Bradley's 2018-19 Schedule

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Cancun Challenge added.....


(Events in RED are confirmed & on the calendar)

Preseason:
Sunday July 29 at 5pm - the final day of the last DI recruiting Evaluation Period
Tuesday July 31 - Saturday August 4, 2019 - FOREIGN TOUR to England & Netherlands, two games in London & Amsterdam

Tuesday September 25 - Basketball practices CAN begin but it depends on the date of the the first scheduled game.
Teams are allowed to begin practicing six weeks (42 days) before the date of their first scheduled game - LINK

ITOO Supper - yet to be scheduled
Red-White scrimmage - yet to be scheduled

SATURDAY October 27, 2018 at 5pm Bid for the Braves Auction @ the Renaissance Coliseum. (Halloween Costume party) - LINK

Non-Conference:
Season officially begins Tuesday November 6 - earlier than ever before - LINK - but like last year, not all teams will have games scheduled on that date

Tuesday-Wednesday November 20-21, 2018 - Cancun Challenge - possibly vs. SMU in Game 1 (not confirmed)
Other teams include Penn State & Wright State, games played @ Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya Convention Center in Cancun
Bradley will also get two other non-conference home games TBD

One of the home games from the Cancun Challenge is said to be Jacksonville State - date/Time TBD- they were one of the best teams in the OVC

November 28, 2018 - Wednesday Bradley @ IUPUI
November Tournament is being planned - details pending
-Home game vs. Chicago State (with probably another one in 2019)
-Home game vs. SEMO
-Home game vs. Eastern Illinois?* - *There is a report of a home game with EIU but I have never seen that confirmed as a 2-for-1
-Away game vs. Georgia Southern & maybe UALR
-reports of a November Tourney

-SATURDAY December 1, 2018 (time to be determined) Home game - MVC/MWC Challenge- New Mexico at Bradley


Conference:
-18 game Conference schedule then MVC Tournament in March 2019[/QUOTE]

[Da Coach]

For what it's worth, I have heard that Bradley is tentatively planning to participate in a warm-weather early-season tournament, but nothing has been officially announced yet.

Again, as in every case in the past, it is obvious our sources are very good. We posted here ten days ago that Bradley would be playing in "a warm-weather early-season tournament", and many of the members here knew about it even earlier via Private Messages that I have sent out.

Bradley to participate in 2018 Cancun Challenge-

https://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=825139806#post825139806

Note that among the many other stories we broke, we also had the story about Bradley playing in a summer tour a month and a half before it was announced by anyone else!-

http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=27549

[battlebasset]

Can anyone provide a link for the London and Amsterdam tourny?

[Da Coach]

Can anyone provide a link for the London and Amsterdam tourny?

It is not a tournament, and there isn't any website that has information. In fact, Bradley has not yet confirmed or made any official announcement about this tour. They will travel to London and Amsterdam and play a couple games against club teams from those cities that are still being arranged. We'll post more information as soon as it becomes available.


Here are links to the Cancun Challenge tournament that includes Bradley, November 20 & 21-

http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=825139815#post825139815

[64NIT]

Jon Rothstein tweeted this earlier this afternoon:

Bradley is the fourth team in the 2018 Cancun Challenge along with Penn State, SMU, and Wright State, per a source. Matchups are still TBD.

https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/999730233602273280

You need to read the tweets in reply to Rothstein's. Some aren't too respectful of Bradley. In order to read them, for those who aren't "Twitter savvy," click on the link above. Then, when the tweet opens, click on the tweet's text and you will see a number of replies below it.

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Elon, Jacksonville State, North Florida & Western Carolina are reported to be the other four lower teams in the Cancun Challenge.
Thus we will get two of them as home opponents....

None had a particularly great RPI last year, but Jacksonville State was 135
Elon 209, Western Carolina 218, North Florida 222 but it all depends on who they return - and reportedly JSU returns four of their top 6 guys - all upperclassmen.

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doesn't really affect us but UC-Davis plays at USC

https://www.dailynews.com/2018/06/06/usc-basketball-announces-2018-19-nonconference-schedule/

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Here an update summary of what we know about Bradley's schedule
with the summer TBT events added


(Events in RED are confirmed & on the calendar)

Preseason:
Between July 9 - July 19, Bradley TBT team "Always a Brave" will be practicing & scrimmaging
Saturday July 21,2018 - #5 seed Always a Brave faces #12 seed Primetime Players at 7:15am Central time in Columbus OH Capital Center
If they win, they advance to play the winner between Big X & Chattanooga Trenches on Sunday July 22 at 4pm
The Super 16 will be July 26-29 in Atlanta at Georgia State University & Championship semifinals & final will be Aug. 2-3 in Baltimore at Morgan State University.

Sunday July 29 at 5pm - the final day of the last DI recruiting Evaluation Period
Tuesday July 31 - Saturday August 4, 2019 - FOREIGN TOUR to England & Netherlands, two games in London & Amsterdam

Tuesday September 25 - Basketball practices CAN begin but it depends on the date of the the first scheduled game.
Teams are allowed to begin practicing six weeks (42 days) before the date of their first scheduled game - LINK

WEDNESDAY October 17, 2018 - ISC "Smoker" at The Warehouse
ITOO Supper - yet to be scheduled
Red-White scrimmage - yet to be scheduled

SATURDAY October 27, 2018 at 5pm Bid for the Braves Auction @ the Renaissance Coliseum. (Halloween Costume party) - LINK

Non-Conference:
Season officially begins Tuesday November 6 - earlier than ever before - LINK - but like last year, not all teams will have games scheduled on that date

Tuesday-Wednesday November 20-21, 2018 - Cancun Challenge - possibly vs. SMU in Game 1 (not confirmed)
Other teams include Penn State & Wright State, games played @ Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya Convention Center in Cancun
Bradley will also get two other non-conference home games TBD from this group- Jacksonville State, North Florida, Southern Miss & Western Carolina

One of the home games from the Cancun Challenge is said to be Jacksonville State - date/Time TBD- they were one of the best teams in the OVC

November 28, 2018 - Wednesday Bradley @ IUPUI
November Tournament is being planned - details pending
-Home game vs. Chicago State (with probably another one in 2019)
-Home game vs. SEMO
-Home game vs. Eastern Illinois?* - *There is a report of a home game with EIU but I have never seen that confirmed as a 2-for-1
-Away game vs. Georgia Southern & maybe UALR
-reports of a November Tourney

-SATURDAY December 1, 2018 (time to be determined) Home game - MVC/MWC Challenge- New Mexico at Bradley


Conference:
-18 game Conference schedule then MVC Tournament in March 2019

[tornado]

the guy who covers NIU is the guy who used to write for ISU's Vidette...
and he talks about NIU's scheduling...

he quotes NIU's coach Mark Montgomery as saying how hard it is to schedule non-conference opponents - even mentions he reached out unsuccessfully to BRADLEY

https://twitter.com/JCTSports/status/1004162259290075136

Montgomery seems to be griping a little that he can't get anyone to play him

https://twitter.com/JCTSports/status/1003753127940644864

http://www.daily-chronicle.com/lists/2018/06/05/942eb4d734224baca0d8130599f36ba4/index.xml?page=5

..but seriously - he was RPI 236 last year, the worst team in the entire Mid-American Conference and he wonders why he can't get a power-5 team to come play him in DeKalb? Is he joking?

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ISU gets Georgia (new head coach Tom Crean) in the first round of their Tourney in Cayman Is - could get Clemson in 2nd game...

https://twitter.com/GoodmanESPN/status/1004762338581499904

Cayman Islands Classic

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/cayi/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/2018-19/schedule/schedule.pdf

[tornado]

one of Loyola's premier opponents for this season, Nevada...is acting more like a power-conference school & snubbing their contracted opponents...
They just decided to pay the buyout fee instead of playing at Rhode Island and risk a loss

http://gorhody.com/sports/m-baskbl/2018-19/releases/20180608e9unxd

[Mikovio]

the guy who covers NIU is the guy who used to write for ISU's Vidette...
and he talks about NIU's scheduling...

he quotes NIU's coach Mark Montgomery as saying how hard it is to schedule non-conference opponents - even mentions he reached out unsuccessfully to BRADLEY

https://twitter.com/JCTSports/status/1004162259290075136

Montgomery seems to be griping a little that he can't get anyone to play him

https://twitter.com/JCTSports/status/1003753127940644864

http://www.daily-chronicle.com/lists/2018/06/05/942eb4d734224baca0d8130599f36ba4/index.xml?page=5

..but seriously - he was RPI 236 last year, the worst team in the entire Mid-American Conference and he wonders why he can't get a power-5 team to come play him in DeKalb? Is he joking?

I'd be all for scheduling more in state teams if they weren't almost all dogs. NIU basketball has been a hot mess for 20+ years and Dr. Reynolds is right not to schedule them-- it's bad enough we're facing Chicago St and EIU already. MM should have been fired already but the NIU AD doesn't have the money to buy him out. The football team replaced a home game with a million dollar+ buy game at Florida State because they were in a budget crunch.

As a Valley member, Bradley plays the best teams in the state already with the exception of NW and UI, and I'm sure Dr. Reynolds has tried there (especially since he came from NW).

[pfcmsh]

I'd be all for scheduling more in state teams if they weren't almost all dogs. NIU basketball has been a hot mess for 20+ years and Dr. Reynolds is right not to schedule them-- it's bad enough we're facing Chicago St and EIU already. MM should have been fired already but the NIU AD doesn't have the money to buy him out. The football team replaced a home game with a million dollar+ buy game at Florida State because they were in a budget crunch.

As a Valley member, Bradley plays the best teams in the state already with the exception of NW and UI, and I'm sure Dr. Reynolds has tried there (especially since he came from NW).

Could it be that Illinois and Northwestern are afraid to play Bradley now?

[Mikovio]

I don't know if there's been much to be afraid of lately in Peoria but it'd be nice if NW and UI would've played ISU the last few years, Loyola this year, SIU when they were really good etc. Would be great for the state for the good programs to play each other more but of course they have their own interests to look out for. We did beat the Illini in Vegas in 2010 and the sky didn't fall (at least on their end).

[64NIT]

the guy who covers NIU is the guy who used to write for ISU's Vidette...
and he talks about NIU's scheduling...

he quotes NIU's coach Mark Montgomery as saying how hard it is to schedule non-conference opponents - even mentions he reached out unsuccessfully to BRADLEY

https://twitter.com/JCTSports/status/1004162259290075136

Montgomery seems to be griping a little that he can't get anyone to play him

https://twitter.com/JCTSports/status/1003753127940644864

http://www.daily-chronicle.com/lists/2018/06/05/942eb4d734224baca0d8130599f36ba4/index.xml?page=5

..but seriously - he was RPI 236 last year, the worst team in the entire Mid-American Conference and he wonders why he can't get a power-5 team to come play him in DeKalb? Is he joking?

Should a coach with seven years under his belt, one winning season in those seven, and a student of Tom Izzo have the worst RPI in his conference? Granted, Monty is an improvement over the Patton train wreck but everything is relative. He brings in talented players but, for some reason, there's a disconnect between his coaching and his players executing on the court. Wardle has made more progress at BU in half the time.