After a lackluster start to their season, the men’s basketball team may have finally turned the corner. Following their 78-66 loss to Indiana State (3-3) just over a week ago, the Bears have gone 2-2, highlighted by a competitive showing against Big-Ten Illinois at the Las Vegas Invitational Monday ...
The men’s basketball team opened the Las Vegas Invitational on the wrong foot, dropping a third straight game by double digits in a 78-66 loss to Indiana State. Leland King ’17 continued his breakout sophomore campaign, posting a double-double on an efficient night from the floor, but his success ...
The men’s basketball team ran into tough competition in two non-conference losses this week. A talented Northwestern team led Bruno (1-2) the whole way en route to a 69-56 win Monday, and Holy Cross dealt the Bears an 80-65 defeat Wednesday behind the stellar play of the Crusaders’ backcourt. The ...
Point guard Tavon Blackmon ’17 and power forward Cedric Kuakumensah ’16 set the tone for the men’s basketball team Friday, as the squad kickstarted its 2014-15 campaign with a convincing 70-58 victory over St. Peter’s University at the Pizzitola Center. Blackmon showed little rust in the season’s ...
With a veteran presence in the locker room and an on-court gravity that bent defenses toward him without fail, Sean McGonagill ’14 wreaked havoc on defenders around the Ivy League. For four years, McGonagill helped Head Coach Mike Martin ’04 instill a winning culture in what had been a floundering ...
In the program’s first-ever postseason home game, the men’s basketball team was eliminated from the CollegeInsider.com Invitational Tournament with a 68-65 loss to the College of the Holy Cross Monday night. After trailing by as many as 19 points in the early going, Bruno surged in the second half ...
Coming on the heels of a heart-breaking overtime loss to NCAA tournament-bound Harvard last weekend, the men’s basketball team accepted a bid to compete in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament. Bruno will host its first-round matchup against the College of the Holy Cross Monday. Holy Cross ...
A long season for the men’s basketball team culminated in two single-digit losses this weekend. The Bears (15-13, 7-7 Ivy) ended the year on a three-game skid, losing to both Dartmouth and Harvard in the Pizzitola Center. Friday: Dartmouth 75, Brown 68 The Big Green (12-16, 5-9) came to ...
One game had a sparse crowd, the other was a packed house. One opponent was the top team in the conference, the other was a bottom dweller. But despite the differences, both of the men’s basketball team’s final two games ended in narrow losses. Here is a breakdown of Brown’s performance on the ...
Barring an unlikely bid to a postseason tournament, the men’s basketball team will play its final two games of the season this weekend. The Bears will square off with Dartmouth Friday before taking on Ivy leader Harvard on Bruno’s senior night Saturday. If Bruno manages to win at least one game ...
A loss for the men’s basketball team this weekend — its fifth of the season in league play — officially knocked the Bears out of the chase for the Ivy League crown. The defeat, compounded by Harvard’s resounding victory over Columbia Saturday evening, left Bruno four games in the Crimson dust. The ...
The men’s basketball team enters the penultimate weekend of the Ivy League season with hopes of winning the title all but lost. Bruno trails Yale by two games and Harvard by three in the conference standings. With just four contests left to make up this ground, the Bears would need monumental collapses ...
The men's basketball team endured two emotional games over the weekend, dropping a heart-wrenching 70-68 loss at Columbia before topping Cornell 81-75 in overtime. Here is a breakdown of Bruno’s performance in the Empire State. What’s strong The Bears showed heart in their first overtime ...
A weekend filled with tension, drama and late-game heroics boiled down to a split for the men’s basketball team. Columbia came back from an 11-point deficit Friday to beat the Bears by two with a pair of last-second free throws. Bruno took down Cornell the next night in a nationally televised game ...
Entering the latter half of the Ivy League season, the men’s basketball team sits precariously in the top half of the standings. This weekend, the team lost a heartbreaker to a struggling Princeton squad 69-65, but battled back to earn a win against Penn 62-55. Here’s a breakdown of the Bears’ ...
The men’s basketball team staged a come-from-behind victory over Penn but fell to Princeton this weekend, making the path to an Ivy League title a bit more difficult for the Bears. After four weeks of Ivy action, the Bears have now faced every team in the conference and have beaten the majority of ...
At the midpoint of the Ivy League schedule, the third-place Bears find themselves in the midst of a highly competitive race for the conference title. This weekend they play host to Penn and Princeton, two teams fighting to stay afloat. Last weekend, Bruno (12-8, Ivy 4-2) fought for the full 40 minutes, ...
It started with Tavon Blackmon ’17, a point guard from the nation’s capital who committed in the summer of 2012 to play basketball at Brown. Leland King ’17, the 6-foot-7 forward from California, wasn’t far behind him. So began the men’s basketball class of 2017. By early 2013, guards Norman ...
In its first full-weekend conference road trip, the men’s basketball team posted two impressive showings, narrowly losing to Harvard 52-45 before bouncing back with a resounding 75-62 win over Dartmouth. Here is a breakdown of the team’s performance on the road. What’s strong The Bears ...
The men’s basketball team finds itself a game out of first place in the league after a weekend of mixed results. Bruno dropped its first meeting of the season with Harvard 52-45, but recovered from the stinging loss to push past Dartmouth 75-62 the following night. Harvard 52, Brown 45 Bruno ...
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