Practice update

[Da Coach]

Missouri State held an open practice -
here's one person's summary of their players

https://247sports.com/college/missouri-state/Reply/Bearvision-Reply-123633704/

About the best thing that Missouri State fan on their message board had to say about their scrimmage yesterday is that some of the players looked good "getting off the bus".

The few comments I have seen elsewhere say they looked terrible and have a lot of work to do.
Here is one fan's comment with photos. It does not look very well attended. But then it was scheduled at 10:00 AM yesterday, on a Saturday morning, and it was combined with the women's team scrimmaging.

https://twitter.com/DanMolloyTV/status/1053670638072799232

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and some of the better players are not going to be eligible

[The Old Guy]

Bradley walk on?

What happened to Willie Scott??™s nephew who declared for Bradley as a walk on?

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the Bradley student directory shows him as enrolled freshman but obviously he is not currently with the team...
so either he has changed his mind or will wait a year and join as a walk-on next year when Peter Hanley has graduated...

[Da Coach]

....or maybe it was never official in the first place.

As we made clear here, the only report was a short blurb in his high school newspaper. It was never mentioned or confirmed by anyone at Bradley.

The scholarship grid has been updated.

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...
Barry Hinson says freshman Amadou Fall & R-Senior Thik Bol are still recovering from their knee surgeries...
Fall may redshirt - in fact Barry "was leaning towards redshirting all four freshmen" but Bol doesn't have a redshirt year left
so they will have to be very careful with him... I wonder if he will play much at all until the conference season starts since that's all that matters

SIU also has a closed scrimmage set for the end of Oct. but opponent not revealed.

UNI's Tywhon Pickford - out 4-6 weeks

now one of their potential starters Eric McGill has a foot injury and may be out a while......
...also one of their local press articles says Darius Beane is not redshirting and that it was his idea not Barry's...and a separate report says Sam Shafer is not redshirting - as Barry had formerly indicated all the freshmen might redshirt - but Amadou Fall & Sekou Dembele (who may be sitting out for NCAA initial eligibility concerns) are redshirting.
Their best player Armon Fletcher is out with a concussion and will not play in their Thursday exhibition against "East Central" - a DII from Oklahoma.

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more news on redshirts...

-Missouri State's Jared Ridder - who redshirted last year and was hoping to be eligible to start this season,
did not play in their exhibition and now appears to be ineligible for 1st semester

-Northern Iowa will redshirt Tray Croft but that Croft was already suspended and has "academic issues"
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[PurpleAceFan]

report on Evansville's Hoopfest

https://gopurpleaces.com/news/2018/10/18/aces-insider-great-coming-attractions-on-display-at-2018-hoopfest.aspx

In their 3-point contest- the two finalists were transfer Shea Feehan & WBB RS Junior Marley Miller...and Miller took home the Championship!

Marley Miller also won the WBB Knockout Contest while Feehan won the Men's Knockout

Marley would probably be the winner in a 3 point contest for 75% of all D1 teams, male or female.

[Chico]

Practice update - beware - other teams mentioned...

-it was reported that Luuk's injury was a fractured fibula but as freely as he was walking with the boot would suggest a healing stress fractice and not a completed fracture of the fibula. Anyway - he won't practice until later this month..

-Drake has their Blue-White intrasquad scrimmage tomorrow at 2pm

https://twitter.com/DUBulldogs/status/1044688119805734914

-at SIU oft-injured, redshirt senior Thik Bol suffered another injury in practice.
It apparently required another knee procedure so he is out for at least another week or so.
Even before this injury Barry Hinson had said Bol-
"may be limited all season bc of his knee. He expects Bol to still play 15-20 mpg
and be Thik Bol but ???may never be healthy this season."

I know it was meant for me. Thanks for the warning.

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