Author: Phil Kasiecki

Saturday Notebook

Career First Half Falls Short For Rice, Eagles by Phil Kasiecki CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The unfortunate thing about Tyrese Rice’s first half is that it can be easily forgotten because of the outcome of the game. Thanks to a big second half that featured a 32-8 run to take […]

March Quick Hitters

Notes at the Start of March by Phil Kasiecki Quick hitters as we reach the weekend and the start of March: Brown is holding out hope for one of the postseason tournaments, although the NCAA Tournament is a long shot. The Bears currently have 16 wins and can set a […]

Patriot League Tight All Around

Patriot League Race is Right Down to the Wire by Phil Kasiecki Looking for a wacky conference? Just take a look at the Patriot League standings. With one game remaining for each team, the standings are no less clear now than they were before Wednesday night’s games. American and Navy […]

Atlantic 10 Might Get Just Two NCAA Bids

Atlantic 10’s Developing Teams Hurt NCAA Chances by Phil Kasiecki Back in January, many were projecting the Atlantic 10 to get at least four and possibly five bids to the NCAA Tournament. Some thought six would be possible if a few things fell right. Like many projections, they were based […]

Bad Home Stretch For Rhode Island

Rams Struggle In Key Home Stretch by Phil Kasiecki SOUTH KINGSTON, R.I. – The past week wasn’t one for the books as far as Rhode Island is concerned. The Rams’ key stretch has come and gone, and along with it, at least most of the hope the home team had […]

Effort The Key For UMass

UMass’ Effort Tells the Story by Phil Kasiecki SOUTH KINGSTON, R.I. – It’s not uncommon for a team’s biggest issue to be effort, especially the consistency of it. Such is the case for UMass, a team that head coach Travis Ford summed up nicely after his team’s 98-91 win at […]

Saturday Notebook

Crusaders Continue to Bounce Back Against Huskies by Phil Kasiecki WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross has had to do all season long what they did on Saturday. They had to gut it out through injuries and bounce back, and they did so with a 61-47 win over Northeastern that wasn’t […]

VCU Counts On Veterans

Veteran Leaders A Key For VCU by Phil Kasiecki BOSTON – Anthony Grant is trying to get his team to understand what it takes to win at this time of the year. The VCU head coach has a young group, so that’s not entirely surprising. On Wednesday night, a couple […]

Virginia’s Much-Needed Win

Cavaliers Start Trying to Salvage Season With Win Over Eagles by Phil Kasiecki CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Virginia got a couple of things on Sunday that have been in short supply all too often this season. They had scoring balance and some emotional involvement, and the end result was their […]

Ivy League Notebook

Ivy League Notebook by Phil Kasiecki As another weekend of Ivy League basketball has completed, there hasn’t been much change at the top. With two more road wins, Cornell has run their record to 8-0 and remains two games in front of Brown. The Big Red could move even closer […]