Though athletes and non-athletes at Brown live side by side, varsity athletes are widely held to different standards of social conduct and face distinct obstacles to completing coursework. To overcome academic challenges, athletes receive some degree of institutional support and provide each other with ...
Guard and women’s basketball captain Jordin Alexander ’16 has been working her way into Bruno’s history books since she put on the uniform three years ago. And against Columbia last Friday, she made her place permanent. With a baseline jumper, she scored her 1,000th point as a Brown Bear and with ...
A little madness has been added to March for Ivy League basketball fans. The League’s Council of Presidents announced Thursday that the men’s and women’s basketball seasons will conclude with a two-day, four-team playoff. The playoffs victors will advance to the NCAA tournament. A long discussion ...
The women’s basketball team swept the competition in its final weekend, beating Columbia and Cornell at home by a combined 49 points. A day after defeating Columbia (12-17, 1-13 Ivy) 91-64 on Friday night, the Bears (15-13, 3-11) rode the crowd’s energy on Senior Night to overwhelm Cornell 91-69. ...
The women’s basketball team lost two hard-fought games on the road against Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend, extending its Ivy League losing streak to six games. Bruno (13-13, 1-11 Ivy) opened the weekend at Dartmouth (12-16, 7-5) Friday, losing a 60-56 game that came down to the wire. Dartmouth ...
The Brown Band’s Tuesday night practice in Fulton Rehearsal Hall is lively with banter and laughter, both among musicians and with head student conductor Daniel Muller ’17 as he leads the group through various musical numbers. “We’re not like a high school marching band,” said Carol Medina ...
Coming off its first Ivy League win of the season against Columbia, the women’s basketball team entered the weekend with a chance to start its season fresh and improve its dismal 1-5 Ivy League record. But the Bears faltered when it mattered most, losing to Harvard despite a good second-half effort ...
Each season, the Ivy League team with the best conference record is granted automatic entry to the NCAA basketball tournament because the Ancient Eight does not have a separate qualifying tournament. Unlike other schools that would stand a chance at receiving an at-large bid, Ivy League teams typically ...
The women’s basketball team is in trouble — after a 1-5 start to its Ivy League season, that is undeniable. But now, for the first time since conference play started, the team may be finding its stride. The Bears (13-7, 1-5 Ivy) traveled to Cornell (13-7, 5-1) Friday night with a 0-4 Ivy League ...
In perhaps its most difficult road trip of the entire season, the women’s basketball team was tasked with facing the two toughest opponents in all of the Ivy League this weekend — Princeton and Penn. In preseason polls, the two teams were voted to claim the top two spots for a second straight year. ...
Entering Ivy League competition, the women’s basketball team seemed poised for success. The team was 12-2 and had just bested Rhode Island College to sweep its in-state match-ups. But suddenly, things began to go wrong. At Yale (11-8, 2-0 Ivy), the Bears (12-4, 0-2 Ivy) encountered an opponent with ...
Coming off its first loss of the season against Manhattan, the women’s basketball team knew Tuesday’s game against URI could determine whether it continued its stellar season or faded back to Earth. The Bears (7-1) were determined not to go down without a fight. Head Coach Sarah Behn “said this ...
After starting 4-0 for the first time in program history, the women’s basketball team rewrote the record books with a commanding win over Vermont. But the hot start had to end sometime, and it did in a back-and-forth loss to Manhattan. Brown 71, Vermont 54 The Bears (5-1) started slow against the ...
After a 2-0 start to the season, the women’s basketball team looked to continue its success against Mount Ida and Morgan State. It did so in dominating fashion: Two wins — one an absolute bonanza of Bruno scoring, the other only slightly less of a blowout — continued the Bears’ (4-0) unbeaten ...
The women’s basketball team continued its strong start Tuesday, defeating Providence College 57-47 for its second win of the season. In their home opener, the Bears (3-0) started off somewhat sluggish. At the end of the first quarter, Providence, which defeated Brown for one of its six wins last year, ...
The women’s basketball team traveled to Florida for its season opener Friday, beginning on a high note with a 68-61 victory over Bethune-Cookman University. The Bears (1-0) entered the game hoping for a successful start to their season after last year’s 10-18 record. Bruno battled the Wildcats (0-1) ...
Most Ivy League basketball teams start their seasons in late autumn before playing their first competitive games in November. For the men’s and women’s basketball teams, the return to the hardwood came much sooner: Both teams, accompanied by their coaching staffs and team managers, traveled to Italy ...
Unable to contain either opponent’s explosive offense, the women’s basketball team fell to Dartmouth and Harvard over the weekend in the final contests of the 2014-15 season. Bruno (10-18, 4-10 Ivy) entered the weekend hungry for a pair of wins that would lift the squad into the upper half of the ...
In spite of pessimistic preseason polls, the women’s basketball team will look to finish in the top half of the Ivy League standings this weekend, as the squad faces Dartmouth and Harvard at home in the final games of the season. The Bears (10-16, 4-8 Ivy) have dropped five of their six conference ...
In a tough weekend on the road against the top two teams in the Ivy League, the women’s basketball team lost both games, quashing its chances of finishing the season with a .500 record. The Bears lost by an aggregate total of 29 points after being blown out by Penn and hanging close but ultimately ...
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