By: Ethan Fuller I got to Boston University at 8:00 a.m. in September 2018 having never undertaken any semblance of reporting in my life. Sure, I had read Mirin Fader features, Dan Shaughnessy columns and Woj Bombs. But I had no idea what a lede was, or how Mixlr worked, or even where the basketball […]
By: Ethan Fuller Featured image provided by Nevin Zink. College basketball madness has extended well beyond March this year by virtue of the transfer portal. Over 1500 players have entered their names, with schools finding opportunities to add new pieces to their rosters. Boston University men’s basketball already made a splash, landing former USC Upstate […]
By: Ethan Fuller Joe Jones is now the second-longest-tenured head coach in the history of Boston University men’s basketball. But to Jones, his decade at the helm has flown by. “Some days you look back and are like, ‘Wow. A lot of time has passed,'” he said in an interview with WTBU last week. The […]
By: Ethan Fuller On Friday morning, Boston University women’s basketball announced that Melissa D’Amico would take over as the program’s ninth head coach. D’Amico replaces Marisa Moseley, who led the team for three seasons before taking the head coaching job at Wisconsin. “I’m so honored and humbled to have the opportunity to coach at a […]
By: Ethan Fuller Featured image courtesy of Stanford Athletics. Let’s open this with a little philosophic plea to the Patriots war room: please, please, please do not select a quarterback in the first round of the NFL Draft. The stakes do not get any higher for a front office. The Day 1 quarterback is the […]
By: Ethan Fuller No one helped turn around Boston University women’s basketball quite like Katie Nelson. The senior guard started all 102 games played during her four seasons in a Terrier uniform. Nelson averaged a whopping 37.2 career minutes per game and embodied endurance. She sat for just 17 total minutes as a junior. If […]
By: Ethan Fuller When the final buzzer sounded in the Patriot League championship game at Case Gym, it ended the tumultuous basketball career of Tenisha Pressley. A 5-foot-9 wing, Pressley faced plenty of adversity in her time as a Terrier, including a coaching change, multiple injuries and a global pandemic. But the versatile defender stayed […]
By: Ethan Fuller Boston University women’s basketball rostered 14 Terriers in the 2021 season. One player doubled as a shark. Mackenzie Miers became known for exemplifying “Shark Mentality” during her time at BU. The 6-foot-2 forward is part of a three-person senior class that helped turn around the entire program, culminating in a Patriot League […]
By: Ethan Fuller BOSTON, MA — Boston University women’s basketball knew going into the Patriot League championship that Lehigh would bring a uniquely high-powered offense into Case Gym. But when the game turned into a championship defensive chess match, BU simply couldn’t find the buckets to match. The Terriers lost the title bout to the […]
By: Ethan Fuller BOSTON, MA — Boston University women’s basketball had waited for a semifinal game since the last time the team played American University. That was 367 days ago, before the 2020 tournament shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Thursday night, BU finally got its chance. The Terriers ironically met American in […]