2016 STATE FARM MVC MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
GAME 1 DETAILS
(9) Bradley (5-26, 3-15 MVC) vs. (8) Loyola Chicago (14-16, 7-11 MVC)
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2016
Tipoff: 6:08 p.m. CST
Location: St. Louis, MO | Scottrade Center (20,948)
TV: MVC-TV | Mitch Holthus (play-by-play), Kevin Lehman (analyst), Tom Ackerman (sideline)
Radio: 1470 WMBD | Dave Snell (play-by-play), Chad Kleine (analsyt) and Dan DiOrio (pregame)
SERIES HISTORY
55th all-time meeting: Bradley leads 33-21
3rd neutral-site meeting: Loyola Chicago leads 3-0
2nd MVC Tourney meeting: Loyola Chicgo leads 1-0
OPENING TIPS
• The youngest team in college basketball will dive into the postseason experience when the Braves tip off the 2016 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Championship, Arch Madness, by facing Loyola Chicago in the tournament opener Thursday night at Scottrade Center in downtown St. Louis.
• Bradley and Loyola split the regular-season season series by winning on the other team's home court and the team wearing dark uniforms as the visiting team has won nine of the last 11 meetings in the series.
• Bradley enters Arch Madness with a 30-34 all-time record in the postseason conference tournament.
• With a 12-man active roster that includes 10 true freshmen, a sophomore and a senior, Bradley's players have totalled five individual games played in the MVC Tournament, 61 career Arch Madness minutes and six points.
• In addition to the events on the court, former Bradley star Anthony Parker is being inducted into the MVC Hall of Fame Friday morning, 20 years after earning the 1996 Larry Bird MVC Player-of-the-Year Award.
• Parker becomes Bradley's 10 MVC Hall of Fame inductee.
