saluki, living and working in Kansas State territory. 🤔
He's been adding vids nonstop lately. This is a classic. 2004 at the Arena, SIU-Badley.
DB, the ex-quarterback, throws a perfect pass to Sly! Even though I was there, it is so melancholy to watch and hear this, and remember what was.
Go Bryan.
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Why were fans rushing the floor in the first place? Was Bradley ranked at the time?
If you're gonna reply to me in the forums, please quote what I wrote that you're replying to so I have a clue...thanks! 😀
Why were fans rushing the floor in the first place? Was Bradley ranked at the time?
No, Bradley was not ranked, but we were. I think it was simply due to the nature of the dramatic ending.
This put SIU 1 win away from being the first team to ever run the table with an 18-0 conference season in the MVC. Unfortunately, UNI took us to the woodshed the next game in Cedar Falls to move us to 17-1. And Wichita St later went on to accomplish the feat with one of their VanVleet/Baker squads.
Ooohh. I remember that game, I was there. I remember we built a BIG halftime lead. Like 20 points or something. When Bradley whittled the lead down to like 5-ish Painter was so pissed going into a time out, he threw a clipboard down so hard it sounded like a gun going off. The poor clipboard shattered.
"The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe." ~Dr. Leonard H. McCoy
I was right by the basket where the buzzer beater happened. It's like that team lost it at halftime of the Bradley game and never got it back
