Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – Most mid-major conference tournaments are like a lottery. That needs to change. The regular season should not be meaningless. More leagues need to look at the Ohio Valley Conference and implement a double-bye system where the top two teams in the standings don’t play their first tourney game until the semifinals. […]

The Colonials will almost surely be a contender again, but the class of the NEC this time around appears to be the Terriers of St. Francis Brooklyn. Picked by the league’s coaches to win the conference crown at the preseason media event held last month, the Terriers return six of their top nine scorers as […]

(SportsNetwork.com) – The 33rd annual Northeast Conference Tournament is set to begin with Wednesday’s quarterfinal round action and will wind through the championship game on Tuesday, March 11. All games are played at the home of the higher seed. Following the quarterfinals, the teams will be re-seeded so that the highest remaining seed plays the […]

Maui, HI (SportsNetwork.com) – The Syracuse Orange play their first game of the 2013-14 season outside of the Carrier Dome, as they make the trek to Hawaii, to take part in the Maui Invitational, starting with first-round action against the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Jim Boeheim’s Orange had some holes to fill from last year’s Final […]

East Lansing, MI (SportsNetwork.com) – Keith Appling tied a career high with 25 points and Michigan State, the nation’s newly crowned No. 1 team, pulled away down the stretch to record an 82-67 win over Portland at the Breslin Center. Appling went a perfect 5-for-5 from 3-point range and added seven assists for Michigan State […]

Syracuse, NY (SportsNetwork.com) – The St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers will head upstate to the Carrier Dome for a non-conference matchup with the No. 9 Syracuse Orange as part of regional action of the Maui Invitational. The Terriers began their campaign with a 66-62 overtime victory over the ACC’s Miami Hurricanes and then picked up a […]