Butler’s not the only mid-major represented at this year’s Final Four. Bradley’s high-flying senior Chris Roberts is taking his highlight reel dunks to the NCAA’s main stage. Roberts was selected to be one of the six dunkers in the State Farm College Slam Dunk Championship…
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The women’s track team traveled to Palo Alto, Calif., and came back with more than just sunburns. Junior Mary Goldkamp and senior Katie Nowak came away with the top two times in Bradley history in the 800-meter run. Goldkamp won the race at the Stanford…
The softball team played against Drake in a three-game series, but only brought home one victory. In the first game of the doubleheader, the Braves lost to the Drake Bulldogs 14-1 and fell to the mercy rule in the fifth inning. The Bulldogs struck first…
The baseball team continued its run of close losses in a weekend series with Missouri Valley Conference power Wichita State. The team lost three games at Eck Stadium in Wichita, Kan., including one in extra innings. In the first game of the series, junior Patrick…
All the talk of expanding the NCAA tournament field to 96 should cease. This year’s version of March Madness proved what I already knew, the NCAA tournament is the greatest playoff in all of sports. Name another playoff system where upsets are so prevalent. Name…
Ron Gardenhire Ever since he took over for Tom Kelly in 2002 as the manager of the Minnesota Twins, Ron Gardenhire has had only one losing season and has seen the postseason in five of those eight years. His regular season record of 708-588 and…
In the movies, the final game of the regular season always pits two teams that are deadlocked in the standings against one another, as if the schedule makers knew before the season how it would end up. This season has been everything but a movie…
After a loss to the Missouri Valley Conference leader, Illinois State, the Braves traveled to Indiana State to take on the team they beat in the previous month, but got off to a slow start. The Braves started 1-10 shooting in the game which…
The Bradley softball team gained valuable experience and played against one of the best teams in the country at the Troy Cox Classic in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The Braves began the tournament with a dominating 8-0 win over Cleveland State. In the third…
Bradley women’s head basketball coach Paula Buscher has high ambitions for the basketball program. “Our goal is for this program to be on top,” Buscher said. “We want to be the best.” For the first time in school history, the women’s basketball team made the…