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2012-13 twitter.com/NECsports MEN’S BASKETBALL facebook.com/NECsports youtube.com/NECsports NEWS AND NOTES 399 CAMPUS DR. • SOMERSET, NJ 08873 • PH: (732) 469-0440 • FAX: (732) 469-0744 • WWW.NORTHEASTCONFERENCE.ORG NEC MEN’S BASKETBALL FACTS & FIGURES NEC MEN’S BASKETBALL STANDINGS LAST WEEK’S RESULTS WEEK 11 RELEASE • JAN. 28, 2013 Thursday, Jan. 24 .... Central Connecticut 78 at Quinnipiac 85 SCHOOL NEC PCT. OVR. PCT. STR. HOME AWAY NEU. LIU Brooklyn 78 at St. Francis Brooklyn 68 1. Bryant ................................................. 6-2 .750 13-6 .684 L2 7-2 6-4 0-0 Bryant 76 at Sacred Heart 87 Robert Morris ..................................... 6-2 .750 14-7 .667 W6 7-2 6-4 1-1 Wagner 52 at Mount St. Mary’s 50 Sacred Heart....................................... 6-2 .750 8-11 .421 W3 4-3 3-8 1-0 Robert Morris 84 at Saint Francis U 70 4. Wagner ............................................... 5-3 .625 11-8 .579 W2 5-1 5-7 1-0 Fairleigh Dickinson 54 at Monmouth 73 LIU Brooklyn ...................................... 5-3 .625 10-10 .500 W5 6-3 4-7 0-0 Saturday, Jan. 26 ...... Fairleigh Dickinson 56 at Quinnipiac 58 6. Central Connecticut ............................ 4-4 .500 8-11 .421 W1 4-4 4-6 0-1 St. Francis Brooklyn 70 at Central Connecticut 72 St. Francis Brooklyn ........................... 4-4 .500 8-11 .421 L2 3-4 5-6 0-1 LIU Brooklyn 79 at Bryant 78 Quinnipiac .......................................... 4-4 .500 8-12 .400 W2 4-6 4-4 0-2 Wagner 81 at Saint Francis U 56 9. Monmouth.......................................... 3-5 .375 8-13 .381 L1 4-3 2-10 2-0 Mount St. Mary’s 68 at Robert Morris 76 10. Mount St. Mary’s ................................ 2-6 .250 7-12 .368 L2 4-2 3-10 0-0 Monmouth 68 at Sacred Heart 82 Fairleigh Dickinson ............................. 2-6 .250 7-14 .333 L5 2-4 3-10 2-0 12. Saint Francis U ................................... 1-7 .125 1-18 .053 L7 1-9 0-9 0-0 THIS WEEK’S GAMES Thursday, Jan. 31 ............................. Sacred Heart at Wagner Choice Hotels/NEC Player of the Week Quinnipiac at Mount St. Mary’s Shane Gibson, Sacred Heart Saint Francis U at LIU Brooklyn Bryant at Fairleigh Dickinson (NEC-TV) 6-2, 180lbs Central Connecticut at Monmouth Killingly, CT/Killingly Robert Morris at St. Francis Brooklyn In winning the seventh Choice Hotels NEC Player of the Week award of his career, Gibson averaged 29.5 points to lead Sacred Heart to Saturday, Feb. 2 ....... Robert Morris at LIU Brooklyn (ESPNU) back-to-back victories and a tie for first place in the NEC standings with a 6-2 record. The top scorer in NEC play (25.4 ppg), Gibson Sacred Heart at Mount St. Mary’s dropped 26 points on 8-of-16 shooting and nailed four shots from beyond the arc in an 87-76 victory over previously unbeaten Bryant Quinnipiac at Wagner at home on Thursday. He also went 6-for-6 from the charity stripe and grabbed six boards. The 6-2 guard then shined on NEC-TV Saint Francis U at St. Francis Brooklyn on Saturday, reeling off a season-high 33 points, including 24 in the second half, as SHU rallied to beat Monmouth, 82-68. With Central Connecticut at Fairleigh Dickinson the Hawks holding a 10-point lead midway through the second stanza, Gibson took over with 19 straight points for the Pioneers to Bryant at Monmouth position his team for the comeback victory. Gibson extended his streak of 20-plus point performances to seven games and made a move deeper into the NEC record books, cracking the top-10 in scoring at No. 10 with 1,835 career points. Overall, the Killingly, CT native ranks second in the NEC in scoring (20.1), first in free throw percentage (.889), second in made three-pointers (2.8/game) Choice Hotels/NEC Player of the Week and fifth in three-point percentage (.422). Nov. 12 ....................................................................Shane Gibson, SHU Andrew Nicholas, MU Nov. 19 .....................................................................Kyle Vinales, CCSU Choice Hotels/NEC Rookie of the Week Nov. 26 .....................................................................Dyami Starks, BRY Eric Fanning, Wagner Dec. 3 ������������������������������������������������������������������Karvel Anderson, RMU Jason Brickman, LIU 6-4, 205lbs Dec. 10 ����������������������������������������������������������������������Matt Hunter, CCSU Trenton, NJ/Perkiomen (PA) Dec. 17 ���������������������������������������������������������������Jonathon Williams, WC Fanning averaged a team-best 13.5 points and 6.0 rebounds, and shot 63.2 percent from the field as Wagner posted a pair of road Dec. 31 �������������������������������������������������������������������� Frankie Dobbs, BRY Jalen Cannon, SFC wins over Mount St. Mary’s and Saint Francis U last week. In a narrow 52-50 victory over the Mount on Thursday, Fanning supplied Jan. 7 ........................................................................Dyami Starks, BRY the Seahawks with a game-high 12 points and seven boards in just 20 minutes of action. He also added one the team’s five blocks. On Earl Brown, SFU Saturday, the 6-4 guard posted a career-high 15 points as Wagner bested the Red Flash by an 81-56 count to improve to 5-3 in NEC Jan. 14 ..................................................................Coron Williams, RMU play. For the year, Fanning is averaging 6.9 points on 48.4 percent from the floor and 37.5 percent from long range. During confer- Alex Francis, BRY Jan. 21 ..................................................................Jamal Olasewere, LIU ence action, the Garden State native is third on the team in scoring with 9.9 ppg and boasts a team-best 51.7 field-goal percentage. Jan. 28 .....................................................................Shane Gibson, SHU Choice Hotels/NEC Rookie of the Week Nov. 12 ....................................................................... Kendrick Ray, QU Nov. 19 .................................................................Stephon Mosley, SFU Nov. 26 ......................................................................Sekou Harris, FDU Dec. 3 ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� Stephon Mosley Dec. 10 �����������������������������������������������������������Shivaughn Wiggins, MSM Dec. 17 ���������������������������������������������������������������Stephan Hawkins, RMU Dec. 31 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� EJ Reed, LIU Jan. 7 ................................................................................. EJ Reed, LIU Jan. 14 ............................................................................... EJ Reed, LIU Brandon Peel, CCSU Jan. 21 ...........................................................Shivaughn Wiggins, MSM Jan. 28 .........................................................................Eric Fanning, WC WWW.NORTHEASTCONFERENCE.ORG IT’S GETTING CROWDED AT THE TOP (AND HERE COME THE BLACKBIRDS!) 2012-13 NEC PRESEASON POLL If the first eight games is any indication of what we are in for this Could a “three-peat” be in the air? In the 32-year history of the Northeast season, then February is going to be one exciting month as teams Conference (NEC), no team has won three consecutive men’s basketball position themselves for NEC Tournament qualification and seeding. titles, but if the league’s coaches are to be believed, LIU Brooklyn is on The jockeying has already begun. And after a stunning weekend the cusp of making history. The two-time defending champion Blackbirds of play, there are three teams tied for first (Bryant, Robert Morris were picked first in the annual preseason poll. LIU, which claimed nine of and Sacred Heart) and two more (LIU Brooklyn and Wagner) just the possible 12 first place votes, defeated Robert Morris in each of the past a game back. two NEC championship games. As they say, it’s anyone’s game. The Colonials, who have played in four straight NEC title tilts and won it The biggest mover last week was two-time defending NEC champion LIU Brooklyn. Following an 0-3 start, the Blackbirds have now won all in both 2009 and 2010, were picked second with three first place nods. five straight, including a pair of road wins over St. Francis Brooklyn Wagner was chosen third, followed by Quinnipiac and St. Francis Brooklyn and league leader Bryant, a team ranked 17th in the College Insider in the fourth and fifth positions. Mid-Major Top-25 poll. LIU now sits in a fourth place tie with Wagner, just one game out of first. Sacred Heart, Monmouth, Central Connecticut, Mount St. Mary’s and Bry- ant occupied spots six through ten. Fairleigh Dickinson and Saint Francis And just like that, a season that looked somewhat bleak after NEC Player of the Year Julian Boyd (San Antonio, TX/ (PA) rounded out the poll. William H. Taft) went down with a season-ending knee injury in December, has taken a welcome turn for first year head coach Jack Perri. NEC 2012-13 MEN’S BASKETBALL PRESEASON COACHES POLL “We’re just trying to get better, trying to create our own identity,” Perri said. “We had to change our identity a little (First-Place Votes in Parentheses) bit with Julian out. We’ve really focused on defense and rebounding in practice. Our last few games we did a good 1. LIU BROOKLYN (9) 7. MONMOUTH job with that.” 2. ROBERT MORRIS (3) 8. CENTRAL CONNECTICUT th LIU first rallied from 14 down to score a 78-68 win over SFC in the 38 annual Battle of Brookluyn (see note 3. WAGNER 9. MOUNT ST. MARY’S below), then came into a hostile atmosphere at the Chace Center two days