Southeast's Bradley has off-season surgery on right wrist

~ The southeast junior averaged 19 points despite a mid-season injury

Southeast Missouri State men's basketball player Jarekious Bradley had surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right wrist April 3, and coach Dickey Nutt said the guard/forward will need about six weeks of recovery time.

Bradley, who will be a senior next season, suffered the injury during a game early in February and played the rest of the season injured.

"That surgery probably could've been done right then, but he could play [with] it so we made the mutual agreement that he would play through it, that he was not going to have surgery in the middle of the year. He wasn't going to stand for it," Nutt said.

Bradley, who was named second-team all-Ohio Valley Conference and also was selected to the all-Newcomer team as a junior, struggled with knee injuries throughout the season, too.

He only played two minutes against the University of Missouri-Kansas City on January 29 due to a sprained knee, and he injured his knee less than five minutes into the Redhawks' loss to UT Martin on Feb. 12.

Even with these injuries, Bradley averaged 19 points and 6.3 rebounds per game for the Redhawks.

* Southeast senior forward Tyler Stone will be playing at the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, which runs Wednesday through Saturday this week in Portsmouth, Va.

"I just can't tell you how proud we are of him and his development over the years, turning from a young man into a man, a very mature man," Nutt said.

The teams for the tournament, which is attended by representatives from every NBA team and features 64 senior college basketball players, were selected Monday.

Stone's teammates for the tournament are Saint Louis University guard Jordair Jett, Ohio's Nick Kellogg, Massachusetts' Chaz Williams, North Dakota State's Taylor Bruan, Seton Hall's Fuquan Edwin, Middle Tennessee State's Shawn Jones and Texas Southern's Aaric Murray.