New story on the Revolution
It’s been a while since we’ve had news coverage, but this week we got a shout out from Rachel Mueller over at Berkeleyside. A nice piece, with a video featuring a number of kids from the youth program.
Halftime shows
The Revolution entertained the crowd at the Cal-UCLA women’s basketball game on January 20th (won by Cal, Go Bears.) We didn’t get any TV coverage this time, but there are some photo galleries. Upcoming, we’ll be doing another halftime, this one over in San Francisco at the USF-Gonzaga game, which should be a fun one. …
Our sport is older than we thought
Apparently the Romans played unicycle basketball. (Seen in the main piazza in Trento)
Consolation victory
After losing in the semis, we were paired in the consolation game against AOC Rond, the team we’d tied in the preliminaries. They’d lost to WOOM (the reigning world champions) by 3 points in the other bracket. (That was quite a game, with AOC coming back from a 10-point deficit, and getting a good 3-point …
The Revolution falls in the semi-finals
We easily handled Cycl’hop in the quarter finals, setting up a semi-final match against AOC Square, one of the top French teams. They have two brothers, Adrien and Jeremy, who play a lot like our own Jeremy; extremely fast and aggressive, going for steals in a full-court press. We started out well, using solid passes …
The championships are on!
We started off our championship run with a shootout against AOC Rond, the team we tied on Monday. The format was like a soccer shootout; the teams took turns sending their best 5 shooters to the line for one free throw each. After 5 shots, the shootout was tied 3-3, so we got down to …
UNICON Basketball preliminaries
The tournament is on! The preliminaries were set up with four divisions of four teams, with a round robin within each division. Each game was two 12-minute halves (running time, no clock stoppages until the last 2:00). We got a crappy draw, having to play one of the three good French teams (AOC Rond) in …
Preparing for the tournament
Yesterday we had six solid hours of basketball, and got to play against most of the people we’ll be competing against in the tournament. Things start tomorrow, the 23rd; we’re playing three games in our round robin bracket. The tournament is structured so that no one will be eliminated on day one; the round robin …
Best of the East Bay
We got mentioned in the East Bay Express’ “Best of the East Bay”; this year’s theme was “Revolution”, so it was a natural fit. Most Revolutionary Sports Team The Berkeley Revolution The unicycle basketball national champions, often seen at Strawberry Creek Park in Berkeley, are headed to Italy to compete in the world championships, …
Public exhibition game
As part of our final preparation for the world championships in Italy (Bressanone, July 23-27), we’ll be holding a public exhibition game on Monday, July 16, at 7:30 PM, at the West Campus gym, 2100 Browning Street, Berkeley, CA. This event is FREE and open to the public. Come on by and make some noise!