Skip to content ↓

Sports Shorts for Nov. 26: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

McShane, Wharton named field hockey All-Americans; men’s, women’s basketball teams sweep weekend doubleheader
MIT Engineers beaver and text "MIT Engineering: Sports Shorts" is printed

Overall and Conference Records (as of Nov. 26)
Men's Basketball: 4-0 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Basketball: 2-2 (0-0 NEWMAC)
Field Hockey: 17-3 (7-1 NEWMAC)
Football: 5-4 (4-3 NEFC)
Rifle: 6-2
Men's Soccer: 13-5-2 (2-3-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 14-4-3 (8-1 NEWMAC)
Men's Swimming and Diving: 3-0
Women's Swimming and Diving: 4-0
Women's Tennis: 10-1 (7-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Volleyball: 30-6 (7-2 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 11-14 (2-4 CWPA)

National Rankings
#1 – Men's Basketball
#1 – Women's Cross Country
#5 – Water Polo
#10 – Co-ed Sailing
#11 – Women's Sailing
#18 – Field Hockey
#21 – Women's Tennis
ARV – Men's Cross Country

Men's Basketball
11/24 – Second Half Comeback Carries MIT Past Curry, 71-63
11/20 – MIT Rolls Past Emmanuel, 86-53

Women's Basketball
11/24 – MIT Tops Emerson, 61-43
11/20 – Endicott Rallies Past Engineers, 48-46

Field Hockey
11/20 – McShane and Wharton Earn NFHCA All-America Honors

Men's Swimming and Diving
11/19 – Ubellacker Earns NEWMAC Men's Swimmer of the Week Honors

Women's Swimming and Diving
11/19 – Kokensparger Earns NEWMAC Honors

Questions or comments? Please contact Phil Hess (pghess@mit.edu; 617-253-7946).
For more information, link to the official website for MIT athletics –
Web: www.mitathletics.com
Or follow us on Facebook and Twitter

Related Links

Related Topics

More MIT News

Globular blue and white orbs "examining" single-stranded RNA products and marking them with green checks or red x's

Why are some bacterial genes high in purines?

In certain species of bacteria, the answer lies in shielding RNA transcripts from a quality-control factor called Rho. Understanding the requirements for expressible sequences is critical for expression engineering of therapeutic agents.

Read full story

Rich Nielsen, Volha Charnysh, Kevin Dorst, and Emily Richmond Pollock seated at a table, talking

Building a scholarly community

The SHASS Faculty Fellows Program, administered by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative, is fostering new research projects and creating space for supportive and interdisciplinary discussion.

Read full story