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 […]
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Georgetown’s Seniors Win At Providence
Georgetown Calls on Seniors in Win at Providence by Phil Kasiecki PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Needing to get his team going, John Thompson III turned to some trusted personnel on Monday. It was a move that didn’t require a lot of intense thought. “When I coach, I don’t necessarily coach with […]
Louisville Playing As Expected
Cardinals Starting to Live Up to Expectations by Phil Kasiecki PROVIDENCE, R.I. – This is the Louisville team most people figured we would see before the season. This team – the one that’s now in a tie atop the Big East standings and has a lot of momentum there – […]
Green Goes For 400, St. Peter’s Women Bounce Back
Number 400 Will Wait For FDU Mentor by Ray Floriani TEANECK, N.J. – Mount St. Mary’s spoiled Tom Green’s first bid for number 400. Last Thursday the Mountaineers entered Rothman Center and scored a convincing 78-61 win over Fairleigh Dickinson. A celebration of Valentine’s Day was in order but the […]
Saturday Notebook
Fighting Friars Just a Little Short by Phil Kasiecki PROVIDENCE, R.I. – They didn’t win on Saturday, but any notion that Providence doesn’t have any fight left in them should be dismissed right away. Their 80-72 loss to Louisville certainly wasn’t for a lack of effort or fight on their […]
Terriers Have Another Star Freshmen
Holland Leads Terriers’ Resurgence by Phil Kasiecki BOSTON – In recent years, Boston University has been able to ride the play of several good young players, like last season when they finished third in America East behind the play of three freshmen guards. Now the Terriers are doing it again. […]
Albany Gets Much-Needed Win
Great Danes Get Big Win When They Need it Most, Show Growth by Sam Perkins BURLINGTON, Vt. – Marqus Blakely had another monster game on the stat sheet, scoring 18 points while pulling down 16 rebounds, but the Albany great Danes learned how to take him out of the equation, […]
Fordham Struggles Unexpectedly
Fordham’s Season Not What Anyone Expected by Phil Kasiecki BRONX, N.Y. – This surely isn’t the script that Dereck Whittenburg wrote for the 2007-08 season. Nor, for that matter, is it the one many prognosticators (including this writer) put together. Most figured that Fordham would be a contender in the […]
Hartford Holds Off Maine
High-Flying Hawks Continue Their Roll by Sam Perkins HARTFORD, Conn. – The Hartford men’s basketball team certainly lived up to their name Wednesday night, as the Hawks soared above the rim for almost a half-dozen crowd-pleasing dunks. However, the long range heroics of Morgan Sabia were involved in the game […]
UMass Starts “New” Season With Unusual Win
UMass Starts “New Season” With Some Youthful Exuberance by Phil Kasiecki AMHERST, Mass. – Needing a win, UMass got one in perhaps an unusual way. The team that scored 83 points per game found a way to win that the average fan might not have figured. “It was, surprisingly, a […]
