The box score tells you that Wednesday’s game at Grove City was a tale of two halves for the Waynesburg University men’s basketball team. After the first 20 minutes, the Jackets [0-8, 0-1] were down by nine. They ended up losing their Presidents’ Athletic Conference opener by 28, 73-45. As different as the first and … Continue reading
There aren’t many college basketball programs that have matched the University of Virginia’s success over the past decade. Four ACC regular season titles, two conference tournament championships and, most importantly, a 2019 national championship win have turned the Cavaliers into a national powerhouse. One of the key reasons for Virginia’s success has been its defense. … Continue reading
For many people, sports are embedded into their lives. Many families have one or multiple sports that run through their household. And this season, on the Waynesburg University men’s basketball team, the idea of family is magnified with two different pairs of brothers on the roster. Frank and Mark Bozicevic, and Brennan and Sean Smith … 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
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
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
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
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
