Bradley basketball has always had a lot of very good scorers. Bradley generally has multiple players among the leaders in the MVC and every year or so, sometimes even two in the same year - we'd have players who would celebrate entry into Bradley's 1000-point club!!
This happened regularly right up until Walt Lemon & Dyricus Simms-Edwards both reached the 1000-point milestone in 2012-13.
Then last year we saw Walt proceed to reach well over 1,700 career points and finish 6th on Bradley's all-time scoring list.
Again - it has always been a great part of being a Bradley basketball fan - watching all those great players put up points!
Until now...now nobody can score. They sure get touted in the media and by clueless fans as scorers...but facts are facts - Bradley just does NOT have any consistent or reliable scorers any more. And none of the horizon or the radar screen either!
Even when players like Omari Grier or Auston Barnes have a good scoring night - the next game they disappear (or become completely ineligible for a stretch!).
I just checked the career scoring for everyone we have...
Nobody on the current roster is even over 300 pts except Omari Grier has a little over 600 and Barnes is nearing 500 but his career will be over in 8-9 more games.
Most are in the 100-200 range and not one shows even the tiniest proclivity to be able to score - so the likelihood of anyone becoming a 1000-point scorer is virtually ZERO.
Thus it's probably gonna be at least 2019 before Bradley would see another 1000-point scorer at the earliest!!!
There were people a couple years ago saying Ka'Darryl Bell would become a scorer and get to 1000 career points - but now if he were to do that he'd have to average almost 20 ppg for the rest of his Bradley career!
They said same about Grier, Swopshire, Zecevic, and even recently someone hinted in one thread that maybe Josh Cunningham or Donte Thomas could do it.
Obviously you cannot rule out Thomas or Cunningham - for no other reason that they both still have OVER 3 years to still possibly get it done - and with teams playing as much as 35 games per season and more - all someone like Cunningham would have to do is stay healthy and play 110 more games and average 7.5 ppg and then he'd have 825 points to add to the 181 points he already has and he'd get to 1000 but still not til end of 2017-18 season!
So - my prediction is that we do not celebrate our next 1000-point scorer until at least 2020 - more than 5 years into the future!
There won't hardly be anyone currently attending Bradley games - left alive or caring by then to know if I was right or wrong
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