Throwback Weekend goes as planned for CWRU men’s basketball
Gaurav Hardikar, Staff Reporter
February 13, 2020
The Case Western Reserve University men’s basketball team hosted conference opponents Brandeis University and New York University (NYU) for Throwback Weekend on Friday, Feb. 7 and Sunday, Feb. 9. The Spartans faced these two teams on the road the previous week, losing to Brandeis 71-64 and beating N...
Spartan men’s basketball snaps five-game losing streak on the road
Gaurav Hardikar, Staff Reporter
February 6, 2020
This past weekend, the Case Western Reserve University men’s basketball team traveled to Massachusetts and New York to play Brandeis University and New York University (NYU), respectively. Fresh off a crushing 106-70 loss to Emory University, the Spartans sought to clean the slate at Brandeis o...
Case Western Reserve University’s men’s basketball falls against the University of Rochester
Grace Despres, Contributing Reporter
January 30, 2020
Case Western Reserve University’s men’s basketball team faced a tough conference loss to the University of Rochester Yellowjackets after traveling to the State of New York last Friday. The exciting overtime game ended with a score of 88-86, moving the Spartans to a record of 8-7 overall and 1-3 i...
Men’s basketball teams falls in consecutive UAA matchups
Shreya Ramani, Staff Reporter
January 23, 2020
This past Friday and Sunday, Case Western Reserve University hosted Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) and University of Chicago (UChicago), respectively, in Horsburgh Gymnasium for the start of the Spartans men’s basketball team’s UAA play. Unfortunately, the Spartans lost to both opp...
After a strong holiday season showing, men’s basketball enters conference play
Nathan Lesch, Director of Print
January 17, 2020
While most students were finishing their exams or heading home, during winter break, members of the Case Western Reserve University men’s basketball team were hustling for loose balls, setting screens and driving to the basket. The team secured three wins and one loss since the end of finals in mid-...
Cavs vs. Nets: A firsthand experience
Ishan Kulkarni, Staff Reporter
December 6, 2019
In a game that went down to the wire, the Cleveland Cavaliers fell to the Brooklyn Nets 108-106. The Cavaliers were coming off a close home upset six-point win against the Portland Trail Blazers. The Cavaliers were sitting in fourth place in the Central Division with a 5-11 record, while the Nets wer...
Cavaliers continue re-building effort
Ishan Kulkarni, Contributing Reporter
November 15, 2019
With a new October comes a new season of Cleveland Cavaliers basketball. Over the summer, the Cavaliers further emphasized the rebuild of the ongoing roster by picking up key rookies. With the fifth overall pick, the Cavaliers selected sharpshooting guard Darius Garland from Vanderbilt. They then adde...
NBA caught up in Cantonese storm
David Chang, Staff Reporter
November 1, 2019
To Ohio basketball fans, clips of LeBron jersey burnings seem a thing of the past, but this time his jerseys are being burned outside the U.S. Two weeks ago, the General Manager of the Houston Rockets Daryl Morey, in a now deleted tweet, expressed support for the recent Hong Kong protests, with an im...
National basketball team in shambles?
David Chang, Staff Reporter
August 30, 2019
Australia surprised the sports world by defeating the U.S. men’s basketball team for the first time ever, snapping the U.S. team’s 78 game winning streak. Prior to this loss, the U.S.’s most recent loss happened against Greece at the 2006 FIBA World Championship. Australian point guard Patty Mi...
Ohio man has perfect bracket through first two rounds
Emily Young, Copy Editor
March 29, 2019
Every year, March Madness rocks the nation with torrents of busted brackets, crushing dreams and ruining sports enthusiasts’ chances of winning their office betting pool. This year was particularly brutal, with only top-seeded teams making it to the Sweet 16. The lowest seeded team to make it to the S...
