ALBANY, N.Y. — It was not exactly the most crisp game for either side but Monmouth asserted themselves on the Times Union Center court in their first appearance as top seed. Continue reading “Monmouth 59, Rider 48: Hawks Advance In Ugly Fashion”
It was a clean sweep for the top-seeded Monmouth Hawks at the MAAC Postseason Awards. Continue reading “Monmouth Sweeps MAAC Top Awards”
WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ – There were several reasons Monmouth University men’s basketball coach King Rice was all smiles as he took his seat facing reporters and a battery of tape recorders and microphones late Friday night inside the Multi Purpose Activity Center. Continue reading “Monmouth 79, Rider 58: Hawks Clinch MAAC Title”
JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Like many of the smaller guards in college basketball, we may never know what Justin Robinson’s real height is, but he’s listed at 5’8”, so we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt for the purposes of this narrative.
While he’ll get some competition from A.J. English, he’s certainly in the running for MAAC Player of the Year at 20.3 points, 3.8 assists, and .430 three-point percentage. But Sunday, he was struggling. With 3 minutes left in a tie game with Saint Peter’s, Robinson had just 5 points on 2-8 shooting and looked – like the rest of his Monmouth team – as if the length of the season and pressure they’ve been under was wearing on him.
Continue reading “Monmouth 82, Saint Peter’s 75 (OT): Robinson, Hawks Barely Escape”
WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. – Thunderous boos from a packed Monmouth University student section greeted the Iona College men’s basketball team as it took the floor Friday night at the Multipurpose Activity Center on the Monmouth campus. Continue reading “Early Runs Boosts Iona Past Monmouth”
WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ – Just a little more than 10 minutes remained in the first half Monday night when guard Thomas Capuano of the Manhattan College basketball team ran in front of Monmouth University forward Deon Jones. Continue reading “Monmouth 79, Manhattan 70: Hawks Hold Off Jaspers, But Lose Deon Jones”
Monmouth head coach King Rice stressed over the summer that even though Justin Robinson made first team All-MAAC last season, he had hardly reached his ceiling. Continue reading “Justin Robinson Developing Into A Star At Monmouth”
HAMDEN, Conn. – Set your neighborhood time machine to 2013 and the large crowd at the TD Bank Center for Quinnipiac and Monmouth on a January night in 2016 probably made some sense to you. After all, although they were never able to quite capture the NEC title, Quinnipiac was always right there and it seemed that the Bobcats’ impending move to the MAAC would only propel them to bigger and better things (and more consistent crowds).
Sure enough, a year later, Quinnipiac was doing just fine, thank you, in its new MAAC surroundings, still pummeling teams into submission, once 14-4 in the league before a late slide. Meanwhile, for King Rice and Monmouth things were, well, rough. Rice’s team hadn’t even qualified for the 2013 NEC Tournament and its 5-15 (and 11-21 overall) a year later mark might have even exceeded expectations for a program making an upward move with seemingly very little to work with.
Continue reading “Monmouth: Started From The Bottom, Now They’re Here, MAAC”
Monmouth knocked down another domino in their remarkable season with a 66-51 victory at Quinnipiac Thursday evening. Justin Robinson led all scorers with 13 points as the Hawks improved to 8-2 in MAAC play while the Bobcats fell to 2-7. Continue reading “Monmouth 66, Quinnipiac 51: Hawks Climbing The Hill”
They’re here. Fortunately for us, in this case “they” doesn’t refer to malevolent spirits. Unfortunately for the teams of the MAAC, “they” refers to the Manhattan College Jaspers, who come with their own brand of vengeance. Continue reading “Manhattan 78, Monmouth 71: They’re Still The Champs”
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