In the first home game of the Tim Fusina era, the Yellow Jacket basketball team failed to get their new coach his first win. Waynesburg dropped its third straight game if the season to the Fredonia State Blue Devils, 77-64. Transfer-student Isaiah Alonzo started strong for the Jackets by scoring the first points of the … Continue reading
2,469 miles is what it took for the Waynesburg men’s basketball program to find it’s newest head coach. Tim Fusina takes the reigns for the 2019-20 season, and hopes to lead the Jackets to their first winning record since 2014. Returning home from Thousand Oaks, California, Fusina was the head man at California Lutheran University … Continue reading
On the surface, the idea of Tim Fusina spending his winters in chilly Southwest Pennsylvania as opposed to the beaches and warmth of Southern California is a drastic change. While the move will still be quite an adjustment for Fusina— who’s moving more than 2,000 miles away from his home for the past two years— … Continue reading
Another mark in the loss column has been made for the winless Waynesburg men’s basketball team after its 80-55 loss to Oberlin College Saturday afternoon. The Yellow Jackets are now 0-6, and all losses have come against non-conference teams. As the struggles continued, the Yeomen [5-2, 0-1] handed the Jackets their worst loss of the … Continue reading
The first four games for Waynesburg University’s men’s basketball team are ones that they will want to forget. Saturday, Nov. 23, the Yellow Jackets lost their fourth straight game to begin the season against Kenyon, 81-60. Defense has been the primary focus of the Tim Fusina era thus far, and the first-year head coach wasn’t … Continue reading
Editor’s note: Since this article’s publication, the NCAA announced James Wiseman will be eligible to play starting Jan. 12. In addition, Wiseman must pay $11,500 to a charity of his choice. Let’s face it; the NCAA stinks, man. I say this in a casual way, but at this point, what’s really left to say? It … Continue reading
Things didn’t go well for debuting head coach Tim Fusina and the Waynesburg University Yellow Jacket basketball team this weekend, as they dropped both games in the Greg Richards Memorial Classic at Allegheny College. Friday night the Jackets fell to John Carroll 78-58, before losing to tournament host Allegheny, 82-62 Saturday night. Fusina saw both … Continue reading
Going back to last summer, the Waynesburg University men’s basketball team looked forward to experiencing “The Emerald Isle.” Before the start of the 2018 Fall semester, the program announced plans for a preseason trip to Ireland in August 2019. For the most part, the trip, which ran from Aug.11-21, went on as scheduled. What didn’t … Continue reading
When Mark Christner took over as Waynesburg University head men’s basketball coach in 2010, the team was coming off an 0-12 season in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference. Less than five years later, Christner guided the Yellow Jackets to the conference championship game, where they fell seven points short of an appearance in the NCAA Division … Continue reading
How’s this for a picture? Imagine a Saturday night at Waynesburg University. As is the case on most college campuses, many students who aren’t out partying will hang out in their room and watch ESPN. It’s March, so there’s a college basketball game on. The thought of such a small school like Waynesburg being one … Continue reading
