By GREG MENGELT NASSAU, Bahamas — Freshman Kooper Jacobi didn’t score Tuesday, but his Toledo teammates didn’t need him to. The Rockets defeated Tulane 68-67 in the semifinal round of the Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship at the Baha Mar Convention Center in the Bahamas. After Tulane’s Jalen Cook’s layup cut Toledo’s lead to 68-67, […]

By GREG MENGELT CANCUN, Mexico — Josh Jefferson had a season-low 2 points Tuesday in Mexico, but it didn’t matter. Jefferson and his Middle Tennessee teammates won for the fourth time in five games, 60-54 over Rider in the Cancun Challenge at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya, Jefferson, who helped lead New Albany to […]

By GREG MENGELT There’s no New Albany, no Jeffersonville, no Floyd Central and no Silver Creek on Opening Night of the 2021-22 boys’ basketball season. So it’s not the greatest slate of games on the first night of local basketball, but that’s not to say there aren’t some games of interest. (There were 7 games […]

By GREG MENGELT It’s safe to say Bellarmine knows what it’s like to play against the nation’s best teams. For the third time this season, the Knights faced one of the current top 3 — Gonzaga, UCLA and Purdue — in the latest college basketball polls. On Monday, it was UCLA that handed Bellarmine a […]

By GREG MENGELT SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Jeffersonville graduate Tre Coleman had 6 points, an assist and a blocked shot Monday against South Dakota State, but his Wolfpack dropped their fourth straight game, 102-75, to upstart South Dakota State in the Crossover Classic at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D. Coleman, a sophomore, went […]

By GREG MENGELT NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Former Silver Creek star Kooper Jacobi went scoreless Monday during Toledo’s matchup with Charlotte, but the Rockets improved to 5-1 on the season with a 98-86 triumph in the first game of the Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship in the Bahamas. Jacobi — a freshman forward — went 0 […]