BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Beavers welcomed the Ohio Wesleyan University Battlin’ Bishops on Saturday, Dec. 29, hoping to claim the McDonalds Holiday Tournament title. Unfortunately, the #21-ranked Bishops built a 16-point halftime lead and coasted to a 75-51 victory over the hosts.
he Bluffton University women’s basketball team fell to Baldwin-Wallace at the Hope College Flying Dutch Holiday Tournament on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. The Beavers dipped to 5-5, while Baldwin-Wallace improved to 5-5.
The Bluffton University women’s basketball team suffered a tough defeat (95-62) at #11 Thomas More on Tuesday, Dec. 18.
The Saints opened the game on a 10-2 run and never looked back. Thomas More led 50-32 at the break even though Bluffton knocked down 10-of-21 from the field (47.6 percent) in the first 20 minutes.
The Beavers came out in the second half and battled, but the home team proved to be too much as Thomas More won the game in convincing fashion, 95-62.
On Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, the Bluffton University Beavers gave themselves an early Chrsitmas present and came out with a 62-50 victory over the Indiana University-Kokomo Cougars at the Sommer Center.
The Bluffton men improved to 3-6 on the season with the win, while the Cougars fell to 5-7 on the season. The Beavers were led by senior Dustin Kinn (Alvada/New Riegel) who scored 22 points on 8-for-10 shooting and grabbed nine boards in the victory.
Nathan Sommer, a Bluffton native and Ph.D. student at the University of Cincinnati, will explore the evolution of the human-computer relationship in a Bluffton University Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, in Founders Hall. The presentation, titled “Teaching Our Machines,” is free and open to the public.
Sommer, whose research currently focuses on musical applications of machine learning, will discuss how machine learning is entering our lives and what we are teaching—and attempting to teach—our computers.
