YSU’s Osborne talks men’s hoops at Curbstone

October 14, 2025

BEAVER TOWNSHIP — If the Youngstown State men’s basketball team expects to duplicate their success of a season ago, they will do so with only four returnees and 11 fresh faces on their current roster. Gone are 10 players who scored all but 17.2 of their 76.4 points per game last year, a campaign that produced the program’s first ever trip to the Horizon League’s tournament championship game, a third straight 20-plus win season and sixth consecutive winning campaign under first-year head coach Ethan Faulkner. Stumping for Faulkner at Monday’s Curbstone Coaches meeting – ...

YSU unable to dig out of early hole in 35-17 loss at No. 13 North Dakota

October 13, 2025

Its slowest start of the season proved to be too much for Youngstown State to overcome on Saturday afternoon. YSU’s defense gave up touchdowns on North Dakota’s first four possessions, and the offense struggled to finish drives, as the 13th-ranked Fighting Hawks handed the Penguins a ...

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October 11, 2025

Osborne to speak at Curbstone Coaches Dwaine Osborne, Youngstown State associate head men’s basketball coach, will be the guest speaker at Monday’s luncheon meeting of The Curbstone Coaches at the Avion Banquet Center on Western Reserve Road in Beaver Township. The event begins at noon and the public is welcome to attend. For those arriving early, the buffet lines will open at 11:45 a.m. Blue Jackets to unveil puck sculptures COLUMBUS — To celebrate the National Hockey League franchise’s 25th anniversary season, the Columbus Blue Jackets are unveiling a series of ...

YSU men, women picked 3rd in Horizon League basketball preseason polls

October 10, 2025

Both the Youngstown State men and women’s basketball teams were picked to finish third in the annual Horizon League preseason polls that were released this week. The men, led by second-year head coach Ethan Faulkner, were picked behind preseason favorite Milwaukee, as well as Oakland, ...

After close call, YSU looking for more during key road stretch

October 9, 2025

YOUNGSTOWN — Last season, Youngstown State lost to South Dakota State by 50 points. At the time, the Penguins were greatly outmatched against the Jackrabbits. This past weekend, however, YSU gave SDSU all it could handle in a 35-30 defeat, and save for a letdown third quarter, looked ...

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October 8, 2025

YSU competes in Tontimonia Invite WESTLAKE —- The Youngstown State men’s golf team concluded play in the two-day Tom Tontimonia Invitational hosted by Cleveland State on Tuesday at Lakewood Country Club. The Penguins finished the 54-hole event with a three-round total of 883 to finish ninth on the team leaderboard. YSU recorded single-round team scores of 294 (+10) and 293 (+9) in the first two rounds, respectively, on Monday before posting a 296 (+12) during a rainy and windy third and final session on Tuesday. Nolan Shilling finished tied for 36th with a three-round score of ...