For women’s basketball, a win and a loss this weekend were good enough to hold onto sixth place in the Ivy League, though the team had hoped for better. After being foiled by lights-out shooting from Harvard, the Bears rebounded to with a victory over Dartmouth. Harvard 91, Brown 71 Recent ...
A road trip to New York brought the Bears their first Ivy League win of the season this weekend. Brown beat Columbia 79-57 Saturday after losing to Cornell 80-70 Friday. “We wanted to come out with positive energy and turn things around, because it’s still early in the season,” said co-captain ...
The women’s basketball team lost its second Ivy League game of the year Friday, falling to Yale 73-52 on the road. The Bears (6-10, 0-2 Ivy) were heavily outscored from the field the entire game — ceding a 14-point run to the Bulldogs (8-8, 2-0) at the end of the first half to guarantee the Elis ...
It was a winter break of bad breaks for the women’s basketball team. The Bears lost two overtime games as well as a nail biter at the New Jersey Institute of Technology on their way to a 1-5 record for the recess. But Bruno guard Sophie Bikofsky ’15 said there are still positive takeaways from ...
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Bruno broke even during the weekend’s Navy Classic in Maryland, losing to the Naval Academy 81-61 Friday and beating the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 92-53 Saturday. In Saturday’s game, the Bears (3-3) not only earned their largest margin of victory for the season but also set a ...
The women’s basketball team lost to Army in dramatic fashion Saturday, allowing a putback layup with just one second left on the clock. Sophie Bikofsky ’15 heaved a prayer as time expired but could not complete what would have been a 17-point comeback for the Bears. Army escaped Bruno’s late ...
Sophie Bikofsky ’15 has been a leader on the women’s basketball team since day one. Last weekend, she scored a career-high 23 points as she led the Bears to a 64-52 win over Saint Peter’s College, a performance that earned her the title Ivy League Co-Player of the Week. The junior guard, who ...
The women’s basketball team fell to Lafayette College in its season opener Sunday, losing 70-69 on a last minute shot. The Bears (0-1) kept the lead for much of the second half, but the Leopards (2-0) came out on top in a game with 13 lead changes. More than half of Lafayette’s points came from ...
The Bears will launch their season 1 p.m. Sunday when they play against Lafayette College in the Pizzitola Center. Bruno hopes to improve on last season’s losing record (9-19, Ivy 3-11) which left the team in seventh for the conference. Head Coach Jean Marie Burr said the main goal for the season ...
The women’s basketball team closed its 2012-2013 campaign last weekend, losing back-to-back games on the road against the Penn Quakers and the Princeton Tigers. The Bears ended their season 9-19, 3-11 in the Ivy League, and will be graduating their three co-captains Sheila Dixon ’13, Caroline King ...
The women’s basketball team had a mixed weekend on the road playing Ivy League rivals Harvard and Dartmouth. Bruno (8-16, Ivy 2-8) dropped a 77-71 decision to the third-ranked Crimson (15-8, 6-3) Friday night. But the Bears ended their weekend on a high note with a 59-39 win over the Big Green (6-17, ...
The Brown women’s basketball team fell to Ivy League competitors Princeton and Penn in back-to-back home games this weekend. Bruno (7-13, 1-5 Ivy) lost to the Tigers (14-5, 5-0), who maintained their position on top of the Ivy League with a 68-37 win. The Quakers (10-9, 3-2) also managed to edge out ...
The Bears (7-9, 1-1 Ivy) suffered a disappointing loss to Yale (6-10, 1-1) last Friday in the Pizzitola Center in a 59-47 decision just one week after defeating the Bulldogs 68-67 in a buzzer-beater in New Haven. In their first matchup, which kicked off Ivy League play, the two teams dueled in the ...
Following an 82-48 victory in their season opener against St. Peter's University, the Bears were beaten twice on the road, falling at Fairfield University Tuesday and at the University of Vermont Saturday. The Bears (1-2) fell to Fairfield (2-1) 49-34. The Stags took command of the court from the outset, ...
The women's basketball team ended its season with a hard-fought but definitive loss to top-ranked Princeton. The Tigers (23-4, 13-0 Ivy) walked off the court Saturday with a perfect Ivy season and will head to the NCAA Tournament, while the Bears (16-12, 7-7 Ivy) finished with an even .500 conference ...
The women's basketball team had an uneven weekend, dropping a late-game heartbreaker to Cornell Friday night but bouncing back the next night to defeat Columbia 75-63.
The women's basketball team bounced back from halftime deficits against Columbia and Cornell this weekend to grab two key conference victories. Despite struggling offensively both nights at the Pizzitola Center, Bruno (14-8, 5-3 Ivy) utilized an aggressive defense to defeat the Lions (2-19, 0-7) 72-63 ...
There was no rest for the weary this weekend as the women's basketball team fought through two challenging conference games. The Bears (12-8, 3-3 Ivy) gave Princeton its closest Ivy League challenge of the season Friday, but eventually conceded the game, 57-45. But the team rebounded one day later, ...
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