• Bradley will host IUPUI Friday night at Shea Stadium in the 11th annual Danny Dahlquist Memorial Game.
• The Jaguars make for a special opponent for the annual tribute to Dahlquist, a Peoria Notre Dame High School graduate who died days before the start of his redshirt freshman season at Bradley in 2007.
• IUPUI is coached by Brian Barnett, a Peoria Notre Dame graduate who served as an assistant on the Bradley coaching staff for seven years from 2009-15.
• Barnett is assisted by Ronnie Bouemboue, who also worked as a Bradley assistant for two years (2013-14).

• For the second consecutive year, the Danny Dahlquist Memorial Game is being played as a regular-season matchup.
• For the first five years, the tribute game was played as a spring exhibition and then moved into the fall preseason in 2014 when defending national champion Notre Dame visited Shea Stadium.
• Last year's game versus Princeton, a 2-1 Bradley win Sept. 2, 2018, was the first-ever regular-season contest for the Danny Dahlquist Memorial Game.

• When Bradley hosts IUPUI Friday night, veteran Braves head coach Jim DeRose will face one of his coaching pupils.
• Fourth-year IUPUI head coach Brian Barnett is one of three former DeRose assistants currently serving as a head coach at the NCAA Division I level.
• In addition to Barnett, Jesse Cormier is in his 16th year as a D1 head coach, his third at the helm of the FGCU program, and Brad Ruzzo is in his 12th year as Mercer's head coach.
• During his 24 years at Bradley, DeRose has had five assistant coaches go on to become Division I head coaches, while 13 assistants remain soccer coaches at various levels.
• DeRose is 8-1-0 all-time against his former assistant coaches – 1-0-0 against Barnett's IUPUI squad, 2-0-0 against Ruzzo's Mercer teams and 5-1-0 versus Chad Flanders' Central Arkansas teams from 2006-11.

• Bradley was 7-0-4 in its 11 games outside the Missouri Valley Conference last season and the Braves opened the 2019 season with a scoreless draw last Friday against Belmont.
• In fact, the Braves are unbeaten (8-0-7) in their last 15 non-conference games dating to a 2-1 defeat to UIC Oct. 17, 2017.
• The 15-game non-conference unbeaten streak is the second-longest in program history, trailing only the record 18-game (15-0-3) run from Sept. 7, 1997 to Nov. 13, 1998.
• Bradley completed the second unbeaten non-conference regular-season in program history (1998, 8-0-2) in 2018.

• Not only did Bradley open the season by blanking Belmont in scoreless draw last Friday night at Shea Stadium, the Braves did not allow Belmont to put any of its eight shots on target.
• The defensive effort was Bradley's first game without surrendering a shot on goal since a 3-0 home win versus Mercer Sept. 6, 2009.

• A fifth-year senior, goalkeeper Nathan Wisbey was the beneficiary of Bradley's defensive effort Friday against Belmont.
• Making his third career start, Wisbey did not require a save en route to his second career shutout.
• Wisbey allowed one goal in his two early-season starts last season before a broken arm suffered in practice ended his season.
• Although he allowed two goals in 44 reserve minutes in 2016, Wisbey has allowed only one goal in his three career collegiate starts, good for a 0.31 goals against average as a starter.

• Among Bradley's 14 returning lettermen are the team's top scorer from each of the past two seasons.
• Senior forward Roman Schindler led the 2017 Braves with seven goals and 19 points.
• Junior forward Gerit Wintermeyer led the 2018 Braves with eight goals and 20 points.
• Both in their third season at Bradley, the Schindler/Wintermeyer combination has totaled 60 points on 24 goals and 12 assists during their first three years with the Braves.

• Including the 2019 season opener last week against Belmont, eight of Bradley's last 13 games have gone to extra time and the Braves have emerged from those games with a 3-1-4 (.625) record.
• During the 2018 season, Bradley saw eight of its 17 games go to overtime and the Braves escaped with a 3-1-4 (.625) record in the sudden-victory scenario.
• Bradley's eight overtime games last year were the most in a single season in program history, while the four ties equaled the program mark.
• Now in his 24th year as Bradley head coach, Jim DeRose owns a 36-23-51 (.559) record in overtime games, including a NCAA record 24-game (10-0-14) unbeaten streak in overtime games from 2001-06.

LOOKING AHEAD

• The Braves will have little rest before resuming the home stand as the Braves will host Oakland Sunday afternoon at Shea Stadium.
• The Grizzlies also will be playing their second game in three days, after visiting Western Illinois Friday.
• Bradley's season-opening, four-game home stand will conclude Friday, Sept. 13, when the Braves welcome in-state rival Eastern Illinois for a 7 p.m. kickoff at Shea Stadium.