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Basketball

Electrifying start to second half earns Jumbos top seed in NESCAC for third consecutive year

By Alison Kuah | February 17

With the right to host a NESCAC quarterfinal matchup and an undefeated home record on the line, the No. 4 women’s basketball team was in a must-win situation against No. 18 Bowdoin -- the only other unbeaten team in the conference -- on Saturday. An electrifying start to the second half, in which the Jumbos turned a 10-point halftime lead into a 21-point game within four minutes, sealed the runaway 66-55 victory.

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Basketball

Tufts clinches No. 4 seed in NESCAC tournament

By Steven Hefter | February 17

Sitting at 5-3 in the NESCAC with two conference games to play, the men’s basketball team went north to Maine over the long weekend to conclude its regular season. On Friday, Tufts beat Colby 72-64 before dropping a nail-biter at Bowdoin on Saturday, 57-5. The Jumbos finished their season at 13-11 ...

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Sports

Tufts finishes seventh in NESCACs

By Tyler Maher | February 16

For the second year in a row, the women's swimming and diving team finished seventh out of the conference's 11 teams at the NESCAC Championships. The Jumbos compiled 795 team points at the three-day event, which was held at Wesleyan University from Feb. 13-15. Williams College won the competition ...

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Track And Field

Personal records, strong performances for Tufts at BU

By Chris Warren | February 16

On Friday and Saturday, the women's track and field team took its talents to Boston University's Indoor Track and Tennis Center for the annual David Hemery Valentine Invitational.BU's banked track has been dubbed one of the fastest indoor tracks in the world, which was on display when 12 ...

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Sports

Jumbos conclude home season on a high note despite loss

By Phillip Goldberg | February 16

Despite allowing Hamilton (8-8-6) to force a 3-3 tie on Military Appreciation Night and then losing 3-1 to No. 10 Amherst (16-4-2) on Senior Night, Tufts (7-13-2) played stretches of its best hockey this weekend.The Jumbos were up a goal on the Continentals and had led all game before junior defenseman ...

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Columns

The consequences of groupthink

By Sam Gold | February 16

In the New York Times last week, writer Jon Ronson chronicled the swift demise of a woman named Justine Sacco at the hands of a ruthless Twitter mob. With each successive tableau, Sacco makes her way gradually from antagonist to victim, her situation reaching a nadir, perhaps, when she is disowned ...

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Sports

Tufts hopes hard work will pay off at NESCACs

By Jack Szumski | February 12

In the town of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico — 1600 miles away from the chilly Tufts campus — things really started to heat up for the men’s swimming and diving team as it trained over winter break to prepare for the second half of its season.According to first­-year Jacob Siegelbaum, the training ...

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Sports

Bruins hope to find groove midway through the season

By Joshua Slavin | February 12

Not long ago, the Bruins were playing impressive and commendable hockey, and they seemed to be rounding into contending form. The season hadn’t gone quite according to plan through December, as the team had suffered injuries to key players, including one to mammoth defenseman and captain Zdeno Chara.After ...

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Columns

Thanks, coach

By Steven Hefter | February 12

With the Patriots winning Super Bowl XLIX in heroic fashion a mere week-and-a-half ago, writers everywhere discussed the greatness of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick as a duo. After all, they have won four Super Bowls together and were NFL runner-ups on two other occasions in 2008 and 2012. Despite what ...

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Sports

Women's swimming NESCAC preview

By Tyler Maher | February 11

For most members of the women's swimming and diving team, the long season that began before Thanksgiving will finally come to a close at this weekend's NESCAC Championships. Tufts is sending 23 swimmers and one diver (sophomore Kylie Reiman) to the event, which is taking place at Wesleyan University ...

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Sports

Optimistic Jumbos look forward to Nationals

By Alexa Meltzer | February 11

The 11th-seeded men’s squash team traveled to Williams College last weekend for the 2015 NESCAC Championship tournament prepared and confident.  The Jumbos were unable to come home with team success, however, due to a few critical players' being injured.“We didn’t perform as well as we hoped,” ...

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Sports

Tufts swept by Connecticut College in key conference matchup

By Phillip Goldberg | February 11

Conn. College outmuscled Tufts 2-1 on Feb. 6 at Valley Forum in Malden, and then again 4-1 the next day at Dayton Arena in the two teams' annual home-and-home series. Despite the disappointing losses, Tufts' record of 7-12-1 and 4-9-1 in conference has them holding steady in the eighth and ...

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Columns

On Ebola, rioting and prioritization

By Sam Gold | February 10

Perhaps Morocco took its cue from Governors Christie and Cuomo. Unlike the governors, however, Morocco will be made to pay -- literally.On Sunday, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) fined the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (RMFF) $1 million for reneging on its commitment to host the 2015 ...

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Basketball

Jumbos survive difficult road trip, stay undefeated in NESCAC

By Alex Schroeder | February 10

For a moment this past weekend, it looked like the No. 4 women's basketball team was at risk of dropping its first NESCAC game of the season. The Jumbos were down three with just 19.7 seconds left to play at Hamilton's Margaret Bundy Scott Field House on Friday night after committing a foul ...

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Sports

Tufts equestrian rides to another year of success

By Maclyn Senear | February 10

The Tufts equestrian team, one of the school’s lesser-known club sports programs, has been dominating their competition once again this year. The team’s 35 equestrians have risen to first place in point total in their region so far this season and have four more events left this spring to help secure ...

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Basketball

Fan the Fire debuts the Blue Zone on Saturday

By Abby Curran | February 8

The Student Athletic Advisory Council (SAAC) unveiled the newly designated student cheering section this Saturday as part of the Fan the Fire event featuring the men’s basketball team's game against Williams College. Students swarmed the stands for the game to celebrate the inaugural day of ...

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Track And Field

Fahey, Allen lead Tufts to second place at Cupid

By Chris Warren | February 8

The No. 9 women's track and field team hosted its final large indoor invitational of the season, the Cupid Invitational, at the Gantcher Center on Saturday.The Jumbos fared well in the competition, scoring 115 points and taking second overall after No. 7 MIT. Across the board, the Jumbos had some ...

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Basketball

Jumbos stay above .500 after weekend split

By Jake Indursky | February 8

Fans coming to the Cousens Gym Friday night hoping to see Linsanity 2.0 -- courtesy of NBA point guard Jeremy Lin's younger brother Joseph -- were disappointed. Instead, they witnessed Tufts put together a solid team performance in its 70-63 win over Lin and his Hamilton Continentals.However, fans ...

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Softball

Defending national champion softball and men's lacrosse teams ranked No. 1 in preseason polls

By Alex Connors | February 5

While the 2014-2015 school year has been highlighted by the Tufts soccer team’s National Championship victory, the 2013-2014 school year had its own fair share of success on the national stage. Headlined by the Tufts softball and men’s lacrosse teams, last spring was a very eventful season for Tufts ...

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Sports

Tufts finishes regular season with victory over Conn. College

By Sun Ho Lee | February 5

The women’s squash team had mixed results against a pair of conference opponents this past weekend in its final two matches before this weekend's NESCAC tournament. While Tufts lost 8-1 against Colby at Harvard on Saturday, the team bounced back the next day to beat Conn. College 6-3. ...

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