Bryant hasn’t been able to get much to show for its efforts on the bottom line thus far this season. With a tough stretch ahead and a couple of injuries that may be serious, things may be about to get tougher.

Steadily and without fanfare, Joe Jones has been building Columbia up. Cornell and Harvard have received all the headlines coming out of the Ivy League, but before long Columbia could be getting a lot of them.

Rhode Island continued its good start during the past week, pulling out a few close games to bounce back from a tough road loss the week earlier.

Northeastern lost another close game on Thursday night at Rhode Island. While they are maintaining confidence about as well as they can given the circumstances, frustration is probably mounting to some degree as they head into a long layoff for final exams.

Harvard knocked off Boston College for the second year in a row on Wednesday night. As is often the case, the second time was a little different than the first.

Whenever Boston College got a big play in Sunday’s 61-60 win over Miami, it seemed like Reggie Jackson was always the one making it.

Jim Baron told his Rhode Island team to just keep fighting when they were down by 14 at halftime to their arch-rivals. They did just that and got the result they wanted.

Harvard has bounced back from a loss at Army with three solid games right in a row. More importantly, things seem to be coming together, and that’s a good thing with three tough road games coming up.

After a couple of tough losses and a very difficult road stretch, Holy Cross came home and got their first win of the season. The growing pains that have come with it have been at both ends of the floor thus far.