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SHU adds player, names Greenbacker captain

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 by:William S. Paxton
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The Sacred Heart men’s basketball team has a received a verbal commitment from 6-5 forward De’von Barnett.

Barnett, from Riverdale Baptist High School in Maryland, will spend this season at a junior college before joining the Pioneers for the 2013-14 campaign.

Also, the Pioneers have voted fifth-year senior Nick Greenbacker as team captain for the second straight season. The 6-foot-10 center graduated in three years at SHU and has been working on his MBA.

NEC Social Media Day: The Northeast Conference will hold its first in-person basketball media day for  men’s and women’s teams in a decade on Oct. 23 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Billed as NEC “Social” Media Day, the festivities will be webcast live
and in HD on NEC Front Row www.necfrontrow.com beginning at
11 a.m.  NEC Media Day will also air on delay in condensed form on Fox
College Sports (FCS) in early November.

2012 Fairfield men’s hoops schedule released

Friday, September 14, 2012 by:William S. Paxton
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2012-13 Fairfield University Men’s Basketball Schedule

Date                                                    Opponent                                                                                         Time

November 2                                     Bridgeport (Exhibition)

November 10                                  vs. Central Connecticut@

November 12-14                            Preseason NIT

November 19-20                            NIT Consolation Round

November 21-23                            NIT Semifinals/Championship

November 23                                  at Providence

November 27                                  at DePaul

December 1                                     at Austin Peay

December 7                                     Canisius

December 9                                     at Rider

December 12                                   UW-Milwaukee

December 16                                   Drexel

December 22                                   at Saint Joseph’s

December 29                                   at Old Dominion

January 3                                           at Canisius

January 5                                           at Niagara

January 11                                         at Loyola

January 13                                         Niagara

January 18                                         at Iona

January 21                                         Loyola

January 24                                         Marist

January 27                                         at Saint Peter’s

February 1                                        Rider

February 4                                        at Siena

February 7                                        Saint Peter’s

February 9                                        Manhattan

February 14                                      Siena

February 18                                      Iona

February 22-23                                BracketBuster

March 1                                              at Manhattan

March 3                                              at Marist

@ – Connecticut 6 at University of Hartford

Home Games in Bold (Webster Bank Arena, Bridgeport, Conn.)

Sydney Johnson and Dave Bike’s reaction to Calhoun retiring

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 by:William S. Paxton
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Fairfield’s Sydney Johnson went up against Jim Calhoun’s UConn Huskies for the first time as a head coach last season. The Stags rallied late in the second half, but lost 79-71.
“I’m surprised (he’s rtiring) because he’s been a relentless competitor,” said Johnson, who knows about Big East battles with Calhoun since he spent three seasons on John Thompson III’s staff at Georgetown (2004-07). “When you witness someone like that for so long, it’s hard to imagine them not in that role.”

At Sacred Heart University, Dave Bike’s Pioneers played the Huskies a few times over the years and Bike said his team even lead once at the half.

“He had a heck of a run,” Bike said. “To do what he did at that school, I’m not too sure too many coaches could have put them on the map the way he did.”

Stags to open at Virginia in Preseason NIT

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 by:William S. Paxton
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Fairfield men’s basketball team has been placed in the South Region for the Preseason NIT and will play at Virginia at 7 p.m. Nov. 12. The game will be shown on ESPN3.
Depending on the outcome of the Virginia game, the Stags will meet either Penn or Delaware in the next round.
Fairfield is guaranteed to play four games in the tournament win or lose, but the other opponents will not be determined until later in the tournament.
The Stags open the season at 8 p.m. Nov. 10 against Central Connecticut State at the University of Hartford as part of the Connecticut 6.