Will Duval | Sports Director The FIU men’s basketball team is traveling to Boca Raton, Florida to face off with FAU Owls on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. Entering this matchup, the Panthers hold a 3-7 record and are coming off a 74-59 victory over the Long Island Sharks on Saturday, Dec. 2. In that game, […]
Dalton Tevlin/Sports Director This past week will forever be remembered as one of the bleakest days in sports history. It started with the NBA deciding to suspend the 2019-2020 season after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus. Soon after, the MLB, NFL, Nascar, NHL, XFL, and NCAA all decided to either […]
Dalton Tevlin/Sports Director All NCAA Men and Women’s basketball tournaments will be played with only necessary staff and close family members, NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. For FIU men’s basketball, the game tonight against the Rice Owls in the first round of the Conference USA tournament has not been impacted […]
Jared Parker/Staff Writer FIU Men’s basketball team lost their second home game this season, to the North Texas Mean Green on Thursday night. This is the 3rd straight game the Panthers have dropped, their worst skid this season. Several issues plagued the Panthers in their loss, starting with their inability to take care of the […]
Xavier Green/Asst. Sports Director The national leader in blocked shots, walk-on turned scholarship athlete, FIU cult icon. Osasumwen Osaghae has had quite the meteoric rise to local stardom and has found himself among the top big men in the country, and could potentially find himself on a professional basketball team in the near future. This […]
Alex Rivera/Staff Writer When the Panthers left Miami for the first time for conference play in Texas, they lost two games away. A week later, the Panthers would sweep a weekend. And these last two weeks the Panthers would win one game, and lose the other. FIU started play last week against a 3-5 Marshall […]
Richard Gibson/Staff Writer The story of FIUs men’s basketball season so far may be that they’re 9-0 at home. However, when it comes to away games, it’s a different story. Coming into this game with a 4-5 record on the road, FIU needed to start winning these critical away games. The Old Dominion Monarchs gave […]
Jared Parker/Staff Writer FIU women’s basketball team suffered a blowout home defeat to Old Dominion Thursday night. Jiselle Thomas, coming off a triple double performance against Middle Tennessee led the team in scoring with 12 points. Thomas also had 5 rebounds and 3 steals. Alana Swift joined Thomas as the two double-digit scorers, with 10 […]
Christopher Rodriguez/Staff Writer FIU hosted their annual Thanksgiving classic this past weekend as the Panthers came out with two huge losses from Oakland and Northern Kentucky. FIU put up a good fight against Oakland in the first quarter by consistently scoring and keeping the score even. FIU’s execution in the paint kept them up for […]
Dalton Tevlin/Sports Director The life of student-athletes is heading in the right direction. On Tuesday, Oct. 29, the National College Athletics Association passed a bill that will allow college athletes to be compensated for their likenesses. This bill, which passed unanimously, is leaps and bounds away from the NCAA original stance on student-athletes getting paid. […]
