Koch Bar (Abyei, South Sudan) and Darrell Brown (Memphis, Tenn.) of the Bradley men's basketball team were honored as two of the best rookies in the Missouri Valley Conference on Tuesday, earning MVC All-Freshman accolades.
Brown is the top-scoring rookie in the conference this season, averaging 12.5 points per game, which also ranks as the 15th-best total among all players in the MVC. He is on pace to be the first Bradley freshman to average double digits during his rookie campaign since eventual NBA Draft Pick Patrick O'Bryant accomplished the feat in 2004-05, while his 12.