The Tufts University swimming and diving team delivered some outstanding performances at the 2025 NCAA Division III Championships in Greensboro, N.C. For the men’s team, the meet marked the Jumbos’ best overall finish since 2018, and both the men and women displayed remarkable grit and camaraderie throughout the four-day competition.
Tufts men’s basketball entered the NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship on Friday, facing Yeshiva University. After a quick basket made by Yeshiva, Tufts wasted no time in creating a substantial lead to work with. There was no catching them, and by the end of the game, the score was 83–66, moving the Jumbos into the second round of the tournament.
Over the past weekend, Tufts men’s swim and dive took on their 11 conference opponents at the NESCAC Championship at Middlebury College, placing No. 2 overall after four days.
The women’s swim NESCAC Championship was held in Waterville, Maine at Colby College from Thursday to Monday. The Jumbos finished second out of the 11 NESCAC opponents.
The Tufts men’s and women’s swim and dive teams took to the water on Friday and Saturday at Boston University. In a slightly different format, the teams competed without a total team score, but rather to serve as an opportunity for individual athletes to display some fast times and possibly even personal bests in their events.
Tufts women’s basketball faced Wesleyan University on Friday for their sixth in-conference matchup of the season.
The Tufts men’s and women’s swim and dive teams won their first meets of the weekend, with the women’s meet ending 146–68 and the men’s meet ending 111–97.
Tufts women’s basketball faced NESCAC opponents Williams and Middlebury on Friday and Saturday. In the matchup against the Ephs, the Jumbos maintained the lead from the tipoff to the final buzzer but not without the Ephs chasing hard each quarter.
The Tufts men’s swim and dive teams took on Bowdoin this past weekend, coming out on top 197–90 on the score sheet.
Between her 2021 NESCAC Rookie of the Year award, two Rawlings Gold Gloves and now a top 30 honoree for the NCAA Woman of the Year award, Tufts graduate student Sophia DiCocco’s resume seems to grow limitlessly as she enters her fifth year as a Jumbo.
