The No. 7 Tufts women's lacrosse team continued its mid-season domination with impressive wins over Endicott College and Conn. College on Thursday and Saturday, respectively.The Jumbos are now 7–1 on the season and 4–0 against NESCAC opponents.Fresh off its commanding victory over Endicott, ...
The No. 6 Tufts women's tennis team (6–2) continues to battle its way through NESCAC opponents as it enters the business end of its regular season schedule. The Jumbos recorded a 9–0 rout of the Trinity Bantams on Thursday in their first match following a busy West Coast swing. The team ...
Villanova crushed Michigan by 17 points in the NCAA men’s basketball title game on Monday night, finishing off an absolutely dominant tournament run. While the final game did not come down to one play, many games do. This is all to say that it seemed unnatural to write this column without mentioning ...
The Tufts softball team played a trio of crucial games last weekend — its first series against a NESCAC opponent in the 2018 season.In a three-game homestand against the Bowdoin Polar Bears (14–5), the Jumbos were able to pick up wins in two of the three games.After two victories for Tufts that ...
The No. 3 Tufts men’s lacrosse team earned another hard fought victory on Saturday afternoon, besting NESCAC opponent Conn. College (7–2) by a score of 11–8. The Jumbos are now 7–0 overall and 4–0 in conference play.After a dominant first two weeks of the season — a stretch in which the ...
March Madness has drawn to a close and left in its wake countless busted brackets. Across the country this week, bracket pool winners will collect their money from reluctant coworkers and get ready for when the biggest gambling month of the year comes around again. It is estimated that wagers this year ...
The No. 18 Tufts men’s track and field team competed over spring break at the Ross and Sharon Irwin Collegiate Scoring Meet at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, Calif. and at the Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) Collegiate Invitational, held at the same venue. Upon returning from ...
Tufts hosted the annual Snowflake Classic at the Clarence "Ding" Dussault Track and Field Complex on Saturday.Every year, the SnowFlake Classic attracts many schools from around New England to Somerville for an early-season meet.This year was not an exception. A total of 22 universities ...
Since the U.S. Men’s National Team (USMNT) failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, there have been two international breaks, providing national teams tune-up matches in preparation for Russia. After that night in Trinidad and Tobago, it made sense for the USMNT to use the friendlies to assess ...
I found myself extremely bored this past weekend, and it's not just because I stayed in Boston over spring break.It's because there simply was nothing to watch. I get the need to play international qualifiers during the season rather than stacking them all in one go at the end of the season ...
While most students were putting their feet up and enjoying time off school last week, Tufts' softball team played 15 games in nine days in Clermont, Fla. The annual trip gives the team an opportunity to lock in for the rest of the long spring season. The Jumbos posted an 11–4 record, their best ...
The Tufts men’s lacrosse team picked up three crucial wins over spring break, remaining undefeated with a 6–0 record (3–0 NESCAC) and moving up four spots in the national rankings to No. 3. On March 17, Tufts defeated Colby at home, 20–6, to record its second conference win of the season. A ...
The Tufts women's lacrosse team put together a string of impressive performances in its four games since a win over MIT on March 10, earning three victories and suffering one defeat.The Jumbos, tied for seventh in Div. III, now have a 5–1 record overall and a perfect record of 3–0 in NESCAC ...
In polar opposition to one’s stereotypical spring break, the Tufts co-ed and women's sailing teams headed down to Maryland, where they competed in two regattas and trained for 10 consecutive days. The teams bonded through camping in tents and braving the elements. Though their training was intensive ...
On its annual spring break trip, the Tufts baseball team played nine games in 10 days. The Jumbos went 5–4 in that stretch, scoring 92 total runs and posting a team batting average of .282. Tufts fell short in the final game of the trip, losing by 12 runs to Virginia Wesleyan, 25–13."I ...
The No. 17 Tufts men’s tennis team continued its strong start to the season over spring break, recording a 3–1 record during its week-long trip to the West Coast.Tufts triumphed over Connecticut College (7–2), Sewanee (5–4) and Whittier (7–2).After a three-match win streak to open ...
March Madness has truly lived up to its name this year.There have been upsets, overtime and last-second shots in abundance. There is one Cinderella team that has caught many a fan’s heart: Loyola University Chicago.The Ramblers are a No. 11 seed and are slated to play in the Final Four on Saturday, ...
In a historic weekend for Tufts swimming and diving, the men’s team captured seventh place in the Div. III NCAA Championships in Indianapolis — its best finish since 1982. The team's superb performance was buoyed by a plethora of strong individual performances, All-American honors and program ...
Anfernee Simons, one of the top-ranked high school basketball recruits, decided this week to forgo his college eligibility and declare for the NBA draft.Since Simons had taken a postgraduate year, in which he spent his fifth year of high school at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., he is already 19 ...
The No. 8 Tufts women’s tennis team went 2–1 in its three matches in Southern California over spring break, bringing its record to 3–2 on the season.The Jumbos began their trip in Northridge, Calif. on March 18 with a 7–2 win over the No. 27 Whitman College Blues.Coming off a 9–0 victory ...
