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2019 Valley Recruits

ISU's Harouna Sissoko added
..now they have only three scholarships to fill, and I believe that all nine other MVC teams have all their scholarships accounted for

2019

Bradley - Stephan Gabriel, Antonio Thomas, Ville Tahvanainen, possibly JaMir Price, Rienk Mast,Danya Kingsby- transfer, will not sign LOI, Terry Nolan, Jr., Kevin McAdoo, Sean Houpt (now zero open scholarships)
Drake - Roman Penn - transfer eligible in 2019, Issa Samake, Joseph Yesufu, Nate Ferguson, Jonah Jackson, Brady Ernst, Okay Djamgouz (zero scholarships, Matt Gray transferring)
Evansville - Artur Labinowcz - transfer, eligible in 2019, Sam Cunliffe - transfer eligible in 2019, DeAndre Williams- freshman redshirting 2018-19, Marcus Henderson, Peace Ilegomah - eligible mid-year 2019-20, Thomasi Gilgeous-Alexander, Demontay Dixon (0 open scholarships)
ISU - DJ Horne, Dedric Boyd, Jaycee Hillsman, Keith Fisher - all three ineligible until fall of 2019, also Abdou Ndiaye will be ineligible until 2019 , Malcolm Miller - walk-on. Harouna Sissoko, Antonio Reeves, Ricky Torres (still have 1 scholarship open)
Indiana State - Cobie Barnes, Jared Hankins, Tre Williams, Cameron Bacote (transfer will be eligible in 2019), Christopher Agbo, Jake LaRavia (zero scholarships open - Hughes & Huenermann leaving)
Loyola - Tate Hall (transfer, eligible in 2019-2020), Paxson Wojcik, Tom Welch, Marquise Kennedy, Keith Clemons, Jalon Pipkins, Braden Norris - transfer (zero open scholarships)
Missouri State - Tyem Freeman, Jamonta Black, Dajuan Harris, Gaige Prim, Tyrik Dixon - transfer, eligible 2019, Isaiah Mosley, Spencer Brown- walk-on, Lamont West-transfer, Anthony Masinton-Bonner, transfer (appear to be oversigned by 1 or 2 now that both Wojciks leaving)
UNI - James Betz, Noah Carter, Cole Henry, Logan Wolf (walk-on for basketball & scholarship for football), Evan Gauger, Derek Krogman- walk-on, Antwan Kimmons
(zero open scholarships- now that Croft is gone)
SIU - Avery Taggart (will also walk on for football), Lance Jones, Chris Payton, Trent Brown, Barret Benson, Harwin Francois, Ben Harvey - transfer, Marcus Domask(now looks like 1 or 2 open scholarship)
Valparaiso - Eron Gordon and Nick Robinson - both transfers eligible in 2019, Donovan Clay, Sigurd Lorange, Emil Freese-Vilien, Ben Krikke, Luke Morrill - walk on, Zion Morgan(should have zero open scholarships now that Freeman returning)

2020

Bradley - JaMir Price- if he does a year at Prep School (currently 3 open scholarships - we lose Brown, Kennell, Bar)
UNI - Tytan Anderson, Nathan Heise (3 open scholarships)
 
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Northern Iowa gets a commitment form a Class of 2020 shooting guard out of Lake City, Minnesota
6-4 Nathan Heise -
Verbalcommits lists five other offers, all of which are DII's, so UNI must see something special in the kid...
He averaged 21.9 ppg and hit 35.6% from 3-pt (and notice that even a small town like Lake City has far superior local sports coverage than we get here - LINK)
http://verbalcommits.com/players/nathan-heise
..he will be able to sign a Letter of Intent next November
 
tornado said:
Northern Iowa gets a commitment form a Class of 2020 shooting guard out of Lake City, Minnesota
6-4 Nathan Heise -
Verbalcommits lists five other offers, all of which are DII's, so UNI must see something special in the kid...
He averaged 21.9 ppg and hit 35.6% from 3-pt (and notice that even a small town like Lake City has far superior local sports coverage than we get here - LINK)
http://verbalcommits.com/players/nathan-heise
..he will be able to sign a Letter of Intent next November
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I think Jacobson is a good coach who gets the most out of his players. I thought Joe Stowell did the same thing. He would bring players in and maximize their ability
 
for much of a decade, Jacobson's shooting guards (James, Sonnen, Lohaus, Moran, Farokhmanesh, Bohannon, Jesperson and others) have killed us...
..he does have the ability to land good shooters. The last couple years have been a bit of an exception this their records the last two years (14-16 & 16-16)
 
ISU gets a commitment from another 2-guard Antonio Reeves. He is a 6'4" shooting guard from Simeon HS in Chicago.
http://verbalcommits.com/players/antonio-reeves

Illinois State Signs Antonio Reeves to National Letter of Intent
https://goredbirds.com/news/2019/5/1...of-intent.aspx

Video-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd8wtSVckDU

For the record- the title and the statement in that ISU article says: "Illinois State head men's basketball coach Dan Muller has announced that Antonio Reeves has signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the Redbirds starting in the 2019-20 season."

Reeves just announced his college commitment this evening, The NLI signing dates were from April 17, 2019 to May 15, 2019. After Wednesday, May 15, he couldn't have signed a NLI. So he must have signed an NLI prior to the deadline Wednesday and waited until today to announce it.
 
they still have two scholarships
lots of predictions had Reeves going to SIU - but maybe this is an example of the AAU influence - now that SIU is an "Illinois Wolves" school
 
they still have one scholarship left...

they have in 2019-2020:
Seniors- Hillsman, Copeland, Torres (may have to redshirt)
Juniors- Boyd, Chastain, Fisher, Bruninga (actually will be a redshirt soph)
Sophomores- Idowu, Ndiaye (actually will be a redshirt freshman)
Freshmen- Horne, Reeves, Harouna Sissoko (anyone think he'll redshirt?)

only four have played for ISU (Copeland, Chastain, Bruninga, Idowu)
and they account for total of 50 starts - (Bradley returns 280 starts among their returnees - over 200 of which are our returning seniors DB, Nate & Bar)
 
Hopefully, all those teams are upgrading their talent. The MVC was down last year and needs better talent. Yes, I am aware Bradley didn't finish in the top four. Next year is going to be interesting with all the new players on the teams.
 
tornado said:
SIU lands another transfer
Malik William transferring from Clemson.....
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SIU's official Tweet-
"SIGNED | Big pick-up for #Salukis, who added Clemson transfer forward Malik William today.
He was a Top-200 high school prospect out of Orlando. Skilled big man and shot blocker. "

He will have to sit out and play in 2020-2021 but his numbers are hard to judge.....didn't play much at Clemson...
in two years at Clemson, he totalled 3 blocks...(average of 0.176 blocks per game)
 
Southern Illinois still has one open scholarships that new head coach Bryan Mullins is about to give away.
I have heard there is a recruit who is very familiar to everyone here at Bradley making an official visit to SIU tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday.
So Mullins might be out of scholarships soon. :)
 
Da Coach said:
Southern Illinois still has one open scholarships that new head coach Bryan Mullins is about to give away.
I have heard there is a recruit who is very familiar to everyone here at Bradley making an official visit to SIU tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday.
So Mullins might be out of scholarships soon. :)
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For those wondering who I am referring to, there was a hidden clue in my post yesterday. Click on the red period after the middle sentence.
 
Missouri State gets on the board for 2020 with a really highly rated 6-3 point guard, Ford Cooper
https://247sports.com/college/basket...ale-131408132/

Cooper reportedly has two uncles who are NBA players, Antawn Jamison & Vince Carter

2020

Bradley - JaMir Price- if he does a year at Prep School (currently 3 open scholarships - we lose Brown, Kennell, Bar)
Missouri State - Ford Cooper - https://twitter.com/EvanDaniels/stat...14944167104512 (may be reclassifying to 2019)
UNI - Tytan Anderson, Nathan Heise (3 open scholarships)

2020 recruits can not sign a letter of Intent until November 13, 2019
 
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I keep reading how Missouri State is just kicking butt, out-recruiting everyone, and gonna be favorites...

Correct me if I am wrong but....

but about 4 months ago, we headed to St. Louis with everyone telling us that Missouri State was hot, they had the best lineup,
they were better than Bradley, they finished ahead of Bradley in the standings, they had swept the season series against us,
and that they were favored because we would NOT beat them...

That was in March...but we beat them and won the Valley Championship - so I am not totally buying into the hype.
In that win, we held their star to 3 points on 16% shooting, and just 4 rebs in 36 minutes - he was almost invisible...
I may be wrong, but I like our chances....
 
I wonder if this possibility has been explored.....

Missouri State was allowed to place one of their players, Abdul Fofana on a medical redshirt, he would stay in school on scholarship but his scholarship would NOT count against their limit of 13 total basketball scholarships.
Missouri State has said he still might be able to recover and play in the future - https://www.news-leader.com/story/s...rly-thoughts-heading-into-2019-20/2931932002/

Like wise - ISU was allowed to place one of their players, Madison Williams on a medical redshirt, he would stay in school on scholarship but his scholarship would NOT count against their limit of 13 total basketball scholarships. They also did the same with Mike Vandello.
..and other players have done the same...

so why can't Bradley do the same with Rienk Mast - let him enter and be on scholarship but if he's not going to play - why can't Bradley bring in another player on scholarship like those other schools did?
 
I believe the NCAA allows for the school to continue the athlete on scholarship and not count toward the maximum of 13 scholarships only when it involves a career-ending injury. The school can keep the athlete on scholarship up to a total of 4 years as long as they fulfill all other NCAA requirements and remain in good academic standing. However, the athlete cannot return and play.
 
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