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February 22, 2008


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Fisk drops athletic program
Fisk University announced it is dropping its intercollegiate athletic programs effective the end of the school year.

The school, located in Nashville, competed in the Great South Athletic Conference until 2006-07. It was best known for a pair of upsets of Division I Tennessee State.

D3hoops.com de-listed Fisk this season because the basketball teams were playing only a handful of Division III opponents.
Permalink | Feb 22, 2008
Newbury hits 75-footer to win at buzzer
Two seconds away from forcing a second overtime after Daniel Webster freshman Chris Hanson sank two pressure-packed free throws to tie the game at 97, Newbury guard Steve Morris answered with a 75-foot miracle that hit nothing but net as the buzzer sounded giving the visiting Nighthawks a stunning 100-97 victory in a wild matchup of future New England Collegiate Conference rivals at a raucous Vagge Gymnasium.

Morris, who had initially forced overtime knocking down a three pointer with 21 seconds to play in regulation, took the inbounds pass from Javon Mathis and heaved the ball from the far right corner knocking down the longest shot recorded in Vagge Gymnasium history in a regular season game.

The win was the eighth straight for the Nighthawks (17-7), while the Eagles (7-17) dropped their fourth straight.

Kevin Cleveland led all scorers for Newbury pouring in 28 points, going 13 of 16 from the field and added 12 rebounds. Arch Mitchell knocked down 21, while Mathis chipped in with 18. Morris finished with 14.

Hanson led Daniel Webster with 19 points including five three-pointers, while Adam Landry knocked down five more from outside on the way to 18 points. Tim Jackson added 11 while Steve Savage chipped in with 10. Senior Eagle captain Ryan Middlemiss, playing in his final home game, dished out a game and career best nine assists and added eight rebounds and five points.

Trailing by 11 at 74-63 with 9:09 to go in regulation, the Eagles mounted a furious comeback with an 18-5 run consuming 4:24 to take the lead. Hanson knocked down a three with 6:34 left for a 77-74 Newbury lead, followed with another with 5:11 to go to cut it to one, and Landry added another for an 81-79 lead with 4:45 left.

After building the lead to 88-81 with 2:18 to after a Hanson jumper, Newbury responded with a wild finish to force overtime. After Cleveland buried two free throws, he followed with a lay up with 1:21 left setting up Morris’s first heroics.

Newbury opened the extra session with the first six points thanks to a dunk and layup from Cleveland.

Trailing by five (97-92) with 51 seconds left, Jackson knocked down a three with 40 seconds to go and Middlemiss followed with a steal of Morris with 16 seconds left.

Hanson was then fouled outside the arc and sank both freebies with 2.1 seconds to go, setting up the Morris miracle.
Permalink | Feb 22, 2008
Old school fans will remember the message board known as Posting Up, similar to what St. Thomas' Alex McCoy is doing to St. John's Aaron Burtzel.
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Post up with us at D3hoops
Aside from the depth of news coverage we feature here at D3hoops.com, there is also a thriving message board, where the community of Division III fans networks and shares information.

If you haven't joined this community yet, you should! You can register to post using the link at the top of the message board. Once we approve your registration and you validate your e-mail address you'll be able to post on topics from basketball to football to baseball to soccer ... or whatever tangents each conference's board has devolved into.

Some tips for posting on the board: You must provide a valid e-mail address to complete the registration process, and as the Terms of Service state, it will be displayed to logged-in users. (It is protected from spammers because guest users cannot see e-mail addresses.)

Make sure your e-mail is set to receive messages from info@d3hoops.com, because with some free e-mail providers you get what you pay for.

The message board has been in place since the 1998-99 season and some members have posted tens of thousands of times, but new posters are always welcome. As you post more, more tools will be made available to you, such as private messaging, editing posts and creating polls.
Permalink | Feb 22, 2008
John Jay (13-15) is the first men's team to clinch an NCAA Tournament bid.
John Jay sniffs out first bid
John Jay won its first CUNYAC title, pulling off the upset on Friday night as the No. 6-seeded Bloodhounds knocked off top-seeded York (N.Y.) 68-54. John Jay was the only CUNYAC team to have never won a conference title.

The final minutes were marred by a brawl following a John Jay rebound, delaying the game for six minutes and resulting in the ejection of three York players.

Vaughn Mason led the Bloodhounds (13-15) with 14 points, while Hakeem Kased added 13. John Jay shot 6-for-12 from three-point range. Friday night's men's scores and women's scores.

Last season Lehman rallied from an 11-point deficit and finished the game on a 14-2 run to upset Baruch in the CUNYAC women's basketball title game. This year, however, Baruch made sure its lead would hold up in beating Lehman 71-60.

Baruch led 63-50 with 4:21 left in the game before Lehman went on a 10-0 run to cut it to a three-point lead with 1:18 left. But Baruch freshman point guard Monique Salmon nailed two free throws with 1:18 left and followed that with a strong drive over two Lehman players to put the lead back to seven points, 67-60, and Baruch scored the final four points to win. The Bearcats won the conference's automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament, the first team to do so this season.

Joe Coppens shot 5-for-8 from three-point range en route to 17 points as No. 6 Brandeis won at No. 4 Washington U. 68-66 in a game that featured 11 ties and seven lead changes. The Judges moved into a first-place tie with Wash U and Chicago in the UAA with two conference games remaining. No. 25 Stevens got 26 points from Virgil Gray and 22 from Waleed Farid but lost to Ithaca 93-82, missing a chance to clinch the top seed in the Empire 8. Ithaca can clinch the top seed and host with a home win Saturday against Nazareth. No. 2 Centre held off Oglethorpe 65-59 to extend its winning streak to 22 games.

The women's UAA standings sit in a three-way tie as well, with Wash U, Chicago and Rochester each at 9-3 after winning Friday night. Chicago beat NYU, which has gone 3-9 after beating up on its non-conference foes to the tune of an 11-0 mark.

No. 8 DePauw got 18 points apiece from Cassie Pruzin and Jenna Fernandez and clinched the top seed in the SCAC Tournament with a 76-61 win at Sewanee. Marisa Vespa went 10-for-10 from the floor and scored a career-high 30 points as No. 17 William Smith beat Union 76-59. Ithaca's women handed Stevens its
first-ever Empire 8 loss, 68-57.
Permalink | Feb 22, 2008
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