December 2025
This Week In Sports – 12/11
Football FINAL (12/6): University of California, Davis 47-26 URI UC Davis used 36 unanswered points to defeat Rhode Island 47-26 in the second round of the Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs on Saturday. Rhode Island led 20-11 in the second quarter after a 75-yard touchdown pass from fourth-year Devin Farrell to fellow fourth-year Marquis Buchanan. UC…
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Men’s Basketball: Fourth-year Jonah Hinton After a successful season with St. Bonaventure University last year, the guard has emerged as a consistent starter and contributor for the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team. Although we’ve only seen Hinton play 11 games, it’s clear that his addition to the team was much-needed and he has…
Traore provides experience for Rhody as lone returning rotational player
In an era of college basketball so defined by the transfer portal, there may be no school in the country where that is more apparent than the University of Rhode Island, who returns just one player from last year’s rotation: fifth-year forward Drissa Traore. In a hectic offseason that epitomized the ever-changing nature of college…
Gray gives Rams strong offensive presence as double-digit scorer
After spending the last two years playing for the Saint Louis University women’s basketball team, fourth-year guard Brooklyn Gray decided she wanted something different for the final season of her collegiate career and entered the transfer portal. Gray is from Rockford, Illinois, and began her collegiate basketball career at Wabash Valley College. Wabash is a…
Fourth-year diver breaks out with 11 victories in 12 events
Fourth-year diver Olivia Winslow has been a standout performer for the University of Rhode Island swim and dive team, racking up major wins throughout the season. Coming into her senior year, Winslow had won five total events in the one-meter and three-meter dives, but she has quickly smashed that total this year. Winslow…
Hinton becomes top offensive weapon after transferring from conference rival
From one Atlantic 10 Conference team to another, fourth-year guard Jonah Hinton has quickly become a natural fit and a breakout star for the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team. Coming to URI as a transfer from St. Bonaventure University last year, Hinton went from a role player, averaging just 8.4 points per game…
Swim and dive suffers losses to La Salle, UMass in tri-meet
The University of Rhode Island’s swim and dive team traveled to Philadelphia this weekend for a tri-meet against La Salle University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, facing its first conference opponent of the season. The Rams entered the meet after wrapping up the Harold Anderson Invitational from Nov. 20-23, where they finished third out…
Women’s track and field kicks off season with three-meet weekend
The University of Rhode Island women’s track and field team had a jam-packed weekend, which featured three different events to begin its indoor season. The inaugural event of the indoor season for the Rams was the 30th annual URI Pentathlon on Thursday, Dec. 4. In the event, second-year Lily MacDonald finished fourth overall, totalling 3,448…
