As an alum, I'm happy to report that on the women's side of March Madness, the Marist Red Foxes won the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, and with it, won an automatic bid to the NCAA.
Erica Allenspach, a senior, was the stand-out for the Red Foxes in their victory over Loyola on Monday, March 7th.
On the men's side, alas, Marist has not had an outstanding year. They did get to the quarterfinals of the MAAC Tournament (which took place in Harbor Yard, Bridgeport this year), only to fall to the Fairfield University Stags. [Are the Fairfield women's teams called Does?]
Anyway, let's cheer on the Marist women, who'll play Iowa State in their first-round game.
And, of course, both U.Conn. teams. The Lady Huskies look like plausible victors in a three-peat. They play an in-state rival, the Hartford Hawks, in their first round game.
The U.Conn Men are the #3 seed in the west region. They play their first round game against the 14th seeded Bucknell Bison this evening. Calhoun was reportedly thrilled at this seeding. The way they ended their year, with that great streak against some tough teams, must have pushed them up in the esteem of the committee considerably.
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17 March 2011
09 December 2010
UConn in the Fiesta Bowl!
On the weekend before Thanksgiving, as I have mentioned here before, the University of Connecticut Huskies football team defeated their Big East rival Syracuse putting themselves in position for a bowl game bid.
But at the time I described their bowl eligibility as still a "long shot."
They've pulled it off, though! On Saturday of the long Thanksgiving weekend, they defeated Cincinnati. The week after that, they beat the South Florida Bulls in an exciting game that ended 19-16, after Dave Teggart's 52 yard field goal broke a tie.
As Casey Keefe wrote on the CBS Sports website, "It's unfathomable to think how far Connecticut football has come."
They are the champs of the Big East conference, and headed for the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona on New Year's Day 2011.
As some of you know, I live a stone's throw from the state line and spend a lot of time on the northern side of said line. So it seems only fair to ask: how did the U.Mass Minutemen do this season?
Well ... they sure aren't in a major bowl game! Nah-nah. The Minutemen are part of the Colonial conference. They ended the season this year with a 4-4 record within that conference, a 6-5 record overall.
But at the time I described their bowl eligibility as still a "long shot."
They've pulled it off, though! On Saturday of the long Thanksgiving weekend, they defeated Cincinnati. The week after that, they beat the South Florida Bulls in an exciting game that ended 19-16, after Dave Teggart's 52 yard field goal broke a tie.
As Casey Keefe wrote on the CBS Sports website, "It's unfathomable to think how far Connecticut football has come."
They are the champs of the Big East conference, and headed for the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona on New Year's Day 2011.
As some of you know, I live a stone's throw from the state line and spend a lot of time on the northern side of said line. So it seems only fair to ask: how did the U.Mass Minutemen do this season?
Well ... they sure aren't in a major bowl game! Nah-nah. The Minutemen are part of the Colonial conference. They ended the season this year with a 4-4 record within that conference, a 6-5 record overall.
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