New post for the 2017-18 season

Bradley returns everyone for the 2017-18 season and should have a great shot at being one of the top teams in the MVC...

I have talked to fans who have seen some of the players or watched practice, and I am hearing good things...  The players mentioned as far as improvement and development - range from Donte as a senior to guys like Kennell, Brown, Jr., and Bar as sophomores, and the incoming freshmen.

The teams that were above Bradley in the Valley in 2016-17 have all lost a bundle...

Seems some are picking Loyola to be the top team but they lost their best player and team leader in Milton Doyle, plus a few other contributors and now have lost perhaps their two best incoming new players to injury.

ISU loses almost everyone but they still have some new talent.

Missouri State loses the least - just Dequon Miller and some bit pieces - but they return the player who likely will be preseason Player of the Year in Alize Johnson.

UNI always is in the hunt, but they were a surprisingly bad 14-16 and also lose their best player (Jeremy Morgan).

Some think SIU will be strong enough to compete for a top spot in the MVC but I think they lose an awful lot of firepower & team leadership in O'Brien, Rodriguez, & Vincent.  They also have a short bench with all their losses and bring back only 3 players who had much experience at all in Bol, Lloyd & Fletcher.

Drake, Evansville, Indiana State or Valparaiso all might surprise...time will tell.

Bradley will still be a young team this season with only 2 seniors....then 2018-19 should be a strong year where Bradley will field almost all very experienced players & lots of juniors & seniors.
Things are definitely looking up....the optimism is as good as it's been since the Jim Les era....even tho every season under Geno was hyped to hell by the PJS writers with glowing praise, talk of all time top recruiting classes & talent and strength at every position that hasn't been matched since the Mitchell Anderson/Thirdkill/Reese era....
(Seriously - Dave Reynolds & Kirk Wessler actually said those things, and instead what we got were horrible players like Chris Blake or Jermaine Morgan, ineligible/injured guys like Mike Shaw & Kendahl Amerson, or chronic police blotter guys like Warren Jones & Auston Barnes.)

Hopefully this season will go a long way to helping the great fans of Bradley forget the Joanne Glasser/Mike Cross/Geno Ford era of nightmarishly bad basketball but also corruption, spending wastefully and horrible treatments of the fine fan base.

Hard to imagine that just a few years ago - a tiny clueless segment of the Bradley fan base that had their noses up Joanne Glasser's butt praised her as the best President that Bradley had ever had.  OMG - could anyone have been more ignorant and clueless?  Most of those bozos have since realized their ignorance but amazingly a few still have never caught on to how bad she was for Bradley and DI athletics.