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Sports Shorts for Jan. 23: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Nationally ranked swimming and track and field teams remain undefeated; men's basketball suffers first loss.

Overall and conference records (as of Jan. 23)
Men’s Basketball: 16-1 (4-1 NEWMAC)
Women’s Basketball: 8-8 (4-6 NEWMAC)
Men’s Fencing: 3-6
Women’s Fencing: 6-5
Rifle: 14-2
Squash: 4-7
Men’s Swimming & Diving: 6-0
Women’s Swimming & Diving: 7-0

National rankings
#3 – Men’s Basketball
#4 – Men’s Swimming & Diving
#5 – Women’s Indoor Track & Field
#6 – Women’s Swimming & Diving
#10 –Men’s Indoor Track & Field

Men’s Basketball
1/21 – WPI Hands No. 3 Men's Basketball First Loss of the Season
1/20 – BIll Johnson Travels the World in Search of Basketball
1/16 – Tashman Collects NEWMAC Weekly Honors

Women’s Basketball
1/21 – Smith Tops Women's Basketball, 61-36
1/18 – Second-Half Surge Leads MIT Past Wheaton, 45-41

Softball
1/17 – MIT Softball to Hold Inaugural Alumnae Event

Men’s Swimming and Diving
1/21 – Men’s Swimming Rolls Past Tufts

Women’s Swimming and Diving
1/21 – Women’s Swimming Edges Tufts In Top-20 Battle

Men’s Indoor Track and Field
1/21 – Men's Track and Field Takes First at Springfield Invitational

Women’s Indoor Track & Field
1/21 – MIT Dominates Springfield Invitational

Questions or comments? Please contact Phil Hess (pghess@mit.edu; 617-253-7946).
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