Photo by Autumn Walter | Taken at a basketball game in February 2018. It’s a new season for David Cox and a new era for Rhode Island Rams basketball. After a long and eventful offseason, the Rams are just one week away from beginning their 2018-2019 campaign. It was an action-packed offseason that started with…
Thursday night saw the emotional rollercoaster for the Rhode Island men’s basketball team come to a crashing halt as the reality of a short bench, banged-up team and inconsistent play finally caught up with them for good, dropping their opening-round game against UMass 67-62. The game started off about as poorly as one could have…
College basketball has long been synonymous with unpredictability and chaos, hence the name March Madness. It is then easy to overlook an upset as even the elite programs taste unforeseen defeat from time to time. The celebration is glorious, but often temporary as the feeling of triumph is soon displaced by the realization that…
The University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team defeated conference foe Duquesne University, 77-74, this past Saturday night at the Ryan Center, before traveling and losing to Davidson College, 65-54, on Tuesday night. Against Duquesne, Rhode Island went into halftime holding a 42-35 lead. The Rams connected on over 61 percent (16-26) of their shots…
The University of Rhode Island Rams suffered a heartbreaking loss to the University of Massachusetts Minutemen, 61-56 in overtime, at the Mullins Center in Amherst last night. “We’ve had a lot of losses like this, particularly on the road, and in both of our huddles, there was a little bit of here we go…
Once upon a time, defense won basketball games. It was that simple of a concept. The amount of games a team won matched the strength of their defense. That is no longer the case. The University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team is eighth in the Atlantic 10 with a 4-4 conference record. However,…
The University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team opened up their season with a convincing win over American University, 65-42, on Friday night and a heartbreaking loss against Valparaiso University, , 58-55, on Tuesday morning. On Friday, both teams traded buckets in the first few fast fast-paced minutes of the game, and then each…
With a majority of the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team returning and some key defections in the Atlantic 10, the Rams are poised for their first NCAA tournament appearance since 1999. Last season they finished with 23-10 record, falling just short of the NCAA tournament and ultimately accepting an invite to the NIT…