AU dominates late to beat Loyola Maryland
(01/24/20 8:49pm)
This article has been updated with a correction. The game against Loyola took place on Jan. 22.
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This article has been updated with a correction. The game against Loyola took place on Jan. 22.
AU held its first-ever "Rally in the Alley" on Saturday, a tailgate created by the AU Blue Crew to bolster school spirit at the University. Despite the grim weather conditions, dozens of students and alumni showed up before the basketball team’s 4 p.m. game against Holy Cross.
The University named Marsha Harper as the next head coach for women’s soccer on Dec. 29. Harper is the first African American head coach of American’s women’s soccer program, and the first African American head coach of any AU team since 2004.
As students gathered on the Letts Anderson quad, Joe Buck’s excitement carried them to celebrate.
It took three quarters, but the women’s basketball team got out of their rut for a 56-48 comeback win over the High Point Panthers on Nov. 18. It took an electric second-half performance from emerging star Jade Edwards for AU (2-1) to overcome a 6-point, fourth-quarter deficit.
It’s easy for young teams to get stuck in cold streaks, but as D.C. has started to cool down, the Eagles were only interested in heating up. Sophomore guards Jade Edwards and Emily Fisher both notched career highs on Thursday night, carrying the team to a 76-54 victory over the Villanova Wildcats in the home opener.
AU men’s basketball head coach Mike Brennan has agreed to a two-year extension and will now be under contract through 2022. This is Brennan’s first extension since 2014, which followed the Eagle’s last NCAA tournament appearance.
Two American graduates have quickly proven that every rule has its exceptions.
After another first place finish, head coach Megan Gebbia proved that she had exceeded the expectations set by her five-year extension in 2018. This past week, Gebbia inked a one-year extension that will keep her at the helm through the 2024-2025 season.
In its Patriot League quarterfinal game – the team’s biggest game of the year – AU men’s basketball came up decidedly short. The Eagles played in a style that deviated from their norm: jacking up threes, getting exposed by zone defense and refusing to drive to the rim.
If anything, the part that stung the most about AU men’s basketball’s 83-81 overtime loss on Saturday was that it felt…familiar.
AU men’s basketball is last in the Patriot League in threes made and attempted per game (5.4 and 17.1, respectively). But the Eagles still need the shot – or the threat of the shot – to open up their offense. With guard Sam Iorio and his 2.5 threes per game sitting out, Holy Cross decided to overlook American’s range on Saturday. They also chose to overlook freshman guard Jacob Boonyasith.
In the AU men’s basketball team’s win over the Bucknell Bisons on Jan. 26, one thing was clear: the Patriot League is Sa’eed Nelson’s for the taking. Since lacing up for the first time in November 2016, the star point guard has started every game for the Eagles.
Last season, it made sense that AU lost a majority of its close games. When a team lacks depth the way AU did, it’s difficult to play hard for all 40, and giving inexperienced players a lion’s share of the minutes means that the mistakes will add up. So going into their Nov. 30 game, a healthy, streaking AU had reasons to be confident against a 2-4 Wagner team they had lost to last year by just one point.
There’s a moment all of us face at some point in our academic careers. We spend hours grinding on one assignment after the other, staying up late studying for the exam and getting to class early to take the test.
If you were to personify sports teams as babysitters, there is a short list of teams with whom you’d trust to watch your baby. Let’s name this baby “W.”
In the old Pokemon series, there was a move called Rage. The general objective of the move was to build up as much energy as possible before the enemy Pokemon could defeat you. It started off semi-powerful, grew to be extremely powerful and, if your Pokemon had not been defeated, would proceed to cause atom-splitting, team energizing, 3-1 lead momentum shifting damage. Your Pokemon would win the match.