Metro Atlantic Recap by Michael DiPiazza At last season’s Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) media day held at Madison Square Garden the talk amongst the crowd was the parity that the conference endured. When the 2001-02 Preseason Coaches Poll was released that early November morning it was Iona who was […]
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MAAC Tournament Recap
MAAC Tournament Notebook MAAC Madness Just how whack was the MAAC? Quite whack, if do say so myself. Let’s just put it this way…a 7th seed with a 16-18 record beat a 4th seed for the conference crown. Start up the Apocalypse machine. Yes, Siena became the first MAAC team […]
Metro Atlantic Notebook
Metro-Atlantic Notebook Man-hurt-an What happened to the Jaspers? The team from Riverdale was 6-2 in the MAAC and in first place. Now, after losses to Canisius (Feb. 8) and Niagara (Feb. 10), Manhattan is tied for second in the conference with the Purple Eagles. Normally one of the more prolific […]
The Quickening
Marist-Manhattan II: Out-Foxed? Not again. by Adam Shandler On January 22nd, it was Bobby Gonzalez bobble-head doll night at Manhattan’s Draddy Gymnasium. But Coach Gonzalez and his Jaspers almost bobbled another one to Marist in the re-match of a game played on January 12th. Marist took the first contest, 58-56, […]
Metro Atlantic Notebook
Metro Atlantic Notebook Port-able Rider’s Mario Porter is leading the MAAC in scoring at 21.1 points per game. Porter is also the league rebounding leader with 8.6 per game. The senior forward from Irvington, NJ, and his Bronc teammates, recently came off a 72-68 upset of Manhattan in Riverdale. Porter […]
Metro Atlantic Notebook
Metro Atlantic Notebook Da King a’New Yawk: Manhattan Head Coach Bobby Gonzalez is certainly earning that 2-year contract extension awarded last year. The Jaspers are 9-1 and champions of the recent Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival. After out-dueling Fordham in the first round game, Manhattan bumped Iona 69-58 in an […]
Mid-Majors Keeping up with the Big Boys
A Perfect Example of the Changing State of D-I Hoops by Adam Shandler The Hoopville holiday party was a blast! Actually, since we’re all scattered all over the country, it had to be a virtual holiday party, but we had fun nonetheless. Managing Editor Andrew Flynn rented out only the […]
Metro Atlantic Preview
2001-02 Metro Atlantic Conference Preview by Adam Shandler The NCAA selection committee might take some pity on the MAAC this year and toss them an extra bid to the tourney. But they’ve got to earn it. In the early going, it’s hard not to like Iona but Canisius, Manhattan, Niagara […]
