Sports

On Wednesday, Feb. 5, the University’s football team announced their recruiting class for the 2014 season. The class consists of 20 student-athletes from eight states, including the football program’s first signee from the state of Florida.

Men’s basketball continued to struggle this past weekend as the team fell twice to the Fairfield University Stags and St. Peter’s University Peacocks respectively. With the losses the blue and white now find themselves in the midst of a five game losing streak, and are currently ninth overall in the MAAC with a 4-10 conference record. MU posts a 10-15 overall record on the season.

The Women’s Basketball team led Quinnipiac on Friday night for most of first 32 minutes of the game. However, the Bobcats fired past the blue white by outscoring them 25-5 in the last eight minutes of the game to beat the Hawks by final score of 83-67.

For many high school graduates, college means going a little further away from home. For Victor Pugliese, college meant going 5,681 miles away from home.

Despite the challenging weather over the past two weeks, MU’s Indoor Track & Field squads have not floundered and have continued to produce impressive results. On Friday, Jan. 31 and Sunday, Feb. 1, the Hawks competed in a pair of meets: The Bison Open Invitational at Bucknell University and the Columbia Lion’s Invitational. Both meets were not scored on a team basis, however, both the men and the women performed exceptionally well and broke some school records in the process.

When the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos battle at MetLife Stadium during Super Bowl XLVIII, it will be a “Clash of the Titans.” The game will take place this Sunday, Feb. 2, with kickoff set for 6:37 pm.