Reading Time: 3 minutes Photo by Brigham Berthold SALT LAKE CITY—Despite a strong fight down the stretch, the UVU men’s basketball team was unable to finish another comeback against in-state rival Utah on Tuesday. Here are five takeaways from the game at the Jon M. Huntsman Center. Need those free throws UVU has not been fantastic at getting to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Brigham Berthold When the Utah Valley University men’s basketball team beat cross-county rival BYU for the first time in program history, it seemed like everyone jumped on the UVU bandwagon. The Wolverines were even highlighted on SportsCenter that evening. The world was right with UVU basketball. The big question coming off the massive […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Brigham Berthold SALT LAKE CITY — For the third time in two weeks, the UVU men’s basketball team found themselves facing an uphill climb in the second half of a road game. For the second straight such time, they made a commendable run at it but came up just short. After facing a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Julie Ostler Several teams made Utah Valley University history this fall and others brought championships to UVU. With the culmination of the fall 2016 semester rapidly approaching, we take a moment to reflect on the accomplishments of the UVU student-athletes. Wrestler Dustin Dennison finishes first at national tournament Nov. 13 on the campus […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Brigham Berthold After all UVU teams spent several weeks on the road, the basketball teams will be back in the state for the week. However, not all games will be played at home. The women’s basketball team heads south to Cedar City, Utah while the men head up to Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, the wrestling […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes After graduating from Utah Valley University in 2013, marketing major and track athlete Akwasi Frimpong took to the business world to begin his professional career, leaving his athletic career behind. Though he had accomplished some great things for the UVU track and field team, Frimpong decided to see what he could accomplish in the professional […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Photo by Brigham Berthold It’s not often a college basketball player leaves the packed gyms of the powerhouse Big East for the Western Athletic Conference, but junior guard Brandon Randolph did just that when he made the decision to come to Utah Valley University. Randolph began his college career with the Xavier Musketeers, a perennial […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Photo courtesy UVU Athletics The UVU wrestling team came away from the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational with their best finish in six seasons as two wrestlers earned a place on the podium at the prestigious tournament. Redshirt freshman Kimball Bastian finished seventh in the 174-pound class, while fellow redshirt freshman Tanner Orndorff placed eighth […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Brigham Berthold OREM, Utah—After a sluggish first half, Conner Toolson sparked the UVU men’s basketball team to a 75-71 win over UTSA with 14 points in the first four minutes of the second half Saturday. Toolson finished the night with a game-high 29 points. “I knew this was going to be so hard. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute This week we talk to head men’s basketball coach Mark Pope about the comeback at Denver and the big win at BYU.