The Bradley Braves are the intercollegiate athletics teams of Bradley University

Bradley University

Bradley University, founded in 1897, is a private, co-educational university located in Peoria, Illinois. It is a small institution with an enrollment of approximately 6,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students and a full-time faculty of approximately 350....

, located in Peoria, Illinois

Peoria, Illinois

Peoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. It is named after the Peoria tribe. As of the 2010 census, the city was the seventh-most populated in Illinois, with a population of 115,007, and is the third-most populated...

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Bradley is best known for its college basketball success. Bradley has been to eight NCAA tournaments, including two national championship games, three Elite 8's, and four Sweet 16's. Bradley has an overall NCAA Tournament record of 11-8.

Bradley has been to the NIT 20 times and won it four times. Their postseason NIT record is 25-17. Only one school (St. Johns- 27 times) has been to more NITs, or won it more (St. John's 6 times).

Years in NIT-1938, 1939 (third), 1947, 1949 (fourth), 1950 (second), 1957 (won), 1958, 1959 (second), 1960 (won), 1962, 1964 (won), 1965, 1968, 1982 (won), 1985, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001.

Bowl games

Season	Bowl	Champion		Runner-Up
1956	Corn Bowl	Western Illinois	21	Bradley	3
1959	Corn Bowl	Bradley	10	Minnesota State	3
1960	Corn Bowl	Bradley	21	North Dakota North Dakota Fighting Sioux football The North Dakota Fighting Sioux are a college football program that competes in the Great West Conference in the NCAA Division I's Football Championship Subdivision...	17

Basketball

• Hersey Hawkins
• Patrick O'Bryant
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• Anthony Parker
  Anthony Parker
  Anthony Michael Parker is an American professional basketball player who last played with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association . After graduating from Bradley University with a major in liberal arts, he entered the 1997 NBA Draft and played briefly in the NBA before...
  
  
• Lawrence Wright
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• Marcus Pollard
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   - Played basketball at Bradley, chose football for his pro career
• Chet Anderson
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• Bob Carney
  Bob Carney
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• Roger Phegley
  Roger Phegley
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Baseball

• Brian Shouse
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• Michael Christl
• Ryan Curry
• Ryan Egisti
• Brandon Magee
• Joe Napoli
• Brock Till
• Rene Agueron
• Justin Carr
• Evan Fahrner
• Ryan Sullivan
  Ryan Sullivan
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Soccer

• Gavin Glinton
  Gavin Glinton
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• Bryan Namoff
  Bryan Namoff
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• Tim Regan
  Tim Regan
  Tim Regan is an American soccer defender.-College:Regan played college soccer at Bradley University from 1999 to 2002, where he established himself as one of the best players in the program's history...
  
  
• Stephen Brust
• Jon Caldwell
• Luke Kreamalmeyer
  Luke Kreamalmeyer
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• Salim Bullen
• Chris Cutshaw