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2025 and beyond recruits

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.
 
BU freak said:
Julen Iturbe commits to American
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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.
 
yoda said:
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.
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That's good research!!!
 
yoda said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Da Coach on 9/27/23 said:
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
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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/team/Basket-Bassano/4609?Page=0

He was selected this summer to play with the Italian U18 Euro Championship team- https://twitter.com/vanderknaap05/status/1698690631466393915

2022-23 highlights- https://twitter.com/search?q=timoty%20van%20der%20knaap&src=typed_quer y&f=top
 
For fans concerned that Bradley is "losing" recruits to other schools, I don't think there is any cause for concern. None of the recruits that Bradley had a realistic chance at are immediate All-MVC types (we never had a realistic chance at Lathan Sommerville, Cooper Koch, etc.).
Bradley is still involved with a number of great prospects, and I expect our coaches to land a few. This past year, we have seen more Bradley offers being extended than in any previous season under Coach Wardle. And when coaches increase their offers, especially to kids who are not from our time zone, we're going to see more of them choose other decent mid-major schools closer to their homes.
 
Da Coach said:
For fans concerned that Bradley is "losing" recruits to other schools, I don't think there is any cause for concern. None of the recruits that Bradley had a realistic chance at are immediate All-MVC types (we never had a realistic chance at Lathan Sommerville, Cooper Koch, etc.).
Bradley is still involved with a number of great prospects, and I expect our coaches to land a few. This past year, we have seen more Bradley offers being extended than in any previous season under Coach Wardle. And when coaches increase their offers, especially to kids who are not from our time zone, we're going to see more of them choose other decent mid-major schools closer to their homes.
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Personally, I think this may be the new way to recruit to get the inside track on players who could potentially end up in the transfer portal. It may have gone a long way in helping the staff land several quality transfers this past off-season.
 
Da Coach said:
Bradley offers another player from Iceland-
2024 Robert Sean Birmingham- a 6'7", 18 year old, left-handed shooting guard/small forward. He is currently in North Carolina attending Carmel Christian HS in Matthews, NC and he is playing with the Team Curry program this summer.
https://phenomhoopreport.com/2024-se...s-recruitment/
https://twitter.com/BigShotsGlobal/s...33106961989635
https://twitter.com/SeanB1rmingham/s...18440166916097
https://twitter.com/MasercolaMiles/s...67846066626560
https://twitter.com/CoachCRoth/statu...07377603416074
Video- https://twitter.com/PhenomMixtapes/s...35908383236099

He plays on Iceland's U18 National Team, but was limited last year due to an injury, and he played for a club team in Spain last summer.
https://scoutbasketball.com/player/R...ean-Birmingham
https://twitter.com/CBB_Europe/statu...56303690932224

Stats- https://basketball.eurobasket.com/pl...mingham/553529
https://www.fiba.basketball/europe/u...ert-Birmingham
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One time Bradley recruit Robert Sean Birmingham has committed to Indiana State-
https://twitter.com/SeanB1rmingham/status/1711800973365068006

He is a native of Iceland and has played on their U18 National team with Almar Atlason.
 
Bradley is recruiting a 2024 junior college point guard- very athletic 6'3" Gob Gob at Hill College in Hillsboro, Texas. He is originally from Manchester, New Hampshire, and he played a year at Minnesota Prep Academy. Last season as a freshman at Hill College, he averaged 11.3 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 3.7 apg, and he shot 43.4% overall, and 27.5% from three.
https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/gob-gob
https://www.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2022-23/div1/players/gobgob2hvt
Highlight videos- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3mLFHeKiHg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3mLFHeKiHg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI8lZfnyofk
 
A couple more new names-
2024 Daniel Nixon- 6'7" sophomore forward at Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas. He is originally from New York, and attended high school at Winston Salem Christian School. He played last season at George Washington University, where he played in only 1 game (3 minutes, 2 points, 1 rebound), then redshirted for the season due to a knee injury and surgery.
>> https://verbalcommits.com/players/daniel-nixon
>> https://gwsports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/daniel-nixon/8224

2025 Trey Williams- 5'11" point guard at Vashon HS in St. Louis
>> https://verbalcommits.com/players/trey-williams
>> https://twitter.com/EliteMixtapesHS/status/1695193138212585773
 
For those interested, I believe Vashon will be playing in the Kevin Brown tournament of champions in Washington over the week of Thanksgiving.
 
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