Bradley Scout has 2015-16 Bradley basketball PREVIEW

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This is actually pretty good -and they have scooped the rest of the local media with this feature!

Big changes - just like what the Cubs did a couple years ago - with great results now...
"A good parallel to what we’re trying to do at Bradley is the Chicago Cubs,” Wardle said."

http://www.bradleyscout.com/sports/nothing-was-the-same-mens-basketball-preview/

Preview of the entire MVC - he actually does not pick Bradley 10th!
But -- here's where the guy misses, IMO...

http://www.bradleyscout.com/sports/mens-missouri-valley-conference-predictions-shockers-to-claim-mvc-title-for-third-consecutive-season/

There are these comments...
-"senior guards Fred Van Vleet and Ron Baker, who are consensus future NBA players"
-"The transfer of fan favorite Reggie Lynch left a hole, not only in the hearts of fans, but in the backcourt as well"
-"Evansville "senior center Egidijus Mockevicius anchors the backcourt"
- Coach Ben Jacobson..."he’ll have the Panthers competing for the MVC tournament title. However, they might be good enough for an NIT bid."
-"With no transfers, dismissals or injuries, the Sycamores return the same team from last year" (WHAT??? They lost several KEY players - Starters Justin Gant, Jake Kitchell, part-time starters Tre Bennett & TJ Bell, and key reserve Alex Etherington)
-"Drake Bulldogs - Here’s where the massive drop in talent is."
(Drake actually returns a lot of their young talent & a few veterans..Reed Timmer, Jacob Enevold, Rivers, Arogundade, Madison, Kuentsling..)


Feature about Ka'Darryl Bell, the only player recruited during the entire Geno Ford era that actually stayed four years

http://www.bradleyscout.com/sports/bells-last-hurrah/

Bradley Women's Basketball Preview

http://www.bradleyscout.com/sports/back-to-the-drawing-board-womens-basketball-preview/

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Here's an interesting story on eligibility issues...

http://zagsblog.com/articles/calipari-miffed-over-skal-labissiere-firestorm/

and one comment from Kentucky's John Calipari shows an amazing amount of either naivete or stupidity...

Calipari is miffed that NCAA is taking a close look at the eligibility of one of his star players - a kid who is a future #1 NBA Draft pick..
Skal Labissiere

Calipari says that the NCAA is out to get him and then...
"Calipari also said that only the “best players” get reviewed by the NCAA.
The 6-foot-11 Labissiere is projected as the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft by DraftExpress.com.
“Every year we’ve been here, players go through the review. You won’t believe this: it’s always the best players that get the review.”

What?? Excuse me?? How about all the players & recruits who have gotten reviewed and even denied at Bradley?
Daniel Ruffin, John Wilkins, Jermaine Brown, Michael Ochereobia, Daniel West, Macari Brooks, Manual Cass, Kendahl Amerson and many others...even AJ Riley...
and plenty of kids at other schools - Wichita's Ehimen Orukpe and Earl Watson...
ISU's MiKyle McIntosh and Deontae Hawkins...

Come on Calipari - come down off your throne and talk sense - you're not the only program who has these issues with NCAA!!
This kid has been to multiple high schools, has lived with various "guardians" who are also his coaches & advisors, and the kid has had all his expenses - school expenses, living expenses, food, clothes, travel, even entertainment expenses - PAID FOR HIM by AAU middlemen and influential, connected people for the past FIVE years!!
Of course the NCAA is going to look at that -- shouldn't they???

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I'm afraid that it is going to be harder for Bradley. Unfortunately, Bradley can't have its pick from among the best recruits due to the previous year's poor record. Also we can't give international players large contracts.

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more from BU Scout

http://www.bradleyscout.com/sports/basketball-briefs-gearing-up-for-the-start-of-the-season/

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Sports Illustrated has a preview and ranks every team 1 thru 351
Bradley is 292, Wichita 7, Illinois 53, Evansville is 62, ISU 84, UNI 85, Loyola 120,
Indiana State 136, SIU 148, Missouri State 183, Ball State 185, Drake 253, WIU 307
...dead last at #351 is Grambling State

http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/11/03/every-team-college-basketball-ranked-north-carolina-kentucky-kansas

BTW - check out this story on Grambling State...
There is a law in the State of Louisiana that's meant for governmental agencies, to prevent elected officials from hiring & paying all their family members...
..known as an "anti-nepotism law"....saying...
"members of the immediate family of an agency head may not be employed in the agency."

But now someone's complained because one of the Grambling State football coaches hired his son on the coaching staff..
..so the "Louisiana Board of Ethics" has to investigate!!! OMG - scandal!!!!

Grambling - btw - is having a great football season - 6-0 and in the hunt for league title!!
Could this whole thing be political??

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another Preview from the Pantagraph writer - nothing new although a couple things worth noting...
"Milton Doyle ...missing 12 games last season with ankle problems"
..- the shoulder was also responsible

"(big loss) starting center TJ Bell" - could be a big loss but he only started 5 games, averaging 12 min per game/3 ppg

"Missouri State returns all five starters" - well, if you don't count one of their fulltime starters, all-MVC & top scorer Marcus Marshall!

http://www.pantagraph.com/sports/college/basketball/men/missouri-valley-capsule-breakdown/article_6a9f0117-d040-51b5-9b8e-eb57122c638b.html