2025 and beyond recruits

[red#185]

When the "below the rim plodder " Kobe Walker from Normal Community played Peoria's Dietrich Richardson he had 29 points and 15 rebounds. Richardson had 11 points. Richardson is a great shooter. He drove to the basket once in the game and Walker pushed the ball to the floor with Richardson under it. I think there are teams that could use a plodder like that.

[Da Coach]

A couple high-profile portal transfer candidates that Bradley has contacted-

D1 portal- Brandon Noel- 6'8" redshirt-junior forward at Wright State. He entered the portal and Bradley was interested. However, he committed to Ohio State today. He averaged 19.0 ppg and 7.7 rpg at Wright State this season.

D1 portal- Malik Thomas- 6'5" senior guard at University of San Francisco. He spent 2 seasons at USC and the last 2 seasons at USF He averaged 19.9 ppg and 3.9 rpg, and he shot 39.4% from three this past season. He could have as additional year of eligibility left if he is granted a waiver for his freshman year when he only appeared in 9 games. However, some of those games were too late in the season to automatically qualify.
Bio- https://usfdons.com/sports/mens-bask...ik-thomas/5891
Stats- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...8/malik-thomas

D1 portal- Ryan "RJ" Jones, Jr.- 6'9" freshman forward at Virginia Tech- He was a 4-star recruit from The Rock School, a prep school in Gainesville, Florida, and ranked as the 69th-best prospect in the class of 2024 by 247Sports.
He only appeared in 5 games for Virginia Tech this past year, so he would have 4 years of eligibility left.
He won a gold medal with Team USA at the 2021 FIBA Americas U16 Championship while at the prep school.
According to his bio, he is the cousin of former Illinois forward Dain Dainja.
>> https://x.com/recruitszone/status/1905458097822499084
Bio- https://hokiesports.com/sports/mens-.../ryan-jones-jr
Stats- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba.../ryan-jones-jr

[yoda]

I'll be honest he looks like a below the rim plodder who wouldn't contribute much in spite of his size. E.g. a poor man's Jeff Rabey.

Ha- LOL...and once more, very few people here recall, that Jeff Rabey, who was close to Al Biancalana his coach when Rabey played for Molinari,
called in LIVE I was listening) during the 2004-2005 basketball season during the Dave Snell/Jim Les weekly radio program- and he did so just to slander Jim Les
and make ridiculous allegations against him, causing the WMBD people to cut him off mid-sentence. Then within a matter of months, after Al
also got irate at a practice and walked off, NCAA field investigators descended unannounced in an unprecendented manner onto the Bradley campus,
to dig like hell to find evidence of illegal practices or NCAA violations (supposedly based on the claims of TWO "unnamed people".
Of course the NCAA team found nothing so they hammered Bradley over the only thing they could devise- salary overpayment to POB & Will Franklin during summer jobs.
Ken Kavangh seemed to know exactly who those two unnamed people were.who ratted on BU. He also knew & confided in some,
who engineered the tampering in 2002 with Joah Tucker to get him to transfer to UW-Milwaukee.

[Nashville Cat]

I don't know how involved Bradley was with Normal Community 6-10 big man Kobe Walker, but Walker had committed to Central Michigan way last fall. However, due to a coaching change there, Kobe Walker just re-opened his recruitment.
Walker averaged 19.1 ppg and 12.2 rpg in his high school senior season., and we need size.....

I'll be honest he looks like a below the rim plodder who wouldn't contribute much in spite of his size. E.g. a poor man's Jeff Rabey.

[yoda]

A couple more names-
2025 Kobe Walker- 6'9 forward at Normal Community HS. He also plays for the Mid-Pro Academy with Matthew Zobrist..
>> https://verbalcommits.com/players/kobe-walker
>> https://x.com/ny2lasports/status/1803565395703427171
>> https://x.com/scottybscout/status/1807426835669528932

I don't know how involved Bradley was with Normal Community 6-10 big man Kobe Walker, but Walker had committed to Central Michigan way last fall. However, due to a coaching change there, Kobe Walker just re-opened his recruitment.
Walker averaged 19.1 ppg and 12.2 rpg in his high school senior season., and we need size.....

[daveineureka]

With all the players now in the portal, have to think the coaching staff has compiled a list of players on their radar. Of course not all the players they are wanting will decide to not be coming to BU. Have to think by now there are players that are considering BU. Was mentioned in a previous post that a certain players was here for a visit. Can only hope the staff made a good impression upon him. In my opinion we should be getting close to hearing some news going forward.

[Da Coach]

A couple more names-
2025 Kobe Walker- 6'9 forward at Normal Community HS. He also plays for the Mid-Pro Academy with Matthew Zobrist..
>> https://verbalcommits.com/players/kobe-walker
>> https://x.com/ny2lasports/status/1803565395703427171
>> https://x.com/scottybscout/status/1807426835669528932

6'10", 250 lb All-State center Kobe Walker of Normal Community was recruited by Bradley, though it doesn't appear that Bradley offered.
He committed to Central Michigan last fall, but now he is decommitting and reopening his recruitment. Could Bradley be interested? - https://x.com/G_SullivanMPA/status/1909381320025030978

[Da Coach]

Some new names-

D1 portal- Lejuan Watts- 6'6" redshirt sophomore forward at Washington State. He spent 2 seasons at Eastern Washington, including a redshirt season his first year. His sophomore redshirt-sophomore season at EWU, he was the unanimous Big Sky Freshman of the Year (9.4 ppg, 4.9 rpg). Then he followed his coach, David Riley, to Washington State when switched jobs. As a redshirt-sophomore this season at Washington State, he averaged 13.7 ppg, 6.7 rpg, 54.9% overall, and 42.2% from three.
In the game against Bradley last November, he had 12 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists to help WSU beat Bradley 91-74.
He is originally from Fresno, CA, and is now in the portal.
Bio- https://wsucougars.com/sports/mens-b...an-watts/13701
Stats- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...2/lejuan-watts

D1 portal- Emmanuel Ugbo- 6'8" forward at Boise State. He is from Barendrecht, The Netherlands. He did not play in 2023-24.
2024-25 was his first season of competition at Boise State. His averages in 10 minutes per game were- 3.1 ppg and 2.3 rpg. He has also played for The Netherlands U20 National team.
Bio- https://broncosports.com/sports/mens...uel-ugbo/10485
Stats- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba.../emmanuel-ugbo

D3 transfer- A.J. Rohosy- 6'9" grad student at D3 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, a joint college sports program of Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, and Scripps College, all located in Claremont, California. Previous to this season, he was at Washington State for 2 seasons as a walk-on, where he played very little. In 2024-25 at CMS, he averaged 21.3 ppg, 10.5 rpg, 64.8% FG%.
Bio- https://cmsathletics.org/sports/mens...j-rohosy/21751
Stats- https://cmsathletics.org/sports/mens-basketball/stats/

[bradleyfan124]

Question: With 6 guys returning and 3 high school recruits signed last fall for a total of 9 scholarships. With the new total allowed as 15 that leaves 6 scholarships Bradley will have available to give out. Do you think they will use all 6?

[Nashville Cat]

Oh, sorry for the confusion. I was referring to an old college buddy of mine who was visiting me this weekend.

Now THAT'S funny!

[Da Coach]

I'm hearing we have a visitor in town... interesting, not someone we've previously reported.

Oh, sorry for the confusion. I was referring to an old college buddy of mine who was visiting me this weekend.

[Tommy]

Remember the song from Cheech and Chong album with Basketball Jones. Would be a great get if he can dribble with his eye lashes.

Now you're talking, Dave!

[daveineureka]

Remember the song from Cheech and Chong album with Basketball Jones. Would be a great get if he can dribble with his eye lashes.

[Tommy]

My sources are telling me it’s Basketball Jones.

[Nashville Cat]

I'm hearing we have a visitor in town... interesting, not someone we've previously reported.

My sources tell me it wasn't Cooper Flagg. So, I'll guess Iowa Hawkeye portal player Ladji Dembele. One of the few portal entrants who still hasn't found a home from Iowa. Million to one.