Last basketball season, Shea Feehan was having a blast averaging 30 points a game and leading Eureka College to its first league tournament bid in five years.
As fun and rewarding as that may sound, Feehan needed a bigger challenge. For his final season of eligibility, having graduated from Eureka, he realized his lifelong dream when he became a Division I player, signing as a graduate transfer with Evansville.
Like Eureka, Evansville is a small, private, church-affiliated college. But its basketball program — a member of the Missouri Valley Conference and Bradley’s opponent Wednesday night at Evansville’s Ford Center — is worlds apart.