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THE ANATOMY OF A SHOOTER: BREAKING DOWN KARVEL’S BIG WEEK
 
You knew another one of these nights was inevitable, but you didn’t know exactly when the heat check would arrive.
 
Well that night was last Thursday and unfortunately for host Sacred Heart, the Pioneers happened to be the opponent when Robert Morris senior guard Karvel Anderson (Elkhart, IN/Elkhart Memorial (Glen Oaks CC)) had one of those “can’t miss” type of games.
 
How hot was the Choice Hotels/NEC Player of the Week?
 
The Elkhart, IN native hit shots from every conceivable spot on the floor, making 15 of his 19 attempts, including 6-7 from three-point range for a career-high 36 points in a 79-70 win.  
 
“I didn’t think I was going to have a night like this,” Anderson said.  “I didn’t even know I had that much.  I just wanted to be aggressive.  The way they defend...we knew that we’d be able to punch it into some gaps and I just wanted to be aggressive and finish at the rim.”
 
His shooting performance was so impressive that it reminded Sacred Heart head coach Anthony Latina of another explosive scorer who often turned heads at the Pitt Center.
 
“All I can say is that was a (former SHU star) Shane Gibson-like performance,” noted Latina.  “The only way you were going to stop him was to make someone else shoot and we didn’t do that.”
 
Anderson’s night gave a new meaning to the word efficiency.  Only two other Division I players this season have made at least 15 field goals in as few as 19 attempts from the field.
 
“Karvel is somebody who, if I didn’t coach him, I would root for him incredibly hard,” RMU head coach Andrew Toole said.  “I really admire the way he goes about his business, the way he handles himself, the way he prepares himself on and off the floor.  It’s a privilege to be able to coach him.”
 
How does this performance rank with some of Anderson’s other white-hot nights in his two years with RMU?  Judge for yourself.
 
Karvel’s Top-5 Shooting Performances
vs. Sacred Heart (1/9/14): 15-19, FG, 6-7 3PFG, 36 points
vs. Toledo (12/7/13): 9-11 FG, 5-6 3PFG, 23 points
vs. Texas Arlington (11/21/13): 8-11 FG, 8-10 3PFG, 24 points
at Ohio (12/1/12): 10-10 FG, 8-8 3PFG, 28 points
at Saint Francis U (1/24/13): 8-11 FG, 5-7 3PFG, 22 points
 
And he wasn’t done.
 
Anderson piled up 32 more points on Saturday in a 71-67 win at Bryant to give RMU a road sweep and leave the Elkhart, IN native with a ridiculous 34.0 ppg average on 64.3 percent shooting from the floor and 60.0 percent (12-20) from three-point range.
 
Anderson is currently shooting a scorching 52.8 percent from the floor and 47.7 percent from three-point range on the season.  He leads the NEC in both three-point accuracy and made trifectas (3.59/game), and ranks fourth in scoring (19.3) and field goal percentage.
 
“I wouldn’t say I have a green light to shoot at any time,” Anderson said. “I’d say that my coaches and my teammates have that confidence in me and if I am going to shoot, I feel like I’m going to make it.”
 
NEC PLAY COMMENCES, JUST TWO REMAIN UNBLEMISHED
One week down and there just two unbeatens remaining in league play.
 
Surprising?  Not really, considering all the talk of parity in the conference among media, coaches and fans the last two months.
 
But when the dust cleared on Saturday, the two teams in first with 2-0 records shouldn’t have surprised anyone.
Wagner, picked as the preseason favorite by NEC head coaches, and Robert Morris, chosen second, both emerged unscathed.
 
The Seahawks won their games in convincing fashion, knocking off CCSU, 88-59, on the road before coming to home to stop LIU Brooklyn, 84-70, behind 19 points and 10 boards from junior forward Mario Moody (Jersey City, NJ/East Orange Campus).
 
Robert Morris hit the road and won at Sacred Heart, 79-70, before heading north to take down Bryant, 71-67, in a terrific game that went down to the final moments.  Senior guard Karvel Anderson (Elkhart, IN/Elkhart Memoria (Glen Oaks CC)) did it all for the Colonials, averaging 34.0 ppg in the two wins.
 
Wagner has now started NEC play 2-0 the last two years and three times in the last four seasons.  RMU is 2-0 for the second time in four seasons and third time in the last five years.
 
Behind those two, there is a six-way tie for third place with 1-1 records.
 
NEC-TV DEBUTS THIS THURSDAY
The first NEC-TV game of the 2013-14 season comes this Saturday when preseason NEC favorite Wagner visits 2012-13 NEC runner-up Mount St. Mary’s at 7 pm in a game to air live on MASN, Fox College Sports and ESPN3.
 
Calling the action will be the veteran team of Dave Popkin (play-by-play), Joe DeSantis (color) and Paul Dottino (sideline).
 
DWAUN RETURNS TO TOP OF #SCTOP10
He makes the unbelievable seem routine.  And he was at it again on Saturday.
 
In the midst of a 21-4 run that allowed Wagner to pull away from LIU Brooklyn, sophomore guard Dwaun Anderson (Suttons Bay, MI/Suttons Bay (Michigan State)) earned himself yet another visit to the #SCTop10 with a dunk that will be talked about for quite some time in Staten Island.  Leading the break, senior guard Latif Rivers (Elizabeth, NJ/Elizabeth (Avon Old Farms (CT))) flipped the ball off the backboard to Anderson, who stretched high and over teammate Marcus Burton (Charlotte, NC/David W. Butler) for a vicious slam that set social media ablaze and earned the #1 spot on SportsCenter’s top-10 plays later that evening.
 
ChrisAlesi @ChrisAlesi
Dwaun Anderson of Wagner will be on @SportsCenter Top 10 again. Off the backboard alley oop over his own teammate. Unreal.
 
John Templon @nybuckets
Question I have re: Dwaun Anderson’s dunk. Can you posterize your own player? Poor Marcus Burton got jumped over!
 
Bryant Athletics @BryantAthletics
@WagnerAthletics took #SCTopPlay last night w/ an amazing off the backboard alley-oop. Way to represent @NECsports #6thFan #BRYANT #NECPride
 
“Honestly, I didn’t even know he was going to throw it off the backboard,” said Anderson after the game.  “I was more surprised than anyone I think.”
 
“I saw it coming the whole way,” said Wagner head coach Bashir Mason. “But I’ve seen Dwaun have better dunks than that. I just think overall this might have been our best display of basketball yet.  LIU really hung tough, and I think our guys are showing that they are getting better all the time about playing with each other.”
 
FOLAHAN SETS NEW WAGNER MARK
In senior center Naofall Folahan (Cotonou, Benin/Wilbraham & Monson Academy (MA)), Wagner has one of the top rim protectors in recent NEC memory.
 
With his 177th career blocked shot, Folahan broke Frantz Pierre-Louis’ 14-year old Wagner record on Thursday, and by week’s end, has boosted that number to 180 rejections.
 
With 15 blocks in his last three outings, Folahan leads the NEC by a comfortable margin with 2.6 per game.  If that number holds up, it would be the best single-season average in the conference since Monmouth’s John Bunch rejected 3.3 per game in 2006-07.
 
SFBK TAKES FIRST ROUND OF BATTLE OF BROOKLYN
It’s a rivalry that has produced some of the most memorable games in league history, from buzzer beaters to triple overtime games to perhaps the best-ever game in conference annals.
 
That rivalry took another twist last Thursday, when St. Francis Brooklyn snapped a six-game losing streak to neighboring LIU Brooklyn with a 78-64 win at the Pitt Center.
 
How did the Terriers take down the three-time defending NEC champs?
 
First off, the Terriers dominated on the boards, pulling down 26 offensive rebounds while enjoying a 52-28 edge on the glass.  Junior forward Jalen Cannon (Allentown, PA/William Allen) posted a season-high 14 boards with a career-best nine coming on the offensive glass.
 
“We had 20 offensive rebounds at the half,” St. Francis Brooklyn head coach Glenn Braica said. “I’ve never seen that.  I thought that was phenomenal.”
 
Secondly, senior guard Ben Mockford (Shoreham-by-Sea, England/Oak Hill Academy (VA)) had arguably the best shooting night of his career, which is saying something.  Mockford, who drained his 200th career three-pointer at St. Francis in the second half, hit 8-14 shots from long range, including a perfect 6-6 from distance in the final 20 minutes.  He finished with a career-high 30 points and came within one trifecta of matching Jamaal Womack’s single-game school record of nine three-pointers set against Robert Morris on February 17, 2007.
 
Finally, there was junior guard Brett Jones (Brooklyn, NY/Bedford Academy), who was nearly flawless running with the point with a career-best 12 assists against just one turnover.
 
“You do want to beat them, but I want to beat everybody,” said Braica on the win over the Blackbirds.  “They’ve had a very good run in the league the last few years, and not many teams have beaten them.  This isn’t our ultimate goal, to beat LIU.  We want to take it a step further and be as good as we can be.”
 
The two schools, separated by just one mile, will meet again on February 16th, this time with the Barclays Center serving as host.  That game will air live at 4:00 pm on MSG and Fox College Sports.
 
BRICKMAN CRACKS NCAA TOP-20 IN CAREER ASSISTS
LIU Brooklyn senior guard Jason Brickman (San Antonio, TX/Clark) reached yet another impressive milestone last Thursday when he entered the NCAA top-20 for career assists.
 
Brickman dished for 11 assists at St. Francis Brooklyn to reach the top-20, passing Bradley’s Anthony Manuel (855) and Clemson’s Grayson Marshall (857).  Two days later, he added six more dimes to lift his career total to 866 assists.
 
NCAA Career Assist Leaders
14. Andre LeFleur (Northeastern)       894          1983-87
15. Chico Fletcher (Arkansas State)    893          1996-00
16. Jim Les (Bradley)                  884          1982-86
17. Frank Smith (Old Dominion)         883          1984-88
18. Scott Machado (Iona)               880          2008-12
19. Taurence Chisolm (Delaware)        877          1984-88
20. Jason Brickman (LIU)               866          2010-14
20. Grayson Marshall (Clemson)         857          1984-88
21. Anthony Manuel (Bradley)           855          1985-89
 
Brickman is now just 81 assists away from reaching the top-10 and has a chance to hit 1,000 helpers.
 
Only three players in the history of the NCAA have made it to 1,000 assists.  Duke’s Bobby Hurley is first with 1,076, followed by NC State’s Chris Corchiani (1,038) and UNC’s Ed Cota (1,030).  To get there in the regular season, Brickman would need to average 9.57 per game.  He currently leads the nation with 9.8 apg, more than two assists ahead of UMass’ Chaz Williams (7.5 apg).
 
HERENDA, LATINA EARNS FIRST NEC WINS
First year Fairleigh Dickinson head coach Greg Herenda made his NEC debut last Thursday, and senior guard Sidney Sanders, Jr. (Charleston, SC/Burke (Polk State)) did everything in his power to make sure his coach walked away with a win.
 
Sanders established a new career-high for the second straight game with 32 points on 12-21 shooting from the field and a perfect 3-3 from behind the arc as the Knights came back from an eight-point first half deficit to upend Mount St. Mary’s, 85-79.
 
“We beat a very, very good team, and we were extremely fortunate,” Herenda said. “They played in the conference championship game last year, but we just need to get better defensively, and we will be fine.”

Freshman guard Matt MacDonald (Buffalo, NY/Canisius) added a career-best 21 points, sinking 12-14 free throws.  He was named Choice Hotels/NEC Rookie of the Week.
 
“Sid Sanders literally put the entire team on his back, and our freshman phenom Matt MacDonald was tremendous,” said Herenda after the game.
 
Under Anthony Latina, Sacred Heart dropped its first NEC game to Robert Morris on Thursday, but bounced back two days later to give the rookie head coach his first conference victory with a 71-67 conquest of FDU at the Pitt Center.
 
Sacred Heart limited FDU to just two points over the last four minutes of the contest and sealed things on two Chris Evans (Stamford, CT/Stamford) free throws with 19 seconds left on the clock.
 
“Finishing the game is something that we’ve obviously lacked,” said Latina after the win.  “I think...you never want to say `must win’ early in the year, but it was an important game for a couple of reasons.  We needed to win a home game and the thing that I feel real good about is how we won it; this wasn’t a 98 to 96 game.  We won it with some guts and grit and defense.”
 
Senior forward Louis Montes (Brockton, MA/Brockton) led the way for the Pioneers with 15 points and 11 boards.
 
BRYANT’S “FRANCHISE” NEARING PAIR OF NEC TOP-10 CAREER MILESTONES
Bryant senior forward Alex Francis (Harlem, NY/Holderness Prep) averaged 26.0 ppg last week to march up four more spots on the NEC career scoring chart last week, landing at #14 with 1,780 points.  He scored 23 in a win over Saint Francis U and added 29 more in a close loss to RMU.  Francis shot 68.0 percent from the floor for the week.
 
After passing some NEC heavy hitters in John Giraldo and Alex Blackwell (MU), Gregory Harris (MSM) and Charles Jones (LIU), Francis is now just 75 points shy of the top-10.
 
NEC Career Scoring Leaders
10. Jeremy Chappell     RMU       1,875       2005-09
11. Jamal Olasewere     LIU       1,871       2009-13
12. Joe Griffin         LIU       1,830       1991-95
13. Jeff Hamilton       SFU       1,810       1981-85
14. Alex Francis        BRY       1,800       2010-14
15. Charles Jones       LIU       1,772       1996-98
16. Gregory Harris      MSM       1,760       1996-00
17. Alex Blackwell      MU        1,749       1989-92
18. John Giraldo        MU        1,749       1992-96
19. Kevin Booth         MSM       1,742       1989-93
20. Landy Thompson      MSM       1,733       2002-06
 
Francis also jumped up six spots to 12th on the league’s all-time rebounding list and has pulled down 844 in his career.  He needs 72 more to enter the top-10.
 
He is one of four players in NEC history to rank in the top-20 in both scoring and rebounding in his career.
 
Players Ranked In Top-20 In NEC Career Scoring & Rebounding
Ken Horton         CCSU       1,966 points/6th     842 rebounds/13th
Rik Smits          MAR        1,945/8th            811/19th
Jamal Olasewere    LIU        1,871/11th           963/7th
Alex Francis       BRY        1,800/14th           844/12th
 
The New York City product has a chance to become the first player in conference annals to rank in the top-10 in both categories.
 
Francis currently ranks in the NEC top-10 in scoring (18.2, fifth), rebounding (6.8, third) and field goal percentage (.573, 1st).
 
NO STOPPING FDU’S SANDERS, MOUNT’S NORFLEET
Opponents have been patiently waiting for Fairleigh Dickinson’s Sidney Sanders, Jr. (Charleston, SC/Burke (Polk State)) to cool down, but the senior guard has shown no signs of slowing down from his current hot streak.
 
Over his last nine games, the Charleston, SC native has averaged 23.8 ppg and 5.2 apg.  During that stretch he has also made a whopping 71 free throws.
 
Sanders recorded back-to-back 30-point scoring games for FDU with a career-high 31 against Hofstra on January 5 and 32 more for another personal-best in the Knights’ 85-79 win over Mount St. Mary’s in last Thursday’s season opener.
 
Sanders, who has jumped his scoring average from 4.4 ppg as a junior to 20.4 ppg this season, ranks first in the NEC in scoring and steals (1.6), and fifth in assists (4.9).
 
Mount St. Mary’s senior guard Julian Norfleet (Virginia Beach, VA/Landstown) is another dual threat who can fill it up on his own or by deftly distributing to teammates.
 
In his last three games, Norfleet has made 69.0 percent of his shot attempts (29-42) and 57.1 percent of his three-point opportunities (8-14) while averaging 26.3 ppg and 7.3 apg.
 
Norfleet opened NEC play with 24 points (9-12 FG) and nine assists in the Mount’s 85-79 loss to Fairleigh Dickinson last Thursday, then followed with 24 points, four rebounds, three assists and two steals in an 88-82 win over St. Francis Brooklyn two days later.
 
For the season, Norfleet is averaging 20.2 ppg and 5.7 apg - both third in the NEC - while shooting 49.1 percent from the floor and 40.8 percent from long distance.
 
ON THE NATIONAL LEADERBOARD
Below are a list of NEC players who rank in the top-20 nationally in various statistical categories.
 
Category      Name                   Team        Stats         Ranking
Rebounds      Earl Brown             SFU         10.1 rpg      14th
Assists       Jason Brickman         LIU         9.8 apg       1st
3PFG/Game     Karvel Anderson        RMU         3.59/game     8th
               Dyami Starks          BRY         3.44/game     12th
 
NEC NOTABLES
 
• Bryant freshman forward Dan Garvin (Bethel, CT/Bethel) posted six blocks last week, including a career-high four rejections in a 77-67 win over Saint Francis U on Thursday.  He ranks third in the NEC with 1.5 blocks per game.
 
• CCSU freshman guard Matt Mobley (Worcester, MA/Worcester Academy) made a pair of starts last week and averaged 14.5 ppg, 2.5 apg and 2.0 spg.  He notched a career-high 19 points, and added four assists and two steals on Saturday against Saint Francis U.  He has now reached double figures four times this season and is averaging 4.9 ppg.
 
• CCSU junior forward Faronte Drakeford (Wilmington, NC/Pinecrest (Cape Fear CC)) recorded 22 points and five rebounds against Saint Francis U on Saturday.  He has now dropped 20 or more points in a game four times this season and has scored in double-figures in eight of the last 10 games to lift his season scoring average to 12.7 ppg.
 
• FDU senior forward Mathias Seilund (Dragoer, Denmark/Falkonergaardens Gymnasium) scored 16 points, tied a career-high in rebounds with eight and established new career-bests in free throws and attempts (7-10) in FDU’s 85-79 win over Mount St. Mary’s on Thursday.
 
• LIU Brooklyn junior forward Landon Atterberry (Detroit, MI/Southfield (Cape Fear CC)) is averaging a team-high 16.8 ppg and shooting 61.4 percent from the floor over his last four games.  Atterberry ranks second in the NEC in field-goal percentage at 55.8 percent.
 
• Mount St. Mary’s freshman guard Byron Ashe (Washington, D.C./Friendship Collegiate) scored a career-high 16 points, hitting 7-12 shots, in the Mount’s 88-82 win over St. Francis Brooklyn on Saturday.  He averaged 12.0 ppg for the week and shot 52.9 percent from the floor.
 
• Mount St. Mary’s senior guard Rashad Whack (Hyattsville, MD/Bishop McNamara (George Mason)) has found his scoring touch, averaging 21.3 points over the past three games. He contributed 20.5 ppg last week, scoring 23 in a loss at FDU and following with an 18-point effort in a win over St. Francis Brooklyn.
 
• Robert Morris junior forward Lucky Jones (Newark, NJ/St. Anthony) averaged 13.0 points in RMU’s two-game sweep last weekend and pushed his career point total to 932 points, leaving him 68 shy of becoming the 22nd player in program history to eclipse 1,000 points.
 
• Sacred Heart freshman forward De’von Barnett (Waldorf, MD/Riverdale Baptist) averaged 11.5 ppg and 4.5 rpg after earning his first two career starts last week for the Pioneers.  He finished with 10 points, six rebounds, two blocks and two steals in a 71-67 triumph over FDU on Saturday.  He had scored in double digits in four straight games and six-of-seven.
 
• St. Francis Brooklyn junior forward Jalen Cannon (Allentown, PA/William Allen) averaged 22.0 ppg and 12.5 rpg last week. Cannon, who now has five double-doubles on the season, scored a career-high 25 points on 11-14 shooting and grabbed a game-high 11 boards in an 88-82 setback at Mount St. Mary’s on Saturday.  He added 19 points and a season-high 14 caroms (career-high nine offensive) in a 78-64 victory over LIU Brooklyn two days earlier.
 
• Saint Francis U junior forward Earl Brown (Philadelphia, PA/Imhotep Charter) picked up his seventh and eighth double-doubles of the season in the opening week of NEC play.  He had 10 points and 11 rebounds at Bryant and followed that up with 18 points and 12 boards in the Red Flash’s 75-67 win at CCSU.  He leads the NEC in both double-doubles and rebounding (9.9), while also ranking third in field goal percentage (.542) and 11th in scoring (14.2).
 
• Wagner junior guard Marcus Burton (Charlotte, NC/David W. Butler) averaged a team-best 17.5 ppg while converting on 47.8 percent (11-23) from the field and 50.0 percent (5-10) from deep last week.  He scored a team-high 18 points against LIU Brooklyn on Thursday.

NEC NUMBERS
 
Bryant’s Dyami Starks needs 38 more points to reach 1,000 for his career, of which 874 have been scored as a member of the Bulldogs.
 
CCSU sophomore forward Brandon Peel has 13 blocks in his last five games and ranks sixth in the NEC with 1.2 bpg.
 
Fairleigh Dickinson knocked down a season-high 29 free throws (on a season-best 36 attempts) and only turned the ball over a season-low six times against Mount St. Mary’s on Thursday.
 
Fairleigh Dickinson scored at least 80 points in back-to-back games (Hofstra and Mount) for the first time since January 12 & 17, 2008.
 
Mount St. Mary’s is averaging 84.4 ppg and shooting 50.0 percent from the field and 47.1 percent from three-point ragne over the last five games.
 
The Mount’s Sam Prescott is 14 points shy of reaching 1,000 career in his collegiate career. He tallied 477 points in 49 games at Marist before transferring to the Mount, where he has totaled 499 points in 47 games.
 
Fourth-year Robert Morris head coach Andrew Toole posted his 75th career victory on Saturday, moving him past Mike Rice (73) into third all-time at RMU.
 
Sacred Heart shots a season-best 88.9 percent from the line (24-27) in Saturday’s 71-67 win over FDU.
 
St. Francis Brooklyn junior point guard Brent Jones handed out 19 assists against just two turnovers last week.  He dished for a career-best 12 dimes in Thursday’s win over LIU Brooklyn.
 
Saint Francis U shot 17-39 (.436) from three-point range in its first two NEC games.  Junior guard Dominique Major hit 7-11 from long distance last week, and scored a career-high 19 in Saturday’s 75-67 win over CCSU.
 
Wagner received 50 points from its bench in Thursday’s win over CCSU.  Seahawks reserves his 7-10 from three-point range and shot 67.8 percent from the field.  The 50 points were the most scored by the program in a game against a Division I foe since November 17, 2000 against Brown.
 
Wagner senior guard Latif Rivers (Elizabeth, NJ/Elizabeth (Avon Old Farms (CT))) became the 16th Wagner player to record at least 1,300 career points and enters play this week with 1,309 points.
 
In the current three-game winning streak, Wagner is outscoring the opposition by 16.7 ppg while shooting 46.7 percent from the floor.
 
QUOTABLE
 
“That was a tough competitive road game, and we just didn’t do enough to finish the job.  We did not get any critical rebounds when we needed them.  If we did, the outcome probably would have been different.  We need to get some rest and get ready for next week, and we will”. - FDU head coach Greg Herenda on his team’s four-point setback at Sacred Heart on Saturday
 
“Last year, when I came into the [point guard] role, my mind-set was just to not turn the ball over.  I was just trying to make sure I ran the offense and got guys shots.  This year my role in the offense is to be a scorer - and still get guys shots.” - Mount St. Mary’s senior guard Julian Norfleet after averaging 24.0 ppg and 6.0 apg last week
 
“The result wasn’t what we wanted on Thursday, but we’ve now out-rebounded our first two NEC opponents.  That’s an effort stat and we talked to our guys about controlling that.  There are going to be games where we might not have some shots, but controlling those ‘effort stats’ are going to give us a chance to win.” - Saint Francis U’s Rob Krimmel after Saturday’s win at CCSU
 
“Good teams go on the road and win.  Every time we step on the floor in these conference games we are playing for home court advantage in the NEC tournament. That’s something we talk about, and tonight we played like we understood the importance of that.” - Wagner head coach Bashir Mason after his team’s win at CCSU last Thursday
 
“We were picked No. 1 in the league for a reason.  It feels good to win, don’t get me wrong.  But at the end of the day we’re supposed to win our conference games.” - Wagner sophomore guard Dwaun Anderson following a win over LIU Brooklyn on Saturday
 
TWEET DECK
 
Ray Mernagh @raymern
Karvel Anderson went bananas again for RMU. Happens 3-4 times a yr at least. My man Tone’s text said he was 15-19 had 36pts. #sweetstroke
 
Andrew Chiappazzi @achiappazzi
Jump stop, head fake, ball fake, score. Wash, rinse, repeat. That’s Karvel Anderson tonight. #RMU
 
Nelson Castillo @NelCastBHJ
My two biggest surprises so far in #NECMBB: St. Francis Brooklyn & what they did in OOC & Sidney Sanders Jr. busting out of nowhere this yr
 
Lenny Lopes @LopesLeonard
FDU KNIGHTS GETTING IT DONE! Congrats to Greg Herenda and the team on a great W!! It’s great to be a #FDUKNIGHTS
 
Mike Anthony @ManthonyCourant
When Howie Dickenman took the CCSU job in 1996, Wagner coach Bashir Mason was 11. They’re on opposing sidelines tonight in NEC opener.
 
Derek Turner @DCTViper89
Did Ben Mockford of St. Francis (NY) really hit EIGHT three’s last night? #NECMBB
 
Zach Braziller @NYPost_Brazille
Impressed by St. Francis. Didn’t play its best, but still won handily over LIU. Glenn Braica has himself a nice little team.
 
Irma Garcia @sfbkad
@SFBKTerriers @JayWo3 @SFBK_SWA @SFCALUMNI what a great night a win against our respected rival LIU and a packed house. Great job all around
 
LIU Basketball @LIUBasketball
SFBK AD Irma Garcia and HC Glenn Braica both came over to Julian Boyd to say a few words. Very classy gesture. #NECMBB
 
Ron Ratner @NECHoopsRon
That was a fun game between @FDUKnights & @MountAthletics. Matchup of Sid Sanders & Julian Norfleet was as advertised. Two special PGs.