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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Nightmare finish for NKU’s NCAA dream season
INDIANAPOLIS – Play after play, possession after possession, Northern Kentucky’s Norse were doing their thing. With toughness and precision and a quick-hitting offense and ferocious rebounding. They were on their way – to their 15th win in the last 17 games, to a Horizon League championship and to their fourth NCAA trip in the last […]
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NKU, just one win away from NCAA, does it with defense
Here we go again. With a dominating defensive effort Monday, Northern Kentucky’s Norse find themselves just one win away from a spot in the NCAA’s Field of 68 after shutting down No. 2 seed Purdue Fort Wayne, 57-43, in the semifinals of the Horizon League Tournament at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum. NKU moves into Tuesday’s […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: NKU does what it does in March, and goodbye Mel Webster
Here they go again. To Indianapolis. For the Horizon League’s Final Four. For the fourth straight season. And fifth time in the last six. And no, we’re not surprised. And you’re probably not surprised, even for an NKU team that started the season 6-9. And to be honest, neither were the Norse, even though the […]
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Norse advance to Horizon League quarterfinals with win over Detroit Mercy
Written by Matthew Dietz, editor-in-chief of The Northerner NKU women’s basketball head coach Camryn Whitaker has seen her fair share of postseason basketball, both as a player and as a coach, and understands what it takes to win when the calendar flips to March. During Whitaker’s lone season at Kentucky before joining the Norse, she […]
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NKU women’s basketball collects Horizon League awards
Written by Matthew Dietz, editor-in-chief of The Northerner On Monday, the Horizon League announced their end of season awards for women’s basketball, with several members of the Norse being named as winners for individual awards. Graduate forward Grayson Rose was named Defensive Player of the Year and was named to the all-defensive team. Redshirt senior guard Lindsey […]
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Norse baseball pulls off win over defending national champions
The Northern Kentucky University Norse baseball team will long remember the first win of Dizzy Dean’s first season as head coach. The Norse (1-3 overall) edged the seventh-ranked and defending national champion Mississippi State Bulldogs, 7-6 in Starkville on Friday. The Norse opened the season last weekend with three losses on the road at East […]
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Thomas More men win first Mid-South Conference regular season crown
The men’s basketball program at Thomas More defeated Bethel on Saturday to secure its first ever Mid-South Conference regular season title after losses by Georgetown and Tennessee Southern. The Saints were projected to finish second in the conference in the preseason poll and were the 23rd ranked team nationally following their second consecutive National Tournament […]
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Dan Weber: Time for NKU-Thomas More Regular Basketball Series?
Dan Weber writes a sports column for LINK nky. Reach him via email at dweber3440@aol.com. Photos from the NKU men’s basketball game, posted in the slideshow below, were produced by LINK nky photographer Brian Frey. Northern Kentucky’s four college basketball teams – men and women – have had things pretty much going their way in recent […]
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NKU Overpowers Purdue Ft. Wayne on the Road
The Northern Kentucky women’s basketball team routed Purdue Fort Wayne on the road Thursday night, 67-43. With the win, the Norse are now 16-4 overall this season and 10-3 in the Horizon League, the program’s best start since becoming an NCAA Division I program. Lindsey Duvall led NKU putting up 15 points pn Purdue Fort […]
