The four teams that make up the 9th Region’s 33rd District in girls basketball are all part of Boone County Schools, and it’s one of the toughest districts in the state. It produced a 2019 state title for Ryle, and a 2022 state semifinal showing from Cooper. Ryle, Cooper, Conner, and Boone County will tough […]
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NKU’s roller-coaster season on the downside in Florida tourney
The feast or famine season continued for Northern Kentucky University’s men’s basketball team Monday at the Gulf Coast Showcase in Ft. Myers. Host Florida Gulf Coast, a former conference member with NKU in the Atlantic Sun Conference, clobbered the Norse, 82-61. The big loss in the tourney opener, just five days after NKU’s historic 64-51 […]
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9th Region, 34th District girls hoops preview: Dixie hopes again to be team to beat
Here is how the 9th Region’s 34th District breaks down ahead of the girls basketball season: Dixie Heights Colonels The Dixie Heights Colonels have won the last eight 34th District crowns and has appeared in the 9th Region tournament 11 straight years, second only to Highlands’s twelve in a row. Last year, the Colonels had […]
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Thomas More men’s and women’s basketball teams stay perfect
Big men’s/women’s road doubleheader win for Thomas More Saturday at Georgetown. The NAIA’s No. 2-ranked TMU men shut down a No. 8 Georgetown team, 61-38, behind another double-double by junior Reid Jolly to improve to 5-0 on the season, 2-0 in the Mid-South Conference. The Saints women, ranked No. 1 in the NAIA, defeated the […]
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Women’s basketball: NKU routs Tennessee Tech
The Northern Kentucky women’s basketball team (3-1 overall) scored the game’s first 19 points and never looked back in a 75-53 win over the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles (3-2) on Sunday at Truist Arena. Tennessee Tech could not stop the duo of graduate student guard Lindsey Duvall and senior guard Ivy Turner, who scored 16 […]
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Big crowd, even bigger moment for NKU basketball in beating UC Bearcats in cross-river rivalry
The band kept playing until the very end. Just the way the Norse men’s basketball team did. And the fans, almost every one of the record Truist Arena crowd of 8,305 — just 100 below a sellout — stayed well past the end. Who could blame them? The students, who turned out in record numbers, […]
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8th Region/32nd District girls basketball preview: Simon Kenton, Walton-Verona seek deeper postseason runs
The Anderson County Bearcats led by last year’s Kentucky Miss Basketball Amyia Jenkins have won the last three 8th Region titles. But now that Jenkins graduated and took her talents to the University of Kentucky, consensus is the region is wide open. The Simon Kenton Pioneers and Walton-Verona Bearcats hope to make it back to […]
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NKU sports round-up: Volleyball earns second seed in Horizon League tournament
The Northern Kentucky University volleyball team (17-12 overall, 15-3 Horizon League) concluded the regular season with two road wins earning the second seed in the Horizon League Tournament at Wright State. The Norse beat Youngstown State, 3-0 (25-21, 25-12, 25-18) on Friday. Senior hitter Reilly Briggs had 13 kills and three blocks for the Norse. […]
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Thomas More QB ties school record with five passing touchdowns
Big day Saturday in Crestview Hills as Thomas More won a football/men’s basketball double-header in a big way starting with a great finish for Saints football season with a 43-10 Mid-South Conference romp over the University of the Cumberlands. Quarterback Blaine Espinosa tied a program record with five passing touchdowns, throwing for 254 yards and […]
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Norse women’s hoops wins triple-overtime season opener
Head coach Camryn Whitaker came into the postgame press conference relieved saying she’d never been part of a game like that. The Northern Kentucky University women’s basketball team needed three overtime sessions outscoring the old Atlantic Sun foe Lipscomb Bison, 101-95 in the season opener Thursday at Truist Bank Arena. The visitors from Nashville fell […]