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We've known for awhile that Mt. St. Mary's had two commitments to add to its stable of talent on the basketball floor. Raven Barber and Dave Golladay made verbal commitments some time ago, but secured those commitments with national letters of intent this week. Barber is a 6-8 athletic post ...
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Here is a section devoted to the coverage of legendary Mt. St. Mary's head basketball coach Jim Phelan and his induction into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in Kansas City on Sunday evening. Stick around the Fan Blog all weekend for our thoughts on the great coach - also send us an email ...
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Mount Saint Mary's Mountaineers
Congratulations to Mike Mussina on his retirement. The righthander had such a great career in the major leagues that I remember watching him pitch at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. And since he never won a World Series championship with the Yankees, his defection from the Birds is easier to ...
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Mike Mussina
two years in a row Dave Pasch and Len Elmore seemed a little shocked at the end of all this. And it is shocking. Yet incredibly funny, unless you are a Wildcat fan.
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Everybody's got a theory about the Heels Another set of preseason picks. Including the Mount back on top of the NEC Preseason Blogpoll Everybody grows up wanting to be Joe Lunardi Bleacher Report preview on the second best team in the State of Maryland ESPN Recruiting evaluation on Raven ...
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North Carolina Tar Heels
Maybe I'm expecting too much. Maybe the days of a non-conference opponent walking into the Carrier Dome and being blown away are over. Maybe I should just be happy this wasn't a football game. But I guess I just expect a lot more from the Syracuse basketball team. I give the Orange credit, for ...
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Eric Devendorf
Jonny Flynn
Arinze Onuaku
For the first time this season Jeremy Goode was picked the Choice Hotels NEC player of the week . Goode scored 25 points in the Mount's season opening win over Loyola on Friday night. He also handed out four assists. With his 11-point performance in Monday's loss to Virginia Tech, the junior ...
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Jeremy Goode
Virginia Tech Hokies
Bob Cousy
I know that if I had written this post immediately after the game last night, what you would read would be a lot different. Because, make no mistake about it. Last night hurt. Hurt a lot. There aren't many times you get the opportunity to go into the barn of an ACC team, expected to contend for ...
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NCAA Basketball
Milan Brown
Lamar Odom
Here is everything you need to know about George Mason. Mason to play a lot on TV The Mason Preview versus Vermont Mason wins battle of mid-majors in opener Saturday CAA wrapup Vermont perspective on that opening win More looks at the opener from the Vermont perspective Video Highlights ...
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NCAA Basketball
Various media stories on the 62-57 Virginia Tech win Lynchburg News & Advance From the AP The Daily Press The Collegiate Times - Behind the Game Day curtain
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Virginia Tech Hokies
A solid effort by the Mountaineers in an ACC building, but Virginia Tech made enough plays down the stretch rallying for a 62-57 win at Cassell Coliseum on Monday night. The Mount led most of the game, including 24-23 at half, by eight with about seven minutes left, and by four with under four. ...
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West Virginia Mountaineers
Virginia Tech Hokies
The Coliseum
6:30PM: Naturally I turned the game at 6:30 and there was still a game on ESPNU spilling over. At first I was upset. Then I saw it was Duke getting upset. Rhode Island led Duke by three with just over two to play. Kyle Singler cut it to one with a reverse layup and then after a Jim Baron miss he ...
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Duke Blue Devils
To get a better understanding of the Mount's next opponent Virginia Tech, I exchanged emails with Niemo from TechHoops.com. Niemo is the Senior Writer and Head Arm-Curler for TechHoops.com , the #1 web site for Virginia Tech Hokie basketball (if you don't know what an arm-curl is, just go to ...
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Virginia Tech Hokies
Who plays?: Mt. St. Mary's (1-0) travels to Cassell Coliseum to take on the Virginia Tech Hokies (1-0) What's at stake?: The Mount gets a chance to put its Mid-major ranking (#22) on the line, on the road against an ACC team. This is the type of team that the Mount players were snubbed by the ...
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Virginia Tech Hokies
Syracuse Orange
For your Saturday morning reading pleasure. Sail the day away. Mount soccer players and Coach Ryerson win some NEC awards Mount signs mid-state baseball player Mount takes aim at staying at top Pearl questions three-point line Weekly media notes column in the Sun College basketball preview ...
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Bruce Pearl
Connecticut Huskies
Here are some news articles and links with more information on the win over Loyola. Straight from the Source A recap from the AP The Frederick News Post Carroll County Times Baltimore Sun Loyola's wrapup
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Jeremy Goode
Here are some recent articles on the Mount's next opponent Young Hokies face big expectations Did AJ Vassallo make the list? Preview from Tech's opener versus Gardner-Webb One Hokie Blogger's expectations Zone gives Hokies fits Recap from the opposition Recap tucked in Hokies win opener; ...
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Virginia Tech Hokies
A few thoughts of reflection after that Mount's 84-76 win over archrival Loyola at Reitz Arena on Friday night. ....I thought the Mount played extremely well at times on Friday night. But it was not a consistent effort. There are things that the coaching staff will look to fix before they goto ...
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