PEORIA, Ill. – Bradley Basketball will celebrate the legacy of three of the most accomplished teams in program history, honoring the 1985-86, 1995-96 and 2005-06 Men's Basketball teams.

All three Bradley Hall of Fame teams will be recognized at halftime of the men's basketball game against UIC on Jan. 24, 2026 at Carver Arena. Fans can attend a reunion event beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the ballroom at the Pere Marquette Hotel. Hersey Hawkins and other basketball greats and alums will be in attendance for the reunion. 

The 1985-86 team was the first team in 35 years to win more than 30 games, tying the program record with 32 wins and finishing 32-3. The team's 91.4 win percentage marked the fourth time a team won more than 90 percent of its games and is the second-best win percentage in program history. Bradley also went a perfect 16-0 in Missouri Valley Conference play, winning the program's fifth MVC Regular Season Championship and earning an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament. Coach Dick Versace won the conference's Coach of the Year honor in his final season at the helm. Jim Les earned MVC Player of the Year and First-Team All-Conference honors after averaging 14.2 points and nearly eight assists per game, while sophomore Hersey Hawkins earned the first of his three First-Team All-MVC selections.

The 1995-96 team saw the program's first MVC regular season crown and NCAA Tournament berth since 1987-88. Led by MVC Player of the Year and future NBA player Anthony Parker, who averaged nearly 19 points and 6.5 rebounds per game, Bradley went 22-8 overall and 15-3 in conference play. Coach Jim Molinari also won MVC Coach of the Year and Parker and Deon Jackson – whose only three-pointer of the season was a buzzer-beater in the MVC Tournament semifinal – earned All-Conference First-Team honors. 

While the 2005-06 team finished 22-11 and finished tied for fifth in the conference, the team earned an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament. As the 13-seed in the Oakland Regional, led by Marcellus Sommerville (15.7 points, 6.8 rebounds per game) and MVC Defensive Player of the Year and future ninth-overall NBA draft pick Patrick O'Bryant (13.4 points, 8.3 rebounds. 2.9 blocks per game), Bradley knocked off four-seed and 12th-ranked Kansas in the first round before defeating five-seed and 16th-ranked Pittsburgh to reach the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1954-55.