Braves Host Nevada in Mountain West - MVC Challenge

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Men's Basketball 12/2/2016 1:59:00 PM

Bradley (4-3, 0-0 MVC) vs. Nevada (6-2, 0-0 MWC)
Game Details	Saturday, Dec. 3 • 7 p.m. • Peoria, Ill. • Carver Arena
Television	CSN Chicago / ESPN3
Radio	1470 WMBD
Game Notes	Bradley \| Nevada
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The Bradley men's basketball team returns to Carver Arena for the first time in more than two weeks with a matchup against Nevada on Saturday. The Mountain West- MVC Challenge contest is set to begin at 7 p.m.

PROMOTIONS
• Every home game includes Kaboom!'s Korner in the Great Hall lobby. Saturday's contest features the Basketball Jam Bounce House and a balloon artist by The Unique Twist from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

ABOUT THE BRAVES
• Bradley is 4-3 on the season after alternating wins and losses through the first seven games.
• The Braves are 2-1 at Carver Arena this season.
• Bradley earned a victory in its first road game of the season on Tuesday, fighting back for an 87-83 victory in overtime at Eastern Illinois.
• Rookie Koch Bar led the Braves with 17 points and 14 rebounds in the winning effort and is now averaging 7.9 points and a team-leading 7.3 rebounds this year.
• Classmate Darrell Brown leads Bradley, overall, in scoring with 15.3 points per game, making 50.0 percent of his shots and 48.1 percent of his 3s.
• Junior JoJo McGlaston is second on the team with 12.7 points per game, shooting 57.6 percent from the floor and 47.6 percent from 3.
• As a team, Bradley is shooting 46.1 percent this season and 36.8 percent from beyond the arc.

SERIES HISTORY
• The Braves and Wolf Pack have played twice previously with each school winning once.
• Bradley defeated Nevada, 95-59, during the 1960 season at Robertson Fieldhouse with the schools not meeting again for another 51 years when Nevada defeated the Braves, 64-59, at the 2011 Chicago Invitational Challenge.

BRAVES VERSUS THE MWC
• Bradley is 11-9 all-time against the Mountain West Conference.
• The Braves, however, have lost their last eight matchups with current conference members with the team's last victory coming against San Diego State during the 1967-68 season.

ABOUT THE WOLF PACK
• Nevada enters the weekend with a 6-2 record after posting a 77-67 victory against Pacific on Tuesday.
• Marcus Marshall leads Nevada with 20.0 points per game, while Cameron Oliver ranks second on the team with 16.8.
• Jordan Caroline leads the Wolf Pack with 9.1 rebounds with Lindsey Drew posting a team-best 5.8 assists per game.
• As a team, Nevada is shooting 44.8 percent from the floor with a 36.5 mark from 3-point range.

ON THIS DATE
Record on Dec. 3: 14-6
Dec. 3 Highlight: During his All-American senior season, Roger Phegley nearly led a Bradley upset against 10th-ranked UNLV at the Las Vegas Convention Center, scoring 29 points on 9-of-14 shooting. Reggie Theus, however, led the Rebels with 28 points and nationally-ranked UNLV escaped with a 91-90 victory.

MOUNTAIN WEST – MVC CHALLENGE
• Saturday's contest is also part of the annual Mountain West-Missouri Valley Conference Challenge.
• The series is in its sixth year (2009-12, 15-present) with the Mountain West winning three challenges, Missouri Valley one and one tie. Last season, the Mountain West won 6-of-10 matchups.
• Bradley is winless in four challenges – falling to BYU in 2009, Utah in 2010, Wyoming in 2011 and Boise State last season.
• Nevada won its first game in the series last season, defeating Drake.

STREAK FREE
• Through seven games of the 2016-17 season, the Braves have alternated wins and losses.
• It marks the longest stretch that Bradley has gone without two-straight wins or losses since a seven-game run to conclude the 2010-11 regular season. It is also the longest to start the season for BU since a nine-game stretch in 1992-93.
• With Braves winning on Tuesday, if the streak were to continue it would mean a loss to Nevada.

TOP MVC ROOKIES
• The Braves boast some of the top rookies in the Missouri Valley Conference this season.
• Two of the top three freshman scorers in the Valley wear the Bradley Red and White. Freshman Darrell Brown leads Bradley and is the top scoring freshman in the conference with 15.3 points per game – averaging 6.7 points more than second-place Landry Shamet of Wichita State – and places seventh among all MVC players.
• Classmate Koch Bar, meanwhile, is the league leader among rookies in both rebounds (7.3 per game) and blocks (2.1 per game), ranking sixth and fourth, respectively, among all MVC players. Bar is also the third-highest scoring rookie with 7.9 points per game.
• In fact, Bar is tied for 45th nationally and sixth among rookies in Division I with his 2.14 blocks per game.
• Overall, the four Bradley rookies are averaging a combined 30.3 points per game, 12.3 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 2.7 steals and 2.4 blocks.

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Players Mentioned

#12 Koch Bar: C; 6' 10"; Freshman

#5 Darrell Brown: G; 5' 10"; Freshman

#24 JoJo McGlaston: G/F; 6' 5"; Junior

Players Mentioned

#12 Koch Bar
: 6' 10"; Freshman
: C

#5 Darrell Brown
: 5' 10"; Freshman
: G

#24 JoJo McGlaston
: 6' 5"; Junior
: G/F

Braves Host Nevada in Mountain West - MVC Challenge

Players Mentioned

#12 Koch Bar

#5 Darrell Brown

#24 JoJo McGlaston

Players Mentioned

#12 Koch Bar

#5 Darrell Brown

#24 JoJo McGlaston