When seniors Koch Bar, Nate Kennell and Darrell Brown arrived in Peoria the summer of 2016, the Braves were coming off a 5-27 season in head coach Brian Wardle’s first year. That trio has now won the Missouri Valley Conference tournament in back-to-back years for…
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The Bradley athletic department issued a statement shortly after the NCAA announced that there will be no fans in attendance at the NCAA Tournament due to COVID-19 concerns. Bradley does not see a possibility to fulfill ticket requests to watch, in-person, the back-to-back Missouri Valley…
Bradley men’s basketball is headed back to the NCAA tournament after defeating Valparaiso 80-66 on Sunday afternoon to claim the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament title for the second consecutive year. The back-to-back titles mark the first time in program history that the Braves have repeated…
Bradley men’s basketball has repeated at Missouri Valley Conference tournament champion, beating Valparaiso 80-66 Sunday afternoon in St. Louis. The back-to-back titles are the first in program history. Senior Darrell Brown led Bradley with 21 points and was named the tournament’s most outstanding player. Junior…
It’s Dec. 12, 2018. Bradley is getting set to take on New Mexico for the final installment of the now-defunct Missouri Valley versus Mountain West challenge. Braves’ starting point guard and leading scorer Darrell Brown Jr. takes the floor for his normal pre-game warm-ups. However,…
The 2020 Missouri Valley Conference championship will feature Bradley and Valparaiso following the Crusaders’ 89-82 win over Missouri State on Saturday night. It will be the first time a 7-seed in the tournament will run the floor on Sunday. This will also be the first…
According to senior Darrell Brown, he and classmate Nate Kennell couldn’t sleep on Friday evening. Why? School history was at stake the next afternoon. “We’re roommates on the road, so we talked about this last night when we couldn’t really sleep and we were getting…
Six-foot 11-inch Bradley senior Koch Bar dunked in traffic with 10:09 remaining in the game to push Bradley’s lead to seven points over Drake in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament semifinal. Fellow senior Darrell Brown hit Bar with a pass after he had escaped Drake…
In last season’s Arch Madness championship game, senior Luqman Lundy, who transferred to Bradley for his final two seasons of collegiate basketball, was a perfect 5-5 from the field for 11 points and led all rebounders with eight. As he awaits the next step in…
After a 64-59 win against Southern Illinois, the Bradley men’s basketball team will take on Drake today at 2:30 p.m. in the semifinal of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament. The Bulldogs shocked North Iowa in historical fashion, becoming the first team to play on Thursday…