2010-11 MEN’SMEN’SMEN’S BASKETBALLBASKETBALLBASKETBALL NN EWSEWS && NN OTESOTES 399 Campus Drive, Somerset, NJ 08873 MBB Contacts: Ron Ratner, Associate Commissioner/Ben Shove, Director of Sports Services Phone: 732-469-0440/Fax: 732-469-0744 E-Mail: [email protected]/[email protected] Bryant (2012-13) • Central Connecticut State • Fairleigh Dickinson • Long Island • Monmouth • Mount St. Mary’s Quinnipiac • Robert Morris • Sacred Heart • St. Francis (NY) • Saint Francis (PA) • Wagner NEC Men’s Basketball Northeast Conference Men’s Basketball Facts & Figures (Week 11 • January 31, 2011) Last Week’s Results School NEC Pct. Overall Pct. Streak Home Away Neutral Thursday, January 27 1. Long Island 8-2 .800 16-5 .762 W2 6-2 10-3 0-0 WAGNER 80, BRYANT 75 (OT) 2. Central Connecticut State 7-3 .700 14-7 .667 W4 9-1 4-6 1-0 CCSU 71, MOUNT ST. MARY’S 52 LONG ISLAND 97, FDU 89 3. Quinnipiac 6-4 .600 14-7 .667 W2 8-4 5-3 1-0 ST. FRANCIS (NY) 62, MONMOUTH 61 Wagner 6-4 .600 10-11 .476 L1 5-3 5-8 0-0 QUINNIPIAC 69, ROBERT MORRIS 61 5. St. Francis (NY) 5-5 .500 10-11 .476 W2 7-1 3-8 0-2 SAINT FRANCIS (PA) 88, SACRED HEART 86 (OT) Robert Morris 5-5 .500 9-12 .429 L2 6-1 3-11 0-0 Saturday, January 29 BRYANT 62, MOUNT ST. MARY’S 60 Saint Francis (PA) 5-5 .500 7-14 .333 L1 6-1 1-13 0-0 CCSU 75, WAGNER 71 Bryant 5-5 .500 7-15 .318 W1 4-6 2-8 1-1 ST. FRANCIS (NY) 86, FDU 77 Mount St. Mary's 5-5 .500 7-16 .304 L2 5-3 2-13 0-0 LONG ISLAND 74, MONMOUTH 69 SACRED HEART 84, ROBERT MORRIS 75 Home Team 10. Sacred Heart 4-6 .400 9-12 .429 W1 4-5 5-6 0-1 QUINNIPIAC 75, SAINT FRANCIS (PA) 55 Underlined 11. Monmouth 2-8 .200 6-16 .273 L2 3-9 1-7 2-0 Fairleigh Dickinson 2-8 .200 4-16 .200 L4 3-7 1-9 0-0 This Week’s Schedule Top eight teams qualify for NEC Tournament Monday, February 1 NJIT at FDU 7:00 pm Choice Hotels Northeast Conference Co-Players of the Week Thursday, February 3 BRYANT at ROBERT MORRIS 7:00 pm Julian Boyd, Long Island CCSU at SAINT FRANCIS (PA) 7:00 pm So., F, 6-7, 240 lbs., San Antonio, TX/William H. Taft FDU at WAGNER 7:00 pm Boyd stood out last week for the first place Blackbirds, who are 8-2 in league play and have won ten of their last 11 outings. The 6’7” SACRED HEART at LONG ISLAND 7:00 pm MONMOUTH at MOUNT ST. MARY’S 7:00 pm sophomore averaged 22.0 points, 12.5 rebounds, 2.0 blocks and 1.5 steals in a pair of road wins. He also shot 56.7 percent from QUINNIPIAC at ST. FRANCIS (NY) 7:00 pm the field and 66.7 percent from three-point range. Boyd was unstoppable on Thursday, finishing with career-highs of 34 points and Saturday, February 5 16 rebounds in a 97-89 win over Fairleigh Dickinson. He converted 14-21 shots from the floor and sank both of his three-point BRYANT at SAINT FRANCIS (PA) 7:00 pm attempts. Boyd scored nine straight points early in the first half, capped off by a three-pointer that broke a 9-9 tie and gave LIU the CCSU at ROBERT MORRIS 7:00 pm lead for good. He went on to tally 21 first half points and finished the game with a season-high eight offensive rebounds. Two days FDU at MOUNT ST. MARY’S 7:00 pm later, Boyd tallied 10 points, grabbed a game-high nine rebounds and added a career-high three blocks as the Blackbirds won their QUINNIPIAC at LONG ISLAND 4:30 pm school record tenth road game of the year, a 74-69 decision over Monmouth. The San Antonio, TX product leads the NEC with 8.4 MONMOUTH at WAGNER 7:00 pm rebounds per game and has posted four double-doubles. He ranks fourth in the league in field goal percentage (.503) and is LIU’s SACRED HEART at ST. FRANCIS (NY) 4:30 pm second-leading scorer at 11.8 ppg. Choice Hotels Choice Hotels James Johnson, Quinnipiac NEC Players of the Week NEC Rookies of the Week Jr., G, 6-0, 195 lbs., Queens, NY, Bishop Loughlin Nov. 15 Justin Rutty, QU Nov. 15 Alex Francis, BU With the Bobcats needing a spark, Johnson was up to the task last week, averaging 24.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists in Latif Rivers, WC Quinnipiac’s 2-0 week. The 6’0” guard shot 55.2 percent from the floor and 52.6 percent from three-point territory, where he made Nov. 22 Ken Horton, CCSU Nov. 22 Alex Francis, BU 10-19 shots. On Thursday, the Bobcats snapped a three-game losing streak with a 69-61 win over Robert Morris in a rematch of Julian Norfleet, MSM the 2010 NEC Championship game. In exacting a measure of revenge against the Colonials, it was Johnson who willed his team to Nov. 29 Jerrell Thompson, SHU Nov. 29 Ike Azotam, QU victory with a career-high 38 points, to go along with eight rebounds and three assists. He hit 12-21 shots from the floor, 7-13 from Latif Rivers, WC beyond the arc and 7-8 from the line. The 38 points were the most scored by an NEC player since Wagner’s Joey Mundweiler hit Dec. 6 Akeem Bennett, SFNY Dec. 6 Latif Rivers, WC Kamil Svrdlik, FDU for 39 against Monmouth on February 28, 2009 and the most by a Quinnipiac player since Rob Monroe dropped 40 versus Sacred Dec. 13 Justin Rutty, QU Dec. 13 Dominique Langston, QU Heart on February 3, 2005. Johnson followed with 11 points, four assists and three trifectas in a 75-55 win over Saint Francis (PA) Dec. 20 Shane Gibson, SHU Dec. 20 Naofall Folahan, WC on Saturday. A Brooklyn native, Johnson has been a fixture in the NEC individual rankings this season. He leads the conference in Jan. 3 Shane Gibson, SHU Jan. 3 Jason Brickman, LIU assist/TO ratio (2.61), ranks third in made three-pointers (2.5/game), fourth in scoring (16.9 ppg), fifth in steals (1.7 spg), sixth Alex Francis, BU in assists (3.9 apg) and 11th in free throw percentage (.829). Jan. 10 Tyler Murray, WC Jan. 10 Latif Rivers, WC Jan. 17 Karon Abraham, RMU Jan. 17 Alex Francis, BU Choice Hotels Northeast Conference Rookie of the Week Jan. 24 Ken Horton, CCSU Jan. 24 Latif Rivers, WC Alex Francis, Bryant Umar Shannon, SFPA Jan. 31 Julian Boyd, LIU Jan. 31 Alex Francis, BU Fr., F, 6-6, 205 lbs., Harlem, NY/Holderness Prep (NH) James Johnson, QU The honors keep rolling in for Francis, who now matches Wagner’s Latif Rivers with his fifth Choice Hotels NEC Rookie of the Week award of the season. Francis averaged 20.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and shot 60.9 percent from the field in Bryant’s 1-1 week. On Follow the NEC Saturday, he came through for Bryant in the clutch, sinking a finger roll at the buzzer to cap a 14-2 game-ending run and give the Bulldogs a 62-60 victory over visiting Mount St. Mary’s. Francis finished the game with a game and career-high 25 points, grabbed For all the latest men’s basketball news, visit the NEC website at nine rebounds and made three steals. He hit 10-13 shots from the field to help Bryant even its NEC record at 5-5. Two days earlier, www.northeastconference.org and via social media at: Francis tallied 16 points, eight rebounds and a pair of assists in an 80-75 overtime setback to Wagner. The New York City native has twitter.com/NECsports taken the league by storm, ranking in the top-10 in scoring (tenth, 14.5 ppg), rebounding (third, 8.0 rpg), field goal percentage facebook.com/NECsports (sixth, .496) and double-doubles (fourth with five). He leads the NEC freshman class in all four categories. youtube.com/NECsports 2010-11 NEC Men’s Basketball Schedule Schedule Subject To Change. All times are Eastern Standard Time. Bryant Central Connecticut State Fairleigh Dickinson (7-15, 5-5 NEC) (14-7, 7-3 NEC) (4-16, 2-8 NEC) at World Vision Basketball Classic Connecticut 6 Classic at Moehegan Sun Arena N 18 Stony Brook L 59-66 N 12 at Cleveland State L 57-71 N 13 vs. Hartford W 64-62 N 20 Albany L 46-72 N 13 vs. Kent State L 49-90 N 15 at Army W 101-87 N 27 at North Carolina State L 67-77 N 14 vs. Iona W 74-72 N 20 at UMBC W 82-74 N 29 at Longwood W 83-78 N 20 Army L 66-76 N 22 at Penn State L 61-77 D 2 BRYANT W 78-68 N 27 MONMOUTH W 54-50 (OT) D 4 CCSU W 48-46 N 24 Harvard L 66-69 N 29 at Providence L 57-92 N 28 at Lehigh L 68-88 D 8 at #6 Connecticut L 54-78 D 4 at FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON L 46-48 D 11 at Iona L 66-87 D 2 at FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON L 68-78 D 7 at Dayton L 61-63 D 14 at Rutgers L 65-79 D 8 Yale L 53-75 D 11 at Albany L 63-64 D 18 at Saint Peter’s L 57-60 D 11 at Columbia L 72-76 D 19 Niagara W 74-71 J 2 Lafayette L 92-98 (2OT) D 19 at Boston College L 77-93 D 22 New Hampshire W 71-50 J 6 SACRED HEART L 50-67 D 23 at Michigan L 71-87 D 29 Brown W 67-51 J 8 QUINNIPAIC L 56-66 D 29 Oberlin W 71-42 J 3 Massachusetts W 92-63 J 13 at ROBERT MORRIS L 65-83 D 31 at Brown L 71-84 J 6 ST.