{"id":94303,"date":"2025-07-26T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94303\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:36:09","slug":"bradleys-wardle-receives-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94303\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley&#8217;s Wardle receives contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bradley head coach Brian Wardle has received a contract extension. The announcement was made via social media, with no terms of the deal being released.<\/p>\n<p>Wardle has compiled a 186-147 (.559) in his ten seasons as the Braves head coach, including a 28-9 (15-5 MVC) mark last season.<\/p>\n<p>Under Brian Wardle, Bradley has recorded:<br \/>\u2013 Three MVC Championships (two tournament titles, one regular season)<br \/>\u2013 52\u00a0All-Conference selections (1st Team, 2nd Team, 3rd Team, Defensive Team, Freshman Team, Improved Team, etc)<br \/>\u2013 112-44\u00a0home record since 2015 (72%) and a 54-10\u00a0(80%) home record in the last four seasons.<br \/>\u2013 Advanced to the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament semifinals or better in each of the last tree seasons with two trips to championship game)<br \/>\u2013 Qualified for the N.I.T postseason tournament three times, progressing further than the season prior each time with a berth into the quarterfinals in 2025<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bradley Athletics is proud to announce a contract extension for Bradley Basketball Head Coach Brian Wardle, reaffirming our commitment to long-term success and stability within the men\u2019s basketball program. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NnjVuwBlfR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/NnjVuwBlfR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bradley Braves Athletics (@BradleyBraves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradleyBraves\/status\/1948835722401603645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradley head coach Brian Wardle has received a contract extension. The announcement was made via social media, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-94303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114920042364411738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}