Next years non-conference schedule

[VUGrad1314]

I've already said my piece on Bradley's schedule but I will give Wardle and their athletic department the benefit of the doubt and say that I trust them to do better once their agreements with some of the worst teams in D1 (of which they were 1 just two short years ago) are over after this year. With the program now on more solid footing they should have the flexibility and the ability to attract better team and (hopefully) build a schedule that rivals any of the toughest in the MVC. As Mikovio points out, they're already trending the right way.

[Birdfan2018]

I don't agree that Illinois State's schedule kept them out of the NCAA Tournament last season.
What kept Illinois State out of the NCAA tournament was:
Losing to Florida Gulf Coast
Losing to Boise State
Losing at home to Charleston Southern
Losing at home to Murray State
Losing those four games was the difference from being in the first four out instead of the last four in!

As for 2018-19 Non-Conference schedule not being NCAA Tournament worthy; Illinois State will have the opportunity to have wins over:

@ Belmont
Georgia (Cayman Islands)
Clemson (Cayman Islands) If they beat Georgia
Creighton (Cayman Islands) If they beat Clemson
BYU @ Redbird Arena
San Diego State @ Redbird Arena
Ole Miss @ Redbird Arena
@ Central Florida

10-2 in the Non-Conference & 15-3 in the MVC will get them an at-large (Maybe even 9-3 & 14-4)

[Majik45]

Excuse for a bad schedule during the junior laden season:

"The core of the team is Juniors this year, so if we get another horrendous schedule like this next year, then we can really gripe."

Reading. It's not hard.

Who knew my post would cause controversy. Go back to my original post. No Bradley fans are happy with the schedule we got. My one excuse for the schedule was ending of contracts with bad teams. No one wanted to schedule Bradley 1 and 2 years ago because we were a major RPI drag then.

Wardle should be ashamed doing this to a senior laden roster.

My comment about Bradley not having a senior laden roster was not in response to why the schedule was bad, it was more a response to the above quote about Bradley's roster.

I expect Wardle and Reynolds to get the schedule fixed in the next couple of years.

[MissouriValleyUnite]

SIU nails 2 games with Buffalo
http://www.ubbulls.com/sports/mbkb/2018-19/schedule

MSU hosts Robert Morris on Fri 11/9

[BEARZ77]

SIU nails 2 games with Buffalo
http://www.ubbulls.com/sports/mbkb/2018-19/schedule

MSU hosts Robert Morris on Fri 11/9

The MSU game with RM is one of two {Stetson} that came with the tourney in KC. The good side of that is games with Nebraska and TexasTech or Southern Cal.

[BCPanther]

UNI is working out details of a home and home with Missouri connected to the Paradise Jam. If it ends up happening the series would start in Columbia this year and Mizzou would return the game to Cedar Falls next year.

This is the same setup that got UNI the home and home with Xavier.

[BradleyFan71]

Excuse for a bad schedule during the junior laden season:

"The core of the team is Juniors this year, so if we get another horrendous schedule like this next year, then we can really gripe."

Reading. It's not hard.

Well...in that case, it was a sad excuse at a jab against Bradley.

Reading. It's not difficult.

https://bradleybraves.com/roster.aspx?p ... sort=class

[BradleyFan71]

I've already said my piece on Bradley's schedule but I will give Wardle and their athletic department the benefit of the doubt and say that I trust them to do better once their agreements with some of the worst teams in D1 (of which they were 1 just two short years ago) are over after this year. With the program now on more solid footing they should have the flexibility and the ability to attract better team and (hopefully) build a schedule that rivals any of the toughest in the MVC. As Mikovio points out, they're already trending the right way.

Exactly. I doubt very many people had Bradley in the upper half of the conference this soon after a complete rebuild. It doesn't really say much for the rest of the conference.

[VUGrad1314]

Sweet scheduling gets for SIU and (hopefully) UNI.

[BEARZ77]

I've already said my piece on Bradley's schedule but I will give Wardle and their athletic department the benefit of the doubt and say that I trust them to do better once their agreements with some of the worst teams in D1 (of which they were 1 just two short years ago) are over after this year. With the program now on more solid footing they should have the flexibility and the ability to attract better team and (hopefully) build a schedule that rivals any of the toughest in the MVC. As Mikovio points out, they're already trending the right way.

Exactly. I doubt very many people had Bradley in the upper half of the conference this soon after a complete rebuild. It doesn't really say much for the rest of the conference.

Sorry, but you're a little off in your thinking. Usually only takes a good coach into his 3rd year to have a program humming. McDermott who had a massive rebuild at UNI made the NCAA tourney his 3rd year, Counzo won the league at MSU in his 3rd year, Marshall won 25 games and went to the NIT his 3rd year. i believe this is already year 4 in the Bradley rebuild process. Not knocking what BW has done, just saying it's not monumental comparatively.