Junior Guard Jeff Dowtin looks in on defense as the Rams lost to Dayton this past Saturday. Photo by Momolu Akoiwala A benchmark of Rhode Island men’s basketball has been astute and unrelenting defensive play. It’s simply put, the culture. However, with the Rams now losing four of their last five, and currently licking their…
Greg Clark | Freshman Tyrese Martin fights through content for a lay-up. This year’s Rhode Island men’s basketball team was always going to be an unknown. Losing five seniors and a majority of your scoring production will hurt any program not among the blue bloods of college basketball. However, I am personally sick and tired…
Greg Clark | Guard Tyrese Martin soars through are for a dunk. Many people predicted that the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team would be a talented team that would be prone to some missteps given their youth. This last week proved those pre-season sentiments to be correct come midseason, as the Rams went…
Photo by Autumn Walter | Tyrese Martin drives-in for a layup. “It’s a tough situation to walk into if you’re a first-year coach. You’re inheriting a team with the expectation and I’m just hoping all the fans in Kingston are patient with development.” Providence College coach Ed Cooley couldn’t have said it better. After six…
1. Davidson Kellan Grady and Jon Axel Gudmundsson are the metaphorical engines that keep the Wildcats going. They served as a two-headed monster against the University of North Carolina Wilmington this past Saturday, each scoring 25 points apiece. Gudmundsson played the entire forty minutes, with Grady playing 39 minutes. 2. Saint Louis The Billikens had…
Photo by Autumn Walter | The Women’s Basketball team won in the Ocean State Tip-off Tournament. I was in my weekly struggle of trying to find a topic to write about for this week’s paper. I could recap basketball or interview a player for a profile. I decided to put it off like most things…
Photo by Autumn Walter | Jermaine Harris goes for a baby hook against Brown defender. All is well in Kingston. At least for one night. After just their second home loss in two years, this past Saturday against Stony Brook, Rhode Island Basketball disposed of the streaking Brown Bears Wednesday night, 71-51. Rather than the…
1. Davidson The Wildcats are atop the conference so far this year, with a record of 5-1. The only loss of the year for Head Coach Bob Mckillop’s crew is against a very good Purdue team, ranked 24th in the country. Davidson has seen great performances so far from Jon Axel Gudmundsson, and Luka Brajkovic,…
Photo by Autumn Walter | Fatts Russell attempts to score a two-pointer for the Rams. It was a picture-perfect night. In David Cox’s head coaching debut at the University of Rhode Island, the Rams raised their banners and then their arms in victory, storming past the Bryant Bulldogs 97-63. Even James Vanner, the Ryan Center’s…
Basketball is kind of mesmerizing, isn’t it? Watching the ball hit the floor and come right back up, over and over again. The sound is a little hypnotic. It’s almost like music. And if it’s done right, it can look like a well-orchestrated symphony. That’s what the Rams looked like last year, a well-orchestrated symphony….