Northeast Notebook Blackbird Coach Flees the Coop It seems like just yesterday I sat in a packed Schwartz Center at Long Island University for the NEC finals. It was a heavily favored LIU team versus underdog Fairleigh Dickinson. FDU pulled off the upset and earned a bid to the 1998 […]
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Northeast Conference Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook “From Hamden, Connecticut, we present the Quinnipiac…..” In its third season of Division-I basketball (previously in D-II) Quinnipiac has gone the politically correct route and dropped the Braves team name. As of this moment they are just ‘Quinnipiac’, which is a mouthful in its own right. In […]
Northeast Preview
2001-02 Northeast Conference Preview by Lon Samuelson Also known as “The NCAA sacrificial lamb” the other (Big East) other (A-10) other (MAAC) conference based in the New York / New Jersey Metro area is the Northeast Conference. One of the few conferences to have never won an NCAA tournament game […]