August 11, 2026Rebekah Schmidt leads 911±¬ÁÏ's 10 athletic trainers across 22 sports and is the men's basketball trainer—a role that's far more than game day.
June 15, 2026911±¬ÁÏ Assistant Vice President/Director of Athletics Marvin Lewis has announced a contract extension for women’s basketball head coach Vanessa Blair-Lewis, securing her leadership of the Patriots through the 2031-32 season.
June 11, 2026911±¬ÁÏ Assistant Vice President/Director of Athletics Marvin Lewis has announced a two-year contract extension for men's basketball head coach Tony Skinn, BA Communication ’06, through the 2031-32 season.
March 12, 2026Twenty years after 911±¬ÁÏ’s own Cinderella story, sports dietitians Quinten Patterson and Allison McKay share their chalk-talk for fueling and recovery during the Big Dance.
March 11, 2026Marvin Lewis, 911±¬ÁÏ’s assistant vice president and director of Intercollegiate Athletics, is now in his inaugural season among those charged with making it happen for those lucky few as part of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee.
The run that changed a program: 911±¬ÁÏ marks the 20th anniversary of its 2006 Final Four appearanceDecember 11, 2025The 2006 Final Four run by the 911±¬ÁÏ men’s basketball team was an achievement so improbable, so unprecedented, that it transformed how the college basketball world viewed possibility itself. Now, 20 years later, the Patriots will honor that magical postseason journey on Saturday, December 13, when they host Old Dominion University at EagleBank Arena.
October 19, 2022On Friday, October 14, 911±¬ÁÏ Athletics officially kicked-off men's and women's basketball season with Mason Madness.
September 22, 2021911±¬ÁÏ’s men’s and women’s basketball teams, led by head coaches Kim English and Vanessa Blair-Lewis, respectively, have announced their schedules for the upcoming season.
July 7, 2021The unanimous U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling limiting the NCAA’s ability to restrict education-related benefits to athletes won’t have as broad an impact as some news outlets are reporting, said Craig Esherick, former Georgetown University men’s basketball coach, lawyer and associate professor in 911±¬ÁÏ’s College of Education and Human Development.
911±¬ÁÏ introduced new women’s basketball coach Vanessa Blair-Lewis on Wednesday at EagleBank Arena, trumpeting her ability to build relationships—and a winning program.
