2025-26 Schedule

[yoda]

The first officially confirmed piece of the 2025-26 Basketball schedule is released.

Saturday October 18, 2025 - 10am - at Renaissance Coliseum
Bradley Red & White Basketball Game
(Details of events & order of scrimmages not yet revealed)

This will be during Homecoming weekend and there will also be tailgating at a home Soccer game, an home VB game, Athletics Hall of Fame Inductions, as well as other events.

Coach Wardle's basketball camps that always feature all the players working during the summer and often a dunk contest between Bradley players
will be June 9-10, June 16-17, and June 23-24 - all at Renaissance Coliseum.

They also host a 3-on-3 basketball tournament August 3 at Ren-Co.


More:
First summer session begins Wed. May 21
First summer session ends Wed. July 2

Second summer session begins Wed. July 9
Second summer session ends Wed. Aug. 20

Hoping every player is here for the full summer sessions and on into the fall!
As far as the rest of the BU 2025-26 schedule, there should be a home game vs Washington State and road game at San Francisco.
Does anyone know more? Like maybe another game vs Santa Clara?

 

[Dubl R 1]

Any MTE's in the works?

 

[yoda]

nothing made public but I am going to stick my neck out and say scheduling is ongoing and there's enough "MTE's"
to go around, so I suspect we will hear something

 

[64NIT]

Possible return game at NIU, according to the spreadsheet provided by @TheD1Docket.

 

[64NIT]

Bradley is scheduled to play in an eight-team tourney in Orlando during Thanksgiving week.

SOURCES: 12 Teams and Two additional events are set for Orlando — The Bracketeer

ESPN Orlando Adds 4-Team Event Multiple sources confirmed with The Bracketeer that Charlotte, Furman, Illinois State, and Richmond will headline an additional Orlando ESPN Event field next season. These teams will play a two-game, four-team bracket while at Disney World. There is no timetable for

bracketeer.org

Note that IlSU is mentioned as participating in another tourney, a four-team tourney, also in Orlando.

 

[Da Coach]

Bradley is scheduled to play in an eight-team tourney in Orlando during Thanksgiving week.

SOURCES: 12 Teams and Two additional events are set for Orlando — The Bracketeer

ESPN Orlando Adds 4-Team Event Multiple sources confirmed with The Bracketeer that Charlotte, Furman, Illinois State, and Richmond will headline an additional Orlando ESPN Event field next season. These teams will play a two-game, four-team bracket while at Disney World. There is no timetable for

bracketeer.org

Note that IlSU is mentioned as participating in another tourney, a four-team tourney, also in Orlando.

If that is confirmed, that is a very good group of teams participating-
"Bradley, Liberty, Princeton, Rhode Island, Temple, Towson, UC San Diego, and Vermont will headline an additional Orlando ESPN Event field next season. These teams will play a three-game, eight-team bracket while at Disney World."

 

[yoda]

Bradley is scheduled to play in an eight-team tourney in Orlando during Thanksgiving week.

SOURCES: 12 Teams and Two additional events are set for Orlando — The Bracketeer

ESPN Orlando Adds 4-Team Event Multiple sources confirmed with The Bracketeer that Charlotte, Furman, Illinois State, and Richmond will headline an additional Orlando ESPN Event field next season. These teams will play a two-game, four-team bracket while at Disney World. There is no timetable for

bracketeer.org

Note that IlSU is mentioned as participating in another tourney, a four-team tourney, also in Orlando.

Yes- nice - thanks for finding that -
wow - amazing how the news for Bradley basketball is happening every day and it's always here...

The Orlando/Disney 8-team Tourney should be late November and will include
Liberty, Princeton, Rhode Island, Temple, Towson, UC San Diego, and Vermont - in addition to Bradley!

That is a really good lineup of solid mid-major teams.

Liberty NET 60
Princeton NET 166
Rhode Island NET 152
Temple NET 164
Towson NET 151
UC San Diego NET 35 !!
Vermont NET 232 but they won 19 games & has historically been solid

Liberty already has a story up- LINK

 

[yoda]

The first officially confirmed piece of the 2025-26 Basketball schedule is released.
....

They also host a 3-on-3 basketball tournament August 3 at Ren-Co.

Bradley announces that they have cancelled plans to host the above mentioned 3-on-3 tournament - LINK
...they weren't able to secure enough court availability for the games.

 

[yoda]

Schedule dates are set for the Orlando Tournament
2025 Terry's Chocolate Invitational - matchups not set yet
...at Walt Disney World Resort’s State Farm Field House at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Kissimmee, Fla.

LINK

LINK

...

 

[yoda]

Full article from the Bradley Athletic Website - LINK

ESPN calls the Tournament:

Terry's Chocolate ESPN Events Invitational​

The Adventure Bracket
(the other two brackets are the Magic and the Imagination, and they're in Kissimmee, FL, just south of Orlando- LINK )

Has anyone ever heard of Terry's Chocolate? I haven't but I'd like to know more...
According to Wikipedia, it's a company that had been in business for over 100 years then discontinued and was taken over by Kraft.
But ......
"In 2016, Terry's was one of a number of brands acquired by Eurazeo and it subsequently became part of Carambar & Co.
CURRENT PRODUCTS-
Terry's Chocolate Orange: Introduced in 1932 as Terry's Dessert Chocolate Orange
Terry's Chocolate Orange Ice-cream Tubs and Sticks: Introduced 2023
Terry's Chocolate Mint: Introduced in 2023
Terry's Chocolate Milk: Introduced in 2024 – a plain milk chocolate in the orange shape"
and now they have lots of other items - LINK
Here's their website - LINK

They list the stores they are sold in and I have never heard of nor seen a single one of these-

 

[Da Coach]

Terry's is a British chocolate brand, and those grocery markets they show- Sainsbury's, ASDA, Morrison's, Ocado, Waitrose, B&M, Poundland, Iceland, and Tesco, are all British supermarket and variety market chains.
The other one, COOP, is a Norwegian grocery market chain.
From what I can find on the internet, they recently started to market their products in the US

The Terry's Chocolate Events is a 16-team event divided into 3 different brackets - https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-...nts-invitational-at-walt-disney-world-resort/
Bradley plays in an 8-team bracket Nov. 24-26 (titled The Adventure Bracket) with Liberty, Princeton, Rhode Island, Temple, Towson, UC San Diego, and Vermont.
Then there is a 4-team bracket Nov. 27-28 (titled The Magic Bracket) with BYU, Dayton, Georgetown, and Miami.
And there is a 3rd bracket, also from Nov. 27-28 (titled The Imagination Bracket) with Illinois State, Charlotte, Furman, and Richmond.
All games are played at Walt Disney World Resort’s State Farm Field House at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Kissimmee, Fla.

 

[Tommy]

They were giving away Terry's chocolate oranges at the Myrtle Beach invitational last year. I never got one while I was there, but bought one at Walmart or Walgreens when I got home and I must say, it was quite delightful.