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NEC All-Conference Teams: The Way Too Early Edition

By on May 23, 2013 in Bryant, Central Connecticut, Long Island, Mount St. Mary's, NEC, Robert Morris, Sacred Heart, St. Francis (NY), St. Francis (PA), Wagner

In keeping with the spirit of those “way too early ratings” for the upcoming 2013-14 season, I decided to unveil my all-conference teams for the NEC. Mainly because I had nothing better to do. Plus it’s fun to speculate with over five months left before the season begins! Here we go, and of course feel [...]

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Season In Review: LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds

By on April 29, 2013 in Long Island, NEC

LIU came full circle during the 2012-13 season. The Blackbirds started as the NEC’s favorite, struggled due to some off the court issues and injuries and then once again emerged as the class of the conference with a third straight appearance in the NCAA tournament.

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NEC Top 10: Premature Ratings for the 2013-14 Season

By on April 10, 2013 in Bryant, Central Connecticut, Fairleigh Dickinson, Long Island, Mount St. Mary's, NEC, Robert Morris, Sacred Heart, St. Francis (NY), St. Francis (PA), Wagner

With the college basketball season officially behind us, everyone is beginning to speculate on the nation’s top 25 for the 2013-14 season. I figured to join in on the fun, by giving you my NEC top 10 as of today! Keep in mind I haven’t fully delved into each team’s incoming recruits and there may be [...]

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Best Coaching Jobs in the NEC

By on April 9, 2013 in Bryant, Central Connecticut, Fairleigh Dickinson, Long Island, Mount St. Mary's, NEC, Robert Morris, Sacred Heart, St. Francis (NY), St. Francis (PA), Wagner

Big Apple Buckets continues their Best Coaching Jobs series with the Northeast Conference. With the departures of Quinnipiac and Monmouth this coming fall, ranking the ten remaining jobs was incredibly difficult to do. Two of the best arenas are heading to the MAAC; therefore attempting to decipher the NEC’s best gigs is wonderfully subjective. I [...]

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Final Big Apple Buckets NYC Power Poll

By on April 1, 2013 in Fairfield, Iona, Long Island, Manhattan, Polls, Rider, Stony Brook, Wagner

It’s awards day and now it’s time to release the final Big Apple Buckets Power Poll of the season. The voters here have made a strong statement that making the NCAA tournament in a one-bid league doesn’t determine a team’s worth, but it can help.

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Big Apple Buckets Metro Area Awards

By on April 1, 2013 in Columbia, Fairfield, Iona, Long Island, Manhattan, N.J.I.T., Sacred Heart, St. Francis (NY), Stony Brook, Wagner

College basketball in the New York City area is quite competitive. LIU Brooklyn and Iona both won their respective league tournaments and went to the NCAA tournament and St. John’s and Stony Brook both headed off the NIT. There are talented players playing in all five boroughs – I know because I saw them. The [...]

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JMU Slows Down LIU, Ends Blackbirds’ Season

By on March 20, 2013 in Long Island, NEC

LIU came into the play-in game as one of the nation’s highest scoring teams, but the Blackbirds were disrupted by the length of James Madison in a frustrating 68-55 loss in the First Four on Wednesday night in Dayton, Ohio.

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Preview: James Madison vs. LIU Brooklyn

By on March 20, 2013 in Long Island, NEC

Tonight in Dayton the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds will look to do something they’ve never done in the history of the men’s basketball program, win a game in the NCAA tournament. They’ve come pretty close before, back in 1984 the Blackbirds lost to Jim Calhoun’s Northeastern team by just three point in the “preliminary” round.

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A Lack of Respect

By on March 19, 2013 in Long Island, NEC, Robert Morris

Look, we’re really excited that Robert Morris is hosting Kentucky in the NIT tonight. (If you saw my tweet…) But I think Nelson Castillo raises a good point in his post here about Joe Lunardi’s preview video for LIU Brooklyn. It doesn’t bother me that much that RMU’s game is mentioned – ESPN has a game [...]

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Iona and LIU Brooklyn Get Tough Draws

By on March 17, 2013 in Iona, Long Island

We knew that the road to victories in the NCAA tournament wasn’t going to be easy for LIU Brooklyn or Iona, but it got a lot harder after the bracket was announced on Sunday. Iona is heading to Dayton to take on Ohio State in the second round. LIU is also heading to Dayton. The [...]

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