America East Championship Recap by Phil Kasiecki BURLINGTON, Vt. – It didn’t take long for things to get ugly in the 2005 America East championship game, in more ways than one. The scoreboard got that way as Vermont was hot right out of the gates and never challenged after the […]
Author: Phil Kasiecki
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Sunday, March 13th Photo Finish Starts it Off: One of the first games of the day came right down to the end as Louisville won the Conference USA title with a 75-74 win over Memphis. With the Cardinals leading 75-73 in the final seconds, Darius Washington […]
Southland Tournament Recaps
Southland Conference Tournament Recaps by Phil Kasiecki Unlike many conference tournaments, the 2005 Southland Conference Tournament is held entirely at campus sites instead of one site for all or most rounds. That gives teams a homecourt advantage based on their finish in the regular season, with the regular season champion […]
BC’s Last Big East Haul
They Had It All Along by Phil Kasiecki With Saturday night’s 78-66 win at Rutgers, Boston College gained a share of the Big East regular season championship in its final season in the conference. By virtue of their 75-70 win at Connecticut on January 5, the Eagles will have the […]
America East Tournament Recaps
America East Tournament Recaps by Phil Kasiecki The play-in round on Friday night set up Saturday’s quarterfinal matchups, with No. 9 UMBC edging No. 8 New Hampshire 78-73 behind a career-high 28 points from freshman Brian Hodges, and No. 7 Stony Brook ending No. 10 Hartford’s season with a 66-46 […]
Lehigh’s Joe Knight
Guard Has Himself a Knight by Phil Kasiecki WORCESTER, Mass. – You had to know the chant would come sometime. The Lehigh students who traveled up from Pennsylvania let Colgate know what the Raiders seemingly had already figured out. “You can’t stop him.” The chant was for Joe Knight, Lehigh’s […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Sunday, March 6th Four Teams Are In: Four more teams joined Penn as the winners of an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament on Saturday. Be sure to visit Thirteen Days: Championship Week for more complete information. UCF (24-8) repeated as Atlantic Sun champions in their […]
Ryan Gomes
Running With the Opportunity by Phil Kasiecki PROVIDENCE – He says that his coach “gave me the opportunity and I tried to take it and run with it.” That’s certainly one way of describing Ryan Gomes’ illustrious career at Providence College, which is coming to a close. Tuesday night was […]
America East Tournament Preview
America East Tournament Preview by Phil Kasiecki BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – After three years in Boston, the America East Tournament moves to Binghamton this season. Binghamton put in a strong bid to host last year’s tournament with the opening of its new on-campus Events Center, but Boston University won out to […]
America East Notebook
America East Notebook by Phil Kasiecki It’s finally settled, and in quite a fashion Although Vermont clinched the top seed last Monday and the regular season title outright on Thursday, there was plenty of drama on the last day as several seeding battles came right down to the wire. Northeastern […]
