Marshall A Quiet Winner by Phil Kasiecki If you’ve been watching Boston College the past few seasons, you may have occasionally overlooked Sean Marshall. Considering who he’s had for teammates, you probably wouldn’t be alone. As overshadowed as Marshall has been by stars like Craig Smith and classmate Jared Dudley, […]
Columns
Where The MAC Stands
Miami, Akron, the MAC, Money and Mid-Majors by Bill Kintner OXFORD, Ohio – Tonight it is the Mid-American Conference at its best as the first place Akron Zips come to do battle with the Miami RedHawks. Miami came in at 13-12 and 8-4 in the MAC. They took their lumps […]
Jared Dudley Is One Of A Kind
Dudley a Unique Player and Young Man by Phil Kasiecki Jared Dudley is the antithesis of the modern day athlete, especially in basketball and even more so among the elite players. That holds true more than you might think. In an age when most top players at the forward spot […]
Quick Hitters
A Few Quick Hitters From the Holiday Weekend by Ray Floriani EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – We have several stops and notes from the long President’s Day weekend on tap. IPFW 52, NJIT 47 Visiting Indiana Purdue of Fort Wayne overcame a double-digit deficit to edge the Highlanders on Saturday. IPFW […]
Holy Cross Seniors Torey Thomas And Keith Simmons
Crusaders Have Super Seniors by Phil Kasiecki Ralph Willard can’t sing the praises of his two seniors enough. It’s not about their play on the basketball court, although both Keith Simmons and Torey Thomas have had more than their share of success. Rather, where Willard won’t mince words is when […]
Saturday Notebook
Crimson Close Out Home Slate With Big Second Half, Take Out Tigers by Phil Kasiecki CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – This time, there was no heart-breaking last-minute comeback by the visiting team. Last season, Princeton scored the final seven points in a devastating 60-59 defeat of Harvard that helped send the Crimson’s […]
Crystal Basketball
NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos Feb. 23, 2007 Selection Sunday is barely two weeks away, conference tournaments commence next week, and bubble teams throughout the land are getting nervous. It must be late February. As several conferences wrap up their regular seasons this weekend, the […]
Day Of BracketBusters
CigarBoy’s BracketBusters Extravaganza by Bill Kintner DAYTON, Ohio – The day’s adventure starts at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse on a snowy afternoon in Indianapolis as Butler faced off against Southern Illinois, and it ends on a snowy night at the Ervin J. Nutter Center on the campus of Wright State University. […]
North Carolina A&T Arena
A night in the MEAC by Bill Kintner GREENSBORO, N.C. – What’s a MEAC you may ask? It stands for the Mid-Eastern Atlantic Conference. It is a conference of historically Black schools. They are only ranked 31st in the RPI, but don’t tell the fans tonight at North Carolina A&T […]
BC A Little Short
Eagles A Little Short of Tar Heels by Phil Kasiecki CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Boston College was just a little short all night long against North Carolina. In many respects, that makes the game a little symbolic of the season to this point. There were times that the Eagles led […]
