Wings Academy Comes Out On Top In Slam Dunk Challenge by Zach Smart A few nights before the year 2005 concluded, two of New York’s elite high school basketball teams went head to head in the title game of the prestigious Slam Dunk Challange. At the Westchester County Center in […]
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UConn vs. Quinnipiac
Huskies Fend Off Pesky Bobcats, Roll To 11-0 by Zach Smart HARTFORD, Conn. – For the first 17 minutes of play, the two teams were virtually lost in identity. The Connecticut Huskies looked nothing like the No. 2 ranked program in the country, the team which shined at the Maui […]
Indiana Wins, Gets White Back
Hoosiers Avenge Loss To 49ers, White Returns by Zach Smart The Indiana Hoosiers kept seeing flashes of it. It was right there, still fresh in their minds, months and months after Brendan Plavich’s half-court prayer at the buzzer found the bottom of the net and robbed Indiana of the victory. […]
Northeast Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Zach Smart Coleman Making Some Noise For RMU Robert Morris Guard Derek Coleman, not long after putting on an outside shooting clinic to lead the Colonials to a hard fought victory over Quinnipiac, continued his fine play this season with a 31-point performance that lifted the […]
Mt. Vernon High School
Mount Vernon High: The Dynasty Continues by Zach Smart Just under twenty miles north of New York City lies a mecca of high school basketball. Mount Vernon High School, home of the 2004 state and federation champions, is a national powerhouse which breeds division I talent year after year. Chicago […]
West Virginia Keeps Winning
Mountaineers Pick Up Where They Left Off by Zach Smart West Virginia entered last year’s NCAA tourney with a group of three-point marksmen and one of the nation’s elite shot-blockers down low. By the time they were finished, the Mountain State’s hoopsters had made a more sizable impression than most. […]
UConn over UMass
Gay Comes Up Big In Second Half, UConn Avenges Last Year’s Upsetting Loss by Zach Smart HARTFORD, Conn. – As the No. 3 UConn men’s basketball team took the floor for the second half holding a nine-point edge, one eager fan shouted some motivational words in the direction of Rudy […]
Northeast Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Zach Smart Bobcats Improve To 4-2 with Victory over Red Raiders HAMDEN, Conn. – The expression “Be a senior” is one coined by a former University of South Carolina-Spartanburg (USC Upstate) coach named Chris Ward. Ward, who helped resurrect an ailing program during his stay as […]
Northeast Conference Preview
Northeast Conference 2005-06 Preview by Zach Smart It isn’t top notch college basketball – there’s no question about that. It’s low-Division I teams. But nonetheless, the Northeast Conference provides exciting games that often go down to the wire night in, night out. This, of course, is in a conference where […]
Feldeine Commits to Quinnipiac
Feldeine to Become a Bobcat by Zach Smart Joe DeSantis and the Quinnipiac University men’s basketball team have received an oral commitment from New York City’s James Feldeine. Feldeine, a sharp-shooting senior two-guard at Cardinal Hayes High in the Bronx, was impressed with the school after an official visit in […]
