Coming off a New England Big 4 Challenge title over the weekend, the men's basketball team was looking to maintain that momentum in its penultimate game before Winter Break. But the Plymouth State Panthers had other ideas, handing the Jumbos their second overtime loss of the year and downing Tufts for the third consecutive season.
With the unseasonably warm winter continuing in the Boston area, the minds of most Tufts students are probably far from snow sports and more focused on the possibility of June weather in March. But for the dozens of students on the ski team, alpine ski racing is a weekly obsession, consuming every weekend from the end of winter break until late February.
Heading into their match against Brown on Tuesday night, the Jumbos, losers of 10 of their last 11, knew they would have their hands full with an Ivy League opponent which had yet to lose to a NESCAC team. The contest ensued accordingly, with the Jumbos falling 9−0 in Providence, R.I.
Now that the Super Bowl is over and the offseason has officially begun, the focus shifts from one Manning to the other. Until a conclusion is reached on Peyton Manning's future with the Indianapolis Colts, or a Vick/Roethlisbergian-type incident occurs, the narrative of the football world will not change. The facts in the case are abundantly clear: Manning is due a 28 million roster bonus on March 8, the Colts have the No. 1 pick in the draft, and they will most likely select Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck.
The black and white Reeboks are the only holdover from the past. Every other part of Rich Gunnell is squarely embedded in the future.
The women's basketball team is in the midst of a dominant stretch, during which it has routinely routed non?conference foes. That trend continued at Cousens Gym on Tuesday night when the Jumbos trounced the Emerson Lions in convincing fashion, 71?32 for their sixth straight victory.
With only a glance at the numbers, you can see a clear and significant improvement in the play of men's basketball forward Alex Orchowski from his junior season to his senior campaign.
Seeking to avenge a Jan. 21 loss to Amherst at the Pioneer Valley Invitational, the 11th−seeded women's squash team came up short against the national No. 6 Lord Jeffs on Friday in the first round of the NESCAC tournament, losing 9−0. The Jumbos could not earn redemption on Saturday, when they fell to No. 9 Colby 9−0 and No. 10 Conn. College 7−2.
Though official signings are forbidden by Div. III, given that no recruit can be offered an athletics scholarship, commitments still flooded in last week on the national "Letter of Intent Day."
The women's swimming and diving team finished off its regular season with strong performances across the board at the Wheaton Invitational on Friday and Saturday, highlighted by the success of several relay squads.
This weekend, the men's hockey team faced Conn. College twice and beat the Camels both times, improving their NESCAC mark to 8-5-1. The victories vaulted the Jumbos out of fourth place in the conference and into a third place tie with Middlebury, putting them in position to host a first-round game in the looming NESCAC tournament.
The Patriots have been friend-zoned by the Mistress of Football Fate.
The Jumbos returned to Wheaton for a second straight weekend on Friday and Saturday, this time to finish off their regular season at the annual Wheaton Invitational.
The defending national champion Lord Jeffs asserted their dominance on Saturday at Cousens Gym, downing the Jumbos 48-31 to notch their 41th straight victory.
The offer was on the table, and Keith Zalaski was reluctantly prepared to accept it.
The men's track and field team notched solid performances and personal bests across the board en route to winning the Tufts Invitational Stampede, hosted this weekend at the Gantcher Center. The squad tallied 125 points, well ahead of UMass Dartmouth's 87.5 points, among 22 scoring teams.
The men's basketball team was lacking a few things this weekend. Drama was not one of them.
The offer was on the table, and Keith Zalaski was reluctantly prepared to accept it.
The women's track and field team won the Tufts Invitational Stampede in dominant fashion at the Gantcher Center this weekend, defeating 18 other teams. The team scored 192 points, nearly 100 more than second-place finisher Worcester State's 99.
The hockey team disposed of Suffolk University by a score of 6−1 on Tuesday night, though the Jumbos trailed 1−0 entering the third period. The tide turned in the final period, as two goals by freshman Tyler Voigt and four more from his teammates led the team to victory.
