• Ball State comes into mid-week game against Valparaiso • The Cardinals are on a three-game losing streak • The head coach has focused on defense It’s a process. For the Ball State men’s basketball team (2-4) and head coach James Whitford, this has been their mantra.
There were bound to be an abundance of learning curves for the Ball State men’s basketball team, with a first-year head coach coupled with a slew of freshmen. Sitting at 2-4 and a last second shot away from being 3-3, the Cardinals had a lot to point to as foundations for success.
Since 1944 the Ball State and Butler University men’s basketball programs have met at least once for an annual clash.
No freshman on Ball State’s roster has any plans of being a one-and-done to the NBA, but collectively, the youth has made an instant impact for the Cardinals. Outside of starting point guard Zavier Turner, nobody really knew what to expect from the new faces on Ball State’s roster.
This men’s basketball team will go as far as the seniors carry it, head coach James Whitford has said.
Veggie pizza and a late night film session. A pedestrian night, and hardly the celebration one would expect from a someone after winning his first game as a head coach.
Ypsilanti, Mich. — Ball State’s postseason run, in which it reached its first Mid-American Conference Tournament championship, came to an end Sunday.
The overused sports cliché “moral victory” garners eye rolls and is usually a cop-out for a losing team.
The overused sports cliché “moral victory” garners eye rolls and is usually a cop-out for a losing team.
Ball State’s soccer team is going to the Mid-American Conference Tournament championship for the first time in the program’s history after defeating second seed Miami University in penalty kicks. Just a week after winning its first tournament game since 2007 — and third all-time — in come-from-behind fashion, Ball State won in once again, 4-2 in penalties. Ball State and Miami played each other in the last regular season match of the year with the RedHawks edging the Cardinals 3-2. “There were lessons learned from our previous match, and we corrected them,” head coach Craig Roberts said.
