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BRADLEY BRAVES (3-17, 1-6 MVC) at WICHITA STATE SHOCKERS (13-5, 7-0 MVC)
Date: Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016
Time: 2:00 p.m. CST
Location: Wichita, KS | Charles Koch Arena (10,506)
TV:  Cox 2022 HD  |  Bruce Haertl and Bob Hull
Radio:  1470 WMBD  |  Dave Snell, Chad Kleine and Dan DiOrio 
Series:  Bradley leads 71-67

OPENING TIPS
•  The youngest team in college basketball will visit the team boasting the nation's second longest home winning streak when Bradley takes on Wichita State Saturday afternoon at Charles Koch Arena.
•  Bradley earned a 54-53 win at Loyola Chicago Jan. 13 in its most-recent road game and the Braves will be shooting for consecutive road wins for the first time since a 3-game Valley winning streak in 2008-09 that started with a 60-58 victory Dec. 31, 2008 at Wichita State and continued with victories Jan. 3, 2009 at Missouri State (63-57) and Jan. 13, 2009 at Indiana State (63-52).
•  Wichita State has won 40 consecutive home games, good for the fourth-best home winning streak in MVC history and second nationally only to Arizona's current 49-game home win streak.
•  Saturday's game will be the 139th meeting in the all-time series between the Braves and Shockers.
•  Bradley owns a 71-67 lead in the all-time series, making the Braves one of just two Valley rivals with the all-time advantage against Wichita State (Southern Illinios is 48-44 against the Shockers), and Bradley's 71 series wins are the most by any opponent in Wichita State history.

SERIES HISTORY
•  Saturday's game will be the 139th meeting in the all-time series, the second-most played series in Bradley Basketball history.
•  Bradley owns a 71-67 lead in the all-time series and the 71 win against Wichita State are second only to the 82 victories against Drake against one opponent in Bradley history.
•  Despite the overall series advantage, Wichita State has had the upper hand of late by winning 12 straight versus the Braves since the start of the 2010-11 season.
•  The 12-game series drought is the longest for the Braves against any Valley rival and it is second only to a 15-game winless streak against DePaul from 1954-92 in Bradley Basketball history.
139th All-Time Meeting
All-Time Record: Bradley leads 71-67
Road: Wichita State leads 44-20
First: at Bradley 72, Wichita St. 63 (3/6/1948)
Last: Wichita State 85, at Bradley 58 (1/3/2016)
Current Streak: Wichita State W12
Brian Wardle vs. Wichita State: 0-1
Gregg Marshall vs. Bradley: 14-4

JUST GETTING STARTED
•  With senior Ka'Darryl Bell out of action with a fractured right hand, Bradley's entire, 11-man active roster has combined to score 1,095 career points.
•  Across the nation, 175 individuals had scored more than 1,095 career points through Jan. 21, including six Missouri Valley Conference players.
•  By comparison, the Wichita State roster has totalled 5,476 career points, including three individual players each with more than 1,095 career points.

BRADLEY FROSH LEAD THE WAY
•  Heading into the weekend, Bradley's 10 freshmen have combined to score 853 points and snare 506 rebounds.
•  Bradley's freshmen are responsible for 79.6 percent of the team's 1,071 total points and 74.4 percent of the total rebounds.
•  Missouri State's freshmen boast The Vallley's second-best percentage of scoring (.289) and rebounding (.300).
•  In fact, Bradley's freshmen boast 199 more points than the combined freshman classes from UNI (0), Loyola (15), Evansville (30), Indiana State (56), Illinois State (125), Southern Illinois (191) and Drake (237), seven Valley rivals who have combined for 654 freshman points.

FRESHMAN PLAYING TIME
•  Of the 4,050 minutes of individual playing time through the first 20 games of the season, Bradley's 10-man freshman class has racked up 3,346 of those minutes, good for 82.6 percent of the total available playing time.
•  By comparsion, Bradley's first 20 opponents have played freshmen for 548 total minutes, just 13.5 percent of the total individual time.
•  In the Jan. 13 win at Loyola, Bradley freshmen logged 188 of the possible 200 minutes, while Loyola did not play a single freshman.
•  Bradley's freshmen have logged no fewer than 149 minutes (74.5 percent of the 200 individual minutes) in any game this year.
•  Conversely, North Dakota (122 of 250 minutes in the 2OT game) and Missouri State (88 of 200) are the only two Bradley opponents to play their freshmen more than 38 total minutes (19.0 percent) in a game this year.