Month: February 2007

UMass Big Win At Fordham

Minutemen Win Battle Inside Against Fordham by Ray Floriani BRONX, N.Y. – For a minute forget the Xs and Os. It wasn’t about offensive sets. The plain and simple reason behind UMass’ defeat of Fordham at Rose Hill tonight came down to two things: defense and rebounding. In his press […]

America East Notebook

America East Notebook by Phil Kasiecki Catamounts In Command With Sunday’s 67-63 win at Albany, Vermont is now in control of the race for the top. The Catamounts, who have won eight straight following Wednesday night’s 90-75 win at Maine, are now 12-1 in America East play and two games […]

Horizon Notebook

Horizon League Notebook by Cory Eve Hearts on Fire What do you think of that article title? Not only did I make a pun for a Valentines Day article, but I did using a song lyric from any number of the epic movies in the Rocky saga. Let’s stick with […]

Duke In The NCAA

Blue Devils Snap Skid, Look Every Bit a Tournament Team by Phil Kasiecki CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Even before Duke once again convincingly beat Boston College, the talk of the Blue Devils not making the NCAA Tournament needed to stop. The Blue Devils have a resume for it despite the […]

UCLA: Starters Return this Week For UCLA

Starters Return this Week For UCLA: Injuries to starters Darren Collison and Lorenzo Mata contributed to UCLA’s loss to West Virginia last weekend, but both starters returned against Arizona State. Collison, who has a shoulder injury, was a game-time decision but scored 18 points in 37 minutes. Mata said his […]

Crystal Basketball

NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos Feb. 16, 2007 This week, before gazing into Hoopville’s Crystal Basketball, Hoops 101 professors Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos ate their apples, put on their elbow-patched blazers and studied the recent history of the six major conferences. When surfing the […]

NJIT’s Inaugural Division I Season

Highlanders Learn Rigors of Division I by Ray Floriani NEWARK, N.J. – The drive down route 21 (McCarter Highway) was a smooth one given that rush hour traffic had ended. NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) is located in Newark’s University Heights section. Within walking distance are three other institutions […]