Unable to contain its opponent’s explosive offense, the men’s basketball team fell to cross-town rival Providence College Saturday night at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center. “It’s always a nervous game for us because we haven’t played well against Brown since I’ve been here,” said the Friars’ ...
The men’s basketball team topped Holy Cross Monday for its first win of the season, but fell to Niagara Wednesday to end the week with an even 1-1 mark. After a season-opening road loss against St. Peter’s, Bruno (1-2) opened its home slate Monday night, cruising to a 71-55 win against the Crusaders ...
Season openers can operate as a barometer for a team’s development, revealing the parts of the game that need the most work. After a 77-65 season-opening loss Friday night at St. Peter’s, the problem area for the men’s basketball team was pretty clear: the final eight minutes. The Bears (0-1) ...
Sometimes in life, good things come in small packages. In basketball, that package better be able to run fast and shoot the lights out. Such is the test for the men’s basketball team as it opens its 2015-16 season at Saint Peter’s Friday night. Head Coach Mike Martin ’04 enters his fourth season ...
In its 110th season, the men’s basketball team has a plethora of surprises in store for fans and followers of the program. Bruno’s non-conference schedule boasts matchups against historically strong programs that often garner national recognition, Georgetown and Southern Methodist. The squad will ...
Most Ivy League basketball teams start their seasons in late autumn before playing their first competitive games in November. For the men’s and women’s basketball teams, the return to the hardwood came much sooner: Both teams, accompanied by their coaching staffs and team managers, traveled to Italy ...
As it has many times this season, poor second-half defense doomed the men’s basketball team en route to a final weekend sweep at Dartmouth and Harvard. Bruno coughed up a 24-point lead in the final 13:24 to fall 75-69 to the Big Green and surrendered a more modest four-point second-half lead in a ...
The men’s basketball team has little on the line entering its final weekend of play. An Ivy title and even a .500 record are out of reach, but that has not hindered Bruno’s preparation for the road trip to Dartmouth Friday and Harvard Saturday. “We just want to build on the foundation that’s ...
The sharpshooting of J.R. Hobbie ’17 carried the men’s basketball team over Penn 75-69 Friday, but Princeton left Bruno with its fourth consecutive weekend split by dealing the team a decisive 80-62 defeat. Rafael Maia ’15, co-captain and the Ivy League’s second leading rebounder, suited up ...
Five seniors on the men’s basketball team will take the floor at the Pizzitola Center for the last time this weekend, as the squad attempts to salvage a middle-of-the-pack conference finish in the Ivy League’s penultimate weekend. Brown welcomes last-place Penn Friday and third-place Princeton Saturday, ...
The ball bounced around the rim and teetered on the edge for a chilling instant before falling through the net with 1.4 seconds remaining to lift the men’s basketball team to a dramatic 57-56 win over Cornell Saturday. The game-winning shot came courtesy of co-captain Cedric Kuakumensah ’16 and ...
The men’s basketball team’s New York road trip — in which the squad lost consecutive games to Cornell and Columbia — was Bruno’s worst weekend of the season, as the team fell to 0-4 in league play. But the Bears (11-14, 2-6 Ivy) welcome the Big Red Friday and the Lions Saturday with the opportunity ...
Trailing 30-29 at the halftimes of both Ivy contests this weekend, the men’s basketball team played vastly different second halves, stumbling down the stretch 75-64 to Princeton Friday and running away from Penn 71-55 Saturday. The weekend split kept Bruno (11-14, 2-6 Ivy) from falling to last place ...
The men’s basketball team captured its long-awaited first Ivy win last weekend and will look to carry that momentum into two tough road tests against Princeton Friday and Penn Saturday. Co-captain Rafael Maia ’15 said the victory against Dartmouth (8-12, 1-5 Ivy) last Saturday, which lifted Bruno ...
The men’s basketball team may be the best 1-5 team in conference play the Ivy League has seen in a while. “We’re not far away. I know our record would tell you we are,” Head Coach Mike Martin ’04 said after his team went toe-to-toe with league-best Harvard in a thrilling 76-74 overtime loss ...
There would be no better remedy for the men’s basketball team’s 0-4 conference start than a win over a rival that has won the Ivy League four years in a row. Bruno will look to do just that when it welcomes Harvard Friday before another league bout against Dartmouth Saturday. The opponents present ...
Despite hanging close late in the second half with two Ivy League opponents, the men’s basketball team was swept this weekend, falling to Cornell 57-49 and to Columbia 86-65 after a road trip to New York. The losses continue a dismal skid to open conference play for the Bears (9-12, 0-4 Ivy), who ...
While an 0-2 start in the Ivy League was not what the men’s basketball team hoped for, the Bears can take a big step forward this weekend with their New York doubleheader at Cornell and Columbia, this Friday and Saturday, respectively. Bruno (9-10, 0-2 Ivy) dropped two contests to Ivy leader Yale ...
It was an up and down winter break for the men’s basketball team, which went 4-2 in its final six non-conference games before getting drummed 80-62 in its Ivy League opener against Yale. Bruno had its hands full to open its conference slate with Yale (12-6, 1-0 Ivy) at home Saturday. The Bulldogs ...
American University rode the strength of a 16-point second half advantage to take down the men’s basketball team Wednesday at the Pizzitola Center. The methodical Eagles slowed down the pace of the game, forcing the Bears to defend for the entirety of the shot clock. “The story of this game was ...
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