It’s been a great season for Jesuit basketball. No fewer than eight Jesuit schools will be represented in the NCAA men’s tournament, which starts this week. Four of the five teams that made the tournament last year are back: Gonzaga, Georgetown, Xavier, and Marquette. This year Creighton, Loyola (Maryland), St. Louis, and Detroit join the [...]
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Monday night, the LSU Tigers play in the National Championship Game. Those who know me know that I am an avid LSU fan. Those who do not know me, trust me when I tell you, “I bleed purple and gold.” There was no doubt that when Chris and I became parents that we would pass [...]
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The Jesuit colleges and universities in the U.S. play each other dozens of times on the basketball court this season. Full schedule here. The Jesuit Basketball Spotlight program takes these games as a opportunity for a soft promotion of Jesuit education and mission. Some version of this announcement will be read at most if not [...]
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With powerful programs such as Georgetown, Gonzaga, Xavier, Creighton, and Marquette, Jesuit basketball is surely the strongest among religious-affiliated Division I schools. Or is it? The Wall Street Journal classified schools by religious tradition and looked at the winning percentages of their basketball teams. The Jesuits finished behind six traditions, including (gasp!) the Dominicans. But [...]
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In America, Jesuit schools are famous for their basketball teams. In Europe, it’s soccer. In Rome this week the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University defeated the Dominicans of the Angelicum 3-1 to win the Clericus Cup, the trophy in a soccer league involving 16 Roman colleges that train priests and seminarians. Clericus players and fans take [...]
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The NCAA men’s basketball tournament starts today, and the Society of Jesus is well-represented by five teams. The most surprising is my alma mater, St. Peter’s in Jersey City, which last made the Big Dance in 1995. The Peacocks made the tournament by winning the Metro Atlantic Conference tournament (ousting Fairfield along the way.) St. [...]
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Jesuit colleges played five basketball games against each other this past weekend — four men’s games and one women’s. The marquee game was Georgetown vs. Marquette, with the Hoyas winning 69-60. Jesuit schools play each other nearly 100 times this season. The Jesuit Basketball Spotlight program draws attention to these games as a way of [...]
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I just came from watching the 114th Boston Marathon. An awesome sight! It got me thinking about the ten best reasons why a marathon is a metaphor for life. My votes follow– what are yours? 1. It’s about the goal, not the suffering along the way. 2. One can do great things if you do [...]
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Sports columnist Joe Posnanski on West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins: And then there’s his belief that the worst thing a player can do is try to do too much. Watch Huggins on the sideline — it’s this that sets him off more than anything. If a player lunges for a steal and doesn’t get [...]
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Baseball is God’s game, in my opinion. I love the game and I especially like the Detroit Tigers (who are currently barely hanging on to a one-game lead in the American League Central Division). So you can imagine how excited I was to read about a future Jesuit who played briefly for the Tigers. It [...]
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