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Seniors Lead Lehigh to Patriot League Title
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
13 Mar 2010With Lehigh, it’s easy to look at their star freshman and all he did, but for their Patriot League title, one must look at their seniors. That was true before the championship game and even more so during it.
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- Tags: Lehigh, Patriot League
CAA Tournament Quick Hitters
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
9 Mar 2010We wrap up CAA Tournament coverage with a few more notes, including something from each team who bowed out in the quarterfinal round on Saturday.
This One Hurts For Northeastern
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
8 Mar 2010For Northeastern, the CAA Tournament didn’t go quite how they expected it to, and the way it ended made it especially difficult to take.
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- Tags: Colonial, Northeastern
William & Mary Fights Back Again to Advance
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
7 Mar 2010William & Mary struggled out of the gates and didn’t play a good first half against James Madison, but some veterans had the idea that the second half wouldn’t be more of the same even though the first few minutes suggested otherwise.
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- Tags: Colonial, William and Mary
Huskies Not Ready to Go Home Yet
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
6 Mar 2010Call it what you will, but any way you slice it, Northeastern wasn’t about to go home just yet. It took two overtimes, but the Huskies came away with a hard-fought quarterfinal win.
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- Tags: Colonial, Northeastern
VCU Gets Two Things They Need in Win
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
6 Mar 2010Two things that weren’t always a given this season happened for VCU in Saturday’s 75-60 win over George Mason. Considering the up and down season they have had and the slugfest that much of the game was, they couldn’t have come at a much better time.
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Old Dominion’s Depth, Rebounding Are Keys
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
6 Mar 2010Old Dominion’s 86-56 romp over Towson to start Saturday’s quarterfinal action at the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament was an example of thorough domination. But in this game, one thing stood out glaringly, enough so that one had to wonder how Towson even made the two regular season meetings respectable. You didn’t need to look at the stat sheet to know, but a quick look confirms it: the Monarchs did it inside.
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- Tags: Colonial, Old Dominion
Cornell Rides Great Senior Group to Another Ivy League Title
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
6 Mar 2010Steve Donahue never quite expected what he’s had the last three years. He readily admits he might never get something like it again, so he’s taking a moment to enjoy Cornell’s third straight Ivy League title, which the Big Red wrapped up with a 95-76 win at Brown on Friday night.
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- Tags: Cornell, Ivy League, Steve Donahue
Virginia’s Season Not Ending How It Began
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
4 Mar 2010Virginia’s first season under Tony Bennett is just ending about the opposite of how it began. The Cavaliers at one point won eight in a row and stood 12-4 early in ACC play, and were the last team in the ACC to suffer their first conference loss. But as they head into their regular season finale, they have an eight-game losing streak and don’t look to be getting better.
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Jeremy Lin Goes Out a Winner, Like He Wanted
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
4 Mar 2010All Jeremy Lin ever wanted was to win. He wanted his team to be a winner and get the attention it deserved. On Saturday night, the senior guard certainly got that as he walked off the court at Lavietes Pavilion for the last time, as he helped lead his team to their 20th win of the season, a record for the program.
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- Tags: Harvard, Ivy League, Jeremy Lin
Binghamton Withdraws From America East Tournament
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Newswire
1 Mar 2010Citing ongoing work as part of a recent review, Binghamton has elected not to participate in the 2010 America East Conference Tournament, the school announced in a statement on Monday.
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Deane Out at Wagner
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Newswire
1 Mar 2010Mike Deane has been fired by Wagner after the young Seahawks finished 5-26 this season.
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- Tags: Mike Deane, Northeast, Wagner
Harvard Still Has Much to Play For
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Conference Notes
25 Feb 2010Contrary to popular belief, Harvard’s season didn’t end with Friday night’s loss to Cornell. To be sure, the Crimson need help – a lot of it, in fact – if they are to win the Ivy League now. But Tommy Amaker knows his team still has plenty to play for, and made sure his players knew it.
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Effort Not a Problem For Boston College of Late
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
25 Feb 2010There have been times this season where Boston College’s effort has been in question. Much like Saturday afternoon, when the Eagles beat North Carolina, Wednesday night wasn’t one of them, as the Eagles blew out Virginia Tech 80-60 largely from playing harder.
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- Tags: ACC, Boston College, Virginia Tech
Friars Hope to Show They Grew During Brutal Stretch
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
24 Feb 2010Four games against teams ranked in the top 10 are in the books for Providence. It would be a challenging stretch for anyone, but for the young Friars it was a bigger challenge. The Friars lost all four, three by double digits.
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Defense Lifts Holy Cross
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
21 Feb 2010Holy Cross knows that the way to win is by playing defense. As such, the Crusaders know that the wins have been hard to come by this season because they have had some struggles at that end of the floor. But they certainly showed up there on Sunday, as they started the crucial final week of the regular season with a 64-51 win over American.
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- Tags: Holy Cross, Patriot League
Tar Heels Struggle For a Variety of Reasons
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
21 Feb 2010North Carolina certainly had some question marks entering the season. Chances are, though, not many people imagined the Tar Heels would be 3-9 in the ACC with four games to go in the regular season.
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- Tags: ACC, North Carolina, Roy Williams
Cornell Wins With Seasoned Veterans
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
20 Feb 2010Cornell played like the team of seasoned veterans that they are to take home a convincing 79-70 win over Harvard in a much-hyped game. On this night, the difference in experience couldn’t be missed in how this game went.
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- Tags: Cornell, Harvard, Ivy League, Louis Dale, Ryan Wittman
For West Virginia, the Butler Keeps Doing It
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
18 Feb 2010West Virginia’s most important player isn’t someone that anyone would have imagined a few years ago. But Da’Sean Butler is closing the book on a fine career that has come a long way from his days growing up in Newark, New Jersey.
Quick Hitters – February 15, 2010
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
15 Feb 2010We have some quick hitters from the weekend, with several on the Ivy League as well as Belmont’s road adventure and UMass riding the play of a hot senior guard to another win.
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- Tags: Belmont, Brown, Harvard, Ivy League, Northeastern, UMass
Hawks’ Offense Makes This Rebuilding Season Different
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
15 Feb 2010Phil Martelli has seen rebuilding years in his time. After two good years to start his tenure at the school, the Hawks had losing records three years in a row. But this one is a little different from those of the past, and there’s one thing that clearly makes this one a little different as Saint Joseph’s struggles at 3-8 in the Atlantic 10.
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Rice’s Formula For Success Continues to Work
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
14 Feb 2010Since Mike Rice took over at Robert Morris, the program has had nothing but success. The Colonials have won back-to-back regular season titles and could be on their way to a third in a row. There’s been a formula that he has stuck to all along, and it’s seen good success again this season as he works with a mix of freshmen and upperclassmen, although there have been bumps in the road.
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- Tags: Northeast, Robert Morris
A Little Tougher Loss For Bryant
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
14 Feb 2010Saturday’s loss against Robert Morris probably hurts a little more than many others Bryant has suffered this season.
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St. Francis (Pa.) Comes Along in Rebuilding Process
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
12 Feb 2010When you’re rebuilding a program, sometimes little milestones help more than one might think. It’s also true that as meaningful as those milestones might be at the time, it doesn’t change what the bottom line goal is. It’s not the end of the growth. For Don Friday’s St. Francis (Pa.) team, that’s the story after their first road win of the season.
Streaky Georgia State Not Easy to Figure Out
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
11 Feb 2010The Colonial Athletic Association has some teams that are tough to figure out, to be certain. Throughout college basketball, there are teams with whom one doesn’t know which one will show up on a given night. And it seems no team fits that description in the CAA better than Georgia State
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Northeastern Continues to Look An Important Year Older
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
11 Feb 2010One game at a time, Northeastern looks more and more like a team that learned the painful lesson of last season. The latest example of this was the Huskies’ 62-53 victory over Georgia State on a snowy night in Boston.
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Tough Stretch Could Influence Providence’s Present and Future
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
10 Feb 2010The Big East is certainly a strong conference this season, but the stretch Providence began on Tuesday still stands out nonetheless. It’s the first of four games against teams ranked in the top ten nationally, with two on the road. For the young Friars, it could make a difference in their careers, not just this season.
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- Tags: Big East, Providence
Georgetown is Getting Stronger
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
10 Feb 2010In a Big East that is once again very strong and has some very good teams at the top, Georgetown is starting to assert itself as a contender once again. Tuesday night’s 79-70 win at Providence may be a microcosm of the team’s season, one where they got stronger as the game went along.
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Marquette Battles, Learns to Win Close Ones
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
7 Feb 2010If you play Marquette, be prepared to earn every ounce of victory if you win. Recent experience making teams do that has helped this team win and made them tougher to beat.
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Time to Talk About the Princeton Defense
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
6 Feb 2010The Princeton offense is well-known. It’s been talked about a great deal in recent years – one might even say it’s been discussed ad nauseum – and misconceptions about it abound. Less talked about is the defense, but right now that’s the big reason why Princeton is on it is on a roll, improving to 3-0 in the Ivy League with a 56-53 win at Harvard.
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- Tags: Ivy League, Princeton
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