Posts Tagged ‘Colonial’
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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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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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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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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Bracket Breakdown: Mock Tournament 3.0
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
26 Feb 2010Connecticut rolls into the field with two great wins against West Virginia and Villanova in recent weeks, replacing William & Mary, which sputtered in two losses to Iona and Towson.
CAA: Colonial Teams Get Bracket Busted
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
21 Feb 2010The biggest loser of the ESPN BracketBusters weekend was clearly the CAA, which dropped nine of 12 games, including three by the conference’s possible bubble teams.
William & Mary: A Tribe Called on a Quest
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
17 Feb 2010William & Mary is on the verge of entering uncharted territory for the program, which has played basketball for more than 100 years without an invitation to the NCAA Tournament.
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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Huskies Look Like They’ve Learned Their Lesson
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
31 Jan 2010Last season, Northeastern got off to a great start in the CAA before fading down the stretch. The Huskies have started strong again in the CAA this time around, and look like a team that may have learned from last season.
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UNC-Wilmington: Seahawks Boot Moss From Coaching Gig
By: Michael Protos in: Newswire
29 Jan 2010Coach Benny Moss takes an early seat on the coaching carousel after UNC-Wilmington reassigns him within the athletics department.
Can Northeastern Avoid a Repeat of 2008-09?
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
24 Jan 2010After knocking off VCU on Saturday, Northeastern is a hot team. They have won 11 in a row and are 8-1 in the CAA. Last year, they were in a similar situation and fizzled out; can this year’s team avoid a similar fate?
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Moss Sees Team Growing Despite Big Losses
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
17 Jan 2010Normally, one wouldn’t expect the head coach of a team that just got blown out to be in very good spirits. When that blowout loss was the third straight loss by double digits and it was only two weeks earlier that they lost by 34, it would seem to be crisis time. But that’s not the approach of UNC Wilmington head coach Benny Moss, at least not after his team’s 79-56 loss at Northeastern on Saturday.
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Delaware Keeps Battling as Frontcourt Improves
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
14 Jan 2010Monte Ross has talked about his team battling all season long. He’s been consistent with that theme, and while not one for moral victories, effort has been something he has stressed and not had to complain about this season. He’s also seen his frontcourt improve nicely.
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Bracket Buster: Northeastern Shuts Down Wright State
By: Bill Kintner in: Conference Notes
21
Feb
2009
In this game of two defensive-minded teams, Wright State succeeded in shutting down Northeastern’s two top scorers, but their whole effort sprung a leak as Chaisson Allen exploded for 22 points and Eugene Spates had a career day, as the Huskies defeated Wright State 69-57.
It was as if it were a set up in advance for Virginia Commonwealth, with its returning CAA Player of the Year now a senior, leading the league in assists and 5 points ahead of the second best scorer. And as Andy Katz of ESPN has pointed out more than once, it isn’t just in the Big East (and in Big Ten football) that schedules are unbalanced, and often grossly unfair. For the moment the twelve team CAA has determined not to split into two divisions, supposedly because all the Virginia rivals want to play one another twice (yet oddly, VCU and George Mason just play once).
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Vaughan’s Terrific Outing Makes us Appreciate the Game
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns| Your Phil of Hoops
24
Jan
2009
Thankfully, it appears John Vaughan will be okay after what happened Wednesday night at Matthews Arena. A report on Thursday said he will be out for at least a week, but it’s certainly better than being a life-changing injury, which some at the arena surely feared.
In ODU-VCU Matchup, Larry Sanders is Already Too Good for Gerald Lee
By: Jay Pearlman in: Columns
19
Jan
2009
Larry Sanders had a big role in VCU’s win over their arch-rival, showing some of his potential.
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A key opening stretch of four games in eight days for each team has just concluded. While there are still 13 CAA games left to play for each team, how a team starts can influence how they finish, especially if they start strong or in the hole.
Northeastern showed something Monday night in demolishing Hofstra at Matthews Arena. It’s one game, but it didn’t happen in a vacuum, as some of what led to this 73-50 win has been developing for a while. If it keeps up, it won’t look like just one game later on.
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7
Jan
2009
Holy Cross head coach Ralph Willard was hoping to hear from Siena head coach Fran McCaffery to talk about what happened last week when the two teams met and had an ending that surprised just about everyone there. His preference was, understandably, to keep things in-house on the matter.
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- Tags: Arkansas, California, Colonial, Fran McCaffery, Hofstra, Holy Cross, Pac-10, Ralph Willard, Santa Clara, SEC, Siena, West Coast
Colonial Notebook: Symmetry in the Standings and Change of Pace for Tribe
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Conference Notes
5
Jan
2009
CAA play has begun in earnest, and already it’s gotten interesting. As we enter the middle of the big five-day stretch with three games for each team (save for Drexel and VCU, who play their third game of the stretch on Thursday), there is some symmetry in the standings as three teams are 2-0, six are 1-1 and three are 0-2. But that’s not all. After five of the six games played in December went to the road team, the home teams had their revenge on Saturday as only Drexel pulled out a road win at Hofstra.
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Dec
2008
With the non-conference slate in the books, save for a BracketBusters date in February, Hofstra will head into the meat of Colonial Athletic Association play looking better than a year ago. At that time, the Pride had struggled to a 2-8 mark, including a CAA loss early in December. This time around, they will enter at 9-3, including a 90-79 win at Towson on December 6.
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20
Dec
2008
There are several things Delaware can take away from Sunday’s 70-68 win at Boston University. It was full of positives both in the immediate and going forward. Let’s start with the easy one. The Blue Hens were affected by the snowstorm that hit the northeast, arriving in town late Saturday after their plane sat on the runway for three hours. They took a bus back down after the game, taking no chances dealing with possible flight difficulties.
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It was only a couple of weeks ago that Northeastern looked like it was at the beginning of a very promising season. Despite not showing up against Michigan in their second game of the season, the Huskies bounced back with impressive wins at Providence and against Holy Cross. They stood at 3-1 through four games and had two more home games left before they would be on the road until the new year.
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4
Dec
2008
It’s not a stretch to say that in recent years, James Madison couldn’t stop anyone. The Dukes were routinely a poor defensive team, and that was their fatal flaw since it’s not like they lacked the ability to score. Last season marked the third season in a row in which opponents shot over 48 percent from the field against the Dukes. Colonial Athletic Association opponents shot over 50 percent against them last season.
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28
Nov
2008
Ever since Northeastern left the America East Conference for the Colonial Athletic Association in 2005, the cross-town rivalry between the Huskies and Boston University hasn’t been the same. The teams have only played once per season, save for the 2005-06 season when they did not play at all, and the games have been in November instead of January and February and with the occasional March game mixed in during the conference tournament.
Colonial Preview
By: Jay Pearlman in: Conference Notes
7 Nov 2008Colonial Athletic Association 2008-09 Preview
by Jay Pearlman
CAA fans tighten your belts: with all due respect to Michael Litos’ Cinderella 2005-06, you just may be in for the ride of your lives!
When we last convened in this space, we looked back at a balanced, competitive, but slightly down 2007-08 in the Colonial Athletic Association, focusing [...]
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