2022 Hall of Fame Class Announced

Hall of Fame ceremonies will coincide with the men's basketball I-74 Rivalry game

Bradley Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2022

Bradley Athletics Hall of Fame Info

Bobby Parker, Sr. Associate AD for Communications and Event & Facility Operations General 10/26/2021 10:09:00 AM

PEORIA, IL – Missouri Valley Conference championships, deep NCAA Tournament runs, high scoring on the hardwood and low scoring on the links all will be celebrated when the Bradley Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2022 is enshrined Feb. 19 during ceremonies surrounding the men's basketball game against I-74 rival Illinois State.

The newest class of Bradley Athletics Hall of Famers will include the 2005-06 Men's Basketball Sweet 16 squad, 2007 Soccer All-American Joe Donoho, 2007 MVC Women's Golf champion Bari Erais and 2011 Valley Men's Basketball scoring champion Andrew Warren. The quartet of honorees will be the featured guests of the Braves Club Hall of Fame Bruncheon Saturday, Feb. 19 at Renaissance Coliseum and their formal induction will take place during halftime of the rivalry game that afternoon against the Redbirds at Carver Arena. Ticket pricing and purchasing details for the Feb. 19 brunch event and basketball game will be announced next month.

2005-06 Men's Basketball
Led by fourth-year head coach Jim Les, himself a Bradley Athletics Hall of Famer in recognition of his playing career for the Braves and in the NBA, the 2005-06 Bradley Men's Basketball Team was one of four Missouri Valley Conference teams to earn an invitation to the 2006 NCAA Tournament. After advancing to the MVC Tournament championship game, the Braves earned an at-large selection to the Big Dance as a No. 13 seed in the Oakland Regional and reached the Sweet 16 by beating Big 12 Conference champion Kansas, 77-73, and Big East Conference power Pittsburgh, 72-66, before losing to No. 1 seed Memphis in the third round.

The 2006 NCAA Tournament selection was the eighth in Bradley Basketball history and the first since 1996, while the Sweet 16 appearance represented Bradley's deepest NCAA Tournament run since the Braves reached the Elite Eight in 1955. Finishing with a 22-11 overall record, the 22 victories equaled the most by any Bradley squad in the 25 seasons from 1994-95 to 2018-19.

Of Bradley's 33 games in 2005-06, 19 were played against teams that advanced to either the NCAA Tournament or NIT and the Braves posted an 11-8 record in those games. The Braves earned the at-large selection to the NCAA Tournament by winning 12 of their final 16 games prior to the tourney, including a 7-game winning streak that carried Bradley to the Arch Madness final and remains the program's longest winning streak since an 8-game stretch in 1996-97.

Including 2006 NBA Lottery Pick Patrick O'Bryant, the 2005-06 Bradley roster included nine student-athletes who would go on to play professional basketball.

2005-06 Bradley Basketball roster: Danny Adams, Zach Andrews, Tony Bennett, Ray Brown, Jeremy Crouch, Will Franklin, Brandyn Heemskerk, Saihou Jassey, Brian Lavin, Patrick O'Bryant, Daniel Ruffin, Sam Singh, Marcellus Sommerville, J.J. Tauai and Lawrence Wright.
Coaching Staff: Head Coach Jim Les; Assistant Coaches Chuck Buescher, Eric Buescher and Lennox Forrester; and Director of Operations Kyle Vogt.
Strength Coach: Ronnie Wright
Athletic Trainer: Eric Redman
Secretary: Linda Rose
Student Managers: Patrick Foerster, Joe Fulton, Steve Jackson Jr., Michael Peplow and Gabe Secrist

Joe Donoho, Soccer (2006-07)
Donoho began his collegiate career at Rutgers, but transferred to Bradley in January 2006 with two years of remaining eligibility. A two-year starter as a central defender, Donoho led the Braves to back-to-back Missouri Valley Conference regular-season titles, the program's first MVC Tournament championship in 2007 and the program's first NCAA Tournament wins on the way to the 2007 Elite Eight.

An All-MVC second-team selection in 2006, Donoho became the program's first MVC Men's Soccer Player of the Year in 2007, while also garnering All-America honors from CollegeSoccerNews.com (2nd Team), National Soccer Coaches Association of America (3rd Team) and Top Drawer Soccer (Honorable Mention). Though a defender, Donoho was Bradley's third-leading scorer in 2007, finishing with 15 points on six goals and three assists, and his four game-winning goals led the team.

Following his graduation, Donoho played professionally in 2010 for FC Tampa Bay in the USSF Division 2 Professional League.

Bari Erais, Women's Golf (2005-09)
One of eight student-athletes in Bradley Women's Golf history to win multiple individual tournament titles, Erais also helped the Braves to six tournament team championships during her career, including the 2006 Missouri Valley Conference title.

One of five Bradley women's golfers to earn All-MVC honors in three different seasons, Erais was the 2007 MVC Championship medalist. That 2007 Valley title highlighted her 21 career top-10 tournament finishes, which was six more than the previous record at the time of her graduation and remains the second-best total in program history, and her 77.7 career scoring average, as well as her 73 rounds in the 70s, both were best in program history at the time of her graduation.

A four-time MVC Women's Golfer of the Week, Erais was the Bradley Varsity Club Most Outstanding Female Athlete in 2006-07 and 2007-08, making her one of five women in school history to earn the honor twice in their careers.

Andrew Warren, Men's Basketball (2006-11)
A five-year member of the Bradley Men's Basketball program (redshirted the 2008-09 season with a broken foot), Warren finished his career as the 10th-leading scorer in program history with 1,621 career points. After earning All-Missouri Valley Conference honorable mention as a junior in 2009-10, Warren was All-MVC and NABC All-District 16 first team in 2010-11, when he led The Valley in scoring (18.8 ppg), 3-point field goals made per game (2.4), free throws made per game (4.2) and minutes played (36.7 mpg).

Warren's 18 individual 20-point efforts during the 2010-11 season were more than any other team in The Valley that season. In his final career game at Carver Arena, Warren led the Braves to a 90-64 win against Drake by becoming the first player in the nation during the 2010-11 season to record at least 30 points (33), 10 rebounds (11), five assists (5) and four steals (4) in a game. His streak of 40 consecutive free throws made from Dec. 4, 2010 through Jan. 4, 2011 also was the longest in the nation during the 2010-11 season and was the second-longest in Bradley history.

A member of Bradley squads that reached the second round of the 2007 NIT and the championship game of the inaugural CBI in 2008, Warren has played professionally for the last 10 seasons since his graduation in Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, the NBA G-League, Germany and Italy. Most recently, he helped MHP Riesen Ledwigsburg to the best record during the 2020-21 German Bundesliga regular season and he averaged 15.4 points per game while shooting 47.7 percent from 3-point range during the 2019-20 Bundesliga season.

In addition to his pro playing career, Warren has twice joined the roster for Always A Brave, helping the Bradley alumni team reach the third round of the 2017 and 2021 editions of The Basketball Tournament.

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