In a matchup of the 2021 title game won by the Braves, 78-70, No. 10 seed Bradley will take on No. 7 seed Drake in the first round of the 2022 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Championship Thursday night at TaxSlayer Center. Drake swept the 2021-22 regular-season series, but Bradley knocked 18 points off the final margin in the second meeting Feb. 27 in Des Moines, where the Braves led by four, 63-59, with 6:02 left.
BY THE NUMBERS
1 - Freshman guard Caroline Waite enters the MVC Tournament leading all MVC underclassmen in scoring (13.