2025
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CCC Recap: “Just Peachy”
Early this November, BMo sent its classiest gentlemen down to Athens, Georgia to compete in the University of Georgia’s Classic City Classic tournament. We faced some hard competition, but we had fun, learned a ton, and came away from the tournament as better players motivated to improve and grow.
Lobby P Recap: “Eat ‘em Up”
This October, BMo sent its finest squad of ballers up to the “Forest City”, AKA Portland, Maine AKA City of the Merrill, where we set out to conquer the Lobster Pot tournament. The weekend was filled with laughs, program unity, and an astounding emergence of our newest class of rookies.
2024
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BMo Regionals Recap: “Six Straight New England Titles”
Brownian Motion has once again qualified for nationals! After a long regular season filled with results that showed hints of greatness, it feels amazing to get our first tournament win. There’s no better place to do it than at New England Regionals where BMo has successfully defended the title of regional champion for the sixth straight time! What’s more, we are delighted to announce our 2024 Callahan Nominee, Jacques Nissen! In addition to his incredible play on the field, Jacques has captained BMo for 3 straight years. The leadership and intensity he brings during all our practices and games have been essential to our team’s success
CCC Recap: “BMo Takes the Crown in Athens, Georgia”
BMo won the Classic City Classic in Athens, GA this past weekend! Our trip to Georgia began at midday on Friday. BMo traveled in style in accordance with our Fancy Flight tradition. After touching down in the Peach State, the gate agent took our photo, and everyone headed off to Jason Tapper’s house.
Lobster Pot Recap: “A Rainy Mainey Weekend”
Brownian Motion made its glorious fall debut at last weekend’s Lobster Pot in Portland, Maine. We split into four cars and left Brown’s campus on a beautiful Friday afternoon. Excitement abounded. After much car bonding, we arrived at our tournament lodging: a quaint seaside Airbnb for most and Zach Merrill’s wonderful house for the elites. Everyone convened at the Airbnb to hear some inspirational words from the captains, and then to make our traditional spray-painted jerseys.
2023
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Nationals Recap: Cincin-natties
In case you missed it, we qualified for Nationals by winning the New England Region in thrilling fashion, just weeks ago. Since that glorious day, the Hellfish have achieved the pinnacle of student-athlete-dom as we balanced the grueling schedule of Training Week, finals, and NBA conference finals. We perfected our sets over the two practices per day and grew ever closer as teammates, knowing that this current iteration of BMo had a lifetime measured in days.
Regionals Recap: “Mo Season, No Problem”
Riding the high of a strong Easterns performance and delighted with a 4-bid New England region, BMo has been enjoying the thrill of post-season play over the course of the past few weeks. Of course, we have also been enjoying the increased practice intensity and running that accompany our aspirations. Additionally, we are extremely honored and excited to announce our 2023 Callahan Nominee, Leo Gordon! Leo has been a wondrous player for BMo, on and off the field. You may have seen his incredible play, but did you know about his work as our Community Well-being Chair or his awesome dance moves?! There is no one more deserving, and it is a delight to call him my teammate.
Easterns Recap: Like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but in the East!
In the great collegiate tradition, Spring Break is a week of debauchery, delight, and dancing. For BMo, our spring break offers something far more valuable: several days of pure joy in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, at Easterns. This year’s edition came with a must-do, push-has-come-to-shove mission to earn a bid for our region (more on that later).
SMI Recap: “You’re the Only Ten I See”
This past weekend BMo packed our bags for some good old-fashioned, honky-tonk fun at the Smoky Mountain Invite, hosted at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Yet again we rose far earlier than the sun, flying down for a pit stop in St. Louis before heading to Nashville. In the Music City, we joined BMo Alum Eli Motycka at Martin’s Bar-B-Que (unfortunately no relation to our dear Martin Trouilloud) for a delicious lunch. Following that, we battled hurricane-level winds as we drove across the state to Knoxville—winds almost as frightening as those on the MK field during a zone practice. Everyone made it to the hotel safe and sound where we all promptly headed straight to bed, excited for the games to come. Unlike FloWo, we came into SMI decently healthy and hoped to build chemistry with almost all of our pieces in play.
FloWo Recap: “Sun, Fun, and Injured a Ton”
Coming out of a heated Training Week (both in on-field intensity and, delightfully, the unusually warm weather we enjoyed), BMo flew south for the winter to the sunny climes of Florida and her glorious Warm Up Tournament. In what may be a historic first for the team, we actually flew into our destination city (Tampa) rather than our traditional several-hour commute from the airport to the field. And even more inspiring, our hotel couldn’t have been closer to both the field complex and Busch Gardens.
CCC Recap: “Go Dawgs”
This year’s Brownian Motion was out in full force at last weekend’s Classic City Classic in Athens, GA, looking as classic as ever and somehow even cuter than before. After rising at the wee hour of 4 AM Friday morning, we early birds got the worm – the worm being a whole lot of time to explore the lovely cities of Atlanta and Athens.
2022
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Rankings
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Triple Crown Champs
BMo finishes 2nd at nationals, wins all regular season tournaments
We really began this season at the end of January, without the usual October to December tinkering and bonding that the team goes through absent a fall championship. It would have made sense for this team, with all 12 (?) of its rookies, to be a little rough around the edges. Maybe even serving more as a development year. Instead, we swept our regular season tournaments: Florida Warmup, Smoky Mountain Invite, and Easterns. We then walked through sectionals and regionals, taking care of business against the region’s best. It wasn’t always pretty (needing to break somewhere between 2 and a million times in a row to beat NC State on double game point), but we usually got lucky and found a way to win – every game in fact, except our first of the season, against Minnesota. Arriving at Nationals, we knew we had put in the work to be able to beat any team in the field. After an up and down opening win against Cal Poly, things started clicking. While Evan Lepler will tell you all about Jacques’ pinpoint blades and John’s first step, our undefeated run to the final was fueled by the contributions of the entirety of our roster...
2020
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Florida Warmup Recap
BMo kicked off its season at the aptly-named Florida Warm Up. The tournament’s ~strange~ format pitted us against a series of elite opponents, as well as some underrated competition eager to take a shot at the defending champs...
