Up 'til now, nobody had caught word of where ex-Brave Ray Brown went....
after leaving Bradley in spring of 2007, following a failed drug test, he transferred to Missouri Western University (DII) and played there a year. Then he was not back for 2008-2009, and was reported to have returned to the Minneapolis area to be with family. I received one report from a good source that he was staying active playing pick-up games in and around Minneapolis.
But now he shows up on another college roster.
Ray Brown is at Hamline University (in St. Paul, MN) ...and is listed as a senior.
http://www.hamline.edu/hamline_info/athletics/mens_basketball/athletic_bios/0910/brown.ray.html
http://www.hamline.edu/shared/news_items/athletics/mens_basketball/0910/mbb.wheaton.12.29.09.html
http://www.hamline.edu/hamline_info/athletics/mens_basketball/0910/2009-10_roster.html
Ray looks good, and is playing well for DIII Hamline, averaging 16.1 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 88% on FT's.
But in their 4 conference games Ray has been really hot...
In conference play Ray averages a team leading 20.0 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 86% on FTs, and 36% (14-39) from 3-pt.
http://www.hamline.edu/hamline_info/athletics/mens_basketball/0910/stats/TEAMCUME.HTM
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Darian Norris is doing well with Salt Lake Community College, a junior college in salt Lake City.
Darian is playing full time point guard and averaging 11 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 5.3 assists, 82% on FTs and 38% on 3-pt.
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Saihou Jassey played last year at NAIA alsh University in Ohio, but is now gone from their roster and did not return for his senior season.
http://www.eurobasket.com/images/GAM/dawdanjie.jpg
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Lance Stemler this year is with a German team, Telemotive Muenchen, which is a smaller regional team not presently playing in the national leagues.
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Jeremy Fears played a couple years for Kapfenberg in Austria and did quite well, then this year started in Hungary and was quickly bought out and is with Slovakian team Prievidza, and is tearing up the league.
Fears leads the entire top Slovakian League in scoring at 20.4 ppg, but also is 4th in assists at 4.6 apg, 2nd in steals at 2.5 spg.
http://www.eurobasket.com/Slovakia/basketball.asp
Here's an interview with Jeremy...it's in Slovak, and I have presented the translation...
http://www.pdbasket.com/Default.aspx?ID=1&Cat=reportaz09_10
"Interviews: Kiro (Rudež), Miro Antol (Jeremy Fears)
Interview with Jeremy Fears
Here is the first interview with the new rozohrávačom BC Prievidza, 24-year U.S. rozohrávačom Jeremy Fears
What attracted you offer Prievidza, that he chose to rubber-stamp it?
Jeremy: My agent told me he knows the team of Prievidza, its goals and the like. Prievidza rozohrávača look capable of giving the points, which should satisfy me. Moreover, in Hungary, where I was from the beginning of the season, I was quite a difficult situation. I tried to find some way out and leave. I'm glad coach Prievidza had great interest for me. Also decided that I accepted this engagement.
What are your expectations from the operation at the international conference?
Jeremy: It is hard to say as follows soon after my arrival. From what I've seen yet, I know that Rudež coach knows what he wants to achieve and how it wants to achieve. I will try to observe the particular instructions and rules. I believe that Western between teammates and we all respect each other. Of course, most of all the titles for which we do everything.
You have already completed the first training, what are your feelings about the new teammates, the environment?
Jeremy: Everyone on himself very hard toil, which is great. Only honest work is to be achieved good results. Coach of each player tries to get the best, so it should be.
You are in Slovakia for the first time or have you ever been here?
Jeremy: In the last year I was wearing my Austrian team played in the European Cup against Inter Bratislava and Handlová. So I have a few times in Slovakia. Even the very near Prievidza as Handlova think there is near ...
You've heard about great Prievidza supporters who are able to create a beautiful atmosphere not only for home games?
Jeremy: Yes, I have to coach them to pursue what-talk. He said to me that people here in Prievidza basketball are very happy, which is cool. Can I say that already are very much looking forward to my first home game in new jersey. I hope many people will come and will root for us all.
What is your greatest weapon?
Jeremy: I think I have pretty good statistics for shooting two points as well as criminal hodoch. Last season I had success turning criminal feasts beyond 90 percent. Whenever I can also gather some assistance, I am doing quite penetrate under the basket.
And what about your weaknesses?
Jeremy: I definitely have work to do to shooting three points, it is certainly my greatest weakness. For each workout try to improve this indicator. We can say that with everything else I am quite happy, though, of course, always be moving forward.
Finally, your desire into this season. Last year was Prievidza bronze ...
Jeremy: I know that the beginning of this year's team came out too, there were some problems with injuries, went first rozohrávač. I will try, so I pulled the team to victory. Highlights will begin as soon as possible to win matches and, of course, entertain the audience. I can hardly express a particular location, I'm still here only briefly."
Zach Andrews, Eddie Cage, Theron Wilson, and Aba Koita are all performing well and top contributors to their teams in Europe....these players have been followed pretty regularly on the BradleyFans.com board, so check there for followup.
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In other Valley news...
Here is the link for the Conference stats...
http://www.mvc.org/mbb/stats/CONFONLY.HTM
Andrew Warren is 2nd in scoring at 24 ppg. TB is tied for 4th in scoring at 17 ppg. Taylor Brown is 1st in rebounding at 11 rpg. Sam Maniscalco among the leaders in assists at 5 apg, and both TB and Sam M. have perfect shoting at the FT line at 5-5 with Andrew Warren at 4-4!
TB also leads league at 5 steals.
More Valley stuff..........
In kind of an unprecedented move...ex-Creighton Bluejay star Anthony Tolliver starts his own thread on the Creighton message board and tells of an incident back in 2004 apparently in an effort to clear up some previous misstatements on the board!
http://creighton.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=2688&tid=129711728&mid=129711728&sid=1209&style=2
The Creighton/UNI game was labelled as the Mid-major Game of the Night last night, but the report says basically nothing except that CU doesn't have Booker Woodofx any more.
One game into the Valley season, multiple posts on the Drake board calling to dump head coach Mark Phelps!!
http://www.drakenation.com/Topic45989-8-1.aspx
http://www.drakenation.com/Topic29168-8-1.aspx
This 2nd link calls Phelps "a worse D1 coach than Kurt Kanaskie".
One other Drake thread expresses grief over how many minutes the BU starters played. Do the Drake fans even have a clue??
Do they know that Bradley's top two subs (DSE, Dodie) are out for the season, and that one of our subs just came off redshirt?
Looks like one incident at the Wichita-ISU game was kinda funny...
is was said that Shocker coach Gregg Marshall turned to respond to some fans behind him by saying that he wished he was fortunate enough to have "inherited" and player like Osiris Eldridge...suggesting that ISU coach Jankovich was simply serendipitous...
Supposedly the fans got rowdier and let him have it! LOL.
Indiana State's Jake Kelly suffered a knee injury last night (early in 2nd half, then did not return) described as a medial collateral ligament sprain. Generally such knee ligament sprains are treated with rest and limited activity for 2-4 weeks, so Jake may be out for a while.
Wichita fans kinda ripping into Toure Murry as selfinsh!
http://www.shockernet.net/sn/viewtopic.php?t=15730
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