The Missouri Valley Conference will honor its past on Friday, March 3, 2017, when the league conducts its annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony in St. Louis.
Marcus Pollard, who played college basketball at Bradley before embarking on a 14-year career as a NFL tight end, will become Bradley's 11th Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Famer as a member of the league's 20th induction class. He joins three long-time administrators in Dr. Don Beggs (Southern Illinois/Wichita State), Dr. Donald Boydston (Southern Illinois) and Dr. Mary Jo Wynn (Missouri State); a women's basketball Olympian in Charlotte Lewis of Illinois State; and a former major league baseball manager and Wichita State baseball star in Eric Wedge, who won a 1989 NCAA Championship with the Shockers.