SIUE Cougars (5-7) vs. Bradley Braves (3-7)
Tue., March 3, 3 p.m.
Roy E. Lee Field / Simmons Baseball Complex
Edwardsville, Illinois
Probable Starters:
SIUE LHP Noah Thompson vs. BU RHP Joey Cirelli
- SIUE won three of four games last week, defeating Saint Louis at home before splitting a four-game series with Eastern Michigan, also at home.
- Ryan Niedzwiedz hit .421 with three home runs and nine RBIs, earning his first career Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Week award Monday.
- Mack Mitchell hit .316 with two home runs and eight RBIs for the week.
- SIUE and Bradley are meeting for the 35th time in the all-time series. Bradley holds a 22-11 advantage in the series. The two teams haven't met since 2024, when they settled for a 3-3 tie when heavy fog in Edwardsville forced the premature end to the game.
- SIUE is third in the OVC in earned run average at 6.01 as a team. The Cougars are second in the league with 98 strikeouts.
- The Cougars are fourth in the OVC in home runs. They have hit 10 as a team through the first 12 games.
- SIUE was picked as the preseason favorite in the Ohio Valley Conference preseason poll.
- In 2025, the Cougars finished 18-8 in OVC play, marking the second most OVC wins in program history.
- SIUE led the OVC in wins but finished second by percentage points to Eastern Illinois in the regular season race.
- The Cougars' 26 total wins tied for fourth most since moving to Division I play in 2008.
