A historic season for the Duquesne’s women’s basketball team just got more historic Monday night. The Dukes earned their first ever NCAA tournament bid by receiving the ninth seed in the Bridgeport regional, and will take on the Seton Hall Pirates. This bid is a well-deserved award for a team that made the University and the City of Pittsburgh proud all season. This is the first time since 1977 that any Duquesne basketball team, men or women, has made the NCAA tournament. The Dukes ... Read More
Pitt to face Wisconsin in NCAA Tournament
The Pitt Panthers had to sweat things out until Selection Sunday to learn its fate for the NCAA Tournament, but the wait is finally over for Jamie Dixon’s bunch as the Panthers will indeed be going dancing. Pitt ends up as a No. 10 seed in the East region where it will face No. 7 seeded Wisconsin in the first round in St. Louis on Friday. The Panthers finished the regular season with a 21-11 record. Meanwhile the Badgers finished the season 20-12. If the Panthers can get by ... Read More
Robert Morris’ successful run should continue into future
A week ago, the Robert Morris men’s basketball team matched up against one of the upper echelon teams in all of college basketball, the Duke Blue Devils. After beating the North Florida Ospreys in the first round of the NCAA tournament, 81-77, the Colonials would go on to lose in the second round to the Duke Blue Devils, 85-56. After finishing the season 20-15, the seventh season out of the last eight they have had 20 or more wins, the Colonials and fans alike have a lot to look forward to ... Read More
Robert Morris can’t match Blue Devils
Tonight, the top-seeded Duke Blue Devils (29-4, 15-3) faced the 16th seed Robert Morris Colonials (20-15, 12-6) in Charlotte, NC. The Colonials came in winning seven straight games, but this would be their toughest test yet, and an undersized Robert Morris team fell to Blue Devils, 56-85 Duke came out playing like a number one seed, making its first 10 shots, four of them being 3-pointers. With Robert Morris over pursuing around the perimeter and finding itself out of position, senior guard ... Read More
IUP falls to West Liberty in Atlantic Region Final
IUP, the last PSAC team left in the Atlantic Region, fell victim to the #1 team in the country Tuesday night in West Liberty, losing 86-63. Chris Morrow and Alex Falk proved to be too much for the Crimson Hawks, as West Liberty shot 53 percent from the floor. IUP kept up on the stat sheet in every statistical category except for shooting percentage. IUP only made five three point shots, compared to West Liberty's 13. Five players on the Hilltoppers' squad tallied two or more shots from behind ... Read More
IUP holds off Slippery Rock, advances to NCAA regional final
It wasn't pretty, but a win is a win. Despite a late comeback attempt, the IUP Crimson Hawks held off Slippery Rock in the semifinal match-up of the NCAA D2 Men's Basketball Championship, winning 53-50. Slippery Rock was having flashbacks of last night's game, but the outcome didn't measure up to their previous late game upset. "I knew it was going to be the first one to fifty to win," Coach Lombardi said after the game. It was a sloppy first half for both teams. After Marcel ... Read More
Pitt falls to No. 8 seed, first round matchup against Wichita State
Jamie Dixon and the Pitt basketball team had to wait a while during the Selection Sunday broadcast to find out where they would be going and who they would be playing, but eventually the Panthers got the not-so-good news. Pitt, projected by almost everyone to be no lower than a No. 6 seed in the 2013 NCAA Tournament, ended up being only a No. 8 seed with a tough second round matchup against Wichita State to begin the tournament. To make matters worse, the Panthers end up getting sent ... Read More
Two PSAC teams to square off in semifinal of Atlantic Regional
IUP and Slippery Rock aren't strangers in any sense of the word. They've played each other three times this season, including once in the championship game of the PSAC Tournament. IUP has won two of the three match-ups but they've all been close, with only 15 points separating the winner from the loser in the three games combined. For IUP, they'll look to continue to have strong play from guard Anthony Wells. Wells is averaging just over 15 points per game against The Rock this season. He ... Read More
What line to expect Pitt on as Selection Sunday nears
The Pitt Panthers basketball team had a golden opportunity in the Big East Tournament to not only attempt to win a final conference championship before heading to the ACC, but improve their seeding for this year's NCAA Tournament in the process. Thanks to a disappointing loss to Syracuse, that didn't happen, but regardless Jamie Dixon's team should be in a decent spot heading into Selection Sunday. The question though is did the Panthers loss to the Orange hurt them? I believe it ... Read More
Slippery Rock gets 1st NCAA win, upsets No. 2 Winston Salem
WEST LIBERTY, WV - Coming into today's game, Slippery Rock had never won an NCAA Tournament game that was a compensation game. But today at West Liberty the number 7 seed Slippery Rock upset number 2 seed Winston Salem in the first round of the NCAA Division 2 Men's Basketball Championship, 69-67. Slippery Rock clawed away at Winston Salem the entire game, but could never seem to pull away. It took the final seconds to decided a hard fought battle between the two teams. Winston Salem ... Read More