Summer trips

[Da Coach]

The last Bradley summer trip was in late July-early August of 2018, prior to the 2018-19 season. It included games in London and Amsterdam.

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/basketball-fan-talk/27963-bradley-summer-foreign-tour-to-london-amsterdam?p=464084#post464084

The prior summer trip for Bradley was August, 2013, when they played 4 games in Nassau in the Bahamas.

The NCAA rules allow a program to take a preseason summer trip once every 4 years. It has been 5 years since the last trip in 2018, thus Bradley is eligible to take another preseason trip this summer. But there has been no announcement regarding a summer trip, so it likely isn't happening this summer.

The 4 MVC teams taking summer tours-
Drake is taking a summer tour of Spain, July 29-August 7
UIC is taking a tour to Spain August 7-August 15
Belmont also touring Spain, August 10-August 20
UNI is touring Brazil July 25-August 3

List of D1 teams making summer tours-

https://watchstadium.com/comprehensive-list-of-every-2023-college-basketball-foreign-tour-05-15-2023/

[Bball31]

With Bradley in financial diar straits, I don’t see a summer trip happening.

[PhiAlphaBoy]

With Bradley in financial diar straits, I don’t see a summer trip happening.

I don't think things are that dire. Heck, Bradley just bought the Avantis property a few months ago.

[Da Coach]

I don't think things are that dire. Heck, Bradley just bought the Avantis property a few months ago.

He may be referring to the men's basketball program revenues, which are down significantly compared with a decade ago, though I don't believe the overall budget has changed much. And, I don't know how much that affects decisions regarding foreign trips. Even Division 2 and D3 programs take foreign trips, as do women's programs, and those programs' budgets and revenues pale in comparison to D1 schools. Sometimes, all that's needed is a generous donor or two to fund such a trip. I think if the coaches felt that a foreign trip would be a good thing, it would happen.

Btw, the Bradley women travelled to Portugal on a preseason tour in August, 2019.

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/basketball-fan-talk/487727-bradley-women-s-basketball-summer-foreign-trip-to-portugal

[molar50]

I would like Bradley to return to Hawaii to play in a post Christmas tournament. Our family went when Versace and Les were coaches. The only thing bad about Hawaii is that the refs control the “fix”, in order that the seeded teams win. If that’s not possible, it would be good to return to Las Vegas.

[bradleyfan124]

This would be an ideal time for the team to go on a summer tour. They could mesh the new guys with the old and get a jump start on the season

[Da Coach]

I would like Bradley to return to Hawaii to play in a post Christmas tournament. Our family went when Versace and Les were coaches. The only thing bad about Hawaii is that the refs control the “fix”, in order that the seeded teams win. If that’s not possible, it would be good to return to Las Vegas.

Vegas is always a nice destination for a tournament.
Hawaii would be nice, too, but I'm hearing it will be on the mainland.

[Old Coach]

This would be an ideal time for the team to go on a summer tour. They could mesh the new guys with the old and get a jump start on the season

These trips are usually planned between 12 & 18 months out. As was alluded to, generally, it's a $100,000 fundraising effort.

[Da Coach]

The last Bradley summer trip was in late July-early August of 2018, prior to the 2018-19 season. It included games in London and Amsterdam.

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/basketball-fan-talk/27963-bradley-summer-foreign-tour-to-london-amsterdam?p=464084#post464084

The prior summer trip for Bradley was August, 2013, when they played 4 games in Nassau in the Bahamas.

The NCAA rules allow a program to take a preseason summer trip once every 4 years. It has been 5 years since the last trip in 2018, thus Bradley is eligible to take another preseason trip this summer. But there has been no announcement regarding a summer trip, so it likely isn't happening this summer.

The 4 MVC teams taking summer tours-
Drake is taking a summer tour of Spain, July 29-August 7
UIC is taking a tour to Spain August 7-August 15
Belmont also touring Spain, August 10-August 20
UNI is touring Brazil July 25-August 3

List of D1 teams making summer tours-

https://watchstadium.com/comprehensive-list-of-every-2023-college-basketball-foreign-tour-05-15-2023/

Some details of UNI's trip later this month to Brazil-

https://unipanthers.com/news/2023/7/11/mens-basketball-uni-mens-basketball-embarks-on-summer-tour-in-brazil.aspx

[yoda]

Northern Iowa's first game in Brazil was last night and their 2nd game tips today at 9am Peoria time
They play a club team called Club Paulistano ( a top tier team in their NBB)

I did not see any reports on the results of last night's game vs Sorocaba (a 2nd tier team in their CBB)

Paulistano's U20 team is pretty good but the level of competition is likely more on the D2 level
- https://www.latinbasket.com/Brazil/n...efeat-Coritiba
https://basketball.latinbasket.com/t...lo/3557?Page=1

[yoda]

One of their coaching staff tweeted "#UNIHoops wins game 2!!!"
Strange how little info there is..

he also tweeted after their 1st game "buzzer beaters" - so it must have been close, but still no confirmation elsewhere

[Da Coach]

Northern Iowa's first game in Brazil was last night...

I did not see any reports on the results of last night's game vs Sorocaba (a 2nd tier team in their CBB)

Here is a short video of the buzzer-beater that caused UNI to lose their first game in Brazil. I can't find any scorer or details-

https://www.instagram.com/p/CvLiifkpPqq/

[yoda]

The final score was Sorocaba 58 - UNI 57- https://www.instagram.com/p/CvLomiONor2/


so they lost a close game Wednesday in what looks like a full stadium & raucous crowd, then won a 2 pt victory today.
Would still love to see some stats.
The five players they had on the court at the buzzer were Tytan Anderson, Duax, Heise, Wolf & Campbell.... all expected
to be among the top six players (with Bowen Born, who appears to be on the bench) - so they must have been playing pretty deep with their key players despite it being an exhibition game.

There's just a little more video here- https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvLaO49JPrT/
(also seen on the floor were freshmen Kyle Pock & RJ Taylor)

[yoda]

Nebraska wins their first game in Madrid, Spain 89-84 (OT), without Rienk Mast, in a game that was tied 82-82 in regulation
https://twitter.com/HuskerHoops/stat...97575387021312

[yoda]

Nebraska wins their first game in Madrid, Spain 89-84 (OT), without Rienk Mast, in a game that was tied 82-82 in regulation - they play again Wednesday
https://twitter.com/HuskerHoops/stat...97575387021312

(as a side note, one of Rienk's Nebraska teammates, high profile iowa transfer Ahron Ulis, might be caught up in a NCAA
investigation of a gambling scandal and is currently not playing on their overseas trip- https://www.thegazette.com/iowa-hawk...tions-lightly/ )

meanwhile Rienk's Netherlands National Team played two friendly games vs. Poland over the weekend,
with Rienk carrying his team. He had 26 pts in yesterday's game (a 101-100 loss)and went 6-10 in the two games combined
Saturday's game was a 94-90 win, but Rienk was not among the top scorers.

interview with Rienk- https://twitter.com/BeNeBlockparty/s...80579810582528

Here are some photos showing Rienk-
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2YXYGsX...name=4096x4096
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https://koszkadra.pl/internalfiles/i...700/128030.jpg


One last thing- the hometown team that Rienk hopes to play for Donar Gronigen, is in the news...
just filed for bankruptcy - https://www.paudal.com/2023/07/31/ba...-sports-other/