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Bradley coaches were in Chicago at Simeon High School today to watch their players work out. Michigan State, DePaul, Toledo, Northwestern, and Northern Arizona were also there.
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Simeon: Evan Gilyard, Kezo Brown, Talen Horton-Tucker, Kejuan Clements, Marquis Brown, Messiah Jones, and a few others from Class of 2019, 2020 that are already getting attention.
Great to see our staff already watching and evaluating kids who are still just sophomores & freshmen - working 3-4 years ahead....instead of settling for late pick jucosLast edited by tornado; 09-21-2016, 10:27 AM.Comment
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More talent that our coaches are checking out...
"UW Milwaukee, Bradley and Belmont were in today to watch 2018 6'6 Wing Aaron Henry ...(Ben Davis/Team Harris)"
Aaron Henry - Iowa and Michigan State have also been in recently to watch him..
Marcus Santos-Silva chooses VCU - so that's two top targets we've lost to them in the past yearLast edited by tornado; 09-21-2016, 08:12 PM.Comment
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Former Bradley commit Michael Tucker, a sophomore at John A. Logan (juco)Originally posted by tornado View Post
has been named Preseason 1st Team All American by the Sporting News.
John A. Logan was ranked 12th
.....wonder if Bradley's still looking at him...Comment
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To put it politely, Bradley does not have the resources to recruit a first-team JC player. This is assuming he lives up to the hype.Comment
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as I noted elsewhere, because Michael Tucker was REPORTED to have committed to Hutchinson Junior College in January 2014 then enrolled at Georgia Perimeter junior college back in 2014, it is possible he may have a Chris-Blake-like or Taylor-Brown-like loss of NCAA eligibility - and if so it might hurt his recruiting...
I guess time will tell.Comment
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Wasn't Tramique Sutherland a 1st team JC AA? Why does a kid from Georgia end up at a juco in IL? There are plenty of good jucos around the country. If we're still interested in the kid I'd think we have a chance at re-recruiting him to BU. If limited eligibilty is the issue he'd make a great one or two year "hired gun" to get Wardle's team into contention next year. Don't discount Bradley's (and our top alum$) "re$ource$".Originally posted by LongTimeFan View Post
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no, despite his performance, Tramique was somewhat overlooked, and was not 1st Team, 2nd Team, nor 3rd Team
All American...but did receive Honorable Mention NJCAA All American status.
Cellus was 1st Team NJCAA All American
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Michael Tucker isn't actually a real All American yet either. This was just the preseason All American list compiled by The Sporting News, a publication that doesn't even follow or report much on Juco basketball.
But if he does end up in the MVC, SIU might have a bit of an advantage. John A. Logan CC is located just 7 miles from SIU, and the head basketball coach there is Kyle Smithpeters, who is also the older brother of SIU junior Tyler Smithpeters.
John A. Logan CC will also have another former Bradley recruit on their roster this season. Raymond Doby, a 6'6" forward, was a 2014 recruit of Geno Ford from Christian Brothers HS in St. Louis. He then went to Montrose Christian HS in Maryland for his senior year, supposedly to get more exposure. Then he committed to DePaul. However, he fell short academically, and went to St. John's Northwest Military Academy in Wisconsin to improve his grades and became a 2015 recruit. He eventually recommitted to Oliver Purnell and DePaul, but when Purnell was fired, he reopened his commitment. He then committed to South Carolina, and spent the 2015-16 there. He played very little there his freshman year, so he decided to leave, and is now enrolled at John A. Logan and will be a 2017 juco recruit. -
John A. Logan will be very good this year. They are ranked 12th nationally in a preseason ranking, also by The Sporting News.
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As noted on the Recruiting board, one of Bradley's top 2017 recruits, Elkgin Larkin's Christian Negron suffered a torn ACL and will likely miss his senior season. Just recently, Christian had announced he trimmed his list to 5 schools, one of which was Bradley.Comment
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Terrible news, one of the best players in the state...and BU has a shot at him....
Now he'd likely have to prove he's doing well & recovering next spring or summer if he hopes to get a DI scholarship...Comment
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There is an interesting debate emerging....
one of the arguments to allow MORE summer & offseason workouts and earlier STARTS to practices in various sports like what we've seen in college basketball...
is that the extra conditioning should REDUCE these injuries...and also one of the arguments to allow more AAU tourneys - is that it will KEEP them more fit & in better shape and reduce serious ACL injury...
Sadly serious ACL injuries are sharply on the rise and now after years of encouraging athletes to do MORE year-round conditioning, it might just be that the year-round conditioning "fix" that's being pushed is actually responsible for much of the 300-400% rise in serious injuries.
"Experts" are pretty divided on this...
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Updated to mention those with reported Bradley offers - if anyone knows of offers not listed- let me know
2017
Damir Hadzic - Bradley has reportedly offered, talented 6-9 forward - also holds offer from FGCU (see above)
Thomas Pupavac - offered - we sent one of our coaches all the way to Australia to check this guy & others out so this offer must be serious!
Christian Negron - new offer from BRADLEY - LINK
Ryan Stipanovich - VERBALLED to Bradley on 8/16/16 - just offered on 7/26/16 by Bradley
Romon Douglas-Watkins - I moved him up on the list because of a recent mention - LINK - but he will probably lose a lot of offers/interest due to injury
Yaakema Rose - Springfield point guard- no report of offer yet
Melo Burrell
Elijah Joiner - getting numerous offers- Bradley has reportedly offered - LINK
Zach Gunn- prob kinda off the board as he's got offers from Purdue & Indiana
Aundrae Williams
Ra Kpedi
Manuel Patterson - just visited Milwaukee, UIC
Darien Jackson - new video
Isaiah Coleman - now goes by Isaiah Coleman-Lands - brother of Illini player
Evan Gilyard
Michael Tucker - Invited to a TOP 100 Juco Camp this weekend - LINK - was previously offered and signed but I doubt current staff has offered
Will drop from list:
Devin Whitelow - verbals to Winona State
2018
Gaven Pinkley - visiting Bradley today, August 17, 2016!
Bailey Dee - just visited Bradley on 8/9/2016
De'Avion Washington - just visited Bradley but our guys have been on him since last summer - LINK- no offer yet
Naseer Turner - also visiting on August 27, 2106
Eric Hunter
Hunter White
Lacey Watson
Torrence Watson - just offered - LINK
Kevin Easley - recently confirmed his Bradley offer - LINK - LINK
Chase Adams - has new highlight video - LINK - still a good PG option for 2018, and Bradley has reportedly offered - LINK
Kezo Brown - already getting big time offers - here's a new story - this report says Bradley has offered
Then a bunch of new names that Bradley is watching - Tyree Martin, Treavon Martin, Talen Horton-Tucker, Mitch Listau, Carlos Curtis, Xavier Castaneda - more info on all of them here --> LINK
2019
Michael Moreno - just visited and got offered August 27, 2016
Sydney Curry - Bradley has offered - LINKLINK
Luther Taylor
Cyrus Alexander
Chol Marial - friend of Koch Bar, rated #1 in Class of 2019
**** Class of 2019 Chol Marial recently played at the Adidas Nation and was playing for an African team vs. the TOP US 2017 players-
so he was facing the very best kids two years older...and still had a great game - 8-9 from the floor, 18 pts, 9 rebs, 3 blk - LINKComment
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