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There were a lot of great performances last week from the student-athletes; so, here are the fan’s picks! Stats are from games played January 31st through February 5th. SENIOR OF THE WEEK: NAOMIE ALNATAS, KANSAS CITY (@mimie_alnatas3) What a week for Naomie! In the first of two matchups against Western Illinois, she scored 22…
The month of January looked to be promising with a decisive win over the Tommies’ next opponent the Western Illinois Leathernecks. Since then, with delays and blowout losses it has been a tough remainder of the month for the Tommie faithful. The last three games, which happened over the course of six days due to…
We are late in our grades for the midterm. However here they are. We are grading each teams December and GPA so far. Yes, we are grading on a curve. It will be based on preseason expectations, improvement since November and Kenpom ranking to start and now. Denver December Record: 2-6 Best Win: St. Thomas…
On a cold Thursday night in Saint Paul, the two best three point shooting teams in basketball met for what was billed to be an entertaining contest. When the dust settled, both teams scored significantly more from inside the arc, and the team that scored the most FG’s lost by 15. UST-66 ORU-81 Yes, that…
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The University of St. Thomas basketball team put together a dominant win over the Leathernecks in a weekend full of news about cancelled conference games UST-89 WIU-66 This was the most complete game that St. Thomas has played all season. Period. It is a real testament to the balance UST has that they led 43-27…
The University of St. Thomas basketball team this week traveled west for their first conference matchups of the season. They could not have asked for a better way to be introduced to Summit League play as their matchups were against the weakest teams in the conference. UST-80 Omaha-73 This was a tale of two halves….
Barnstorming the Country The past month the University of St. Thomas has spread their brand of basketball from coast to coast going 4-5. Loyal ESPN3 viewers were gifted with watching high-scoring entertaining basketball if they could put up with hearing “division 3 to division 1” about 1000 times from the broadcasters. The Drake game yesterday…
The University of St. Thomas Tommies (1-2) travel to Youngstown Ohio today to take on the Penguins in their first of three games over the next three days at the Beeghly Physical Education Center. How are the Toms doing in the D1Â debut games? This team is performing about where they should be. They have played…
New Beginnings-New Players-New Locations-New Expectations The University of St. Thomas Tommies enter their game tomorrow in Chicago as one of eight teams in NCAA Division 1 to know the exact date their season will end. The Toms begin a five year probationary period where they are ineligible for both The Big Dance, and The Smaller…
So in a year when there are freshmen and super freshmen, it’s important to clarify. In order to make the Reaching the Summit All-Freshmen team, it needs to be the player’s first year playing college basketball. In making this list it is a lot of presumed opportunity and reputation that comes into play as none…
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