Jan 17, 2020 at 5:41 PM
PEORIA — The last time Bradley opened a Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball season winning four of its first five games was 2008-09. The Sam Maniscalco-led Braves were tied for first place with, you guessed it, the Adam Koch-led Northern Iowa Panthers.
Here we are again all these years later with the same two teams sitting at 4-1 in league play, this time joined by Loyola, which wasn’t in the Valley 11 years ago. Bradley is two coaches removed from then-coach Jim Les, while Ben Jacobson is still at the helm for UNI.