Playing like champions from the get-go Tuesday night, Thomas More’s Saints led wire-to-wire in winning their first NAIA women’s basketball championship, the one that eluded them a year ago in the finals. Against a Dordt University team from nearby Sioux Center, Iowa, less than an hour away with backing from more than two-thirds of Sioux […]
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Faulkner returning to NKU for fifth season
Northern Kentucky men’s basketball standout Trevon Faulkner will return to campus and the team next season, the university announced Tuesday. The 6-foot-4 guard from Harrodsburg is utilizing the free season afforded by the NCAA’s pandemic waiver in order to come back for another year. “I really feel comfortable at NKU. I’ve grown some important relationships here,” […]
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Thomas More women to NAIA national championship game again, men just miss
Thomas More came within inches, and a split-second, of putting two Northern Kentucky teams into tonight’s NAIA National Basketball Championship games. The TMU women, who have been there before, will be there again, making it look easy against a much bigger Central Methodist (Mo.) team with an 82-62 start-to-finish semifinal dismantling. This one was pretty […]
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Thomas More puts 2 in NAIA’s ‘Fab Four’ tonight
For the first time since 2016, two of the NAIA Basketball Championship semifinalists – one each on both the men’s and women’s sides – will be from one school. That school is Thomas More University. The Saints men and women join “final four” teams from Missouri, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Iowa, and Arizona in Kansas City, […]
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Assisted living community eyes Union for next location
Provision Living, a St. Louis-based company, is looking at Union for its next property. The proposal will change the piece of land at Richwood Road, Davis Lane and Grand National Boulevard into a multi-purpose community.
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Thomas More women, men win their way into NAIA semis
It wasn’t easy Saturday but both Thomas More basketball teams won their way into the NAIA semifinals Monday in a pair of almost mirror-image games. Not a small accomplishment as the Saints are the only program in the nation to put both their women’s and men’s teams into the NAIA’s version of the final four. […]
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CovCath falls short as Sweet 16 plan goes awry
LEXINGTON – The ice tubs were full. The between-games showering and changing spot at Lexington Sayre High School reserved. The pre/post-game sandwiches (not enough time for a full meal in the 3 1/2 hours between games) were ordered. Evan Ipsaro’s ankle rehab starting late Friday could not have gone better: ice, elevation, treatment, ice elevation, […]
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Thomas More men, women in NAIA tournament quarterfinals
Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams at Thomas More University are competing Saturday in their respective NAIA national tournaments’ quarterfinals. The #2-seeded men’s team is making its first-ever appearance in the field of eight remaining teams competing for a national title. The Saints easily defeated SAGU on Friday, 74-44. Luke Rudy led TMU with […]
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CovCath escapes as hobbled Ipsaro returns for the Sweet 16 win
LEXINGTON – They’re still standing. Although the heart of this Covington Catholic team, point guard Evan Ipsaro, is limping. More like standing on one leg. But if you thought Ipsaro was hurt badly enough to stay in the locker room after a painful ankle injury left him lying at the bottom of a pile on […]
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CovCath gets it turned around the 2nd half in Sweet 16, lives to play another day
LEXINGTON – If you’re going to win a state championship, this is the game you must win. A game you easily could lose. Maybe one that for a half, you should lose. Only you don’t. Now of course, you have to win every game in the Sweet 16, you gotta’ go four for four. One […]
