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Bradley's first game is a road game Tuesday, November 5 at St. Joseph's University. Their coach for the last 24 seasons, Phil Martelli, was fired after going 14-19 last season. He is now an assistant coach at Michigan under John Beilein. New head coach Billy Lange was previously an assistant coach with the Philadelphia 76ers, and prior to that was an assistant at Villanova. He was head coach at Navy from 2004-2011, and was 92-115 in his 7 seasons there.
The team has changed significantly with the coaching change. Their top 3 scorers from last season would have returned this season, but they have left and either transferred or went pro. Their 4th leading scorer from last season graduated. They have only 11 scholarship players, and two of them are a former walk-ons with limited D1 experience. Another of their scholarship players is a Gonzaga transfer who will sit out this season. And another transfer, 6'7" Myles Douglas from UCF (2.0 ppg and 1.1 rpg last year at UCF), was just surprisingly granted a waiver to be eligible immediately this season. That probably helps SJU a little, as they were going to be thin in their frontcourt. Their only other big men (taller than 6'5") are 6'10" junior center Anthony Longpre (3.2 ppg, 3.6 rpg), 6'8" junior Taylor Funk (8.4 ppg, 5.5 rpg) and 6'8" junior Lorenzo Edwards (5.4 ppg, 3.5 rpg).
Their top player could be 6'4" guard Ryan Daly, a transfer from Delaware who sat out last season at SJU and will be a junior this season. He lead Delaware in scoring both his freshman (16.0 ppg) and sophomore (17.5 ppg) years.
Bradley played against Ryan Daly twice while he was with Delaware.
BU played at Delaware on 11/13/16 in Coach Wardle's 2nd season. Delaware beat Bradley 63-49 in one of Bradley's worst offensive performances in memory. Bradley was just 5-25 in the first half, and 0-12 from three, and they trailed 34-15 at halftime. The 2nd half was a little better, but not enough to overcome the deficit, and Bradley lost 63-49. Ryan Daly had 4 points off the bench for Delaware as a freshman.
https://bradleybraves.com/news/2016/...-delaware.aspx
They played again on 11/14/17 and Bradley beat the Blue Hens 61-53 in Carver Arena. Bradley held Delaware leading scorer Ryan Daly to 1-11 shooting and just 3 points in that game-
https://bradleybraves.com/news/2017/...-delaware.aspx
St. Joseph's finished tied for 10th in the 14-team Atlantic 10 last season with a record of 6-12. They 14-19 overall, but were 10-5 at home-
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ings/_/group/3
The official A-10 preseason poll is not out yet, but most experts and preseason magazines are picking St. Joseph's in the 11th-12th range (out of 14 teams) for the 2019-20 season-
https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1148215156436078593
https://www.daytondailynews.com/spor...iC1xBbkBKTrDK/
The team has changed significantly with the coaching change. Their top 3 scorers from last season would have returned this season, but they have left and either transferred or went pro. Their 4th leading scorer from last season graduated. They have only 11 scholarship players, and two of them are a former walk-ons with limited D1 experience. Another of their scholarship players is a Gonzaga transfer who will sit out this season. And another transfer, 6'7" Myles Douglas from UCF (2.0 ppg and 1.1 rpg last year at UCF), was just surprisingly granted a waiver to be eligible immediately this season. That probably helps SJU a little, as they were going to be thin in their frontcourt. Their only other big men (taller than 6'5") are 6'10" junior center Anthony Longpre (3.2 ppg, 3.6 rpg), 6'8" junior Taylor Funk (8.4 ppg, 5.5 rpg) and 6'8" junior Lorenzo Edwards (5.4 ppg, 3.5 rpg).
Their top player could be 6'4" guard Ryan Daly, a transfer from Delaware who sat out last season at SJU and will be a junior this season. He lead Delaware in scoring both his freshman (16.0 ppg) and sophomore (17.5 ppg) years.
Bradley played against Ryan Daly twice while he was with Delaware.
BU played at Delaware on 11/13/16 in Coach Wardle's 2nd season. Delaware beat Bradley 63-49 in one of Bradley's worst offensive performances in memory. Bradley was just 5-25 in the first half, and 0-12 from three, and they trailed 34-15 at halftime. The 2nd half was a little better, but not enough to overcome the deficit, and Bradley lost 63-49. Ryan Daly had 4 points off the bench for Delaware as a freshman.
https://bradleybraves.com/news/2016/...-delaware.aspx
They played again on 11/14/17 and Bradley beat the Blue Hens 61-53 in Carver Arena. Bradley held Delaware leading scorer Ryan Daly to 1-11 shooting and just 3 points in that game-
https://bradleybraves.com/news/2017/...-delaware.aspx
St. Joseph's finished tied for 10th in the 14-team Atlantic 10 last season with a record of 6-12. They 14-19 overall, but were 10-5 at home-
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ings/_/group/3
The official A-10 preseason poll is not out yet, but most experts and preseason magazines are picking St. Joseph's in the 11th-12th range (out of 14 teams) for the 2019-20 season-
https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1148215156436078593
https://www.daytondailynews.com/spor...iC1xBbkBKTrDK/
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