Category: Wagner

Breaking Down the NEC Transfer List

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 2013 basketball transfers, go here. Continue reading “Breaking Down the NEC Transfer List” →

Parsing Jeff Goodman’s Transfer List for NYC Players

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 us know in the comments. No big surprises on this list.

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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 Mason became the youngest head coach in Division I. Continue reading “Season In Review: Wagner Seahawks” →

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 some more players who decide to transfer this month. For now though, let’s see how this new ten team league shakes out in my premature ratings for next season. Continue reading “NEC Top 10: Premature Ratings for the 2013-14 Season” →

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 did my best to garner the opinions of several people in the know before devising this list, but as you’ll soon see, it is truly a muddle of programs smack in the middle. Let’s begin. Continue reading “Best Coaching Jobs in the NEC” →

Big Apple Buckets Metro Area Awards

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 All-MET awards will be announced shortly, but here are my choices. Continue reading “Big Apple Buckets Metro Area Awards” →

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

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. Continue reading “The Greatest Non-Conference Victories in the History of the NEC” →