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 […]
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Kansas City, here come the Saints
It’s taken three shots for the Thomas More men’s basketball team to finally make it to Kansas City for the NAIA National Basketball Championships. Covid blocked the Saints on their first try after qualifying for the trip when the championships were canceled. Then a year ago even after getting to host the regionals, Thomas More […]
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CovCath will have to come from the bottom at Sweet 16
Scott Ruthsatz has one goal every season. Win a state championship for his Covington Catholic Colonels. For a Ninth Region and a Northern Kentucky that didn’t win one for 64 years until Simon Kenton did in 1981, that’s some out-of-the-box thinking. But for Ruthsatz, and his Colonels who will head off to Rupp Arena Thursday […]
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Thomas More goes 2 for 2 on the way to the NAIA nationals
Say goodbye – and good luck – to the nationally ranked Saints. They’re off to the shores of the mighty Missouri. For the Thomas More women, with two NCAA basketball championships in the past decade, it’s a return trip to Sioux City, Iowa, for the NAIA 16-team national championships. For the TMU men, it took […]
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Cooper Girls State Tournament Run Ends in Semifinals Against Sacred Heart
One has heard the saying, “In order to be the best, you have to beat the best.” The Cooper Jaguars basketball team (25-10 overall) had that challenge playing in the Girls Sweet 16 semifinals on Saturday. Their opponent in the defending state champion Louisville Sacred Heart Valkyries (35-3) had been there a number of times […]
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Thomas More men and women advance in NAIA basketball tournament
As expected, host Thomas More’s two top-seeded teams will play another day in the NAIA Men’s and Women’s first-round regional basketball tournaments Saturday for the right to move on to the 16-team national finals next week in Kansas City and Sioux City, Iowa, respectively. But while the No. 3 nationally ranked women, as expected, had […]
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Trailblazing Cooper Ousts Bowling Green to Earn Spot in State Semifinals
The trail blazers continued their path in history once again leading from start to finish in a second state tournament win in just their second game ever on the grand stage. It only took seven seconds longer than the first game. But the 9th Region champion Cooper Jaguars (25-9 overall) scored the game’s first 12 […]
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Cooper Girls Basketball Records Victory in First-Ever State Tournament Appearance
It took 14 years after the school opened in 2008 for the Cooper Jaguars girls basketball team to make it to the state tournament. And only six days after winning the 9th Region championship, the Cooper (24-9 overall) won its first-ever state tournament game grabbing the lead just 81 seconds into it and leading wire-to-wire […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Thomas More hosting double NAIA doings this weekend
Northern Kentucky welcomes the first stop on what many consider the greatest grass-roots national college basketball tournament in America this weekend. We’re talking about the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) tournaments that drop by Thomas More – both the women and men – for their first stop in a combined 125 years of national […]
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Covington Catholic Takes Battle of Colonels for Sixth Region Crown in Nine Seasons
You had the 9th Region’s gold standard over the last 10 years for boys basketball on one side and one that made it back to the championship game for the second time during that span hoping to dethrone the arch-rival. Both happened to be nicknamed Colonels. When the game finished, the Covington Catholic Blue Colonels […]