The NCAA Division I men’s and women’s bas­ket­ball tour­na­ments pro­vide the most excit­ing level of col­le­giate com­pe­ti­tion and drama.

March Madness is action packed. It’s filled with heart­break and jubi­la­tion. The final 60 sec­onds of a game can be five min­utes of hold­ing your breath. Every year there are Cinderella teams that “upset” the national pow­er­houses. (more…)

It hap­pens with­out warn­ing: One minute all is “nor­mal” in the world and the next minute disaster.

On the morn­ing of March 11, a 23-foot wall of water slammed into the Japanese coast and dev­as­tated the city of Sendai. An 8.9-magnitude earth­quake, the largest to ever strike Japan, caused a mas­sive tsunami that has killed more than 1,800 peo­ple and injured more than 1,900 peo­ple. (more…)

The Bulldogs are still in search of their first GLIAC Tournament Championship since 2006 after los­ing 73–71 to the Wayne State Warriors on Sunday.

Despite the loss, the Bulldogs received an at-large bid to the Division II NCAA Tournament. Ferris is the sixth seed in the Midwest region and its first round oppo­nent is none other than Wayne State. The Bulldogs and Warriors will rematch on March 12 in the open­ing round of the national tour­na­ment at Bellarmine University in Louisville. (more…)

The Ferris State men’s bas­ket­ball team defeated Michigan Tech 73–64 on its home floor on Saturday to advance to the GLIAC Championship game.

The Bulldogs have not hosted the con­fer­ence tour­na­ment semi­fi­nals and final game since the 1994–95 sea­son. Ferris has not claimed the GLIAC Tournament Championship since the 1997–98 sea­son. (more…)

What the men’s bas­ket­ball team has accom­plished this sea­son is not short of spec­tac­u­lar. The team won its first GLIAC North Division title since 2005 and earned a share of the reg­u­lar sea­son con­fer­ence title. The team also claimed the No. 1 seed in the con­fer­ence tour­na­ment. (more…)

The Ferris State hockey team secured a first-round bye in the CCHA Tournament for the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive sea­son with two road vic­to­ries over Ohio State.

The Bulldogs defeated the Buckeyes 3–1 on Friday night, secur­ing five of the six con­fer­ence points from the week­end series. The Bulldogs topped the Buckeyes 1–0 in a shootout on Thursday night after a 2–2 tie through reg­u­la­tion and over­time. (more…)

I am one of the for­tu­nate seniors that have a job lined up after grad­u­a­tion in May.

Many of my friends have had trou­ble secur­ing jobs after grad­u­a­tion and some have cho­sen to go to grad­u­ate school. For those stu­dents who do not wish to con­tinue their edu­ca­tion after grad­u­a­tion, the num­ber of days before May 7 is dwin­dling quickly. The final 73 days of the semes­ter will be stress­ful for many grad­u­at­ing seniors. (more…)

It is not too often that the final eight min­utes of one game defines an entire season.

For the Ferris State men’s bas­ket­ball team, that’s exactly what the last 8:03 of the Bulldogs’ vic­tory over the nation­ally No. 3-ranked Findlay Oilers did. (more…)

Some say sta­tis­tics can be manip­u­lated to tell what­ever story you want to tell.

During the Fall 2010 semes­ter, Ferris State University’s enroll­ment of 14,381 stu­dents ranked ninth amongst the 15 pub­lic uni­ver­si­ties in Michigan. Ferris’ enroll­ment has grown by 14.36 per­cent since the Fall 2006 semes­ter. It would make sense then that the tuition and room and board fees it charges would carry a sim­i­lar rank­ing. However, this is not the case. (more…)

The Ferris State men’s bas­ket­ball team improved its win­ning streak to 10 games with an 83–67 vic­tory over the Ashland Eagles on Saturday.

The Bulldogs’ 10-game win­ning streak marks the longest such streak since they recorded 11 con­sec­u­tive vic­to­ries dur­ing the 2004-05 sea­son. (more…)