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Final score- UC San Diego 87 Bradley 77

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Bradley (3-3) will play UC San Diego (5-0) in the semifinal round of the Terry's Chocolate ESPN Events Invitational Tuesday, Nov. 25, at 5 pm Eastern time (4 pm Central).
The game is scheduled to be broadcast on ESPN2 cable channel.

ESPN2/ESPN+ link- https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/df7db2ca-abbc-49f5-bea3-fdeb21a23076
Chat room- https://www.chatzy.com/bradleyfans
WMBD radio - https://wmbdradio.com/player/?playerID=2045
Live Stats- https://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=623601
Live stats for all tournament games- https://www.statbroadcast.com/events/tournament.php?tid=683

UC San Diego beat Temple on Monday, 91-76- https://ucsdtritons.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2025-26/temple/boxscore/11694
They improved to 5-0.
UCSD schedule/results- https://ucsdtritons.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule
Roster- https://ucsdtritons.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
Stats- https://ucsdtritons.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/

They have started the same starting 5 players in all 5 games , so far (see individual stats), and they are a very good shooting team. Their leading scorer is 6'8" redshirt-junior Leo Beath (19.4 ppg), a transfer from D2 Lynn University (Boca Raton, FL). He had a terrific game Monday night, going 11-14 overall and 4-5 from three for 29 points. As a team, UCSD shot 35-56 for 62.5%, and they were 12-24 from three (50.0%). And they had only 5 turnovers for the game.
The Bradley coaching staff was in the arena and were able to scout them, so hopefully, they will come up with an effective defense that Temple lacked.

UC San Diego was picked 4th in the Big West Preseason Poll- https://bigwest.org/news/2025/10/16...ites-for-2025-26-womens-basketball-title.aspx
Last season they were 30-5 overall, and 18-2 in the Big West. They won the Big West regular season title, and won the Big West post-season tournament and the automatic NCAA Tournament bid. They were given a #12 seed, and lost a close first round game to #5 seeded Michigan 65-68.
https://ucsdtritons.com/news/2025/3...tbreaker-to-michigan-in-ncaa-first-round.aspx

Bradley stats through 6 games- https://bradleybraves.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats
 
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Pretty sure this game will be on ESPN+ and available for Replay. From my recollection, ESPNU games are never linked to ESPN+ at least for replay. I'll be able to watch the 1st half live, but will miss the 2nd half, so hoping I can watch later on +.

Tough test today Braves bros n sis's. Lots of good to carry from yesterday's game tho!
 
In the other semifinal game today (Tuesday, Nov. 25), Towson trailed Liberty for much of the game, but in the final 6 minutes, they pulled ahead for good, and won the game 72-69-
Box score- Towson 72 Liberty 69 - https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore/_/gameId/401830888
Live stats link- https://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=623599

If Bradley wins today, they will play Towson on Wednesday, at 12:00 pm Eastern (11:00 am Central) on ESPN2
If Bradley loses today, they will play Liberty on Wednesday, at 2:30 pm Eastern (1:30 pm Central) on ESPNU

Live bracket- https://espnevents.com/espn-events-invitational/bracket/
Bracket that shows TV info- https://espnevents.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2025-Adventure-Bracket-Final-1.pdf
 
Da Coach said:
In the other semifinal game today (Tuesday, Nov. 25), Towson trailed Liberty for much of the game, but in the final 6 minutes, they pulled ahead for good, and won the game 72-69-
Box score- Towson 72 Liberty 69 - https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore/_/gameId/401830888
Live stats link- https://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=623599

If Bradley wins today, they will play Towson on Wednesday, at 12:00 pm Eastern (11:00 am Central) on ESPN2
If Bradley loses today, they will play Liberty on Wednesday, at 2:30 pm Eastern (1:30 pm Central) on ESPNU

Live bracket- https://espnevents.com/espn-events-invitational/bracket/
Bracket that shows TV info- https://espnevents.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2025-Adventure-Bracket-Final-1.pdf
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A couple strong teams for the Wed match-up
 
LittleBrave said:
Pretty sure this game will be on ESPN+ and available for Replay. From my recollection, ESPNU games are never linked to ESPN+ at least for replay. I'll be able to watch the 1st half live, but will miss the 2nd half, so hoping I can watch later on +.

Tough test today Braves bros n sis's. Lots of good to carry from yesterday's game tho!
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Ok now I'm not so sure bc when I tried the REPLAY of an earlier game and needed a TV sub.
 
And suddenly we're down 11 at half. I'd say UCSD is the best team we've played this year. They're shooters. And we're not getting the calls.
 
Final score: UCSD 87 Bradley 77

Bradley played well enough to win this game, but there were a couple factors that seemed to be too much to overcome.
The Braves shot 42% overall, and 42% from three, and outrebounded UCSD 38-33.
UCSD was 23-31 from the FT line. Bradley was 11-15. Fouls were 23-13.
 
We are getting better. Bully is phenomenal. Burch has to score more for us to get better. We have no post play at all. Corey and metta just aren't getting it done . We just don't have a lot of weapons. Need to play smith at 4 and start playing zobrist for additional punch off bench
 
I would never say it's good to get a technical foul in a close game. But, funny thing, it did seem like the refs' calls stopped going against Bradley and may have even favored the Braves the last few minutes after that. Anyone else think so?
 
Coach Wardle said post-game that unless we think defense minded first, we won't beat the good teams! Scary he said his team is worst in his 11 years on defense! After 7 games now, we seem like a middle of the pack team! We will beat the bad teams, but don't have it in us in the clutch to beat the good teams! We make to many errors down the stretch when the game is decided! Brian is gonna have to get his teams to win the close ones especially in Valley play for us to have any chance! That can happen, but will it happen? As a positive, we shot well from 3 and out rebounded UC Sandiego! But if you can't score the 3 ball or rebound in the clutch, you won't win many close games! We also have to come to terms with the fact that this team is almost a total rebuild! We are the 2nd youngest in MVC! I don't want to say this early that we can't come on strong later in the year like other BU teams have so I'll end this confidently and say we still have an outside chance of being top 4 in Valley this year!
 
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