Storied senior careers end in first-round NIT loss

March 22, 2014

Reading Time: 3 minutes Photos by Brooke Morill Seventh-seeded Utah Valley ended its season Wednesday night with a 77-64 defeat to 2-seed California in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament. The loss marked the final game in the storied careers of seniors Holton Hunsaker and Ben Aird. Hunsaker and Aird go down as two of the three […]

‘Disciplinary action initiated’ for UVU-NMSU brawl

March 17, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Gabi Campbell Whatever caused jubilant Utah Valley fans and New Mexico State players to engage one another in a violent mixup following the Wolverines’ monumental win remains unknown. Suspensions have been handed out to both parties and injuries have begun to heal, but multiple UVU students caught in the middle of the brawl […]

NCAA tournament aspirations end for UVU in 74-69 loss to Idaho

March 14, 2014

Reading Time: 3 minutes Utah Valley was bounced by Idaho in the Western Athletic Conference tournament semifinals Friday with 74-69 loss in Las Vegas. The loss ends the Wolverines’ NCAA tournament possibilities. However, UVU earned a berth in the National Invitation Tournament by winning the WAC regular season title. “There’s very few regular season champions that continue and run […]

UVU breaks records in WAC quarterfinal win

March 13, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Less than two weeks removed from their season-worst 26.4 percent shooting night against Texas Pan-American, the Wolverines came out on fire in the first half of their Western Athletic Conference quarterfinal win over the Broncs. UVU went 20-for-25 (80 percent) in the first half to set a new WAC tournament record for shooting percentage in […]

Wolverines clinch share of WAC regular season title

March 1, 2014

Reading Time: 3 minutes Utah Valley overcame a 26.4-percent shooting night to clinch at least a share of the Western Athletic Conference regular season title with a 45-42 win over Texas Pan-American Saturday night. “It feels great,” redshirt freshman Zach Nelson said. “That wasn’t the prettiest game, but definitely getting the victory feels good.” The Wolverines outrebounded the Broncs, […]

Brawl between UVU fans, NMSU students follows comeback win

February 28, 2014

Reading Time: 4 minutes As the Utah Valley men’s basketball team was winding down the closing seconds of its biggest win of the season, Wolverine fans rushed the court, and the reigning Western Athletic Conference champion New Mexico State Aggies lashed out. Utah Valley outscored NMSU 13-8 in overtime to regain sole possession of first place in the WAC […]

Splitting hairs in Arizona

February 22, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes For the third time in as many years, the Wolverines have topped the 2012 national champion Arizona Wildcats. Utah Valley split a two-game series with Arizona, as it has every season since 2012, dropping game 1, 8-7, in 14 innings before obtaining the victory in 10 innings, 5-2, in the second game. Senior Andrew Freter […]

Cruising to the finish line

February 22, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Teams that occupy the top spot in a conference for a sustained period of time tend to start developing a proverbial target on their backs after a while. The Wolverines haven’t budged from first place in the Western Athletic Conference since league play began Jan. 4, and after collecting their tenth conference victory of the […]

Desert drought

February 18, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Getting shutout in four of the team’s first five games was not how Utah Valley softball and first-year head coach Nikki Palmer wanted to begin their season. The Wolverines dropped all five of their games at the Red Desert Classic in St. George, but they know they won’t be defined by their rocky start. “We […]