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For Shame! It’s the End of Live April Basketball

It must really chap the NCAA’s hide that they have no way to truly regulate travel team basketball with high school players. It is out of their jurisdiction, but make no mistake: they have had their sights set on this for a while now. And on Friday, their latest bad move came to pass, as this April and those in future years will not have any live weekends of travel team basketball for Division I coaches to evaluate.

Resilient Bryant Gets Third Division I Win

There are times when a lot of hard work that seems unrewarded finally does pay off. When it does, the feeling is pretty good, and sometimes it drives home a lesson learned. Such was the case with Bryant’s third Division I win, a 56-43 decision over visiting Fairleigh Dickinson on Saturday afternoon. The Bulldogs have had some bumps in the road in their first transition season to Division I, being on the short end of a string of blowouts in December.