Teams doing summer foreign tours

[Da Coach]

Some teams are already starting summer foreign tours. Notre Dame won their first game defeating Madrid All Stars in Spain. - https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/sta...26566065066169

[Nashville Cat]

Some teams are already starting summer foreign tours. Notre Dame won their first game defeating Madrid All Stars in Spain. - https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/sta...26566065066169

Obviously ND has cash to spend! Tight budgets will prevent the average mid-major schools from traveling like this.

[yoda]

Some teams are already starting summer foreign tours. Notre Dame won their first game defeating Madrid All Stars in Spain. - https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/sta...26566065066169

after beating the Madrid All Stars 89-65, yesterday they beat the Valencia All Stars 78-60. But why do they have extensive, detailed coverage of their tour,
including their barbecues & the bullfighting- yet virtually no mention or coverage of what actually happened in the games, and no box score?
(btw- at least two of Notre Dame's players formerly had Bradley offers- Cole Certa, Logan Imes)

[Da Coach]

There area lot of D1 men's teams (and women's teams) taking foreign tours this summer, but news and scores are very hard to find.
Northwestern is in Greece on the final day of a summer tour of Europe to play 3 different club teams. As with Notre Dame, the Northwestern basketball website does not have any mention of this tour, nor of any of the games or results.

But, their team's X.com account has been posting frequent updates-
8/22/24- Game 1 in Venice, Italy, against a Serbian club team, KK Vojvodina- Northwestern won 79-54 - https://x.com/NUMensBball/status/1826684842584801537
Leading scorers - https://x.com/NUMensBball/status/1826684847223701598
Recap- https://x.com/NUMensBball/status/1826750205200662635
8/25/24- Game 2 in Florence, Italy, against International Basketball Academy of Munich - Northwestern won 95-71 - https://x.com/NUMensBball/status/1827777057553789244
Recap- https://x.com/NUMensBball/status/1827816473819074736
8/28/24- Game 3 in Athens, Greece, against Aris Thessaloniki BC - Northwestern lost 69-67 to finish the tour 2-1 - https://x.com/NUMensBball/status/1828837556081119424

[Da Coach]

BTW, the NCAA allows teams to take a foreign summer tour once every 4 years. And Bradley is overdue for another foreign tour.

Bradley's last foreign tour was in July-August, 2018, which was over 6 years ago. Bradley played two games in London (vs. the Surrey Scorchers) and Amsterdam (vs. Amsterdam Select- a group of pros from different teams).

Previous tours-
August, 2013- Bahamas- Bradley played 4 games against Bahamian club teams and went 3-1- Commonwealth (Bank) Giants, Real Deal Shockers, P. J. Stingers, & Mail Boat Cyborgs. - https://bradleybraves.com/sports/men...hedule/2013-14
August, 2009- Brazil- played 5 different Brazilian club teams, and went 4-1 - https://bradleybraves.com/sports/men...hedule/2009-10
August, 2004- Canada- played 5 Canadian college teams and went 5-0 - https://bradleybraves.com/sports/men...hedule/2004-05

Does anyone else remember any earlier earlier foreign tours? There might have been a couple in the 1990's.
The only pre-2000 one I recall was a 1985-86 team preseason tour of Italy in July, 1985. It lasted 15 days, and Bradley played 11 games, finishing 5-6. Three of the losses were against the same "professional team of ex-U.S. college and NBA players".
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Here is an old article about the 1985-86 team that has interesting info about that team and the tour of Italy - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...559-story.html
Open that link in a Private or Incognito window to avoid the paywall.