The Division II basketball season is coming into the home stretch, making conference matchups an every day occurrence. After dropping two conference games earlier this season, No. 11 IUP has been flexing its muscles in conference play as they lead the standings with an 8-2 conference record. Here's how the rest of the conference is shaping up: No. 11 IUP 18-2, 8-2 Mercyhurst 11-8, 7-2 Slippery Rock 16-6, 7-3 Gannon 12-8, 7-3 Seton Hill 12-8, 4-6 Pitt-Johnstown 11-9, ... Read More

After dropping two PSAC games, the IUP Crimson Hawks have been on a tear. This week was no different as they picked up two more conference wins. Giving them a big lift this week was Brandon Norfleet. Norfleet, a 6-foot-4 sophomore guard, led the way for the Crimson Hawks on both occasions over the past week. In a 91-68 win over Pitt-Johnston, Norfleet scored a career-high and game-high 25 points to go with his six rebounds, five assists, two steals and a block while only committing two ... Read More

The past week of PSAC West basketball saw a lot of action. IUP, which was previous undefeated, lost its first two games of the season and fell two spots in the PSAC West standings. Slippery Rock took over the top spot as a result. As for the rest of the standings, here's how it panned out: PSAC West Standings 1. Slippery Rock (14-4, 5-1 PSAC) 2. Gannon (10-7, 5-2 PSAC) 3. IUP (14-2, 4-2 PSAC) 4. Mercyhurst (8-8, 4-2 PSAC) 5. Seton Hill (11-5, 3-3 PSAC) 6. Pitt-Johnstown ... Read More

Coming into the week, the Gannon Golden Knights were looking at an 8-7 record. By week's end, they were at 10-7 with a win over the No. 5 team in the country and picked up two wins over conference foes to move up in the PSAC West standings. During those two games, Adam Blazek was key. Blazek's numbers don't jump off of the stat sheet as outstanding, but they got the job done. In a 67-61 victory over No. 5 IUP, Blazek scored 13 points. With the Golden Knights down two with under a minute left ... Read More

Both IUP and Seton Hill started off 2014 in the right direction, picking up two wins each. In terms of conference standings, No. 6 IUP sits atop the PSAC West with a 3-0 conference record and a 12-0 record overall. Mercyhurst, despite being 6-6 overall, is 3-0 in the conference, also. From there it's Slippery Rock (11-4, 3-1), Seton Hill (10-3, 2-2), Pitt-Johnstown (9-4, 2-2), Gannon (6-7, 2-2), Cal U (5-8, 1-3), Edinboro (6-6, 0-3) and Clarion (2-8, 0-3). Let's take a look at how the PSAC ... Read More

The Seton Hill Griffins had no problem shaking off the rust of the holiday break as they came back and picked up two sound wins, improving their overall record to 10-3 in the process. Coming off being named the PSAC men's athlete of the week on Dec. 23,  junior forward Malachi Leonard came to play. In the Griffins first game back, a 71-58 victory over Kutztown, Leonard posted a double-double of 20 points and 15 rebounds. Of those 15 boards, 14 came on the defensive side. Leonard also added ... Read More

The PSAC West is done for 2013. As they advance into the 2014 portion of the season, some teams will be focusing on the postseason while some will be looking to salvage a slow start. IUP (10-0) maintained its perfect record as they picked up wins over Millersville ((74-57), Shippensburg (77-46) and Kutztown (88-56). Mathis Keita led the way, averaging 19.0 points over the three games. Slippery Rock (10-3) is still trying to keep pace with IUP, but only picked up two wins in the three games ... Read More

After starting the season with games aplenty, finals weeks around the PSAC West bring some much needed time off for teams to study and get practice in. With that, three of our PSAC West teams were in action this past week - Slippery Rock, Gannon and Clarion. Slippery Rock picked up an 80-41 wallop over Penn State New Kennsington. Mauric Lewis-Bridges led the way with 16 points and 6 rebounds. Tabari Perry posted a double-double with 11 points and 12 rebounds. Gannon went 1-1 in ... Read More

The PSAC West teams began playing each other this past week, setting up some interesting matchups and giving some insight into the division. Seton Hill and Edinboro started the week off with a close game in which Seton Hill won, 95-93. Max Kenyi led the way for the Griffins, which had five players in double figures, with 20 points. Henri Wade-Chatman led Edinboro with 28 points and 6 rebounds. Seton Hill would fall to IUP later in the week, 56-54. Malachi Leonard led the Griffins in that game ... Read More

Another week has come and gone in the PSAC West on the hardwood. IUP and Slippery Rock are slowly edging out in front of the pack. IUP is 6-0 and 2-0 in the PSAC while Slippery Rock is 6-1 and 2-0 in the PSAC. Here's the rundown. As of the November 26th NCAA.com D2 rankings, IUP sat at #10 in the coaches poll and IUP added two of their six wins this past week. They beat Shaw 74-57 and University of the Sciences (Phil.) 72-59. Big man Marcel Souberbielle led the way with 20 points and 4 ... Read More