It's not often you can give up 88 points and emerge with a victory, but the men's basketball team did just that on Saturday, using its highest offensive output of the season to put away the Clark University Cougars, 98-88, at Cousens Gym.
It took just nine games over three weeks for the 2007-08 women's basketball team to write itself into the Tufts record books.
After the monster performance Jon Pierce let loose on the No. 16 Keene State Owls Tuesday night - 25 points, 11 rebounds and six blocks - any reasonable human being would question whether the junior forward would have anything left in the tank two nights later.
Forget the three overtimes needed last year. This time, 40 minutes was all the men's basketball team needed to dispatch the national No. 16 Keene State Owls.
The women's basketball team earned more than just an impressive win over a previously unbeaten New England foe Tuesday night. It also earned a shot at history.
Through one leg of the Triple Overtime Reunion Tour, the men's basketball team is back on track.
During their first four games for the Colby-Sawyer Chargers, senior Noelle Surette and sophomore Terri Duffy combined to average 38.5 points and 21.3 rebounds in the post.
In the women's basketball team's first four games of the season, the Jumbos proved they would boast a formidable post presence this season. Most of the damage came courtesy of senior co-captain Khalilah Ummah, who had racked up 56 points on 63.9 percent from the field and 37 rebounds.
In her four seasons with the Brandeis Judges, All-American post player Caitlin Malcolm saw her team beat Tufts four times and contributed more than a third of the Judges' 275 points in the four contests.
Just three days after Thanks-giving, the men's basketball team wasted no time getting to the meat of its non-conference schedule.
Last year, then-junior Khalilah Ummah played a key role in the paint for the women's basketball team, coming off the bench to average 10.4 points and 6.6 rebounds while supporting the tandem of then-senior co-captains Laura Jasinski and Libby Park.
When the men's basketball team opened its season at the Brandeis Classic in Waltham, Mass. on Saturday night, it showed exactly the early-season jitters you'd expect from a team that's only been together two weeks. Missed jumpers, sloppy turnovers and inconsistent defense spelled the Jumbos' demise as they fell 96-70 to Bridgewater State.
The women's basketball team has never been one to rack up hefty offensive numbers. The team averaged just 62.2 points per game in 2006-07, a marked improvement from the previous season when it recorded 56.4.
Last year, for the first time since coach Carla Berube took over the women's basketball program in 2000, the team featured adept post play to match its strong outside game - and it paid off.
For the men's basketball team, this winter will be an attempt to return to the winning ways of two years ago.
As the men's basketball team opens its season Saturday night against Bridgewater State, it certainly has an abundance of seniors to turn to for guidance and leadership.
We're just 24 hours away from tip-off of the NCAA Tournament, so let's take a closer look at the right half of the bracket.
From Duke-Carolina to Ohio State-Michigan to Harvard-Yale, there's nothing in college sports more fun than a good old-fashioned rivalry game.
After turning in its most successful season in the Carla Berube era, the women's basketball team was dealt a one-two punch on Sunday that cut its historic postseason run short.
After a tremendously successful season last year, in which the men's basketball team won a school-record 23 games and advanced to the Sweet 16 of the Div. III NCAA Tournament, the Jumbos expected big things this season.
