Official Twitter of Colorado School of Mines Men's Basketball. 7 RMAC championships, 13 NCAA Tournaments, 2017 and 2021 NCAA Elite Eight.
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𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝘼𝙇𝙇 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀
With tonight's win over Chadron State, head coach Pryor Orser now owns the record for most wins as a head coach in the history of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference! Congratulations Coach O on another milestone in a legendary career!
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⚒️ RMAC Player of the Year
⚒️ RMAC Academic Player of the Year
⚒️ First-Team All-RMAC
⚒️ NABC All-West
⚒️ NABC All-America
No one more deserving than
@bsully259
!
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WEST REGION CHAMPIONS!
Mines 84
NNU 52
Orediggers are headed to the Elite Eight behind 19 points from Sullivan, 17 from Dykema and 13 from Boone.
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⚒𝘽𝙄𝙂 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙆⚒
With 1️⃣7️⃣1️⃣ rebounds and counting this season, Adam Thistlewood has now surpassed 500 career boards between his time with
@CSUMBasketball
and Mines!
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In 2 games, Joe Miks averaged 21.5 ppg, drained 13 3PTRs, and shot .714 overall and .764 for 3. No doubt he's the
#RMACmbb
Offensive Player of the Week!
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Congrats to
@MasonBaker31
who has been named to the Bevo Francis Award watch list as one of the top 100 players in small college basketball!
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📰
🏀𝙀𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙀 𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙋𝘼𝙉𝙔🏀
With tonight's 82-58 win over Kansas Wesleyan, head coach Pryor Orser becomes the latest RMAC coach to reach 4️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ career wins!
Congrats PO, welcome to the 400 Club!
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FINAL
Mines 66
MSU Denver 60
An absolute war and Mines wins their 19th straight game! Baker had 15P, Sonnefeld a big 13P including clutch late free-throw shooting. Mines 17-0 in the RMAC and 1 win away from the title.
⚒𝙊𝙍𝙀𝘿𝙄𝙂𝙂𝙀𝙍𝙎 𝙒𝙄𝙉⚒
We will see you tomorrow night as we clinch a spot in the RMAC title game and await the winner of Fort Lewis and Black Hills State!
Thistlewood and Beskind with 14 apiece while Sullivan adds 13 and Boone goes for 11!
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The 2019 RMAC Player of the Year is Ben Sonnefeld!
🏀 Averaging career highs at 14.0 ppg/4.5 apg/4.4 rpg
🙌 Leads the RMAC in assists and assist-to-turnover ratio
☑ Shooting a career-high .482 this season
🥇 Also named First-Team All-RMAC
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FINAL
Mines 83
Biola 52
Orediggers close out strong and get the reserves some quality minutes as well. Boone's 19 points stand for the game high. Betts scores 14 and Reed tallies 11. As a team, Mines shoots 57% and racks up 9 steals.
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Your RMAC Offensive Player of the Week is
@MasonBaker31
!
🏀 Career-high 32 points vs. UCCS
🏀 11-of-13 FT including game-winner with 3.0 seconds left
🏀 Added 4R/2A/1S
Win or lose, this is our final game at the Lock this season. The stands may look empty, but you’ve been with us the entire way.
Let’s get to Evansville.
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This is a terrific gesture by West Texas A&M - they've named all 27 seniors who would have played in the NCAA South Central Regional to the all-regional team, including our own Luke Golter!
The All-South Central Men's Basketball Regional team has been announced as a tribute to the 27 seniors from the participating schools, including
@minesmbb
's Luke Golter
FINAL
⚒ 67
🦅 63
Never. Give. Up.
Down 13 in the second half, we roared back to take the lead on
@bsully259
's 3 with 2:07 remaining. He had 23P (20 in the second half),
@benboone24
added 13 while playing the last 8 minutes on 4 fouls. We're 11-0.
🏀 𝙐𝙉𝙍𝙄𝙑𝘼𝙇𝙀𝘿🏀
With the win tonight over UCCS, head coach Pryor Orser has become the all-time leader in conference wins in the history of the RMAC, surpassing the legendary Bob Hofman! Another milestone in a remarkable career!
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FINAL
⚒️ 76
🪓 90
Our run comes to an end in the
#EliteEight
, but we couldn't be prouder of the fight. Best of luck to an outstanding LMU team.
Sully 21P/4R/2A
Boone 17P/3R
Glen 14P/4R/3A
Betts 14P/3R/1A
𝙒𝙀𝙇𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙀 𝙏𝙊 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘾𝙇𝙐𝘽
With his first three-pointer of the evening at 12:14 in the second half,
@benboone24
surpassed 1️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ points for his career in a Mines uniform!
Congrats on the milestone, Boone!
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For the sixth straight season and ninth time in the last decade,
@minesmbb
is IN! They are the
#3
seed and will play Lubbock Christian at St. Edward's in the first round - time and day TBA
The 2019 RMAC Coach of the Year? Who else but our own Pryor Orser!
🏆 Led Mines to a 24-4 record and the RMAC regular-season championship
📘 Mines set a program record for RMAC wins (21) and win streak (22)
#️⃣ Orediggers have been ranked as high as
#11
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The honors keep rolling as
@MasonBaker31
is First-Team All-RMAC!
🏀 Leads Mines with 15.5 ppg
🆓 2nd in the RMAC in FT% (.878)
📊 Top 15 in the RMAC in scoring, assists, and steals
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FINAL
Mines 109
Western Colorado 60
Joe Miks hits the most 3's in a game for Mines since 2004 (9) to score 29, Michael Glen is a perfect 9-for-9 (22P) as Mines blows out WCU in their most lopsided RMAC win since 2011.
🐐 What a night. What a season. What a career 🏀
Sully, thank you for representing Mines the way you did and for all you contributed over your career in Golden!
📸 - David Arthur
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🚨🚨🚨 RECORD ALERT 🚨🚨🚨
Mines was 24-for-24 at the line tonight, setting the
@RMAC_SPORTS
single-game record for the best "perfect game" at the line that had stood since 2006. Only the 14th perfect 24+ FT game in
@NCAADII
history.
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FINAL
⚒ 103
🏔 82
A great second-half response means we're 12-0 for the first time since 2015. Leaders:
Sullivan 26P/6R
Glen 22P/7R/4A
Betts 19P/3R/3A
Dykema 16P (career high)