Billups expects best season
Troy Bendgen, Reporter
November 12, 2014
Filed under Featured Story, Men's Basketball, Sports
It’s a cold late October morning as the men’s basketball team finishes up yet another early practice session. Jalen Billups is standing on the free throw line practicing his shot. He is the last player in the gym on this particular morning. According to Billups, being the last player to leave pr...
Back to fundamentals
Carrie Crotzer, Sports Editor
November 12, 2014
Filed under Featured Story, Men's Basketball, Sports
For NKU’s men’s basketball 2014-15 season, Head Coach Dave Bezold is primarily focused on consistency and experience in terms of what will bring them a good season. Coming off of a 9-21 season, the Norse hope that their experience will help turn things around for them. Bezold’s five key players...
Chemistry brings team together
Desherion McBroom, Reporter
November 12, 2014
Filed under Featured Story, Sports, Women's Basketball
The women’s basketball team has started practice and now the real work begins. The team will take on a couple high powered Division I schools such as University of Kentucky, University of Cincinnati and Marquette University. This will be a little easier with the help of senior center Kaitlyn Gerrety. ...
Women’s basketball key players
Molly Patrick, Reporter
November 12, 2014
Filed under Sports, Women's Basketball
The women’s basketball team is expecting to have a great season by having a team that is fundamentally sound and where everybody can do a little bit of everything on the court. Head Coach Dawn Plitzuweit is preparing her team to make good decisions up and down the court and to defensively take away...
Assistant coaches bring DI experience
Clayton Castle, Reporter
November 12, 2014
Filed under Featured Story, Men's Basketball, Sports, Sports Features
As the Norse begin their first season of conference postseason eligibility, the men’s basketball team welcomes two new assistant coaches to the ranks, both with Division I college basketball playing experience and one with Division I NCAA tournament experience. This season, Ethan Faulkner and Dante...
Same game, different footing
Clayton Castle, Reporter
November 7, 2014
Filed under Men's Basketball, Sports, Video
The men’s basketball team found an unconventional, yet inspiring way to prepare for the upcoming season. Besides the drills, whistles, and sprints, the team practices every Tuesday night in wheelchairs to support the Cincinnati Royals, a wheelchair basketball team in Cincinnati, headed by the Cinci...
Athletic recruitment policies change
Carrie Crotzer, Sports Editor
October 24, 2014
Filed under Featured Story, Men's Basketball, Sports, Sports Features, Women's Basketball
Recruitment is the foundation of any athletic program, and with a recent transition to Division I, NKU has made many changes to the way it seeks out student-athletes. Many variables have changed the recruiting process for NKU coaches, including media coverage and the changing of conferences. With this...
Madness takes over the BOK Center
Clayton Castle, Reporter
October 10, 2014
Filed under Men's Basketball, Sports, Sports Features, Women's Basketball
The NKU men’s and women’s basketball teams kicked off their 2014-15 campaigns by hosting their annual Black n Gold Madness for students, staff and fans at the Bank of Kentucky Center on Thursday night. The event, in reference to NKU’s unofficial school colors, included a scrimmage, a 3-point c...
Men’s basketball to be featured on ESPN 1530
Troy Bendgen, Reporter
October 9, 2014
Filed under Featured Story, Men's Basketball, Sports, Sports Features
Starting this 2014-2015 season the NKU men’s basketball team will be featured exclusively on ESPN 1530, an AM station that has range not only in Cincinnati, but also up and down the east coast. Not only can listeners tune in to the radio broadcast, but one can also get the same feed online at espn15...
Beard causes petition
Carrie Crotzer, Sports Editor
September 20, 2014
Filed under Featured Story, Men's Basketball, Sports, Sports Features
Facial hair is rarely a thing that causes commotion, often only doing so when it takes extreme form. However over the last week on NKU’s campus this has not been the case, as men’s basketball player Jalen Billups petitioned to save his beard. What started as a resistance to shaving his beard for te...
Big name school to play at NKU
Clayton Castle, Contributor
September 16, 2014
Filed under Men's Basketball, Sports, Sports Features
Famed college basketball head coach Bob Huggins and his West Virginia Mountaineers of the Big 12 Conference will face the Norse men’s basketball team on Dec. 9 at the Bank of Kentucky Center, highlighting the Norse’s 2014-15 schedule. “There’s something to be said for Coach Huggins, coming ba...
Togetherness brings success for women’s basketball team
RJ Bryant, Staff Writer
January 25, 2014
Filed under Featured Story, Sports
The Norse women’s basketball players and coaches were at first uncertain as to how being thrown into the mix of teams in the Atlantic Sun Conference would pan out, but settling in has been easier than once expected. “I'm not sure that anyone could speculate on where we would be because no one re...