Question of the day.......

[Big Mike]

Can anyone recall there ever being a Bradley basketball player being from the B/N area before?

[tornado]

I can't....and I don't think we ever have.

[GForce71]

Just went through a media guide that lists every player and their hometown in BU history and nobody from B/N. Kind of surprising. But I did find one dude from Mackinaw! Lee Redard played from 1939-41. Anyone remember him?

[Big Mike]

I can say I don't remember him.....thats 20 years before my time!

[Murph]

Can anyone recall there ever being a Bradley basketball player being from the B/N area before?

How many B/N area players have been D1 material?

[dogsrus]

Just went through a media guide that lists every player and their hometown in BU history and nobody from B/N. Kind of surprising. But I did find one dude from Mackinaw! Lee Redard played from 1939-41. Anyone remember him?

Grassman probably does.....

[BUBraves06]

Grassman probably does.....

Or Chico.

[Grassman]

Grassman probably does.....

RIGHT
Although one night I think I played pinochle with him, in a fox hole in France. We were over there winning The Big One!
Before Bradley -ISU was The Big One.

[Chico]

Sorry, but the first teams I remember are from the mid 40's Chris Hansen was my favorite, until Squeaky came to town.

[tornado]

BU has had players from Lincoln, Springfield, Joliet, Chicago, Niles, Indianapolis, Brimfield, Manlius, East Peoria, and Metamora.............but............
Nope...nobody I know can recall anyone from Bloomington playing for BU.

[MacabreMob]

BU has had players from Lincoln, Springfield, Joliet, Chicago, Niles, Indianapolis, Brimfield, Manlius, East Peoria, and Metamora.............but............
Nope...nobody I know can recall anyone from Bloomington playing for BU.

and from....

Havana = Trevor Trimpe
Toulon = Paul Unruh

[TNel]

How many B/N area players have been D1 material?

Dana Dunson (BHS), Dodie's uncle, played at Drake in the early '80s. Ron Curry (BHS) played, I think, at Marquette. Jim Crews (UHS) played for The General at Indiana. There are probably others, but these are the ones that leap to my ancient mind.

[BradleyBrave]

Dana Dunson (BHS), Dodie's uncle, played at Drake in the early '80s. Ron Curry (BHS) played, I think, at Marquette. Jim Crews (UHS) played for The General at Indiana. There are probably others, but these are the ones that leap to my ancient mind.

Didn't Jonah Batumbze play a year at Northwestern? What about Brandon Holtz at ISU?

[tornado]

Sure, there are Bloomington kids playing D-I ball like Holtz, and even Justin Safford at Missouri and Justin Bocot at SIU, but the topic is how none have ever played at BU, and nobody seems to know of even a single one in over a hundred years of basketball.

I have almost every Bradley yearbook going back to 1901, and many don't mention where the players came from, but some do.
There are kids from Alta HS to Waukegan, from Toulon and Tremont to Brimfield and Belwood, but I can find none from Bloomington or Normal.