Junior first baseman Connor O'Brien of the Bradley baseball team was honored with All-Missouri Valley Conference Preseason Team honors, announced on Tuesday.
The junior returns to lead the Braves in 2022 after collecting first-team all-conference honors for the second time during his career last season. O'Brien, who is Bradley's first position player to repeat as a first-team All-MVC selection since 1988, led BU with a .366 batting average in 2021 – hitting four home runs to go with 26 RBI.
As a team, Bradley was selected fifth in the annual preseason poll by the league's head coaches.