The Thomas More University Saints women’s basketball team took most of last Wednesday to travel back in Crestview Hills on the bus from Sioux City, Iowa. Thomas More completed the run to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics crown with a 77-65 win over Dordt University from Sioux Center, Iowa on Tuesday, an opponent playing […]
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Pendleton County native Dontaie Allen enters the NCAA transfer portal
Northern Kentucky basketball star Dontaie Allen has officially jumped into the NCAA transfer portal. The 6-6 guard announced his decision to transfer from the University of Kentucky basketball program on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Allen, a native of Falmouth, KY, averaged 2.2 points per game, 1.2 rebounds, and 0.3 assists in 17 games for the […]
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NKU’s Sam Vinson a Kyle Macy Award finalist
Northern Kentucky Freshman Sam Vinson has been named a Kyle Macy Freshman All-American and a finalist for the Kyle Macy Award. Vinson is coming off of a record setting campaign in which he was named the Horizon League Freshman of the Year, according to interim director of athletic communications Shannon Russell. Vinson set a freshman […]
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Thomas More Saints come marching home with 1st NAIA national hoops title
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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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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KHSAA Boys Hoops Sweet 16 Final Day Notebook: George Rogers Clark Wins First State Title Since 1951
Many felt it would be the top-ranked George Rogers Clark Cardinals (37-1 overall) against the third-ranked Covington Catholic Colonels (30-5) in the final game. But Covington Catholic fell in the semifinals of the Sweet 16 in a 61-58 loss to fifth-ranked Warren Central (29-4) in the second semifinal game. Later Saturday evening, George Rogers Clark […]
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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, […]
