Billy Baron sat at the press conference table, filled with emotions, and doing anything and everything he could to hold back tears, as he faced questions following his team’s season ending loss to Iona Saturday night. Down by as many as 12 points, the Canisius Golden Griffins battled back to get within one point, but [...]
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Bonnies Fall On The Road To Dayton
Demitrius Conger scored 22 points but it wasn’t enough for the Bonnies on Wednesday night as they fell on the road to Dayton 75-63. St. Bonaventure struggled defensively, allowing the Flyers to shoot 53.1% from the field and sent Dayton to the line 20 times. Conger had a great game for the Bonnies, shooting 8-11 [...]

Cooper Breaks Records, and Bulls’ Hearts Again
Buffalo, NY – When Javon McCrea blocked D.J. Cooper’s layup with 6:42 left in their MAC battle Tuesday night, it felt as if the power had shifted and McCrea was going to snatch the conference player-of-the-year honors away from the senior point guard. But then Cooper put McCrea back in the passenger seat, grabbed the [...]

Canisius, Niagara Well Respresented on All-MAAC Teams
Canisius junior guard Billy Baron highlighted the All-MAAC first team announced Monday afternoon. He joins the stellar backcourt from Niagara as sophomores Juan’ya Green and Antoine Mason make their first appearance on the first team. Baron, a 6-foot-2, 195-pound junior point guard from East Greenwich, R.I., averaged 16.6 points per game this season, good for [...]

QCS Big Four Notebook: Niagara Clinches MAAC
Niagara Wins MAAC Title The Purple Eagles entered the 2012-13 season with high expectations and on Saturday, they reached one of their goals as they took down St. Peter’s to win the MAAC regular season title. After a poor start to the year, Niagara rolled in MAAC play, finishing the conference portion of their schedule [...]

McCrea Leads Bulls Upset Over #24 Akron
UB Bulls Press Release BUFFALO, NY – The University at Buffalo men’s basketball team topped 24th-ranked Akron, 81-67, at Alumni Arena on Saturday night to snap the Zips’ 19-game winning streak – the nation’s longest. It was the Bulls’ first-ever win over a nationally-ranked program. Javon McCrea scored 18 of his 26 points in the [...]

Wildcats Fall Short in National Title Game
In a game that saw Daemen’s two starting guards foul out, and 33 fouls called in the second half, the Wildcat’s final comeback attempt fell just short. Down by 15 with six minutes left, the Wildcats fought back to nearly complete a magnificent comeback, but it wasn’t meant to be as Rochester College, who lost [...]

USCAA National Title Game Preview; Daemen vs Rochester
At 12:30 this afternoon, the third seed in this year’s USCAA National men’s division-one basketball tournament, Daemen College, will go toe-to-toe with the top seeded Rochester College Warriors. How they got here… (1) Rochester College – Regular season 22-3 record – Defeated St. Joseph’s in the first round of the USCAA Tournament on Wednesday 75-53 [...]

Second Half Explosion Leads Daemen Past Ave Maria
Mark Coppola had just hit a shot in the midst of a 14-2 Daemen run which put the Wildcats up nine points midway through the second-half and forced an Ave Maria timeout. It was then that assistant coach Mike Miranto delivered a strong message to his team in the huddle. “Step on their throats,” he [...]











