Bear Beats: Episode 18, For Competitors From Dec. 15 – Jan. 4

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The Bear Beats is a weekly launch that shall be posted on Mondays to supply a glance again on the previous week of motion and to preview the occasions for the upcoming week. The 18th episode for the 2025-26 yr will function males’s and ladies’s basketball in addition to males’s and ladies’s swimming.
 
A glance within the rear-view mirror (occasions from Dec. 15-Jan. 4):
 
No. 4 Men’s Basketball

No. 18 Women’s Basketball

 
On the horizon:
 
No. 4 Men’s Basketball

• WashU opens up UAA motion on the highway this weekend when it travels to the Windy City on Saturday, Jan. 10 to tackle Chicago.
• The Bears will look to avenge its two losses to the Maroons a yr in the past.
• Overall, WashU controls the sequence file 23-13 since 2007.
• Tip-off with Chicago is scheduled for 1 p.m. on the Ratner Athletics Center.
• Live stats for might be discovered here.
• Live video by way of FloSports for the sport might be seen here.

No. 6 Men’s and No. 12 Women’s Swimming and Diving

• The Bears kick off 2026 this Saturday, Jan. 10 once they journey to Div. II McKendree for a pair of duals.
• The Bearcats are ranked No. 7 on the boys’s facet whereas No. 25 on the ladies’s facet within the newest Div. II nationwide rankings.
• The males have dropped the previous three duals to McKendree whereas the ladies have gone 2-1 over the identical stretch.
• The duals will happen on the McKendree Metro Rec Plex in O’Fallon, Ill.
• The meet begins at 1:30 p.m.
• Live video for the duals might be seen here.

No. 18 Women’s Basketball

• The Bears kick off each 2026 and UAA play this weekend once they journey to Chicago on Saturday, Jan. 10.
• WashU faces off towards a Maroons workforce that cut up final season’s matchups, every profitable on their house court docket.
• The Bears maintain the 23-14 file towards Chicago since 2007.
• Game time with the Maroons is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the Ratner Athletic Center
• Live stats for might be discovered here.
• Live video by way of FloSports for the sport might be seen here.

 
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