New York, NY—The Big East competition in both the men’s and women’s divisions are at a very high level. Six of the 16 teams in each are ranked in the top 25 nationally. Only two women’s teams and three men’s have won/lost marks below .500. On Sunday afternoon, the men’s and women’s teams of St. [...]
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – When a team is struggling, a coach might try almost anything to change his squad’s luck. Or, in the case of head coach Mo Cassara’s game night wardrobe choice, it’s sometimes better to change nothing at all. The Hofstra Pride may be a mediocre 6-7 so far this season, but Cassara’s suit [...]
New York, NY—The fourth and fifth college basketball doubleheaders were played at Madison Square Garden on the evening before and the afternoon after Thanksgiving. The Oklahoma State Cowboys (3-2) fell to the Stanford Cardinal (5-1) and the Virginia Tech Hokies (4-1) were defeated by the nationally fifth ranked Syracuse Orange (6-0) in the semi-finals on [...]
With basketball season less than a month away,we thought that we would take a look at the local Big East squads: RUTGERS-The Scarlet Knights,off of a surprisingly good 15-17 record under first year head coach Mike Rice, return stars Gilvydas Biruta and Dane Miller and shooter Mike Poole. They also bring in a talented freshman [...]
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – The overachieving Hofstra Pride men’s basketball team has even surprised itself, as the squad led by senior Charles Jenkins (Springfield Gardens, NY) and first-year head coach Mo Cassara unexpectedly sits atop the conference standings at the halfway point of the Colonial Athletic Association standings. Yet, even for a team which has become [...]
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – As a Hofstra alum, yours truly has attended many Hofstra University basketball games over the past two decades, whether as a Hofstra student, a returning alum with season tickets, or in more recent years, with a media credential (the latter been tough, since rooting isn’t tolerated at press row). There have of [...]
Tennessee 77, Virginia Commonwealth 72 NEW YORK – For at least a while, the Virginia Commonwealth Rams (3-1) had plenty of reasons to be thankful on Thanksgiving eve night in New York City. VCU, which entered the evening averaging 86 points per game on 49 percent field goal shooting, was held to just 22 fist-half [...]
New York, NY – The only group of people that were not surprised that the Atlanta Dream advanced to the 2010 WNBA Playoffs were the staff and fans of the Dream. This is a good Atlanta team who at one point in time was in first place in the Eastern Conference standings, while sweeping a [...]
New York, NY – The stage was set, do or die packed Mecca and two great WNBA Eastern Conference teams. The New York Liberty needed a win to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals, but they were facing a very hungry Indiana Fever team that was so close to winning the WNBA Championship last season. [...]
New York, NY- Point guard Leilani Mitchell scored 19 points to lead the New York Liberty (20-11) to a 78-57 victory over the first-place Indiana Fever (21-11). The Liberty are still a half of game behind the Fever, but have now extended a franchise record by winning nine straight games. Mitchell who was 7-for-12 from [...]