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Bradley holds a number of Ivy League career records, including total and average points (1,253/29.83, respectively), and [[free throws]] made and attempted (409/468, 87.4%).<ref name=ivyleague>{{cite web |url=http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/mbbrecord.asp |title=Ivy League Sports: Career Marks |access-date=August 3, 2009 |publisher=Council of Ivy Group Presidents |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080306023551/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/mbbrecord.asp |archive-date = March 6, 2008}}</ref> Ivy League season records he holds similarly include total and average points (464/33.14, 1964) and most free throws made (153 in 170 attempts, 90.0%, 1962–1963).<ref name=ivyleague/> He also holds the career point record at Princeton and many other school records, including the top ten slots in the category of total points scored in a game,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.princetonbasketball.com/blog/?cat=24 |title=Princeton Player Records |date=October 11, 2008 |access-date=August 3, 2009 |publisher=Princetonbasketball.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170719161123/http://www.princetonbasketball.com/?cat=24|archive-date=July 19, 2017 }}</ref> but likely could have scored many more points if he had not insisted so often on passing the ball, in what his coaches called "Bradley's hope passes", to inferior teammates closer to the basket; he only emphasized his own scoring when Princeton was behind{{r|mcphee}}{{rp|46}} or, as during the Wichita State game, his teammates forced Bradley to shoot by returning passes to him.{{r|mann19660207}} Van Breda Kolff often encouraged Bradley to be more of a "one on one" player, stating that "Bill is not hungry. At least ninety percent of the time, when he gets the ball, he is looking for a pass."{{r|mcphee}}{{rp|46}}
Van Breda Kolff described Bradley as "not the most physical player. Others can run faster and jump higher. The difference ... is self-discipline."{{r|mcphee}} At Princeton he had three to four hours of classes and four hours of basketball practice daily, studied an average of seven hours each weekday, and up to 24 more hours each weekend,{{r|gelman196501}} frequently spoke for the [[Fellowship of Christian Athletes]] around the country, and taught Sunday school at the [[Nassau Presbyterian Church|local Presbyterian Church]]. When practicing he did not move from a location on the court unless he made at least ten of 13 shots, and could detect whether a basket was an inch too low from the regulation ten feet.{{r|mcphee}}
Improving from his mediocre freshman grades, Bradley graduated ''[[magna cum laude]]''{{r|kabaservice20000127}} after writing his [[senior thesis]] about [[Harry S. Truman]]'s [[Electoral history of Harry S. Truman|1940 United States Senate campaign]],{{r|mann19660207}} titled "On That Record I Stand",<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Bradley |first=William Warren Jr. |title="On That Record I Stand" – Harry S. Truman's Fight for the Senatorship in 1940 |date=1965 |degree=History |publisher=Princeton University |url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/dsp01cc08hg870}}</ref><ref name=athlete>{{cite news |title=Athletes Prospering in Political Arena |author=Amdur, Neil |date=November 9, 1978 |work=The New York Times |page=B9}}</ref> and received a [[Rhodes Scholarship]] at [[Worcester College, Oxford]]. At Princeton, Bradley was taught by [[John William Ward (professor)|John William Ward]]. Bradley was a member of [[University Cottage Club]] while he was a student at Princeton.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About the Cottage Club|url=https://www.cottageclub.net/about-cottage-club|access-date=January 3, 2021|website=University Cottage Club}}</ref> His tenure at Princeton was the subject of [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning author [[John McPhee]]'s January 23, 1965, article "[[A Sense of Where You Are]]" in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', which McPhee expanded into a book of the same name. The title came from Bradley's explanation for his ability to repeatedly throw a basketball over his shoulder and into the basket while looking away from it.<ref name="mcphee">{{cite book
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