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Sports Shorts for Jan. 28: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Men’s basketball picks up pair of NEWMAC wins; Rifle second at Beanpot
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Overall and Conference Records (As of Jan. 28)
Men's Basketball: 14-4 (5-2 NEWMAC)
Women's Basketball: 7-11 (3-9 NEWMAC)
Field Hockey: 17-3 (7-1 NEWMAC)
Football: 5-4 (4-3 NEFC)
Rifle: 7-2
Men's Fencing: 5-5
Women's Fencing: 6-6
Men's Soccer: 13-5-2 (2-3-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 14-4-3 (8-1 NEWMAC)
Squash: 3-11
Men's Swimming and Diving: 7-0
Women's Swimming and Diving: 6-2
Women's Tennis: 10-1 (7-0 NEWMAC)
Men's Volleyball: 2-2
Women's Volleyball: 30-6 (7-2 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 11-14 (2-4 CWPA)

National Rankings
#1 – Women's Cross Country
#1 – Men's Swimming and Diving
#5 – Women's Swimming and Diving
#5 – Water Polo
#9 – Women's Sailing
#9 – Men's Volleyball
#11 – Co-ed Sailing
#14 – Women's Indoor Track & Field
#15 – Women's Soccer
#15 – Men's Indoor Track & Field
#18 – Field Hockey
#21 – Women's Tennis
ARV – Men's Basketball
ARV – Men's Cross Country

Men's Basketball
1/26 – Tashman, Redfield Notch Double-Doubles to Lead MIT Past Coast Guard
1/23 – MIT Edges Past Clark on the Road, 55-50

Women's Basketball
1/26 – WPI Edges out Women's Basketball, 37-34
1/23 – Second-Half Run Propels Wellesley Past MIT, 47-42

Football
1/22 – MIT Football Adds Jack Curran to Roster

Rifle
1/26 – MIT Rifle Takes Second at Annual Beanpot Match

Squash
1/26 – MIT Squash Topped by Bowdoin College

Men's Swimming and Diving
1/26 – Undefeated MIT Men's Swimming & Diving Sinks Amherst

Women's Swimming and Diving
1/26 – Engineers Fall to No. 13 Amherst College

Men's Indoor Track & Field
1/26 – MIT Men's Track and Field Complete Terrier Classic
1/23 – Men's Track and Field Ranked 15th in the Nation

Women's Indoor Track & Field
1/25 – Women's Track & Field Performs Well at Terrier Classic
1/23 – MIT Women's Track & Field Nationally Ranked

Men's Volleyball
1/22 – No. 9 MIT Sweeps Wentworth

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