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Once, if you wanted to become the general manager of a professional sports team, you had to have been a great athlete. For decades, sports teams were almost exclusively run by former players.Times have...
View ArticleMIT Sports Shorts for March 11
Overall and Conference Records (As of March 10) Men’s Basketball: 22-5 (10-2 NEWMAC)Men’s Fencing: 7-12 (6-4 NFC)Women’s Fencing: 13-9 (8-4 NFC)Men's Lacrosse: 1-0 (0-0 Pilgrim)Women’s Lacrosse: 1-0...
View ArticleMIT men’s basketball makes return trip to Taiwan
For the second time in the last five years, the MIT men’s basketball team will travel abroad to Taiwan to participate in the fifth annual Kainan University International Basketball Invitational. The...
View ArticleThe Anderson family takes the court
When the MIT men’s basketball team lined up against the UMass-Boston on Tuesday night, the competition was not just cross-town, it was also intra-family. MIT’s head coach is Larry Anderson, while...
View ArticleMIT upsets WPI to grab second NEWMAC championship
WORCESTER, Mass. — Tournament Most Outstanding Player Will Tashman, an MIT sophomore, notched game-highs of 17 points and 10 rebounds, and MIT shot a sizzling 72.7 percent from the floor in the second...
View ArticleGoing pro
Former MIT men's basketball player and current assistant coach, Bill Johnson ’10, recently signed a contract to play with ARBA-San Ramon, of the Costa Rican professional league, Liga Superior de...
View ArticleCommunity comes together for hot dogs and hoops
In celebration of the MIT's men's basketball team's successful season, Bon Appétit, MIT's house dining partner, donated 400 hot dogs to be handed out before and during halftime at the team's...
View ArticleGame on
Imagine if your hobby became your profession — or, indeed, if it started a whole new profession.This year, the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference features someone who can make that claim: Bill...
View ArticleEngineers shoot past Farmingdale State and into the Sweet 16
ONEONTA, N.Y. — No. 3 ranked MIT scored the game's first eight points and led by as many as 25, en route to a 83-63 win over Farmingdale State in the second round of the NCAA Division III men's...
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Jacob Wamala Photo: Allegra Boverman Jacob Wamala spent two years as a wide receiver for MIT’s varsity football team, goes for long runs along the Charles River and engages in hours-long pickup...
View ArticleSlideshow: Men's basketball advances to NCAA Div. III Final Four
The MIT men's basketball team achieved a new level of program success on Saturday night, defeating Franklin & Marshall College, 69-54, to advance the NCAA Division III Final Four for the first time...
View ArticleMen’s basketball Final Four ticket information
MIT will travel to Salem, Va., this weekend for the NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Final Four, the program’s first-ever appearance in the national semifinals. The Engineers will take on the...
View ArticleMen’s basketball Final Four video streaming information
All three games of the NCAA Division III men’s basketball Final Four will be streamed live via www.ncaa.com over the weekend. In addition, the MIT Department of Athletics, Physical Education and...
View ArticleEngineers prepare for Final Four matchup with Wisconsin-Whitewater
Making its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Division III Final Four, No. 3 MIT will take on the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the national semifinals on Friday, March 16 at 8 p.m. With a win,...
View ArticleFormer player’s battle with illness humbles and motivates the Engineers
While the MIT men’s basketball team prepares for battle in their first foray into the Final Four, a former player and MIT alum is fighting another battle of his own: recovering from brain surgery. An...
View ArticleFrom the NBA to Iceland, MIT's coaches bring a professional perspective
If the MIT Men’s Basketball squad seems confident that they can handle the competition this weekend at the NCAA Division III Championship, it may be because they have a professional perspective on the...
View ArticleImages from the championship weekend
The No. 3 ranked MIT men's basketball team's 2011-12 season came to an end on Friday night with a 71-56 setback at the hands of the No. 8 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the NCAA Division III...
View ArticleBoston City Council declares May 9 as ‘MIT Men’s Basketball Day’
On Wednesday, Boston City Councilor John Connolly and the Boston City Council declared May 9, 2012 "Massachusetts Institute of Technology Men's Basketball Day" throughout the City of Boston.The...
View ArticleA thrilling victory for MIT football, and madness for the hoops teams
MIT Athletics celebrated inside and out this past weekend. In its final home game of the season, the MIT football team shocked nationally ranked Salve Regina University. After the game, the men's and...
View ArticleGive him the hook: New data shows baseball managers when to replace the...
Last October, the Detroit Tigers won the first game of the American League Championship Series against the Boston Red Sox; the Tigers led the second game, 5-1, going into the eighth inning in Boston’s...
View ArticleCalling the shots
After Daryl Morey SM ’00 took over as general manager of the NBA’s Houston Rockets in 2006, he asked his analytics staff to study the success rate of the plays that then-coach Jeff Van Gundy was...
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