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 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 […]

Northeast Conference 2004-05 Recap by Ray Floriani A common theme all season in the Northeast Conference was unpredictability. The conference coaches did agree that Monmouth was the favorite, but there was a unanimous feeling that anything could, and probably would, happen. Monmouth won the regular season title, but did not […]

Northeast Conference Championship Recap by Keith Burdette Wagner’s miraculous run to the big dance finally hit a road block Wednesday night in New Jersey. On its home court, Fairleigh Dickinson knocked off the Seahawks 58-52 in the NEC tournament final and earned the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. […]

Northeast Conference Championship Preview by Keith Burdette Back on January 25th, the Wagner Seahawks were 2-15, 1-7 in NEC and dead last in the NEC conference standings. The Seahawks played their way into the NEC tournament by winning nine of their last ten games, ultimately earning a sixth seed. The […]

Northeast Conference Notebook by Matt Lefebvre The Professional Travels of NEC Veterans The Northeast Conference may be small in the land of the Big East, but it has plenty of professional talent. In April, U.S. Basketball League teams drafted three NEC player, Quinnipiac’s Rashaun Banjo, Central Connecticut’s Ron Robinson and […]

Northeast Conference 2004 Offseason News Recap by Matthew Lefebvre Central Connecticut State Blue Devils Newcomers: Ingo Beaudet, C, Forestville, CA/Santa Rosa CC Tristan Blackwood, G, Toronto, Canada/Eastern Commerce Andre Brooks, F, Columbia, MD/Oakland Mills (Hagerstown CC) Jason Hickenbottom, F, Philadelphia, PA/Simon Gratz Jermaine Middleton, C, Inglewood, CA/South Kent (CT) Off-Season […]

Northeast Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Keith Burdette Coming into the season, the conference race looked wide open. I said in the conference preview that any one of five teams could take the title. The Monmouth Hawks were one of those teams and, thanks in large part to the conference’s […]

Northeast Conference Semifinals Preview Preview by Keith Burdette No. 7 Central Connecticut State Blue Devils vs. No. 3 Fairleigh Dickinson Knights The Blue Devils pulled off the only upset of the tournament by beating second seed St. Francis NY 81-68. Ron Robinson had fourteen points, one of five Blue Devils […]