> Men's Basketball: The Hoyas (2-1) make a coast-to-coast trip to face Oregon (4-0 as of this posting) in a key game next weekend. My picks for most interesting contests this coming week: More importantly though, the Lady Bison went down in defeat yesterday to the Hoyas of Georgetown. Today, it is a member of NCAA Division I and competes in the Atlantic Sun Conference against such rivals as Florida Atlantic, Gardner-Webb, Jacksonville, Mercer, North Florida, and Stetson. The school was once a small-college power, notably in baseball and basketball in the NAIA. Its alumni include entertainer Pat Boone and Jim Jinkins, creator of the animated Doug series.
It was founded as the Nashville Bible School in 1891 by David Lipscomb and was renamed in Mr. As it turns out, Lipscomb is a Church of Christ-affiliated university in Nashville, Tennessee. My interest was piqued though by Lipscomb, a school that I honestly had not heard of previously. seems like the Bison population is indeed multiplying. The women's hoop team ventured out to the Midwest this past weekend where they split a pair of games against the Bison of North Dakota State and the Lady Bisons of Lipscomb University in the Ball State Tournament. Spell the "G" word any way you like, except when it comes to the Hoyas.
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No, let's keep our name traditions free from confusion. I could argue that the Greek word for "what" is more properly spelled in English with an "i" rather than "y" substituting for the ancient letter "iota." How strange though would it be for the name "Hoia" to be as common as our more familiar Hoya? Every so often, when I encounter in print or in cyberspace, the Hoyas referred to as the blue and "grey," I recoil as others might upon seeing our hoop team show up wearing black and teal.Īs this linked online discussion seems to conclude, the word "grey" is like the word "colour," the common British usage, while its American cousin is "gray."īoth may be acceptable spellings in this country however, the phrase "Blue and Gray" has taken on epithet status and therefore, consistency matters. NovemI'm no card-carrying member of the spell-check police but when it comes to nicks and names given to our athletic teams, I draw the line.