Mustang Daily Staff Report sports@mustangdaily.net The Cal Poly campus plays host to six Division I athletics events Thursday to Sunday, including the baseball team’s home opening series, a nonconference men’s basketball game and two women’s basketball games that could position the team for a late push for a third consecutive Big West regular season title. […]
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No winter rest for Cal Poly athletes
While most students took a four-week break in preparation for winter quarter, the Cal Poly sports teams competed in games spanning the West Coast and the Big West Conference underwent more changes. Before the Boise State Broncos could even join the Big West, they are out. Though Boise State’s teams, aside from football, were expected […]
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Boise State joins Big West
Boise State agreed to join the Big West Conference on Friday, completing a deal to send most of the Broncos athletic teams westward starting in 2013. As a result, the agreement helps the Broncos keep their nationally-ranked football team in the Big East — a move that could raise the school’s annual television revenue to $6.4 […]
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Men's basketball Big West Tournament preview
It’s March. It’s tournament time. And head coach Joe Callero can’t hide his excitement to be vying for a championship in this week’s 2012 Big West Conference Tournament. “This is Christmas for us,” he said. “We’ve worked seven months for this when we started this journey. This culminates it. I sleep well as a coach […]
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Slumping Mustangs look for weekend turnaround
After a pair of losses last weekend to Cal State Fullerton and CSU Bakersfield, the men’s basketball team is preparing for a set of home games against UC Riverside tonight and UC Irvine on Saturday. The team claims a 13-11 record, and this weekend’s games are critical if the Mustangs hope to move up in […]
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Mustang men fall twice on road
The Cal Poly men’s basketball team fell to non-conference opponent Cal State Bakersfield on Saturday night after falling behind 11-1 to start the game. Cal Poly dropped its second consecutive game in a 69-66 defeat to the Roadrunners as Amauarys Fermin’s half-court heave fell short at the final buzzer to send the Mustangs back to […]
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Chris Eversley goes from crib to court
One might say basketball is in his genes — his father played for the NBA’s Chicago Bulls while his mother played collegiately for Pac-10 Big West powerhouse Long Beach State. If you ask Chris Eversley why he plays basketball, he’ll tell you that genetics is exactly the case. “My dad put the basketball in my […]
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Bumpy break gives way to Big West play
The 2011 holiday break wasn’t as merry as it could have been for the Cal Poly men’s basketball team which, after falling to UCSB to start the new year, owns a 9-5 record overall and 0-1 in Big West play. Dec. 23 at DePaul A 13-0 run surrendered midway through the first half proved too […]
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Basketball bonds over holiday traditions
Men’s basketball head coach Joe Callero grew up as one of 16 children. Now that he’s stepped into head coaching spotlight, he said he enjoys playing the father role for the family that is his team. Every year, the Cal Poly men’s basketball schedule requires that it plays through the holiday season — this year […]
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Costa Rican trip inspires dreams of Madness
After spending half a practice mopping the floor, zip-lining in thunder showers and going toe-to-toe with a Brazilian aardvark, the Cal Poly men’s basketball team said it feels as if it is ready to make a run at March Madness. This is due in part to an eight-day trip the team took this summer to […]