Lumination Radio will broadcast NIT championship game against Texas

Lumination Radio will broadcast NIT championship game against Texas

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Fans will be able to listen to the NIT championship game for free on Lumination Radio on Thursday night at 6 p.m. CT. The Lipscomb men’s basketball team is getting ready to take on the Texas Longhorns. The winner will be crowned the champion of this year’s National Invitational Tournament. Spencer Boehme will handle play-by-play duties, while the color talent has yet to be announced. More information on the NIT can be accessed by going to...

Bisons start off winter road trip with loss to Texas

During the first game of a long road trip, the Bisons fell 106-61 in Austin, Tex. to the no. 9 Texas Longhorns. The Bisons never had the lead throughout the game, but did keep in close in the early minutes of the first half until the Longhorns started to run away with it. Senior Malcolm Smith was the leading scorer for the Bisons with 17 points while Myles Turner had 26 points for Texas. When it came to free throws, Lipscomb shot 60.9% from the line; however, the Longhorns had 14 more free throw attempts and shot 64.9%. At halftime, the Longhorns led 58-32, and the Bisons struggled with having their shots fall. The team was 19-62 from the field. Texas not only out-shot the Bisons, but also out-rebounded them. the Longhorns had 55 rebounds to Lipscomb’s 28. The Bisons now have a long trip ahead of them, traveling from Texas to New Jersey to play Princeton on Friday. The game will tip off at 7 p.m. Photo courtesy of Lipscomb...

University launches faculty discussion series

Lipscomb’s faculty hopes to bring new perspectives to their classrooms this spring as the university recognizes the opening of Faculty Club 1891 and its discussion series Carpe Discentes. The club is located in the upper level of the student center and is designed to allow faculty to engage in meaningful discussions that will improve their teaching in the classroom and help them implement new methods with their students in the community. Dr. Jim Thomas, assistant to the president and a committee member for Faculty Club 1891, said he thinks the new facility and discussions will benefit the university, the students and the city. “We move from simply an intellectual challenge to an implementation in society that makes society better than it was previously,” he said. Thomas said the committee, which is comprised of six other professors, hopes the facility and the discussion series will challenge faculty to think “not only in academic terms but in implementation terms.” Then, he said, students learn how to apply concepts and how to assess community impact. This implementation benefits the whole city, he said. “We think it’s win, win, win, all the way around.” Thomas said he finds “tremendous enrichment” to education when professors and students take things out of the classroom, into the community and then bring it back to the academic setting for evaluation. Thomas said the committee chose the title Carpe Discentes, which means “seize the learning,” because the name “matches the tone and the level” they want Faculty Club 1891 to have. “I really hope that we can begin to create an atmosphere so that there is an interdisciplinary...