Bradley (6-1, 5-1 D1) at IUPUI (4-2) – 7:00 PM EST (ESPN+)
Most of the games of significance involving Missouri Valley teams today are part of the Missouri Valley/Mountain West challenge, but the best game in the Valley today will actually involve a Horizon League team instead. The Bradley Braves go on the road for their second true road game against the IUPUI Jaguars. Their only loss so far this season was against another Horizon program (Illinois-Chicago), but the Braves won a pair of games against SMU and Penn State down in Cancun last week. Elijah Childs averaged just under 20 points a game in the 2 Cancun games; he was named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week for his efforts.
IUPUI’s highlight of the year by far has to be their win at Boston College 76-69 two weeks ago; they also won a pair of games in the “undercard” portion of the Fort Myers Classic (in the always-tropical locale of Niagara, New York) against St. Francis-Brooklyn and Grambling. Camron Justice has led IUPUI thus far this season with 18.8 points a game. This will be the first game of a 5-game homestand for IUPUI that also includes a pair of games in December against non-D1 IU branch campuses.