TMU wins twice at Wilberforce Thomas More’s nationally ranked Saints won a double dip at Wilberforce Tuesday. The #1 NAIA women started things off with a 92-41 romp to improve to 6-0 on the season. The #2 NAIA men followed with a 74-58 Mid-South Conference win in the second game to improve to 6-0 overall […]
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Notre Dame volleyball grad helps build solid program at Wright State
Lainey Stephenson may not have been on the court but the fifth-year setter and 2018 Notre Dame Academy alumna did what she could to help the Wright State Raiders volleyball team to its second undefeated run through Horizon League regular season and tournament play in three seasons. The Raiders (28-3) will enter the NCAA Tournament […]
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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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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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NKU volleyball falls short in Horizon League championship game
The Northern Kentucky University volleyball team has consistently been in contention for the league championship since entering the Horizon League in 2015. The Norse (18-13) headed north Sunday hoping to bring home the gold after losing in the title game to the University of Illinois at Chicago last year. NKU gave a good effort, but […]
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NKU women earn first road win of season
The Northern Kentucky women’s basketball team (2-1 overall) earned its first road win of the season, taking down the Dayton Flyer (0-4), 82-78 in double overtime Thursday. NKU graduate student guard Lindsey Duvall – the Horizon League’s leading scorer – put up 30 points making all eight free throws and securing nine rebounds. Sophomore guard […]
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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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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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NKU basketball pulls away from UC-Clermont for season’s first win
The game stayed close for the first 15 minutes but once Northern Kentucky’s defense got going, the Norse pulled away from the University of Cincinnati-Clermont Cougars for an 89-49 victory to even the season record at 1-1. The Cougars are members of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association Division II. “I thought after another slow […]
