ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Former Bradley Men's Basketball star Marcellus Sommerville has earned induction into the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame and will be enshrined in the Class of 2025. 

Sommerville will become the 16th MVC Hall of Fame inductee from Bradley and 13th to be inducted from the men's basketball program.

Sommerville was a three-time All-MVC selection during his Bradley career, including back-to-back first-team selections in 2003-04 and 2004-05 and a second team selection in 2005-06. He was also the only player in The Valley to finish in the top five in scoring in rebounding in each of his three Bradley seasons.

Sommerville won 2003-04 MVC Newcomer of the Year, the sixth Brave to do so at the time, and was Newcomer of the Week six times during the season, the most in any season by a Brave, including three consecutive awards (11/24/03, 12/01/03, 12/08/03). In 2005-06, Sommerville earned his only two MVC Player of the Week awards. 

In the NCAA Tournament in 2005-06, Sommerville averaged 19 points and seven rebounds per game, including a 21-point performance against #12 Kansas, including going 5-9 from three-point range.

Sommerville led Bradley in scoring in each season and finished his career averaging 16.2 points per game, the ninth-best career scoring average in program history. At the end of 2005-06, he ranked 12th in Bradley history in scoring with 1,493 career points and fifth in program history in made three-pointers (153). Sommerville was the first MVC men's basketball player to record at least 600 rebounds and 150 made three-pointers in a three-year career.

After graduating, Sommerville played professional overseas for 14 years, including eight seasons spent in the France Pro-A League. Sommerville has also played in The Basketball Tournament, suiting up the Bradley alumni team, Always a Brave, and was named to the All-Tournament team in 2016 after averaging 21.2 points per game in Bradley's national semifinal run.

After retirement, Sommerville has contributed to his hometown of Peoria and is currently the CEO of Peoria Friendship House of Christian Service. He has also launched the Marcellus Sommerville Next Generation Academy and the Marcellus Sommerville Foundation in the Peoria community. 
 
Including Sommerville, the Class of 2025 includes Bob Warn (Indiana State), Bruce Weber (Southern Illinois), Lisa Bluder (Drake), Tyler Mulder (Northern Iowa) and Betty Wiseman (Belmont). The class will be enshrined on March 7, 2025, in St. Louis, Mo., during Arch Madness.