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Final score: Bradley 75 Indiana State 68

Da Coach

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Next game: Bradley (13-7, 6-3, 3rd) vs. Indiana State (9-10, 2-6, tie for 9th place), Wednesday, Jan. 21, 6:00 pm
Note the earlier start time of 6:00 pm, instead of 7:00 pm.
This game is an option to be chosen for the Missouri Valley TV-Network 6 pm game Wednesday.

The game is on ESPN+ - Direct Link- https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/56ae2cb5-9d37-4a5b-b585-6dcf7d5f0ef5
Live Stats- https://bradleybraves.com/sidearmstats/mbball/summary
Chat room- www.chatzy.com/bradleyfans
WMBD radio - https://wmbdradio.com/player/?playerID=2045

Bradley beat Indiana State 108-99 in triple overtime on Dec. 18 in Terre Haute.
Recap- https://bradleybraves.com/news/2025...-overtime-marathon-against-indiana-state.aspx
Box score- https://bradleybraves.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2025-26/indiana-state/boxscore/22686
Since that game, Indiana State has gone 2-5. The 2 wins were at home over Belmont and Illinois State. Their last game was was a close 85-81 loss at home this past Saturday, a game they had a good chance to win, but let slip away at the end.
Bradley is coming off their worst loss of the season, a 62-88 blowout at Illinois State.

Indiana State links-
Schedule/results- https://gosycamores.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule
Roster- https://gosycamores.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
Stats- https://gosycamores.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2025-26
Indiana State ranks 5th in FG% (46.1%), and 9th in 3 point FG% (31.1%).

Last season's top 3 scorers for Indiana State are gone- Samage Teel (16.9 ppg), Jaden Daughtry (12.9 ppg), and Aaron Gray (10.5 ppg).
This season, their leading scorers are: Ian Scott (14.4 ppg), Camp Wagner (12.9 ppg), , Sterling Young (9.9 ppg), Derek Vorst (8.6 ppg), Xavier Hall (8.2 ppg), and Markus Harding (8.0 ppg), Jo Van Buggenhout (6.7 ppg), Enel St. Bernard (5.2 ppg), and Bruno Alocen (4.9 ppg).
Marcus Harding hasn't played since Dec. 7 due to injury.
Availability Report- Initial report for this game will be posted at 9:00 pm Central Tuesday night, and Final Report will be posted at 4:00 pm Central.
Link to Availability Report- https://mvc-sports.com/sports/2025/12/27/MBB_1227251036.aspx
MVC Standings- https://mvc-sports.com/standings.aspx?path=mbball
Bradley stats- https://bradleybraves.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats
MVC stats- https://mvc-sports.com/documents/2025/11/4/2025_26_MVC_MBB_All_Game_Stats.pdf
 
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Cannot take this game lightly because Ind.St. has a potent offense. At this point we should not take any game for granted and with the next 3 games coming up we need to add 3 to the win column.
 
Bradley is coming off their worst loss of the season, a 62-88 blowout at Indiana State.
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Da Coach, the blowout loss was at Illinois State.

Both OT games that BU has played were against two of the weakest teams in the league, InSU and Evansville. Granted, they were both on the road, but BU could have lost both and be a few places down in the standings. This is known as dodging bullets. The home game against Evansville was no cake walk, either. BU can't take InSU lightly.
 
Da Coach said:
Next game: Bradley (13-7, 6-3, 3rd) vs. Indiana State (9-10, 2-6, tie for 9th place), Wednesday, Jan. 21, 6:00 pm
Note the earlier start time of 6:00 pm, instead of 7:00 pm.
This game is an option to be chosen for the Missouri Valley TV-Network 6 pm game Wednesday.

The game is on ESPN+ - Direct Link- https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/56ae2cb5-9d37-4a5b-b585-6dcf7d5f0ef5
Live Stats- https://bradleybraves.com/sidearmstats/mbball/summary
Chat room- www.chatzy.com/bradleyfans
WMBD radio - https://wmbdradio.com/player/?playerID=2045
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Jim Mattson, on his WEEK-TV nightly local sports report, confirmed that the Bradley-Indiana State game will be on the My Team channel, which is a local Gray Media network which carries the MVC-TV Network games on Xfinity channel 1019, and broadcast over-the-air on channel 19.1 at 6:00 pm Wednesday.
The game will be followed on these stations by the Illinois State-Northern Iowa game at 8:00 pm.

The Bradley website, and the MVC website still show the Bradley-Indiana State game only on ESPN+.
And the Xfinity channel guide shows only "College Basketball" on at 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm on channel 1019 (mis-labelled as "ROAR Network").
This seems to be a major fail by whoever's responsibility it is to promote these MVC-TV Network/Gray Media broadcasts.

Also, the Bradley pregame Preview article about the game has only a link to ESPN+, but no mention that the game is part of the MVC-TV Network's Wednesday games, or that there are any of these other broadcast options.
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MBB Preview: Braves and Sycamores to meet Wednesday night - Bradley University Athletics

Peoria, IL -- Bradley and Indiana State to meet on Wednesday night.
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Well I held on for 3 days trying not to find out the score of the last game...glad I waiting b/c I only have to wait a day to get over it and get on with the next game. We're at 6-3 in good shape. This next one is a big one. Let's get to 7-3.
I have no clue how we played in Normal, but I don't imagine well at all - not gonna look back.

Time to rise up on Wed. to Victory!
Go BRAVES!
 
tomahawk chop said:
Again must win period and I would add the UIC and Drake games fall into this category.
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Bradley managed to escape with a win at Indiana State a month ago in triple overtime. If Bradley can get by Indiana State again tonight, it doesn't get much easier. They play a resurgent UIC team Saturday night. UIC had lost 8 straight D1 games, including their first 4 MVC games. But they have turned things around and now have won their last 5 games, including home wins over SIU, Drake, and Evansville, and road wins at Illinois State and Northern Iowa. They are making a run to get into the Top 5 in the MVC an avoid playing in the Thursday games in St. Louis.
 
houstonbrave said:
Deitrick listed as out and Meta questionable.
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Hope it is a minor issue.
I'm hearing there is a lot of flu on campus.

Indiana State has their 2 big guys listed- Markus Harding is questionable and Derek Vorst is out.
Harding hasn't played since he suffered a shoulder injury in a game on Dec. 7, and Vorst played only 1 minute in their last game (Jan. 17) then left with a leg injury and didn't return.

MVC Men's Basketball Player Availability Reporting - Missouri Valley Conference

ARCHIVED REPORTS
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Markus Harding, who was listed as Questionable, is dressed and warming up for Indiana State.
Meta Jonovic, who was listed as Questionable for Bradley, is also dressed and going through early warmups.
 
Bradley trails at halftime 34-36.

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keep winning...
Murray State is hitting a much harder stretch than the cushy start to their schedule..
They are going down at Drake and will be 8-1 with UNI & ISU coming up,
Bradley is 7-3 with UIC & Drake, coming up
 
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