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Basketball Camps Around the Corner

By on May 7, 2013 in Columbia, Stony Brook, Wagner

We’re already into May and summer time is fast approaching. Coaching basketball is now a full-time job and camps are an excellent opportunity from coaches of all levels to scout new talent and also build new relationships.

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Breaking Down the NEC Transfer List

By on May 2, 2013 in Central Connecticut, Mount St. Mary's, NEC, Robert Morris, Sacred Heart, St. Francis (PA), Wagner

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 [...]

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Parsing Jeff Goodman’s Transfer List for NYC Players

By on April 30, 2013 in Columbia, Fordham, Hofstra, Iona, Manhattan, N.J.I.T., Wagner

The offseason transfers are kicking into high-gear. Jeff Goodman has a list of more than 400 players that will have new homes for the 2013-14 college basketball season. I went through and parsed the list for all the New York City players I could find. Think Goodman is missing someone? (Or I missed someone.) Let [...]

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Season In Review: Wagner Seahawks

By on April 26, 2013 in NEC, Wagner

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 [...]

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Official All-MET Awards Announced

By on April 15, 2013 in Iona, St. Francis (NY), Stony Brook, Wagner

The official announcement of the All-MET awards has come out and it disagrees quite a bit with our selections that we published back on April 1.

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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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The Greatest Non-Conference Victories in the History of the NEC

By on March 27, 2013 in Central Connecticut, Lehigh, Mount St. Mary's, NEC, Patriot League, Robert Morris, Wagner

One of the first posts I ever wrote on Pioneer Pride centered around Wagner’s upset victory over Pittsburgh three days before Christmas last season. Immediately after watching Dan Hurley’s masterpiece, I took to the keyboard to pen one of my first posts on the Northeast Conference.

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