Editor’s Note: Dean Oliver is a former player and assistant at Caltech. He currently works as Director of Production Analytics at ESPN. Caltech is known for some of the smartest science and technology ...

Pasadena, Calif. — I went to the Caltech-Whittier College men’s basketball game Saturday evening because, as a journalist, I have a responsibility to history. Also because Sharon Herzberger, ...

It was the last chance in the last game of the last basketball season Ryan Elmquist would ever experience, and the boy wonder wondered. He recorded a perfect score on his ACT exam. He is graduating ...

PASADENA – Roy Dow fondly recalls his first day coaching the Caltech Beavers as a complete disaster. The basketball team hadn’t won a game since 1985, and scanning the court, he said he could see why.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Caltech posted its first conference victory in more than 26 years ...

STUDIO CITY(CBSNews)- In what some are calling revenge of the nerds, a 26-year losing streak ended for a college that has produced a lot of winners, just not on the basketball court. Some of the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

PASADENA >>Caltech was the team every men’s basketball team in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference wanted to play. The Beavers were the league’s patsy, a guaranteed win. Not ...

PASADENA, Calif. Of all colleges, it would seem, the California Institute of Technology should have the least trouble doing the math. Yet its basketball team was left guessing about the precise length ...

The Caltech men's basketball team Tuesday night won its first Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game since 1985, defeating Occidental, 46-45, at Caltech. The victory ends Caltech ...

REVENGE of the Nerds” minus laughs plus inspirational music equals “Quantum Hoops,” a documentary about the inept Caltech basketball team – which as the film begins is in the midst of a 21-year ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- A Nobel Prize laureate stood quietly in the back of the room. The university president sat in the bleachers. Both had attended news conferences at Caltech before, but never one ...