In addition to Remy Abell, Sean Harris, and Tyler Les, there were a couple other pretty good players who would have played at Bradley if Jim Les had not been fired in 2011-
Corey Hawkins- he was set to transfer to Bradley, but instead went to UC Davis with Coach Les, and ended up with a terrific career. He was an Honorable Mention AP All-American his senior year, the Big West Player of the Year, the Big West scoring champion (20.9 ppg), and he lead the nation in 3-point percentage (48.8%). He would have been a star in the MVC, and a POY candidate.
Bio- https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/men...ey-hawkins/394
2014-15 national 3-point stats-
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...alPct/dir/desc
Lawrence Alexander- few people know that Peoria Manual guard Lawrence Alexander was planning to commit and sign with Bradley in the spring of 2011, but when Jim Les was fired, he signed with North Dakota State instead in late April of 2011. It was the only other D1 offer he had. He had a terrific career there, averaging 18.9 ppg his senior year (2014-15), and being voted Summit League Player of the Year in 2015.
Bio- https://gobison.com/sports/mens-bask...alexander/5834
Bradley also had a 2010 commitment from Fabyon Harris who later went on to become a juco star, then star at Texas A&M - but because of a single bad headline from when the kid was 17, the Queen vetoed it.
12 ppg & 45% from 3-pt at Texas A&M - https://12thman.com/documents/2015/1...ts.pdf?id=2606
What's also interesting is that after Harris finished juco and was being recruited again, JL expressed interest again,
only to have it all vetoed a 2nd time. In all she vetoed multiple players he could have had success with because she wanted him to fail. She even insisted on bringing in one recruit of her own that Jim did not want. Do a search for Andrew Davis.
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