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Final score: Bradley 74 Illinois State 60

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Next game: Bradley (18-10, 11-6, 12-2 at home) vs Illinois State (18-10, 10-7, 4-6 in road games), Saturday, Feb. 21, 7:00 pm
The game is on ESPN2 - https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/9274df6d-93d1-4a2d-99bc-0b9d0bca1f6c
Live Stats- https://bradleybraves.com/sidearmstats/mbball/summary
Radio- https://wmbdradio.com/player/?playerID=2045
Tickets- https://www.ticketmaster.com/bradle...ia-illinois-02-21-2026/event/07006342B02B47AF
BradleyFans.com Chat Room- www.chatzy.com/bradleyfans
History- Bradley 76 wins Illinois State 67 wins - https://goredbirds.com/sports/mens-basketball/opponent-history/bradley-university/44

Bradley played Illinois State in Peoria on Jan. 17- Final score- ISU 88 Bradley 62- ISU guard Boden Skunberg had a season-high 23 points.
Recap- https://bradleybraves.com/news/2026...dley-falls-on-the-road-to-illinois-state.aspx
Box score- https://bradleybraves.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2025-26/illinois-state/boxscore/22694

ISU Links-
Schedule/results- https://goredbirds.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule
Roster- https://bradleybraves.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
Stats- https://goredbirds.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2025-26

ISU's leading scorer, Chase Walker, has missed their last 2 games after suffering a hamstring injury in the first half of their Feb. 12 game against Valparaiso. He played only 6 minutes in that game, and has not been cleared to play in the last 2 games, an 83-56 loss at UIC and a 78-61 home win against Murray State this past Wednesday.
Backup center Cameron Barnes, has also been injured (shoulder) and has not played since Feb. 9. He has played in 13 game, for an average of 6.8 minutes.

Bradley stats- https://bradleybraves.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats
MVC stats- https://mvc-sports.com/documents/2025/11/4/2025_26_MVC_MBB_All_Game_Stats.pdf
 
This was a dream matchup for me when I knew before the season started I would attend! To have your Arch Rival also be preseason MVC favorites, that's the kind of game every Central Illinois fan should want to attend!!!! The atmosphere at Carver will be great to get our Braves a much needed Victory!
 
Would be extremely disappointing if the Braves don't come away with a W.
You can kiss the 2 or 3 seeds goodbye if that happens.

ISU is overrated from the start of the season (they're not any better than last season) and BU should win with the coaches' prep up til Sat, plus the revenge factor.
 
LittleBrave said:
Would be extremely disappointing if the Braves don't come away with a W.
You can kiss the 2 or 3 seeds goodbye if that happens.

ISU is overrated from the start of the season (they're not any better than last season) and BU should win with the coaches' prep up til Sat, plus the revenge factor.
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I do not think they are overrated because they can hurt you in several ways. They have the talent but like us have had many inconsistent shooting nights. Hope they shoot poorly tomorrow night against us.
 
Won’t be easy. ISU is dangerous when they want to be…. They typically only “want to be”when they play us. Hence the losses they have in a year when they were preseason fav.
 
If your talking about Illinois State with 2 first team mvc players and Best 3 point shooter....I get it! But this year, they had watch players so Noone was officially first team MVC! I don't think Chase Walker is playing against us tommorrow! So they have 1 highly regarded player but we have Bully highly regarded! We Also have our own great 3 point shooter Alex H. So we can compete with them and if Bradley is extremely mentally prepared which I believe they will, they will show the hunger and fight!!! I think we could possibly win this going away!
 
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