Bradley University Athletics

Final Regular-Season Series

Bradley Baseball will try to secure third place in the final Missouri Valley Conference standings during the final series of the regular season at Southern Illinois

Mark Schrimmer

Bradley Notes (PDF)

Bobby Parker, Associate AD for Communications Baseball 5/16/2018 10:50:00 PM

GAME 45-47
Bradley (29-15, 10-8 MVC) at Southern Illinois (25-27, 8-10 MVC)
Carbondale, IL • Itchy Jones Stadium • The Valley on ESPN3
Thursday, May 17 • 6:30 p.m. CT • Watch • Listen • Live Stats • Tickets
Friday, May 18 • 6:30 p.m. CT • Watch • Listen • Live Stats • Tickets
Saturday, May 19 • 2:00 p.m. CT • Watch • Listen • Live Stats • Tickets

FINAL ROAD TRIP
• One of the winningest road teams in the nation this season will close the season by playing at least five consecutive games away from home, beginning with the final series of the regular season Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Southern Illinois.
• Bradley needs to win one of the three games at Southern Illinois to secure third place in the final Missouri Valley Conference standings.
• Included among Bradley's 21 wins away from home this season, the Braves are 8-1 in games played inside the state borders, but outside Dozer Park - 3-0 versus South Dakota State at SIUE and 5-1 in true road games to Western Illinois (1-0), Illinois (1-0), Chicago State (1-0) and Illinois State (2-1).
• A year after finishing 20-31, Bradley will have four shots at its 30th win at the earliest point of a season since 1996 (42nd game).

FIVE YEARS AWAY FROM HOME
• Since the start of 2014, Bradley is third in the MVC with 92 wins away from home.
• Bradley's 92 road (58) and neutral (34) wins the last five years represent 67.2 percent of the team's 137 total wins, the highest percentage of wins accumulated away from home in The Valley the last five years.
• Bradley is scheduled to play at least 36 games away from home this season.

21 WINS AWAY FROM HOME
• Bradley begins its four-game, season-ending road swing as one of the most-improved teams in the nation, despite playing 30 of its first 44 games away from home.
• As the week begins, Bradley is one of three teams nationally to have won as many as 21 games away from home.

QUICKEST TO 30
• Bradley takes a 29-15 record into the week, leaving the Braves with at least six more games to reach 30 wins for the season.
• In the 118th season of Bradley Baseball, the Braves have won as many as 30 games in a season just 15 times, most recently in 2015.
• Tuesday's non-conference finale at SIU Edwardsville be Bradley's 45th game of the year.
• Of the 15 30-win seasons in program history, the Braves reached their 30th win by the 45th game only four times, most recently in the 42nd game of the 1996 season.

Print Friendly Version