It has been an unhinged season for college basketball less than one month after the season started. Already, preseason rankings have been scrambled, as nine of the top 10 teams in the Associated Press’s (AP) preseason poll have lost at least one game. With all…
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Since the beginning of the season, devastating news has seemed to reverberate from the men’s basketball program each week. As the group faced Merrimack Saturday, misfortune took the week off. In the Braves’ 83-41 victory against the Warriors on Saturday evening, the early season struggles…
Coming off the heroics of a rivalry win versus Illinois State to stake their spot as an eight seed, Bradley volleyball’s season came to a close after a 3-1 loss to fifth-seeded Evansville on Sunday. The Purple Aces downed the Braves in their own backyard,…
The beach is supposed to be fun. Vacations are supposed to be fun. Fun is not the word to describe these past two days for Bradley men’s basketball (3-3), who dropped their second game in Cancún, Mexico – this time in a 55-44 loss to…
When Bradley listed two Southeastern Conference (SEC) teams to its non-conference schedule this year, the anticipation on the Hilltop was palpable. On Tuesday evening though, the squad that played against No. 13 Auburn to begin the Cancun Challenge was vastly different than what fans had…
It wasn’t pretty, but Bradley women’s basketball (2-3) came away with a win over Missouri Baptist on Tuesday night, their second straight trip to the victory column. “My team was trying to give me a heart attack for 33 minutes, but we pulled it out,”…
Injuries can never be predicted. Bradley men’s basketball (3-1) knows this all too well. “You don’t become a family until you go through strong adversity, and we’re going through it right now,” head coach Brian Wardle said. “We just gotta come together more.” The Braves…
It may have taken a fourth game or a new environment, but Bradley women’s basketball earned its first victory of the season on Saturday evening at Carver Arena against the McNeese State Cowgirls 77-58. “I’m just really proud,” head coach Kate Popovec-Goss said. “For them…
It wasn’t easy, but everything that needed to happen for Bradley volleyball (10-20, 6-12 MVC) on Wednesday night happened. “It was exhilarating,” junior opposite hitter Abby Johnson said. “Everything was all over the place and up in the air; it was do or die.” Heading…
Head coach Kate Popovec-Goss was 5-0 against Wisconsin during her time at Northwestern, but it didn’t help her lead Bradley women’s basketball to a win Wednesday night in Madison. In the second game of a home-and-home between the Badgers and Braves, Wisconsin (3-1) got their…