It’s been an upsetting week for the UC Riverside men’s basketball team, to say the least. After suffering a crushing defeat against the CSU Fullerton Titans this past Thursday, the team was handily outmatched in an 84-68 loss at UC Irvine. This marks two consecutive losses to kick off Big West Conference play and four straight when carrying over...
The women’s basketball team opened its conference schedule as well as they could have hoped, dismantling the UC Irvine Anteaters in their Big West opener and handling the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos in their conference road opener. This marked the first time the team had opened conference play 2-0 since the 2007-08 season, a year before the team went...
The 2015-16 season for the UC Riverside women’s basketball team has been one of both victory and strife. Although UCR has managed to accrue a 7-7 record with a solid 74 ppg average in the nonconference portion of the season, there is still much left to be desired out of the team. Their statistics seem to point toward breaking...
On Dec. 22, 2015, the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions issued its punishment to the University of Hawai’i men’s basketball team and its former head coach, Gib Arnold. And, spoiler alert: They did not come down easy. According to the NCAA, Arnold “did not promote an atmosphere for compliance in his program” and the list of punishments is...
In sports, the year is measured through benchmarks. Where does your record stand after the first 10 games of the season? How about the first 20? How did you fare over the long road trip? And did you handle business during the long stretch of home games?
One not often mentioned, though ever so important, is the first and final...
With fall quarter coming to a close, excitement is anew as we reign in a winter season highlighted by basketball and, well, more basketball. While anticipation for both men’s and women’s UCR hoops is near it’s peak, though, we would be remiss not to recognize a few of the athletes from a memorable fall season for UCR athletics. So...
Jose Mourinho is an enigma in the realm of world class soccer. This is the man who has managed a myriad of world class teams like FC Porto, Milan, and Real Madrid in the past, leading some of them to victory and winning many prestigious awards along the way. Not to mention his astounding leadership of Chelsea a mere...
After this week’s two victories over Delaware State and Lamar, the UC Riverside men’s basketball team currently sits at 4-2 through their first six games of the regular season and this is the team’s best five-game start since the 2009-10 campaign.
Sure, it’s not the largest of sample sizes and the near-.500 record isn’t mind-blowing, but here’s the catch: they’ve...
November 27, 2015
Miners 68 - Highlanders 57
The UC Riverside women’s basketball team was in El Paso, Texas for the holiday weekend to compete in the fifth annual University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) Thanksgiving Classic. This was UCR’s first time participating in the tournament and they kicked it off on Friday by posting their lowest point total of the year...
As always, the current NFL season has given us — fans and talking heads, alike — plenty to discuss and debate. Though, one question has remained a constant in the wave of media: Is Peyton Manning — 39-year-old quarterback of the Denver Broncos — done? While, of course, both sides have been heard, the general consensus is that, well,...