This week's Player of the Week & Newcomer of the Week

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Warren Jones was likely the frontrunner for both awards until Saturday night...

The Player of the Week - Evansville DJ Balentine
Newcomer of the Week - Warren Jones - LINK

Congrats to Warren on his first weekly award!

[LongTimeFan]

It is great to see a Bradley player honored in either of the two categories.

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Warren has been a bright spot....

but what if.....

Even if it doesn't take any longer than expected for his foot to heal....if he comes back and plays even ONE second of playing time after the mid-point of the season - then he'd be disqualified from requesting a medical redshirt for this season.
(January 7 - the earliest Jones would be projected to be recovered & return -
is our 16th game and would be PAST the midpoint of the season)

Then, let's say for the sake of argument - that Bradley is doing poorly at that stage ...maybe a few bad losses have us sitting at 5-10 or 4-11....

and we just obviously aren't going anywhere this season...

Then.............FWIW ...just conjecture....
wouldn't it be reasonable -- even kinda smart to NOT bring Jones back in a hurry just to watch us finish 10-21...
Since next year should be such a better year with so many guys coming back as seniors - and Amerson available...
Wouldn't it be a consideration to save Warren and get two more years out of him starting in 2015-16? Just sayin'....

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This weeks NATIONAL midmajor Player of the Week is Evansville's DJ Balentine
..so I suspect he might also win the MVC Player of the Week

http://www.midmajormadness.com/2014/12/15/7391897/mid-major-madness-player-week-evansville-balentine-new-hampshire-leissner

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The MVC Player of the Week is Wichita's Darius Carter
The Newcomer of the Week is Loyola's Earl Peterson

http://cdn.streamlinetechnologies.com/mvc/53539AA2-BC37-492E-B5F3-44783420882F/Dec_15_2014.pdf

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Updated for this week

Player of the Week - Evansville's Egidijus Mockevicius
Newcomer of the Week - UNI's Paul Jesperson