2024 and beyond recruits

[LongTimeFan]

He turned us down for whatever reason. I do think he would have been a good addition to the team.

I'm now concerned whether Byers, Birmingham, Lue, and Scott III will be willing to come west and enroll at Bradley. These 4 have/had offers.

[yoda]

No team in the Valley, and quite possibly no other midmajor team has as many good European connections, nor knows better which young Euro players have interest in coming to the US & playing DI ball than our BU staff. We have proved that with Rienk, Malevy, Almar etc.
There’s a lot of other teams with Euro kids but how many in our league were at the All-MVC level our guys are. Even the guys who weren’t big stars like Koch, DLO, Luuk, etc were still talented, motivated, coachable kids that won Championships. Look for a few more names to emerge that Bradley will be watching for 2024 & beyond.

[LongTimeFan]

There seems to be a name of a forward floating around.

[Da Coach]

Brant Byers just finished an official visit to Bradley. He visited Miami (OH) and Marshall earlier this month.
He attends The Newman School in Boston, and is originally from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania-

https://twitter.com/BrantByers5/status/1706841791159255504

Byers announced a short time ago that he is committing to Miami (Ohio).

https://twitter.com/BrantByers5/status/1711133457714217075

One new name- Timoty van der Knaap a 6'8" Italian wing who is playing as an amateur for Basket Bassano, an Under-18 Italian team in the Italian Serie C League- https://basketball.eurobasket.com/te...no/4609?Page=0

He was selected this summer to play with the Italian U18 Euro Championship team- https://twitter.com/vanderknaap05/st...90631466393915

2022-23 highlights- https://twitter.com/search?q=timoty%20van%20der%20knaap&src=typed_quer y&f=top

[LongTimeFan]

Tim Franks offered 6/22/23 has committed to St. Francis.- https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/tim-franks

[Da Coach]

Tim Franks offered 6/22/23 has committed to St. Francis.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/tim-franks

He committed to St. Thomas (Minn).

[LongTimeFan]

My bad

[Da Coach]

For fans concerned that Bradley is "losing" recruits to other schools, I don't think there is any cause for concern. None of the recruits that Bradley had a realistic chance at are immediate All-MVC types (we never had a realistic chance at Lathan Sommerville, Cooper Koch, etc.).
Bradley is still involved with a number of great prospects, and I expect our coaches to land a few. This past year, we have seen more Bradley offers being extended than in any previous season under Coach Wardle. And when coaches increase their offers, especially to kids who are not from our time zone, we're going to see more of them choose other decent mid-major schools closer to their homes.

[Da Coach]

One time Bradley recruit Jaheem Webber is visiting Wright State this weekend

I expect Webber to commit to Wight State soon.

Jaheem Webber commits to Wright State-

https://twitter.com/WebberJaheem/status/1711437343167529242

Bradley had dropped off Webber, FWIH

[LongTimeFan]

I believe we are down to 7 known offers. Perry and Riddle have offers from the 'big' colleges.

[PhiAlphaBoy]

For fans concerned that Bradley is "losing" recruits to other schools, I don't think there is any cause for concern. None of the recruits that Bradley had a realistic chance at are immediate All-MVC types (we never had a realistic chance at Lathan Sommerville, Cooper Koch, etc.).
Bradley is still involved with a number of great prospects, and I expect our coaches to land a few. This past year, we have seen more Bradley offers being extended than in any previous season under Coach Wardle. And when coaches increase their offers, especially to kids who are not from our time zone, we're going to see more of them choose other decent mid-major schools closer to their homes.

Personally, I think this may be the new way to recruit to get the inside track on players who could potentially end up in the transfer portal. It may have gone a long way in helping the staff land several quality transfers this past off-season.

[Da Coach]

Bradley offers another player from Iceland-
2024 Robert Sean Birmingham- a 6'7", 18 year old, left-handed shooting guard/small forward. He is currently in North Carolina attending Carmel Christian HS in Matthews, NC and he is playing with the Team Curry program this summer.
https://phenomhoopreport.com/2024-se...s-recruitment/
https://twitter.com/BigShotsGlobal/s...33106961989635
https://twitter.com/SeanB1rmingham/s...18440166916097
https://twitter.com/MasercolaMiles/s...67846066626560
https://twitter.com/CoachCRoth/statu...07377603416074
Video- https://twitter.com/PhenomMixtapes/s...35908383236099

He plays on Iceland's U18 National Team, but was limited last year due to an injury, and he played for a club team in Spain last summer.
https://scoutbasketball.com/player/R...ean-Birmingham
https://twitter.com/CBB_Europe/statu...56303690932224

Stats- https://basketball.eurobasket.com/pl...mingham/553529
https://www.fiba.basketball/europe/u...ert-Birmingham

One time Bradley recruit Robert Sean Birmingham has committed to Indiana State-

https://twitter.com/SeanB1rmingham/status/1711800973365068006

He is a native of Iceland and has played on their U18 National team with Almar Atlason.

[Da Coach]

Bradley is recruiting a 2024 junior college point guard- very athletic 6'3" Gob Gob at Hill College in Hillsboro, Texas. He is originally from Manchester, New Hampshire, and he played a year at Minnesota Prep Academy. Last season as a freshman at Hill College, he averaged 11.3 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 3.7 apg, and he shot 43.4% overall, and 27.5% from three.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/gob-gob

https://www.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2022-23/div1/players/gobgob2hvt

Highlight videos- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3mLFHeKiHg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3mLFHeKiHg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI8lZfnyofk

[Da Coach]

A couple more new names-
2024 Daniel Nixon- 6'7" sophomore forward at Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas. He is originally from New York, and attended high school at Winston Salem Christian School. He played last season at George Washington University, where he played in only 1 game (3 minutes, 2 points, 1 rebound), then redshirted for the season due to a knee injury and surgery.
>> https://verbalcommits.com/players/daniel-nixon
>> https://gwsports.com/sports/mens-bas...iel-nixon/8224

2025 Trey Williams- 5'11" point guard at Vashon HS in St. Louis
>> https://verbalcommits.com/players/trey-williams
>> https://twitter.com/EliteMixtapesHS/...93138212585773

[BraveBird]

For those interested, I believe Vashon will be playing in the Kevin Brown tournament of champions in Washington over the week of Thanksgiving.