Tonight is a big night for college basketball in around New York City. I’ll be at the Jimmy V. Classic watching Missouri vs. Villanova and Marquette vs. Washington from Madison Square Garden, but you can catch action in Staten Island, Newark and Morningside Heights tonight. Here’s what to watch for in those three games.
Category: Wagner
Memory of LIU game drives Wagner to big victory
Wagner crushed St. Francis (NY) to get its first NEC victory of the season and in the process started to wash away the bad memories from a close loss to Long Island in the conference opener. The Seahawks blitzed the Terriers for a 90-50 victory on Saturday night at the Spiro Athletics Center.
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Thursday Round Up: LIU wins conference opener
The opening of NEC and MAAC play on Thursday night meant that there were a lot of games played by NYC area schools, even if sometimes they were playing each other. St. Francis (NY), St. Peter’s and Long Island all came out winners for the evening.
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NEC opens play tonight
Conference play starts early this week as a number of schools get their feet wet with a little action. The NEC opens play tonight with a full slate of six games pitting teams against conference opponents. The headliner is defending champion Long Island hosting Wagner. Here’s what you need to know about those six games.
Dribble Handoffs: End of November
The first month of college basketball season is coming to an end, but that means the information available is just heating up. Lots of great stuff is being written about all the teams in the area.
Saturday Round Up: Hofstra gets big win
Saturday was a busy day in college basketball. Besides Columbia’s win over Manhattan, full coverage of which you can find below, there were five other games on the schedule. Hofstra got the biggest win of the day, a 63-53 victory over Cleveland State, but there were some other good wins as well.
Season Snapshot: Wagner
It’d be hard to categorize Wagner’s early season start as anything but a success. The Seahawks are 4-1, with the lone loss being to Connecticut. In the process they’ve defeated Princeton, Penn, Lafayette and North Carolina Central. Only one of those games was at home too, making the challenge all that more difficult. How has Wagner been successful? What’s working? Let’s check in on Dan Hurley’s club.
Saturday Wrap Up: LIU’s first win
Area teams got the maximum numbers of wins they possibly could’ve on Saturday, since one was a head-to-head matchup, including Long Island’s first of the season. A little tempo-free analysis of each game is up next.
Monday Round Up, Tuesday Look Ahead
The ESPN 24-hours of College Hoops marathon is currently going on. That’s great if you want to catch a game at any point today, because there will always be a game on. If you just want to know what happened last night see below, including underneath this post for a recap of Columbia’s loss to Furman.
Sunday Round Up, Monday Look Ahead
Stony Brook was the only area team to play on Sunday, but the action cranks up on Monday with five local teams in action. Everything you need to know is after the jump.
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