Northeast Conference Notebook by Zach Smart Ah, to be an NEC team during this juncture of the season. This is when the league begins to turn up the volts, when the top-of-the-line team floats down to the middle of the pack before the blink of an eye. The NEC world […]
Author: Zach Smart
A.J. Price The Key To UConn
UConn Is Good If Price Is Right by Zach Smart STORRS, Conn. – University of Connecticut men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun was quick to point out a palpable trend that has emerged in this young season. When the Price is right, it all starts to come together for UConn. Junior […]
Moore To Face Mentor
Moore Returns To UConn, Mentor Jimmy by Zach Smart Tom Moore was angry. He was angry at his team for a sub-par practice. He was angry that the practice squads didn’t bear any resemblance to what he was expecting to see on the floor this season. He was angry at […]
Northeast Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Zach Smart Mt. St. Mary’s Sitting At The Top of the Mountain A message to anyone intrigued by a Northeast Conference that just might flee from obscurity this season: the college basketball conference that’s about as topsy-turvy as this year’s college football season is back in […]
Northeast Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Zach Smart Blackbirds A Pleasant Surprise, Pioneers Freefalling In a conference that’s about as predictable as a Mike Tyson interview, the clear favorite has abruptly sunk to the bottom-echelon while the team that the skeptics figured would be flattened due to the loss of their go-to, […]
Northeast Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Zach Smart Working Overtime, Bobcats Get First W It was around the mid-way mark of the second half when it hit Quinnipiac: capturing the first victory of the 2007-2008 campaign would entail a little less of DeMario Anderson, and a little more of their backcourt and […]
UConn Gets Big Night from Price, Robinson
Price, Robinson Power UConn by Zach Smart STORRS, Conn. – If you thought Wednesday’s lackluster 69-65 victory over Morgan State was ugly, then consider much of the first half of Thursday’s UConn/Buffalo game a horror flick. The Huskies came out Kansas-flat, misconnecting on set shots, blowing shots underneath the cup, […]
Northeast Preview
Northeast Conference 2007-08 Preview by Zach Smart Pre-Season All-Conference G-Tristan Blackwood, Central Connecticut G-Chris Vann, Mount St. Mary’s G/F-DeMario Anderson, Quinnipiac F-Jeremy Chappelle, Robert Morris F-Robert Hines, St. Francis N.Y. Central Connecticut (22-12, 16-2 Northeast) Two-thirds of the NEC’s best three-headed monster are gone from last season. Player of the […]
Columbia Senior John Baumann
Baumann Gears Up For Senior Year On The Hardwood by Zach Smart John Baumann arrived at the New York City campus of Columbia University with his name circled in hyperbolic lure. Anytime a player who averaged 30 points in high school inks with an Ivy League program, hype, hearsay, and […]
White Plains Summer League 2007
Stahn And Company Return To Ferris Ave. For Hoops Tourney by Zach Smart WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Their schedule is barely halfway through, but Sean Stahn already has a pretty thorough method of attack for his White Plains summer basketball league team. Stahn acknowledges that there’s a mindset his team […]
