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BREAKING: Kate Popovec announced as new head coach of Bradley women’s basketball

After five years as an assistant to one of the winningest head coaches in Big Ten history, Kate Popovec will now get the chance to lead a team of her own. The former Wildcat forward announced this morning that she would be joining Bradley University in her first head coaching job for the 2022-2023 season.

Popovec will head to Peoria, Ill., to take over the Braves, a team that just suffered a 4-24 season including an abysmal 1-17 record in the Missouri Valley Conference. This came just one year after Bradley earned a 17-12 record and won the MVC to reach the NCAA Tournament as an 11-seed.