The wrestling squad has two home conference matches this weekend, and is looking for its third straight win.

You think Brown sports teams are a bit boring, don’t you? That’s the underlying assumption, right? After all, The Herald ran a series about how we’re “Underdog U.”  But maybe we’re all just really attending the wrong sports. Women’s basketball coach Jean Marie Burr won her 300th game last week against Dartmouth, and the wrestling and men’s tennis teams are racking up some impressive wins. Maybe you’ll cheer them on this weekend, or maybe you’ll stick with the typical hockey. Here’s a quick schedule of Bruno’s home matches this weekend:

Friday, Feb. 3

M. hockey looks to stay in the playoff picture with a win over Clarkson at 7pm.

But if hockey’s not your thing, m. basketball will be battling Princeton next door at the Pizz., also at 7pm.

And then, if you get bored watching tall dudes run up and down a court, you can head to the indoor tennis courts in the Pizz to watch w. tennis against PC at 8pm.

Saturday, Feb. 4 [Read more →]

Men’s basketball fell to No. 23 Harvard 68-59 on Saturday.

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It’s a brand new semester. Which means that, while it’s time to go buy and sell your classes and wait in long mail room package lines to get boxes of books you know you probably won’t end up actually reading, you actually have plenty of time. Which means you and all those friends you need to catch up with can come out to cheer on your fellow Bears in various sporting events.Here are all the home games this weekend:

Friday, Jan. 27

Women’s ice hockey takes on the Big Green at 7 pm. The team is currently .500 after going 3-2-2 over winter break. They are currently in eighth place, the last playoff spot. This is a team that only won three games all season last year.
Men’s basketball also battles the Big Green at 7 pm. Unlike the female icers, the break didn’t treat the b-ballers to kindly. They went 1-6. [Read more →]

Two years ago today, Colin Cloherty ’09 was probably spending his Sunday like the rest of us during reading period–holed up in the stacks wondering how that 12-15 page paper was going to write itself in the next 18 hours. Fast forward two years, and the former history concentrator has traded in neocolonialism for an NFL touchdown.

After only being activated by the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday, Cloherty scored his first career NFL touchdown Sunday when he scooped up a fumbled Tampa Bay punt and ran it 8 yards into the end zone. At the time, the Jags were trailing 14-0, and Cloherty’s score was a game-changer. [Read more →]

Captain Jack McClellan ’12 and the rest of the men's hockey team will look to beat ECAC and Ivy rival Yale this weekend.

Did anybody else notice that it got pretty cold as soon as it became December? Well, if you didn’t notice, the men’s and women’s hockey teams are here to remind you that it’s winter. And these Bears don’t hibernate just because it got a little chilly — they skate on one-centimeter-wide blades on a solid sheet of ice whacking at a black rubber disc and colliding with other people, intentionally or unintentionally. How does that not sound like a blast to watch?

Come cheer on your fellow classmates at these home games this weekend:

Friday, December 2
Women’s ice hockey returns to its ECAC schedule to take on Quinnipiac at 7 pm. The squad already has a better record than last season.  [Read more →]

In the 153rd showdown between the two schools, Bruno came away with its first victory since the 2001-02 season.

The Bears’ NCAA Tournament run unfortunately came to an end after a 3-2 overtime loss to St. Mary’s College last night.

The Bears will face No. 8 Saint Mary’s (Calif.) in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA tournament at home tomorrow at 5 p.m..

The squad is coming off a 1-0 upset victory over St. John’s in the second round of the tournament, with the lone goal coming from Dylan Remick ’13.  In the opening round against Fairfield, the Bears battled back from a 2-0 deficit, striking three times in the last 16 minutes to clinch the win.

The squad was named Ivy League co-Champions alongside Dartmouth after finishing 10-4-3 overall and earning a 4-1-2 record in league play. While the Big Green clinched an automatic bid into the tournament, Bruno was forced to await the results of the NCAA selection show to learn that it had earned an at-large bid.

Bruno faced a similar scenario last season when it earned an at-large bid and went on defeat No. 25 Boston College and No. 9 University of Connecticut before falling to No. 6 UC Berkeley in the Sweet 16.

The men’s basketball team’s greatest scorers may be confined to the sideline, as Brown boasts the fourth-highest scoring coaching staff in the country.  A recent survey ranked the top 2011-12 coaching staffs by their scoring as Division 1 players, and the University of Tennessee led all programs with 5,381 points. Auburn is a distant second with 4,373 points, and Valparaiso rounds out the top three with 4,146.

Brown ranks fourth with 3,915 points.  The Bears’ staff, under the tutelage of Head Coach Jesse Agel (pictured above), features former Vermont standout T.J. Sorrentine, who led the Catamounts to an opening round upset victory over Syracuse in the 2005 NCAA Tournament. Agel and Sorrentine are joined this season by newcomers Ryan Schneider, who scored over 1,000 points at Marist, and Kenyon Spears, a 2001 graduate of Lamar.

Not often does Brown comes out ahead of Kansas or Duke when it comes to basketball, but the Jayhawks rank fifth with 3,834 points and the Blue Devils follow with 3,805.

Brown Men’s Soccer defeated St. John’s tonight 1-0 to move on to the third round of the NCAA tournament next week. Check out some pictures from Brown’s thrilling 3-2 victory over Fairfield after the jump. [Read more →]