PEORIA — Bradley set up its future backcourt Wednesday by signing four guards, all of whom will have four years of eligibility at BU.
The group includes 6-foot-7 Stephan Gabriel of Veritas Prep Academy in California, 6-1 Antonio Thomas of Memphis, Tenn., 6-4 Ville Tahvanainen of Finland and 6-2 JaMir Price of Rock Island. Price is expected to attend prep school next year and become a 2020 freshman at Bradley.
“We lose two guards in this class and four in the following,” said BU men’s basketball coach Brian Wardle. “For us to sustain success, we wanted to get a 2019 class of playmakers that could get a year under their belts and then hand the reins to them as sophomores.