UNC head coach Erin Matson leads Tar Heels to another title after winning as a player last year
UNC head coach Erin Matson leads Tar Heels to another title after winning as a player last year
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Two defending national champs re-upped their hardware-hoisting privileges, two 2022 runners-up did revenge, and a handful of individuals inked their names in history this weekend.
November 20, 2023
NCAA field hockey and cross country champions will be crowned this weekend
NCAA field hockey and cross country champions will be crowned this weekend
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Play vintage Taylor and stock up on some bubbly — the 2023–24 school year’s first national champions will hoist their hardware this weekend.
November 17, 2023
Updates from the women's field hockey and soccer national tournaments
Updates from the women's field hockey and soccer national tournaments
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The field hockey and women’s soccer national tourneys raged on through the weekend, offering up a few moments that could become our new Roman Empire.
November 13, 2023
Conference championship winners in field hockey and women's soccer
Conference championship winners in field hockey and women's soccer
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If this weekend’s buffet of conference tournament title games gave you a hardware hangover, buckle up — that was just the beginning, as the field hockey and women’s soccer national tourneys begin this week.
November 06, 2023
Wrapping up field hockey's regular season
Wrapping up field hockey's regular season
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Most conferences’ regular seasons end this weekend before tournaments begin bullying next week, so here’s the tea on conference play’s grand finale.
October 27, 2023
The Iowa Hawkeyes rise to the top of the field hockey poll
The Iowa Hawkeyes rise to the top of the field hockey poll
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September 22, 2023
One month into fockey season and the Iowa Hawkeyes, the new Midwestern superpower, have risen to top the poll — and just about every other stat line, too.
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 Sports betting scandals & previewing the March Madness Sweet 16s
Ep #353

Sports betting scandals & previewing the March Madness Sweet 16s

March 28, 2024

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Today’s episode of The GIST of It is a three-part special diving into recent sports betting headlines involving the NBA and NCAA before previewing the men’s and women’s March Madness Sweet 16s.

In part one, co-hosts Ellen Hyslop and Steph Rotz break down the latest on Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter, who’s at the center of a gambling investigation following a series of unusual prop bets involving the fringe NBA player.

Then in parts two and three, it’s all about the Big Dance, with previews of the jam-packed weekend ahead in NCAA men’s and women’s hoops as we whittle down to the Final Four.

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2023 NCAA women's field hockey season preview
2023 NCAA women's field hockey season preview
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As you read in our field hockey primer, fockey’s historically East Coast dominance is spreading West, so when the season starts today, both Big Ten and mid-major teams will be bullying for the ACC’s crown.
August 25, 2023
UNC field hockey legend Erin Matson begins her first season as head coach
UNC field hockey legend Erin Matson begins her first season as head coach
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No, this isn’t the plot of The Princess Diaries 2 — it's UNC field hockey’s new era under program legend and recent grad Erin Matson, whose first season as HC begins later this week.
August 21, 2023
NCAA Division I Cross Country, Field Hockey & Soccer playoff run down
NCAA Division I Cross Country, Field Hockey & Soccer playoff run down
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It was an epic weekend for DI’s fall sports, with three teams bagging national championships and even more in their respective trophy hunts.
November 21, 2022
NCAA Division I cross country and field hockey national championship previews
NCAA Division I cross country and field hockey national championship previews
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After months of competition, the first Division I sports will crown their champions this weekend, with both men’s and women’s cross country and field hockey bestowing trophies.
November 18, 2022
NCAA playoff updates for field hockey, cross country, football and volleyball
NCAA playoff updates for field hockey, cross country, football and volleyball
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For NCAA fall sports, it’s already the most wonderful time of the year. Unwrap these early playoff snapshots and prepare to celebrate…confetti showers are right around the corner.
November 09, 2022