The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 9th Bulldogs Take Care of Business: After a narrow one point win over Santa Clara last night, Gonzaga made all bubble teams breathe easier by taking care of St. Mary’s in the WCC championship game 84-71. Ronny Turiaf scored 29 points and grabbed 14 […]
Author: Keith Burdette
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 2nd Alone at the Top: Oklahoma State moved into sole possession of first place of the Big 12 with a 76-67 win over Texas. A tightly contested first half saw Texas escape with a 35-33 lead but a 17-3 run to open the second […]
Northeast Conference Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Keith Burdette With one week left, the eight teams to make the NEC tournament starting March 6th at Wagner College are all but set. Quinnipiac and Long Island have been eliminated and Mount Saint Mary’s is hanging on by a thread. The Mount needs to sweep […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 24th A First for the Seniors: In the only match-up of ranked teams, No. 11 Texas throttled No. 21 Kansas 82-67. Brandon Mouton had 23 points to lead the Longhorns to their seniors’ first victory over Kansas. Texas built a double digit lead in […]
Northeast Conference Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Keith Burdette What a difference a couple weeks makes. At last check, St. Francis NY seemed to be running away with the regular season title, with a cool game and a half lead. But two straight losses have drawn them back to the pack, and they […]
Northeast Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Keith Burdette With a three game sweep at home this weekend, St. Francis NY cemented themselves as the first place team in the NEC. Victories over Sacred Heart, Robert Morris and St. Francis PA have put them a game-and-a-half ahead of second place Monmouth. Not much […]
Northeast Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Keith Burdette Rewind back two months to the supposed big match-up of the early NEC conference season, Quinnipiac at Central Connecticut State. Recall the big snowstorm that postponed the game which was then rescheduled for this Wednesday. Well, what has changed since then? Just about everything. […]
Metro Atlantic Notebook
Metro Atlantic Conference Notebook by Keith Burdette This season, we’ve seen the two opposite ends of the spectrum as far as teams go. At the top, we have Manhattan who is 6-0 in conference and 11-3 overall. Their three losses have come to the hands of Syracuse, Penn and Wichita […]
Northeast Conference Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Keith Burdette The last week of non-conference play featured several games against the Ivy League which NEC teams split. First was the Monmouth-Princeton game mentioned in last week’s article where Princeton won going away 67-52. Central Connecticut State took on Brown last Friday but lost 79-58 […]
Northeast Conference Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Keith Burdette Conference games and blowouts at the hands of BCS schools marked this past week’s action. Mount Saint Mary, St. Francis PA and Long Island all got trounced this past week and look to recover in conference. As of now, every team has played a […]