When did you start playing basketball? My dad played basketball at Murray State and Transylvania University and got my brother and me playing, probably when I was in second grade. I was really bad and my brother was really good. My first season, in the rec league, I had four points for the whole season...
When head coach John Tharp got back to the bus after a 74-63 win over the University of Illinois-Springfield, his phone kept buzzing with congratulatory texts for becoming the winningest coach in Hillsdale College basketball history. With the victory, Tharp earned his 173rd victory as head coach of the Chargers, surpassing the previous record held...
The Hillsdale College Men’s Basketball team kicked off the 2017-18 season with a 77-44 loss to the Michigan State Spartans, the No. 2 team in the nation according to the Associated Press. Although the score didn’t look terribly impressive, when Hillsdale last played Michigan State in 2012, the score was similar: 80-58. The result of...
When the Hillsdale College men’s basketball team takes the court for its first game of the season on Nov. 3, it will face Michigan State University, one of the top Division I programs in the country, at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. Senior guards Stedman Lowry and Ryan Badowski and junior point guard Nate...
Hillsdale alum Michael Furlong ‘15 took spring break travel to a whole new level last week as he helped prepare the Kansas State University’s men’s basketball team for the opening round of the NCAA tournament, where they fell to the Cincinnati Bearcats on March 17. Furlong spent four years playing men’s basketball at Hillsdale, rising...