Emma Hurley
NAIA Women's Update: Early Season Upsets
Anything can happen in NAIA women’s basketball. November and December certainly had some interesting upsets. Now that we’re about halfway...
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Emma Hurley
UHSP's Grace Beyer Is One Happy Eutectic
High school senior Grace Beyer stood at the free throw line, alone in the gym. Her father’s words echoed in her mind, louder with every...
Joe Malandruccolo
NAIA Men's Update - Early Season Upsets
There’s no need to be upset! This kind of thing happens to everybody from time to time. It’s a very natural part of the game we all love....
Joe Malandruccolo
Semper Firebird - Saint Katherine's Bryan Baptiste
Bryan Baptiste had one choice to make, one of those life-altering choices that impacts everyone around him. His college decision had...
Emma Hurley
NAIA Women's Update - Sooner Athletic Conference Preview
With the start of the season for the Sooner Athletic Conference just around the corner, it’d be best to check out this year’s teams...
Joe Malandruccolo
NAIA Men's Update - For 3 Teams, The End Becomes The Start
The end of the college basketball season is, for many teams, disappointing and stirring. Sometimes, it can be heartbreaking and abrupt,...
Emma Hurley
Kylie Wroblewski is a Supported Supporter at St. Ambrose
Good luck texts before games from her sister, homemade posters waving in the stands from her mom, hours of training sessions in the...
Max Bachmann
NAIA Men's Way Too Early Top 10 And MORE
The 2021-22 Men’s NAIA Championship concluded only two months ago — Loyola of New Orleans defeated Talladega 71-56 to claim the title and...
Adam Glatczak
How Spencer Piercefield Became Indispensable And More At IWU
When a program has averaged better than 28 wins per season for a stretch of nearly 20 years, sometimes it takes players stepping up when...
Adam Glatczak
CBT's MEN's NAIA 2021-2022 Season Recap
The 2021-22 NAIA men’s basketball season was filled with individual talent. We featured some of it throughout the season here at CBT, and...
Danielle Bordeau
Walla Walla's Isabella Robles Revels in Power of the Pack
An endless debate continues between Isabella Robles and her dad, Bobby. It's about how young she was when she first picked up a...
Danielle Bordeau
CBT's NAIA Women's Update - Awards Aplenty.
It’s tough to imagine a time without college basketball but all good things must end. The National Tournament delivered a true 64-team...
Adam Glatczak
Wrightsil and Burns - a Wolf Pack Two Pack
Zach Wrightsil and Myles Burns entered Loyola University of New Orleans together in the fall of 2018 as freshmen. Four years later they...
Danielle Bordeau
Gracee Dishman Driven by Faith and Focus at Bryan College
Gracee Dishman gets to come home more often than some college students. She will settle into her favorite chair on the family farm in...
Adam Glatczak
NAIA Men's - End of Season Recap - Players Of Year
A terrific, wide-open National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics men’s basketball season brought plenty of outstanding team and...
Danielle Bordeau
NAIA Women's Tournament Update
It’s down to 16 for the NAIA women’s national title … but just getting to this point is quite an accomplishment. A week ago, the...
Danielle Bordeau
NAIA PAVED THE WAY TO EQUALITY AND INCLUSIVITY
As March’s battles for the NAIA national titles are fed by the intense competition of February, Black History Month, National Girls and...
Danielle Bordeau
Rayah Haynes: From Darkness To Light Via The Dillard Way
Sometimes we achieve our big dreams only to have them let us down but find that they are a steppingstone to an unknown destination where...
Adam Glatczak
The Comeback Story of Riley Minix and Southeastern U.
The 2021-22 college basketball season has been a comeback story for Riley Minix and the Southeastern University men’s basketball team...
Adam Glatczak
CBT's NAIA Men's Late Season Rankings
The NAIA men’s basketball season comes down its home stretch and has continued to progress as a wide-open affair. Forty-one different...
Adam Glatczak
Alex Gross is Bringing it Big Time for ONU
In today’s world of “positionless” basketball, Olivet Nazarene University’s Alex Gross produces numbers that could make him a throwback...
Danielle Bordeau
Morgan McKinney is Privileged to be Pressured at Bushnell
Ask many student-athletes about their experience at the college level and they’ll mention the pressures they manage through. For Bushnell...
Danielle Bordeau
CBT's NAIA Women's Update: Picture Clarifying
Six weeks short of the NAIA Women’s Basketball National Championship opening round, the national forecast is starting to get a bit...
Adam Glatczak
NAIA Men's Update: Culver-Stockton's Rebound And Other Surprises
After winning a combined ten games in the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons, it’s safe to say few would’ve expected Culver-Stockton (Mo.) to be...
Danielle Bordeau
Emma Touminen And Indiana Tech - A Perfect Fit
Many college athletes hope to pursue a professional career either here or overseas after graduation. For Emma Tuominen, things didn’t...
Adam Glatczak
XULA's Rayshawn Mart - As Good As Gold
For so many college athletes, the COVID-19 pandemic has given and taken away, and Rayshawn Mart’s experience over the last year and a...
Adam Glatczak
A Unique Thresher: Bethel College's Jaylon Scott
It would be hard to find someone more versatile in college basketball this season than Jaylon Scott. On the court and off. Scott is a...
Adam Glatczak
NAIA Men's Rankings - Early Race is Wide Open
The college basketball season as many know it—on their televisions or whenever their favorite Division I team starts on the road to the...
Danielle Bordeau
Bethany's Two Fergusons
There’s a name to know this year with Bethany College women’s basketball: Ferguson. Of course, at Bethany, Ferguson is always a name to...
Danielle Bordeau
OLLU Winning Games, Changing Lives
Our Lady of the Lake University’s Saints have a long-standing history of excellence in women’s basketball. The San Antonio school has won...
Adam Glatczak
NAIA Star Building on Freshman Success
(Photos courtesy of NWC Athletics Communications.) When it was time for Alex Van Kalsbeek to pick a college to continue his education and...
Danielle Bordeau
KWU’s Amanda Hill Won’t Quit
A national championship cancelled, online classes, an emergency room beyond capacity, multiple quarantines, making up missed clinicals...
Adam Glatczak
French back in NAIA at Oakland City
Ken French hasn’t coached his first game at Oakland City University — hadn’t even moved into a house in his new surroundings until...
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