Captain’s Corner: OUBbC
"If you're athletic, you can do well at basketball but at the same time there's so much intelligence to the sport, and you can really study it, its tactics and plays for example."
Broken Jumbotrons and Blurred Lines: Victor Wembanyama’s Roanne Rematch
In the second quarter, Victor finds himself double marked, he goes up for a three and finds Bandja Sy with a pass instead.
How high can Victor Wembanyama reach: Seeing the LeBron successor live in Paris
"But the year-abroad Gods have brought me to Boulogne-Levallois in order to see him play out the remainder of the season for Metropolitans 92 in the LNB Pro A."
A Global League: How the NBA finally conquered the world
For the first time ever this season all three of the contenders for the NBA’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) award were born outside the United States. Easy to brush aside as coincidence on the surface, it in fact marks a hugely significant moment for the league’s governing body and is the culmination of years of work behind the scenes.
OUBbC: The end of a beginning
Calum Isaacs covers the latest victories for the Oxford Blues basketball team.
OUBbC: Learning to love on an away night at Brookes
Brookes 84-95 Oxford
It’s eight o’clock on a Monday night. The regular crowd shuffles in. We’re in the Oxford Brookes sports centre, and the players...
OUBbC: Oxford unpick keys and win the hallway dance as they waltz to victory
Oxford 92-68 Loughborough 4s
In a sports hall thronging with tens of people, the Equinox dance crew put on a halftime show. I know even...
OUBbC: Swishes and switch-offs mark a day of the weird and the mundane
Oxford 101-50 Lincoln
Free throws in basketball are a closed skill. A closed skill is a skill that when used, there is nothing dynamic, nothing...
OUBbC: The patchwork of moments that produced drama and a victory
Oxford 78-71 Brookes
The thing with writing about uni sport is that basically nobody was at the match, and the responsibility falls on me to...
OUBbC: What makes a club, and what makes a person?
Oxford 75-52 De Montfort
In basketball, the game clock stops when the ball goes out of play. But the game clock’s been stopped for a...
A story brews by the hoops on Iffley Road: The Oxford University Basketball Club
In the Acer Nethercott sports hall on Iffley Road, there are men bouncing balls and talking about ‘the Blues’. They toss a ball at...
University return to sport: club Presidents react
After a remote Hilary, Cherwell asked Oxford University’s sports clubs about their plans for reopening.
“You can't really get close to someone while you're on...
The NBA’s return in the time of Black Lives Matter and COVID-19
'This season’s title race is arguably one of the most competitive in recent memory, with no one team clearly dominating'
In defence of Jerry Krause: Responding to ‘The Last Dance’
“Players and coaches don’t win championships;
organisations win championships.”
These are the infamous, supposedly self-interested words of former Chicago Bulls GM Jerry Krause, the villain of...
