The University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team dropped back below .500 in conference play with a 76-61 loss at the hands of Duquesne University on Sunday afternoon. Following the first three-game winning streak in conference play, the visiting Rams rolled into Pittsburgh as a 4-2 team on the road. Last year, the team finished…
URI Athletic Hall of Famer Mark S. Cruise ’81, M.A. ’84, and his wife, Sue Cruise ’84, have gifted $2 million to their alma mater to establish a new athletic endowment and rename the football practice field, the university announced on Tuesday. “This is a significant contribution that’s going to have a huge impact for…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…