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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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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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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The Wall Street Journal admires the Cristo Rey network of schools. A blog you should check out: Days of Deepening Friendship. They’re discussing Tim Muldoon’s book, Longing to Love over there. What happens when Jesuit colleges play each other in basketball. The Jesuits open seldom-seen houses in Rome, including rooms where Ignatius lived. A business [...]
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The Times profiles Eddie Siebert, SJ, and Loyola Productions. N.T. Wright on the Resurrection and Ross Douthat on eternal life. Vincent Strand, SJ, on baseball (“T.S. Eliot could not have been a baseball fan, for no baseball fan would ever write, ‘April is the cruellest month’”). The nun behind the Xavier University basketball team. Resources: [...]
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The top 10 moments in the history of Jesuit postseason basketball. (Two of them involve Al McGuire.) NBC News profiles a remarkable community service program at Loyola High School in Los Angeles. Paul Lickteig, SJ, has some questions about Jesus. (Did he ever forget what he was supposed to do?) Michael Magree’s favorite sad songs [...]
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It’s been a bit of a down year for Jesuit basketball in the NCAA tournament. Powerhouse Georgetown made an embarrassing exit in the first round. Marquette and Gonzaga were also bounced early, leaving Xavier as the last Jesuit school left in the tournament. The sixth-seeded Musketeers face number two-seeded Kansas State tonight in Salt Lake [...]
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Sticking with the theme of new year’s resolutions, I’ve been thinking about a common one: getting fit. It struck me yesterday, while watching a Boston College women’s basketball game with my two girls, 10 and 7. Lots of talent on the floor, on both sides of the ball; it was fun to watch, especially with [...]
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