Navin Sunjay Krishnan (@NavinKthespear) – Spear Opinion Columnist After a lackluster ending to last year’s 5-25 season by SJSU women’s basketball, the Spartans are looking to become relevant in the Mountain West. New head coach April Phillips has reinvigorated her team with accountability and can engage the Spartans in a winning way. Phillips has significant […]
By Navin Sunjay Krishnan (@NavinKthespear) – Spear Opinion Columnist The San Jose State men’s basketball team (8-23, 1-17 MW) had a memorable, ‘meaningful’ season. But Spartans men’s basketball will be revamping their rosters with significant changes to their crew. This is most notably expressed through the development and improvement of the current players that were […]
Photo by Johnny Culbertson By Thomas Christian (@Thomasgoatnba) — Reporter San Jose State women’s basketball tipped off Saturday against the Colorado State Rams. The game may have been held to support breast cancer awareness, but the 4-18 Spartans desperately needed a win to support their place in the Mountain West standings as well. A 14-7 […]
By Johnny Culbertson (@Johnculb3) — Reporter Could a new culture for San Jose State women’s basketball be born from the ashes of a long losing streak? The Spartans have recently shown a lot of drive that was missing early in the season. This new refreshing sense of motivation seems to have been born from SJSU’s […]
By: John Culbertson (@jculb3) – Reporter San Jose State women’s basketball suffered its second defeat of the season to Fresno State on the road Saturday 87-74. Bulldogs’ junior guard Haley Cavinder collected her second triple-double of the season to help lead Fresno State to victory, extending its winning streak to three games, while increasing San […]
By Sofia Wright — Content Editor The San Jose State women’s basketball team continued to see success against Division III University of La Verne (6-4), and made history with a 128-62 win. “That was a good win,” said head coach Jamie Craighead after the victory. “Obviously it was a great shooting day for us. It was awesome seeing some […]
By Joclyn Aguirre — Staff Writer Sophomore guard Megan Anderson recorded a career-high 22 points as San Jose State women’s basketball (4-22, 3-12 MW) fell to University of New Mexico, 110-72. Anderson was 6-of-8 from the 3-point line and finished 8-of-12 from the floor in 33 minutes played. The Lobos (22-4, 12-3 MW) came to […]
By Richy Zajic — Staff Writer San Jose State women’s basketball (4-21, 3-11 MW) took care of business at the Event Center by defeating Air Force 73-60 for its second-straight win. Defense got it done for the Spartans in this game as they caused the Falcons to turn the ball over 26 times — 18 […]
By Aniyah Cusseaux — Staff Writer After losing its last meeting against UNLV (8-15, 6-6 MWC), San Jose State women’s basketball (2-20, 1-10 MWC) will look for a different outcome in Cox Pavilion Saturday. Since the team is on a three-game losing streak, the Spartans are going to need to step up their game if […]
By Ernie Gonzalez — Co-Assistant Executive Editor In a game of runs, San Jose State women’s basketball fell short to Boise State at home, 83-69. It was a nightmare start for the Spartans (3-19, 2-9 MW) as they went down 18-0 to open up the game. Halfway through the second quarter though, SJSU was all knotted up with the […]
By Marissa Scott – Content Editor San Jose State women’s basketball continues to struggle on the court after losing 80-51 to Portland State Sunday afternoon. The Spartans (0-3) could only score 7 points in the first quarter while the Vikings (2-0) ran away with it and took an early 28-7 lead. Because of an early-game […]
By Allison Covey (@allisoncovey): San Jose State men and women’s basketball both have had a rocky season winning games and keeping up with their Mountain West conference components. Men’s basketball has lost 13 in a row and 18 of their last 19 while the women’s team has lost seven straight after starting the conference season […]
By Carlos Jimenez (@carlosjimmenezz): Overshadowed by football and basketball, SJSU’s women teams have been leading the charge and bringing home the trophies in recent time. Last season, softball won its first Mountain West Championship, gymnastics won its second Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Championship and tennis won the Mountain West Championship. This season, women’s soccer […]
By Jonathan Cañas (@jonathancanas_) – Spear Reporter Marisa Davis-Jones pulling up from beyond the arc | Photo by Andrew Hartley – The Spear SJSU women’s basketball showed resiliency in its sixth-straight loss to New Mexico in a 65-54 loss at home. The Spartans (6-14, 1-7 MW) kept the score within eight points for a majority […]
By Andrew Hartley(@andrewhart1ey) – Spear Reporter Sabrina Ma following through on a three-pointer, tying the SJSU record by scoring seven Monday night. | Photo by Titus Wilkinson – The Spear. Domination for 40 minutes. No other way to put it. SJSU women’s basketball (4-4) broke its program record for largest winning margin Monday night, beating […]