Former SIU star Bryan Mullins looking to play pro in Europe

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Bryan Mullins' older brother Brandan apparently to take a grad asst. position at UW-Green Bay...

his dad seems to be confirming it via twitter

http://twitter.com/wolves10/status/3537758519

Brendan graduated 04-05 St. Michael's University

http://www2.smcvt.edu/athletics/basketball/Men%27s%20Basketball/Player%20Bios/Mullins0405.htm

then was grad asst. at Mercyhurst since then...

http://hurstathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/mullins_brendan00.html

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Bryan Mullins' Irish squad ends their group play with a loss to Slovakia 75-68

Bryan had a good game with 18 pts, 4 rebs, 3 asst, and 3 steals.
Slovakia shot better form 3-pt as Ireland seemed to win every other aspect..

http://www.eurobasket2009.org/en/cid_toT,ovGDH2EaLKL67XnPo2.gameID_6333-C-19-10.compID_qMRZdYCZI6EoANOrUf9le2.season_2009.roundID_6327.teamID_305.html#{5E70D78D-E480-4F66-9B60-839D032EE21A}

Bryan Mullins' final 4-game stats...16.3 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 4.5 apg

http://www.eurobasket2009.org/en/cid_toT,ovGDH2EaLKL67XnPo2.teamID_305.compID_qMRZdYCZI6EoANOrUf9le2.season_2009.roundID_6327.playerID_79050.html

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Not sure if the Drake folks know this, but Mullins and Oguchi weren't the only Valley players who were overseas playing International ball with another country.

Drake's newcomer Frank Wiseler played in one tournament for small European countries, played in Cyprus--

http://www.godrakebulldogs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=71122&SPID=8121&ATCLID=3745409&DB_OEM_ID=15700

Wiseler played in four of his team's five games during the tournament...
He totalled 49 minutes of play, was 3-9 (33%) on 2-pt FG's, 2-6 (33%) on 3-pt FG's, and 3-5 (60%) on FT for a total of 15 pts.
He also had 7 assists, 6 steals, and 9 rebounds.
Other teams in the tourney included Iceland, Andorra, Malta, Republic of San Marino, Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Cyprus.
Luxembourg ended up finishing 3-2, losing to Andorra & Cyprus.
But the system to award medals was complex...and since Luxembourg tied Andorra with identical 3-2 records, the tiebreaker was point differential.
Luxembourg had a point differential of +41, while Andorra had +28, thus Luxembourg takes Silver and Andorra gets Bronze despite beating Luxembourg head-to-head.
Cyprus won the Gold at 5-0.

btw-- as with many Euros...Wiseler is at least 20+ years old already before ever playing his first collegiate game as a freshman at Drake.

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Lucca Staiger has 7 pts. in Germany's Eurobasket qualifier win over Russia

http://www.eurobasket2009.org/en/cid_toT,ovGDH2EaLKL67XnPo2.gameID_6365-B-3-2.compID_qMRZdYCZI6EoANOrUf9le2.season_2009.roundID_6328.teamID_.html#{5E70D78D-E480-4F66-9B60-839D032EE21A}

Gal Mekel had 1 pt, 2 asst in Israel's loss to Macedonia