Category: LIU Brooklyn

History Lesson: LIU Brooklyn vs. St. Francis (NY)

NEC rivalry week is here and the biggest set of games is right here in New York City. LIU Brooklyn and St. Francis (NY) will play two times in order to determine who will be in first place in the NEC at the end of the week. Monday during the day Nelson Castillo, who I’d definitely recommend following on Twitter, took a trip down memory lane to some of the most exciting recent games of this rivalry. Let’s take a look back at them.

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Tempo-free NEC: The value of consistency

In basketball sometimes it’s hard to tell which teams are the good ones. A bad shooting night, a couple missed defensive stops and a win turns into a loss. Teams that are consistent overcome those fluky moments and make the best of their opportunities. Being consistently good means that even on your worst night you’re going to be tough to beat.

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Onyechi provides power off the bench for LIU

As a freshman Kenny Onyechi started all 31 of LIU Brooklyn’s games and was named to the NEC All-Rookie Team. He played 25.7 minutes per game that season and averaged 8.1 points and 4.7 rebounds per game. Then Julian Boyd came back healthy and Onyechi headed to the bench, but that all-league talent is still there.

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NYC Power Poll: Is there really “power” here?

I think the right decision was made last week when the power poll was narrowed down to 12 teams. To be honest, at this point it’s tough to find 12 teams in the area that are worth ranking. That’s evident in this week’s power poll as 15 teams received votes, but the Top 12 is a pretty set group of teams. There’s an equivalent of a second place vote separating team No. 12 from team No. 13.

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Saturday Basketball Bonanza

The boys over at Ballin’ Is a Habit went over 2,500 miles to watch college basketball. I commend them on this incredible journey. Thankfully though I live in New York City, most definitely one of if not the greatest city in the world. It’s also so incredibly densely populated that there are always college basketball games happening during the season. Saturday I’m going to attempt to take advantage of what the city has to offer and attend three games in one day.

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Tempo-free NEC: What to make of St. Francis (NY)

St. Francis (NY) is the surprise of the NEC season. After upsetting Robert Morris at the Sewall Center, in pretty convincing fashion, the Terriers sit tied for second place with Wagner. Both of those teams are hanging out right behind LIU Brooklyn in the traditional standings. The tempo-free standings though continue to make us wonder if this is all a mirage.

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Robert Morris reels LIU Brooklyn back into NEC race

Winning at Robert Morris was going to be a difficult task for LIU Brooklyn. The Colonials are one of the more talented teams in the NEC and guard Velton Jones has been on a roll lately. It was Jones and the rest of the RMU backcourt that outplayed Jason Brickman, C.J. Garner and Michael Culpo and led the Colonials to a 75-66 win that tightened up the NEC race.

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Time Warner – MSG fight coming to NEC fans door

The fight between Time Warner and MSG has been going for almost a month now as the cable television company and home of the NBA’s New York Knicks argue over just how much their programming is worth. For college basketball fans it hasn’t been that big of a deal, until tonight. If you don’t have MSG you can’t watch possibly the biggest NEC showdown of the early season – Robert Morris vs. LIU Brooklyn.

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Q&A about Robert Morris with Colonials Corner

Coming into NEC play it looked like the Robert Morris Colonials were one of the teams to beat. Even without Karon Abraham, Andrew Toole had built a team that managed to take out La Salle, Duquesne and Ohio during non-conference play. Then NEC play started and things got a bit dicier, having just escaped Monmouth 81-73 in overtime, the Colonials sit at 6-2 in the conference with LIU Brooklyn and St. Francis (NY) coming to visit this week. Andrew Chiappazzi of ColonialsCorner.com offered his insight into RMU and what has happened this season.

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