With the “free agent” period of college basketball in full swing, I felt it was a good time to identify who has prematurely left the NEC and what kind of impact it has on their former team. Here are the top nine transfers that decided to leave the conference. For Jeff Goodman’s complete list of [...]
Season In Review: St. Francis (PA) Red Flash
Rebuilding a program isn’t an easy thing to do, yet St. Francis University has seemingly been a part of the vicious cycle for several years running. In Rob Krimmel’s first season at the helm – after serving as a Red Flash assistant coach for 12 seasons – the NEC basement dweller struggled once again, yet [...]
Season In Review: LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds
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.
Season In Review: Wagner Seahawks
There were reasons for optimism after Wagner fell to Robert Morris at home in the semifinals of the NEC tournament in March of 2012. The Seahawks had been rebuilt and Dan Hurley had a talented collection of players on Grymes Hill. Soon thereafter Hurley took off for another rebuilding project at Rhode Island and Bashir [...]
Greg Herenda Hired as Fairleigh Dickinson Head Coach
Nearly 51 days after Fairleigh Dickinson (FDU) failed to renew the contract of embattled head coach Greg Vetrone, the Knights have inked his replacement. Greg Herenda, the five-year coach of the Division II program UMass-Lowell will inherit the program as the sixth head coach in the FDU’s history. A long time assistant, Herenda has slowly worked his way up [...]
Kyle Vinales To Transfer From Central Connecticut
After reading reports this morning confirming that Naofall Folahan was released from his scholarship at Wagner, I quickly tweeted out that this was simply another role player leaving a NEC program. It was no big deal, in my opinion, that the biggest transfers of the conference consisted of the following: Folahan, Eric Fanning, Kelvin Parker, Josh Castellanos [...]
NEC Top 10: Premature Ratings for the 2013-14 Season
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 [...]
Best Coaching Jobs in the NEC
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 [...]
Season In Review: Bryant Bulldogs
Losing 99 basketball games in 119 tries will take a lot out of you, even if you have the legitimate excuse of overseeing your program transition from Division II to Division I athletics. Such was the case for Bryant head coach Tim O’Shea, who after succumbing to four seasons of recruiting purgatory, was fighting to [...]
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