QUICK OVERVIEW
Bradley will play the middle game of a 3-game home stand by hosting in-state rival DePaul for a 7 p.m. kickoff Friday night at Shea Stadium ... Coming off Sunday's 1-0 win against Houston Baptist, Bradley will be trying to string together consecutive wins ... DePaul, meanwhile, has started the season with back-to-back shutout losses ... Friday's game will be broadcast on ESPN3 and will be available for viewing on WatchESPN.com and the WatchESPN mobile app.

Bradley Pregame Notes Packet (PDF) | DePaul Pregame Notes Packet (PDF)

SERIES HISTORY
Game 9 | Bradley leads 5-1-2 | Bradley is 4-1-0 at home
Friday's game will be the ninth meeting in the all-time men's soccer series between Bradley and DePaul and the Braves enter the game with a 5-1-2 all-time series advantage ... Bradley is 4-1-0 all-time at home against the Blue Demons, including 2-0-0 at Shea Stadium ... The teams have not faced each other since Bradley's 2-0 win in the first round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament at Shea Stadium, the program's first-ever NCAA Tourney win.

IN-STATE SUCCESS
As he begins his 20th year as Braves head coach, Jim DeRose has experienced his share of success against Bradley's in-state rivals ... Despite the season-opening loss at UIC, DeRose is 58-24-6 (.693) all-time against in-state competition ... Despite his overall success against the state of Illinois, however, the Braves are 1-4-0 against in-state competition since the start of the 2014 season.

HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS
Not surprisingly, Friday's matchup against in-state rival DePaul sets up a quartet of reunions between former high school classmates who now attend Bradley and DePaul ... One of those reunions, however, involves a pair of Germans: Bradley sophomore D Falk Dennert and DePaul sophomore M/F Philipp Koenigstein both attended Germany's Heinrich-Heine Gymnasium ... The other three high school reunions Friday night:
High School         Players
Maine South         Bradley: Richard Olson
                    DePaul: Simon Megally
Glenbrook South     Bradley: Frank Bak
                    DePaul: Kosta Brkovic
Homewood-Flossmoor  Bradley: Buseese Lwanga
                    DePaul: Philip Huang

SIX COMMON OPPONENTS
For the second straight game, Bradley is facing an opponent with which if shares six common foes:
Creighton: EXH at Bradley Aug. 18 (L 0-3), vs. DePaul Oct. 3
Drake: vs. Bradley Nov. 7; vs. DePaul Sept. 19
Loyola: at Bradley Sept. 25, vs. DePaul Sept. 29
Omaha: vs. Bradley Sept. 19; at DePaul Sept. 13
UIC: vs. Bradley Aug. 28 (L 0-2); at DePaul Sept. 17
Western Illinois: vs. Bradley Oct. 5; EXH at DePaul Aug. 17 (W 3-2)