Northeast Conference Notebook
by Zach Smart

Ah, to be an NEC team during this juncture of the season. This is when the league begins to turn up the volts, when the top-of-the-line team floats down to the middle of the pack before the blink of an eye. The NEC world is where out-of-conference action rarely affects [...]

Northeast Conference Notebook
by Zach Smart

Mt. St. Mary’s Sitting At The Top of the Mountain
A message to anyone intrigued by a Northeast Conference that just might flee from obscurity this season: the college basketball conference that’s about as topsy-turvy as this year’s college football season is back in the fold.
The NEC, commonly tattooed by the [...]

Northeast Conference Notebook
by Zach Smart

Blackbirds A Pleasant Surprise, Pioneers Freefalling
In a conference that’s about as predictable as a Mike Tyson interview, the clear favorite has abruptly sunk to the bottom-echelon while the team that the skeptics figured would be flattened due to the loss of their go-to, do-it-all combo guard has emerged on top.
Sacred [...]

Northeast Conference Notebook
by Zach Smart

Working Overtime, Bobcats Get First W
It was around the mid-way mark of the second half when it hit Quinnipiac: capturing the first victory of the 2007-2008 campaign would entail a little less of DeMario Anderson, and a little more of their backcourt and bench players.
Anderson, a prolific scorer who’s already [...]

Northeast Conference 2007-08 Preview
by Zach Smart

Pre-Season All-Conference
G-Tristan Blackwood, Central Connecticut
G-Chris Vann, Mount St. Mary’s
G/F-DeMario Anderson, Quinnipiac
F-Jeremy Chappelle, Robert Morris
F-Robert Hines, St. Francis N.Y.
Central Connecticut (22-12, 16-2 Northeast)
Two-thirds of the NEC’s best three-headed monster are gone from last season. Player of the Year Javier Mojica (17PPG, 7RPG) has taken his game to the Puerto Rico [...]

Northeast Conference 2006-07 Season Recap
by Zach Smart

NEC Postseason Awards
Player of the Year: Javier Mojica, Sr. Central Connecticut
Simply put, Mojica was the best player on the best team in the Northeast Conference this season. After playing a supporting role the past two seasons, Mojica came into his element, averaging 17 points and seven boards while [...]

Northeast Conference Tournament Quarterfinal Recap
by Zach Smart

Forget what happened during the regular season. Everything. It’s meaningless at this point. It’s been echoed time and time again, and that “anyone can beat anyone” talk is only going to persist as playoff arrives.
The quarterfinals kicked off tonight and were strong indicators of this. It’s why St. [...]

Northeast Conference Notebook
by Zach Smart

A Devil Of A Time
This year’s Central Connecticut team possesses a three-headed monster that all of two conference teams have been able to maintain.
This is, however, the Northeast Conference we’re talking about now. The top dog can never be inked in as the champion, regardless of how many top-tier teams [...]

Northeast Conference Notebook
by Zach Smart

Joe DeSantis never lost hope. Not amid the small crowds, the detractors, the off-court distractions, the grueling seven-game losing streak. Not even amid pink slip rumors which zipped through Hamden like the Connecticut Transit. Indeed, the man who was here when Quinnipiac was a Division-II program (and he only [...]

Northeast Conference Notebook
by Zach Smart

The beat goes on and on for one of college basketball’s laughing-stock conferences. In fact, one of the primary reason this conference is viewed by skeptics as such a joke is because there are no forces, no perennial powerhouses one can ink in for a tournament appearance every year. Some [...]

Northeast Conference Notebook
by Zach Smart

FDU, SHU Early Favorites
We’re all familiar with the scenario. One team starts the season of sizzling, establishes itself on the radar with a collection of victories both in and out of conference, before another team emerges out of the blue to take the title. The truth is, the Northeast Conference, [...]

Northeast Conference 2006-07 Preview
by Zach Smart

To the outside world, the Northeast Conference is the laughing-stock conference of college basketball. It’s a safe haven for standout high school players that received few to no Division I offers their senior year. It’s the weakest piece of the puzzle, the compartment containing the worst brand of basketball [...]

Northeast Conference 2005-06 Season Recap
by Zach Smart

Farleigh Dickinson (20-12, 14-4): It was a special year for the Knights. The season had nearly all the right ingredients: a regular season conference championship, a conference Player of the Year award, and two players being named to the Division I All-MET second team. Throw an 11-game winning [...]

Northeast Conference Notebook
by Zach Smart

NEC Teams Gear Up For Playoffs With Knights On Top
It’s been said time and time again, dating back to the beginning of the season and wiith playoff action opening up this Thursday (matchups-sites-time TBA), it will only be repeated. The truth be known, determining who will capture this year’s [...]

Northeast Conference Notebook
by Zach Smart

It was said at the beginning of the season that the Northeast Conference is one in which any team can knock off any opponent on any given night. Well, that statement has proved to be somewhat accurate thus far. The NEC appears to be wide open, with Farleigh Dickinson remaining [...]

Northeast Conference Notebook
by Zach Smart

Coleman Making Some Noise For RMU

Robert Morris Guard Derek Coleman, not long after putting on an outside shooting clinic to lead the Colonials to a hard fought victory over Quinnipiac, continued his fine play this season with a 31-point performance that lifted the Colonials to a 97-85 triumph over Charleston [...]

Northeast Conference Notebook
by Zach Smart

Bobcats Improve To 4-2 with Victory over Red Raiders

HAMDEN, Conn. – The expression “Be a senior” is one coined by a former University of South Carolina-Spartanburg (USC Upstate) coach named Chris Ward. Ward, who helped resurrect an ailing program during his stay as a Spartan coach, could always be found [...]