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Bradley Earns Four NCAA APR Public Recognition Awards

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – The Bradley Men's Basketball team has won consecutive Missouri Valley Conference championships while competing among the nation's best in the classroom. In addition to Valley titles in 2019 and 2020, the Braves have earned the NCAA Academic Progress Rate Public Recognition Award for a fourth consecutive year, according to the announcement of the awards Tuesday afternoon.

The Men's Basketball team was one of four Bradley programs recognized with the APR Public Recognition Award Tuesday, joining Baseball, Men's Golf and Women's Golf.

For a third consecutive year, Bradley was the only Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball team to earn the APR Public Recognition Award, while the Braves join Auburn, Belmont, Kentucky, Michigan State and Villanova as the only six men's basketball programs in the nation to win at least 20 games and receive the APR Public Recognition Award in each of the last three years.