Women’s basketball will play No. 1 Notre Dame in first round of NCAA tournament
March 14, 2018
Cal State Northridge has never won an NCAA tournament game. Four appearances including three in the past five seasons and now the No. 16 ranked Matadors are being asked to pull off the near impossible.How impossible do you ask? Well, consider the fact that only once has the lowest seed in the first rou...
Games to watch: 3/14-3/20
March 13, 2018
3/16 CSUN vs Notre DameCSUN enters the big dance facing off with No. 1 seed Notre Dame. The Matadors will face their toughest test of the season when visiting the (29-3) Fighting Irish. The Irish have disposed of almost all their opponents this year, winning 15 of their games by 20 points or more. Cha...
Gavin Newsom calls on CSU’s to reform athletic departments
December 9, 2016
CSU's have been called to reform the athletic department by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. According to the L.A. Times, after a history of sanctions within the athletic deparment, Newsom said that this is a "wake up call." After the NCAA put CSUN on a three year probabation for academic fraud on Wednesday...
NCAA says academic fraud is the reason for men’s basketball’s self-imposed ban
December 7, 2016
As of this morning, the NCAA has announced that last season's self-imposed ban by the CSUN men's basketball team was based on academic fraud. In addition to upholding the self-imposed ban, the NCAA also placed CSUN under three years of probation until Dec. 7, 2019, according to Nick Bocanegra, the media...
Even in death, Lauren Hill brought life to everything she was a part of
April 14, 2015
Mount St. Joseph’s University freshman Lauren Hill lived her life with two goals in mind: to play as many games as possible on her college women’s basketball team and to bring national awareness and increased funding for cancer research. On Friday, April 10, Hill died having accomplished both...