Kates in the News

Mitchell Kates having a great summer in the Jersey Shore Summer League.

USA Today: "Brains + Tech = The New Cool"

MIT and the MIT Basketball team were featured in a recent photo gallery by USA Today.

Read more here: http://mediagallery.usatoday.com/Brains+++tech+=+the+new+cool/G3572

"MIT guard Mitchell Kates has established himself as one of the nation's top players. MIT does not give out athletic scholarships, and students compete for the love of the game. This year, the Engineers competing in the Div III basketball Final Four had to study on the road and take exams early in some cases" 

"As more Americans use technology and depend increasingly on the skills of those who know how to make their gadgets work, the image of the socially inept brainiac is slowly being dispelled to reveal a new portrait: Geeks are cool"

MIT Tops in Academic Rankings Again

Times Higher Education:
#2 University in World

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/mar/15/top-100-universities-times-higher-education?newsfeed=true


US News and World Report (Graduate School Rankings):
1st - Engineering
1st - Supply Chain/Logistics (Sloan)
1st - Production/Operations (Sloan)
1st - Information Systems (Sloan)
1st - Mathematics
1st - Earth Sciences
1st - Chemistry
1st - Physics
1st - Computer Science
1st - Chemical Engineering
1st - Materials Engineering
1st - Computer Engineering
1st - Electrical Engineering
1st - Economics

2nd - Biological Sciences
2nd - Mechanical Engineering
2nd - Aeronautics and Astronautics
2nd - Nuclear Engineering

4th - Business School (Sloan)
4th - Entreprenuership (Sloan)

5th - Finance (Sloan)
5th - Biomedical Engineering

9th - Political Science

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools

More Media Links...

ESPN.com
"MIT's Mitchell Kates found winning formula"
http://espn.go.com/boston/story/_/id/7695958/m-mitchell-kates-found-winning-formula

TheHour.com
"Weston's Levene and MIT are all a part of the little Engineers that could"
http://www.thehour.com/story/521737/weston-s-levene-and-mit-are-all-a-part-of-the-little-engineers-that-could

Even More MIT Basketball in the Media

CBS-Boston
"MIT Basketball Also Dancing This Weekend" (Video)
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/03/14/mit-basketball-also-dancing-this-weekend/

ABC-Boston
"For First Time in 112 Years, MIT Headed to NCAA Final Four" (Video)
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r-video/30684146/detail.html

Front Page of NCAA.com
"Playing for one of their own"
http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2012-03-15/playing-one-their-own

The Boston Globe
"Final Four run gives MIT a crash course"
http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-16/sports/31197763_1_tech-students-basketball-guard

Front Page of D3Hoops.com
"Hoopsville in Salem" (Video: Interview with Mitchell Kates and Will Tashman)
http://d3hoops.com/hoopsville/archives/2011-12/salem-interviews

NESN.com
"MIT Fans Flood Polls"
http://www.nesn.com/2012/03/division-iii-basketball-website-rooting-against-mit-as-students-flood-site-in-support-of-engineers.html

More MIT Basketball in the Media

D3Hoops.com Front Page
"Kates Engineering MIT Run"
http://d3hoops.com/playoffs/men/2012/kates-engineering-mit-run

Lancaster Online
"Division III and college sports at its best"
http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/602360_Division-III-and-college-sports-at-its-best.html

Boston Herald
"MIT at Four-front of Division 3"
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/college/basketball/view/20220311mit_at_four-front_of_division_3/

MIT Basketball in the Media

The #3 ranked MIT Men's Basketball team, playing in their first NCAA Sweet 16 game tonight, has been covered by the media extensively this week:

ESPN
"MIT hoopsters doing Harvard one better"
http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/colleges/post/_/id/2027/mit-hoopsters-doing-harvard-one-better

The Daily
"Net Brains"
http://apps.facebook.com/dailysocial/article/2012/03/08/030812-sports-bkc-harvard-mit-1-2

90.9 WMBR
"MIT Basketball Dances Into History"
http://www.wbur.org/2012/03/09/mit-basketball

Bangor Daily News
"Mccue helps MIT reach third round of NCAA Tourney"
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/03/07/sports/umaine-sports/mccue-helps-mit-reach-third-round-of-ncaa-tourney/

MIT Basketball Featured in Boston Herald

Read more here: http://news.bostonherald.com/sports/college/basketball/view/20220301mit_engineers_a_success_formula/srvc=home&position=recent

MIT Develops Technology for NBA Dunk Contest

The MIT Media Lab recently teamed up with the NBA and Turner Sports to develop a device that measures the force of a dunk. This technology, the Slam Net Force, was used in the NBA Dunk Contest over the weekend.

Read more here: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/02/new-net-measures-the-force-of-monster-dunks/

(the following video was featured on NBA.com and has already accrued almost 150,000 views)

MIT's Historic Win in the Boston Globe

Read more here:

http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/extras/colleges_blog/2012/02/kates_carries_m_1.html?s_campaign=8315

MIT Basketball Featured in Boston Globe

"Third-ranked MIT gets A in Chemistry"

Read more here: http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/mens_basketball/articles/2012/02/24/mit_baskeball_bouncing_to_the_head_of_the_class/?page=2

New York Knicks Coach "Needs an MIT Guy"

Mike D'Antoni, Head Coach of the New York Knicks of the NBA, is shown on camera proclaiming his need for an MIT basketball player:

"We got a Harvard...I need an MIT guy"

 

MIT, Jeremy Lin, and ESPN

Former MIT assistant coach Oliver "Doc" Eslinger, now the head coach at CalTech, was featured as a guest writer on ESPN.com. Coach Eslinger talks about his experience recruiting Jeremy Lin to MIT.

Read more here: http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/37066/development-in-lin-years

MIT Basketball Featured on SportsIllustrated.com

The MIT Men's Basketball Team, ranked 5th in the country, appears today on Sports Illustrated's website. Read more here: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/alexander_wolff/02/03/middlebury.mit.wolff/index.html?sct=cb_wr_a1

Kates Siblings Featured in Daily Pennsylvanian

MIT Junior point guard Mitchell Kates and his sister, Jackie Kates, have been playing basketball with each other their whole lives. Read more about Jackie, a freshman guard at University of Pennsylvania, and MIT's newest 1,000-point scorer here: http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2012/02/jackie_kates_big_brother_knows_best

MIT Ranked #1 College in America by Business Insider

MIT once again topped Business Insider's list of "The 50 Best Colleges in America".

Read more here: http://www.businessinsider.com/best-colleges-2011-11#1-massachusetts-institute-of-technology-50

Head Coach Anderson on Hoopsville Tonight

Head Coach Larry Anderson, in his 17th season at MIT, will be interviewed on D3Hoops.com's Hoopsville radio broadcast tonight at 7:20PM EST.

Head Coach Larry Anderson's promotion of integrity and leadership both on and off the court has proved successful (Pic: Dawn Anderson)

Anderson, who has led the #3 Engineers to three consecutive championships and three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, currently boasts a record of 79-23 (.775) over the last four seasons.

Anderson being interviewed by ESPN's Sports Center (Pic: ESPN)

Listen to Anderson and the broadcast here: http://d3hoops.com/hoopsville/index

Kates, MIT in Boston Globe

Read more here:

http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/extras/colleges_blog/2012/01/kates_carries_m.html

Bloomberg: "Europe Crisis Rescue Begins with MIT Men"

Read more below about Bloomberg's piece on MIT and how MIT alums are in charge of solving the European debt crisis. MIT's Economics program is currently ranked #1 by U.S. News and World Report.

“The faculty makes the place but the students also make the place,” [former MIT professor and now Bank of Israel Governor Stanley] Fischer said in a telephone interview. “One of the reasons you go to MIT is because you have the best students in the world.” To him, economics was a tool to “do something useful.” 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-12/rescuing-europe-from-debt-crisis-begins-with-men-of-mit-as-matter-of-trust.html

MIT's Win at TheDay.com

Read more about MIT's win over Coast Guard at TheDay.com:

http://www.theday.com/article/20120112/SPORT02/301129434/-1/SPORT