Robert Kruse
Robert Kruse
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M. BASKETBALL | Back in the hunt
Sometimes in sports all you need is a confidence booster to get your team back on a winning streak. The Bulldogs will be looking for their confidence boosters this weekend against two Ivy League rivals.
M. BASKETBALL | Analysis: The art of Ivy League recruiting
All’s fair in love and recruiting. While many fans may think that games are won on the basketball court, in college basketball, they are often won during the dog days of summer when coaches scour the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) circuit and try to schmooze impressionable young high school players. Whether a small school or a top program in the nation, recruiting can often define the success of a program.
M. BASKETBALL | Two losses end winning streak
What goes up must come down. After winning five games in a row, the men’s basketball team (7-11, 2-2 Ivy) returned to Earth this weekend with a pair of losses that marked their worst scoring performances of the season.
BASKETBALL | Analysis: A new line on court leaves fans seeing triple
Most Bulldog fans have already noticed something different on the basketball court in John J. Lee Amphitheater this season. They aren’t seeing double vision at the three-point line, but rather a new line on the court, representing the new men’s three-point distance as decided by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Committee.
M. BASKETBALL | Analysis: Basketball numerology
Because of the sometimes dubious nature of college basketball statistics, the men’s basketball team’s 6-9 record may not be its most important statistic.
M. BASKETBALL | Mixed results for Elis
The good stuff was indeed in the middle for the Bulldogs during their three-game swing over Thanksgiving.
M. BASKETBALL | Bulldogs to take Oregon Trail
As many Yale students travel Cambridge today, the men’s basketball team (0-2, 0-0 Ivy) finds itself playing on the road across the country. Playing in Oregon for the first time since 1968, the Bulldogs will look to shake off the struggles from their 31-point blowout at Vermont on Tuesday night against two new opponents.
M. BASKETBALL | Loss in Vt. hurts winless Elis
Can the real men’s basketball team please stand up?
M. BASKETBALL | Analysis: Post play a must in new basketball season
Déjà vu? With 5:29 left in the game in Palo Alto, Calif., on Nov. 20, 2007, the men’s basketball team was down five points to Stanford. Forward Ross Morin ’09 had just dunked to cap a 5-0 run by the Elis, winnowing down 10-point Cardinal lead in a little over a minute. Stanford responded quickly with their own 5-0 run in the next minute, though, pushing the lead back to 10 points.
W. BASKETBALL | Season preview
Is the glass half full or half empty? At first glance, the women’s basketball team’s 2007-’08 season would seem to be nothing special. The Bulldogs finished in fourth place out of eight teams in the Ivy League with a lowly 9-18 record overall. But such an analysis would miss out on the tremendous strides made by the team last season — strides that the team will look to continue this year.