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 […]
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CCSU Keeps Winning
Central Connecticut Shows They Know How to Win by Ray Floriani TEANECK, N.J. – Just under fifteen minutes remained and Fairleigh Dickinson University had a 52-44 lead over Central Connecticut. The Knights appeared to be in the driver’s seat and head coach Tom Green was ready to claim win number […]
Rutgers, Marquette Pull Out Wins
Rutgers, Marquette Pull Out Big East Wins by Ray Floriani NEW YORK – The week saw Big East action on both the men’s and women’s side. A common denominator in this extremely competitive conference is that of respect. Whether it’s the men or women’s games once the ball is tossed […]
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 […]
Chemistry The Key For Norfolk State
For Norfolk State, Chemistry Has Been the Key by Michael T. Lyle, Jr. Norfolk State head coach Anthony Evans has one word to sum up his team’s ascension into a two-way tie for first place in the MEAC standings: chemistry. He believes it’s the reason his Spartans are 10-2 in […]
No More Doubters For UMBC
UMBC Is For Real by Sam Perkins ALBANY, N.Y. – All season long the sentiment has leaked out from around the America East – from Prognosticators, fans, athletic departments. At times it has come in whispers, at times a dull roar, at times in droves. The notion: the UMBC Retrievers, […]
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 […]
Crystal Basketball
NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos Feb. 22, 2008 At this time last season, Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos applied the Law of Syllogism to the college basketball RPI rankings to prove that the last would be first — RPI-worst Northern Colorado could defeat RPI-best UCLA. […]
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 […]
Xavier’s Seniors Keep Winning
Xavier’s Veterans Have Seen It All by Phil Kasiecki SOUTH KINGSTON, R.I. – Stanley Burrell said it best when talking about how his team responded to a rally by Rhode Island on Monday night. “We’ve been in so many situations like that, at this point, we’re so poised nothing really […]
