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    2025-26 Previews

    It's time for the 2025-26 previews to start coming out.... The thorough previews in the magazines like SI, Athlon, etc won't be out 'til September but here's one from a blogger who picks Bradley to finish fourth this upcoming season in the MVC. (note that one of the replies speculates on Ahmet...
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    Some news on Conference Realignment

    Sacramento State (basketball, and all other sports except FB) is leaving the Big Sky Conference, to become the 12th member of the Big West Conference. Sacramento State has long been a regional rival of Jim Les & UC-Davis, as they are located just 20 minutes away from each other, and they have...
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    Interesting take on Cuonzo Martin's last year in the MVC

    Kinda trashes the players he had last year -- LINK ... "It didn't take a basketball savant to recognize that the Bears lacked the talent necessary to win at a high level" ...I like where we're at right now..."This is a totally different team," Martin said. "It's a team that's built to win, a...
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    Campus visitor yesterday

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    Anyone remember Auston Barnes?

    One of the nice guys and better players that Geno had.... He & his team in Romania, Valcea, just won the Romanian top professional league Championship, beating Voluntari, a team that included Northwestern's Alex Olah
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    Must See Video from Coach Wardle's camp

    Demarion Burch demonstrating a dunk jumping over two 7-footers - LINK The two 7-footers are Gustavo Guimaraes & Kai Yu Also seen in the background are Jaquan Johnson, Corey Thomas, Jackson Seastrunk, and I believe Dietrich Richardson then at the end Montana Wheeler & AJ Smith (could be wrong...
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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY Montana Wheeler

    Happy Birthday!
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    NCAA: New rules for 2025-26

    Coach’s challenge and the addition of an NBA-like continuation play of fouled while shooting. LINK
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    Judge approves proposed NCAA NIL/roster settlement

    LINK NCAA puts some $270 mil annually in a fund to pay out - mostly to football…. $20 mil right away Roster limits will be phased in - 15 for basketball- BUT nobody will lose a roster spot- so current walk-ons will be “grandfathered in” and can stay on the roster even if they exceed 15-- but...
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    Bradley names new Baseball head coach

    Justin Dedman - https://bradleybraves.com/news/2025/6/4/baseball-justin-dedman-appointed-as-sixth-head-coach-at-bradley-university.aspx a native of Lincoln, IL and recently assistant coach at Loyola Marymount, and prior to that Univ of Missouri. They cite his career record as 575-326 (.638)...
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    Trivia question

    Identify the two players in the first photo, and what day this photo was taken & where also, my memory is failing and I am having a hard time remembering who is pictured on the front cover of the 1995 National Invitational Tournament official program.... mine is also autographed by the player...
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    Bradley/WNBA connection

    The WNBA is enjoying unprecedented popularity, and one of the top rookies, Sonia Citron (#3 draft pick out of Notre Dame) was the star today in Washington's win over Connecticut. Multiple articles about her say her father William Citron played basketball for Bradley University - LINK - LINK...
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    2025-26 Schedule

    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...
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    Awesome report - Bradley Athletics Year in Review

    https://bradleybraves.com/news/2025/5/13/general-2024-25-bradley-athletics-year-in-review.aspx
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    IBCA All Star Games

    Scheduled for Saturday June 7 in Pontiac, IL .. should feature Matthew Zobrist, Dietrich Richardson & other high schoolers who are headed for MVC teams Anyone think they might go & post reports?
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    “Thrift Store Gamble” - shopping in the portal for mid-major talent

    This is how they describe Indiana’s Darian DeVries’ first two months at IU trying to build a Big Ten roster “That’s what the portal is …. shopping in a thrift store… and you can also spend a whole lot of money and it falls apart….”...
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    NCAA awards another unusual waiver

    Malik Thomas is the most talented player on University of San Francisco. He averaged 20 ppg, but when we played them in Peoria back in December, we beat them largely by holding Thomas in check - allowing him 14 points. The previous game, San Francisco played at Loyola & Thomas went for 35...
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    Offers for 2026

    For the 2026-27 season, Bradley should have a minimum of 4 or 5 open scholarships and likely 6, 7 or maybe 8+ if the limit of 15 is utilized.... Here are the players who are almost sure to be out of eligibility: Jonovic, Huibregtse, AJ Smith Corey Thomas could be out of eligibility, as the...
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    Groundbreaking ruling at NCAA D3 level

    Get this - even if a kid transfers, he CAN STILL PLAY for the old school that he just left - if his new school drops or doesn’t sponsor his sport https://www.ncaa.org/news/2025/4/24/media-center-division-iii-presidents-council-approves-eligibility-waiver-pilot-program.aspx
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