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News of the “Catholic 7” having a lucrative TV deal with Fox along with its reported plans to bring Butler, Xavier, Creighto, Dayton and St. Louis into the fold will certainly create a ripple effect in the Northeast region.

That means Stony Brook could be impacted.

The CAA already lost VCU and is set to lose Georgia State and Old Dominion. The College of Charleston will join the league...

There are over 20 Division I basketball programs in the NY Metro-Area. A vast majority play in one-bid conferences. Here's a look at a few or our local teams and what they likely need to do to earn a big to the NCAA Tournament.

Fairfield (17-12, 9-7 MAAC) Quality wins: Iona, Rider, St. Joseph’s, Bad losses: DePaul. Remaining games: at Manhattan, at Marist. Outlook: The Stags have won seven...

It’s been a tough year for the Hofstra, which fell in heart-breaking fashion, 57-56, to Delaware on Senior Day on Wednesday.

But that doesn’t mean things will be easier next season for Hofstra, at least according to the schedule. The Pride will open up the 2013-2014 season against Louisville as part of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off Tournament, the organization announced...

Rarely has one team been ripped asunder the way Hofstra’s basketball team was this season. But while the Pride dropped to 7-23 (4-13 CAA) with a gut-wrenching 57-56 loss to Delaware in the home finale Wednesday night at Mack Sports Complex, they are not without honor for the way they have persevered all season.

There really was no possible way to recover from the early-season scandal when...

No matter how many times the NCAA reviews the eligibility case of St. John’s forward Orlando Sanchez, it keeps coming to back to the same conclusion – under a rule that says any organized basketball activity after the age of 21 constitutes a year of eligibility, the three-minute, 38-second appearance Sanchez made with the Dominican Republic national team in 2010 counts as one full year.

In...

Quinnipiac’s near flawless season has continued into late February. Marist and Princeton stayed at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively. Fordham, after winning its 20th game of the season over St. Joseph’s on Sunday, moves up one place to fourth. St. John’s is up two places to fifth after two straight wins, while Sacred Heart jumps two spots to sixth. Army stayed at No. 7, Fairfield moved up one place...

Stony Brook continues to roll and remains atop the Metro Poll after four straight wins. The Seawolves clinched at least a share of the America East regular season title after a 69-53 win over Maine on Sunday.

St. John’s and Fairfield held the second and third spots again. Wagner has won three of its last four, including a big 94-92 win over LIU on Sunday and moved up one place to fourth. Princeton...

Operating without departed Moe Harkless to relieve the defensive pressure this season, St. John’s leading scorer D’Angelo Harrison has struggled mightily in a couple of big spots. On Feb. 2 in Washington, Harrison recorded the first 0-fer of his collegiate career with a 0-for-9 shooting performance at Georgetown, and he came close on Sunday in St. John’s 63-47 loss to Pitt in which he made just...

St. John’s coach Steve Lavin playfully took issue with the notion that his emotional outburst during the Red Storm’s recent win over South Florida was something out of the ordinary. Guard D’Angelo Harrison described it as “blowing a gasket,” but Lavin said that was one of a series of blown gaskets and added that he’s probably broken five clipboards this season.

“All along the line, gaskets...

On the surface, St. John’s did what it had to do in dispatching South Florida, 69-54, Wednesday night at Carnesecca Arena. If the Red Storm wanted to have any chance of receiving an NCAA bid, it had to win the most winnable game left on its regular-season schedule against the worst team in the Big East.

It wasn’t pretty in the second half. After taking a 22-point lead, the Red Storm (16-10,...