2025 and beyond recruits

[LongTimeFan]

Tim Franks offered 6/22/23 has committed to St. Francis.- https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/tim-franks

[Da Coach]

Brant Byers just finished an official visit to Bradley. He visited Miami (OH) and Marshall earlier this month.
He attends The Newman School in Boston, and is originally from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania-

https://twitter.com/BrantByers5/status/1706841791159255504

Byers announced a short time ago that he is committing to Miami (Ohio).

https://twitter.com/BrantByers5/status/1711133457714217075

One new name- Timoty van der Knaap a 6'8" Italian wing who is playing as an amateur for Basket Bassano, an Under-18 Italian team in the Italian Serie C League- https://basketball.eurobasket.com/te...no/4609?Page=0

He was selected this summer to play with the Italian U18 Euro Championship team- https://twitter.com/vanderknaap05/st...90631466393915

2022-23 highlights- https://twitter.com/search?q=timoty%20van%20der%20knaap&src=typed_quer y&f=top

[LongTimeFan]

There seems to be a name of a forward floating around.

[yoda]

No team in the Valley, and quite possibly no other midmajor team has as many good European connections, nor knows better which young Euro players have interest in coming to the US & playing DI ball than our BU staff. We have proved that with Rienk, Malevy, Almar etc.
There’s a lot of other teams with Euro kids but how many in our league were at the All-MVC level our guys are. Even the guys who weren’t big stars like Koch, DLO, Luuk, etc were still talented, motivated, coachable kids that won Championships. Look for a few more names to emerge that Bradley will be watching for 2024 & beyond.

[LongTimeFan]

He turned us down for whatever reason. I do think he would have been a good addition to the team.

I'm now concerned whether Byers, Birmingham, Lue, and Scott III will be willing to come west and enroll at Bradley. These 4 have/had offers.

[Da Coach]

I do not think he visited. See my post above.

[PhiAlphaBoy]

I am convinced he will be a good player & could have been a Krutwig-type in the MVC- not necessarily claiming he'd be that consistently dominant.
Had Iturbe committed to Bradley, he'd have immediately gotten a nice writeup by the PJStar, and our local social media would have
been buzzing. But oddly, even tho he commits to a school in a city (DC) that has more media coverage than anywhere else in the world,
there isn't a single mention, let alone a story about him.
Then I tried to see if there's much discussion on their social media... and guess what? They basically don't have any.- and there's only a couple mentions
on the message board that serves their entire conference and not any particular team.
Then I checked to see if American University even has a basketball twitter account - they do not.
So I checked a few other places, FB, IG, etc... and AU's women's basketball has a Facebook page that's fairly active, but NOTHING for men's BKB.
They only draw 900-1000 per home game, so I am guessing he had little interest in exposure or NIL and just wanted to play closer to home.

Maybe he realized during scrimmaging with our players that he just wasn't that good. It's easier to get playing time with a historically bad and rebuilding program than a successful and retooling program.

[bradleyfan124]

I am convinced he will be a good player & could have been a Krutwig-type in the MVC- not necessarily claiming he'd be that consistently dominant.
Had Iturbe committed to Bradley, he'd have immediately gotten a nice writeup by the PJStar, and our local social media would have
been buzzing. But oddly, even tho he commits to a school in a city (DC) that has more media coverage than anywhere else in the world,
there isn't a single mention, let alone a story about him.
Then I tried to see if there's much discussion on their social media... and guess what? They basically don't have any.- and there's only a couple mentions
on the message board that serves their entire conference and not any particular team.
Then I checked to see if American University even has a basketball twitter account - they do not.
So I checked a few other places, FB, IG, etc... and AU's women's basketball has a Facebook page that's fairly active, but NOTHING for men's BKB.
They only draw 900-1000 per home game, so I am guessing he had little interest in exposure or NIL and just wanted to play closer to home.

That's good research!!!

[yoda]

Julen Iturbe commits to American

I am convinced he will be a good player & could have been a Krutwig-type in the MVC- not necessarily claiming he'd be that consistently dominant.
Had Iturbe committed to Bradley, he'd have immediately gotten a nice writeup by the PJStar, and our local social media would have
been buzzing. But oddly, even tho he commits to a school in a city (DC) that has more media coverage than anywhere else in the world,
there isn't a single mention, let alone a story about him.
Then I tried to see if there's much discussion on their social media... and guess what? They basically don't have any.- and there's only a couple mentions
on the message board that serves their entire conference and not any particular team.
Then I checked to see if American University even has a basketball twitter account - they do not.
So I checked a few other places, FB, IG, etc... and AU's women's basketball has a Facebook page that's fairly active, but NOTHING for men's BKB.
They only draw 900-1000 per home game, so I am guessing he had little interest in exposure or NIL and just wanted to play closer to home.

[BU freak]

It would make sense. As a teaser he had pictures of him in the uniforms of his Final 4, all which were clearly when he was on his visits. Never did put a picture of himself in a Bradley jersey, which would indicate he never visited.

[Da Coach]

Julen Iturbe commits to American...

Heard from a couple sources.... both were not aware of any visit from a recruit last week, and that is unlikely if it had happened.

[Da Coach]

2025 Dietrich Richardson- 6'6" guard from Manual HS in Peoria. There are some web sources that say he is the son of former Peoria HS star D.J. Richardson, who played for Bruce Weber at Illinois (2009-13). But other sources report that he is D.J.'s nephew. DJ had a six year pro career overseas, and is now an assistant coach at East Peoria.
https://twitter.com/MHS_Boys_/status...67141028257794
https://twitter.com/DietrichR_11/sta...90545515597830
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugHvxVkbdwY

Bradley coaches were in to watch 2025 Manual guard Dietrich Richardson today-
https://twitter.com/MaxFeldman6/stat...23950521106681

Bradley extends an offer to 2025 Manual Guard Dietrich Richardson-

https://twitter.com/MidProAcademy/status/1708948609041879081

[Da Coach]

A couple new offers- 2025 Jamarion Batemon and 2025 Devin Brown-

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxvMPdsOWTM/?img_index=1

2025 Jamarion Batemon-

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/basketball-fan-talk/505646-2023-and-beyond-recruits?p=511780#post511780

https://verbalcommits.com/players/jamarion-batemon

2025 Devin Brown-

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/basketball-fan-talk/505646-2023-and-beyond-recruits?p=512355#post512355

https://verbalcommits.com/players/devin-brown

[yoda]

Bummer, musta wanted to stay out east

[BU freak]

Julen Iturbe commits to American

https://twitter.com/IturbeJulen/status/1708948465454092609