 Bradley began playing basketball at the age of nine . He was a star at Crystal City High School , where he scored 3 @,@ 068 points in his scholastic career , was twice named All @-@ American , and was elected to the Missouri Association of Student Councils . He received 75 college scholarship offers , although he applied to only five schools and only scored a 485 out of 800 on the Verbal portion of the SAT , which — despite being likely in the top third of all test takers that year — normally would have caused selective schools like Princeton University to reject him . 
