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Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
New Haven accepts invitation to Northeast Conference as it begins transition to Division I
FILE - Fairleigh Dickinson celebrates after an NCAA college basketball game in the championship of the Northeast Conference tournament, March 8, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, file) WEST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The University of New Haven has accepted an invitation to become a full member of the Northeast Conference when it begins its transition from Division II to Division I on July 1. Commissioner Noreen Morris and school president Jens Frederiksen announced Tuesday that New Haven would become the conference's 10th full member. The Chargers will become full Division I members in 2028-29. Advertisement 'Making the move to Division I is a bold step, and we're honored that New Haven chose to take that step with us,' Morris said. 'From the start, it was clear that they share our values — putting academics, competitive excellence and the student-athlete experience at the forefront.' New Haven sponsors 20 sports and will be integrated into NEC schedules beginning this year with the exception of football. Football's addition to the conference schedule is still to be determined. During its transition, New Haven will immediately be able to participate in conference championships in sports that do not have automatic qualifiers for NCAA championships. The Chargers will become eligible for NCAA championship competition in 2028-29. Two other NEC members are in transition to Division I, Stonehill and Le Moyne. ___ AP college sports:
Yahoo
19-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Iowa basketball just misses on highly sought-after assistant
The Iowa Hawkeyes continue to build out their coaching staff and new roster under head coach Ben McCollum, but with that comes competing against other programs across the country for the same talent. Sometimes the Hawkeyes are going to be left on the outside looking in and that is such the case with a highly sought-after assistant coach with quite the NCAA Tournament resume that McCollum was trying to land. Advertisement Former Fairleigh Dickinson and Iona head coach Tobin Anderson hit the market this year after leading Iona to a 17-17 record and has already found footing elsehwere. As reported by Matt Norlander of CBS Sports, Anderson is joining the staff at USF as the lead assistant while leaving Iowa on the outside looking in. Tobin Anderson has quite the resume, and it is highlighted by a large exclamation point during his one-year tenure at Fairleigh Dickinson. He led the program to the NCAA Tournament, where they pulled off one of the most improbable upsets in March Madness history. Anderson led No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson to a win over the No. 1 Purdue Boilermakers to join an exclusive club with UMBC as the only two No. 16 seeds to win an NCAA Tournament game. Advertisement Contact/Follow us @HawkeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes and opinions. Follow Riley on X: @rileydonald This article originally appeared on Hawkeyes Wire: Iowa basketball misses out on Tobin Anderson as assistant coach
USA Today
10-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Iowa basketball just misses on highly sought-after assistant
Iowa basketball just misses on highly sought-after assistant The Iowa Hawkeyes continue to build out their coaching staff and new roster under head coach Ben McCollum, but with that comes competing against other programs across the country for the same talent. Sometimes the Hawkeyes are going to be left on the outside looking in and that is such the case with a highly sought-after assistant coach with quite the NCAA Tournament resume that McCollum was trying to land. Former Fairleigh Dickinson and Iona head coach Tobin Anderson hit the market this year after leading Iona to a 17-17 record and has already found footing elsehwere. As reported by Matt Norlander of CBS Sports, Anderson is joining the staff at USF as the lead assistant while leaving Iowa on the outside looking in. Tobin Anderson has quite the resume, and it is highlighted by a large exclamation point during his one-year tenure at Fairleigh Dickinson. He led the program to the NCAA Tournament, where they pulled off one of the most improbable upsets in March Madness history. Anderson led No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson to a win over the No. 1 Purdue Boilermakers to join an exclusive club with UMBC as the only two No. 16 seeds to win an NCAA Tournament game. Contact/Follow us @HawkeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes and opinions. Follow Riley on X: @rileydonald
Associated Press
27-03-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Don't write off future Cinderellas just because it's an all-power conference Sweet 16, coaches say
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Nearly every year there's at least one lovable underdog that rises from obscurity in the NCAA Tournament to capture the hearts of basketball fans and bust their brackets. Not this year. All 16 regional semifinalists are from power conferences for the first time since the bracket expanded to 64 teams in 1985. The popular theory is that the transfer portal has led to a concentration of the best players at the big schools paying the most NIL money and, soon, the most through revenue sharing. Is this year just an anomaly? Purdue coach Matt Painter, whose 2023 team became the second No. 1 seed of all-time to lose to a No. 16 (Fairleigh Dickinson), sure hopes not. 'The upsets and how valuable the upsets are to the common fan, it's created March Madness,' he said Thursday. 'Let's not get away from it. It's a big piece of March Madness.' Arizona's Tommy Lloyd said it's too early to know if the days of Cinderellas are over, or at least not as common. 'I don't know if there's enough sample size yet to say this is NIL-driven or just how it broke this year,' Lloyd said. There were three straight 15-seeds in the Sweet 16 three straight years recently — Oral Roberts in 2021, Saint Peter's in 2022 and Princeton in 2023. Those Peacocks of Saint Peter's made it all the way to the Elite Eight. And remember Florida Gulf Coast's 'Dunk City' team in 2013? It was the first No. 15 to win two games in a tournament. How about 2018 Loyola-Chicago, Sister Jean and the 11th-seeded Ramblers' run to the Final Four? Those types of storylines are conspicuously missing this year with the SEC sending a record seven teams to the Sweet 16, the Big Ten and Big 12 four apiece and the ACC one. That doesn't mean the little guys haven't provided some highlights. No. 12 seed McNeese State, with its social media star student manager, knocked off Clemson, while No. 11 Drake and its four Division II transfer starters took out Missouri, and No. 15 Robert Morris played Alabama close until fading at the end. Kentucky's Mark Pope said those games provided requisite March drama, and the depth of talent pool among players and coaches is so deep that there'll always be jarring upsets. 'I think it's because it's a pure meritocracy,' he said. 'Once you start playing, doesn't matter what your budget is, doesn't matter if you came in on a bus or flew in on a plane. Doesn't matter if you don't have 17 different uniforms or if you have only one. Doesn't matter if you have holes in your shoes or your 75th new pair.' BYU coach Kevin Young said this year's Sweet 16 field illustrates the struggle mid-majors face in the new era of college athletics. 'It's not even that people are coming to get their players,' he said. 'Kids are smart; they see what's out there, and they think that they can better their situation by going in the portal and maybe going to a bigger school that can offer more to them.' Three of the five first-team AP All-Americans this season started out at programs outside the power conference — Auburn's Johni Broome at Morehead State, Alabama's Mark Sears at Ohio and Florida's Walter Clayton Jr. at Robert Morris. Same with three of the second-team picks — JT Toppin of Texas Tech (New Mexico), RJ Luis Jr. of St. John's (UMass) and John Tonje of Wisconsin (Colorado State). Nate Oats, who parlayed March magic at Buffalo into his current job at Alabama, said coaches at strong mid-major programs face a nearly impossible task keeping their rosters intact. 'I don't know that I would have been able to keep my whole team together at Buffalo in today's day and age,' said Oats, whose 2018 and '19 teams won first-round games. While power-conference programs are trending older with the transfer portal and not relying as much on high school recruits, Oats said, mid-majors that bring in the very best young talent will still have opportunities to win in March. 'There's a lot of freshmen that are not getting offered at the high-major level that would have used to get offered that now are ending up at mid-major schools, and some of them are really good,' Oats said. 'Those mid-major schools, they're going to have to do a really good job of evaluating talent coming out of high school. 'I think it's still going to be done, but it might be a little bit harder. I think you'll still see some Cinderellas coming through.'
Chicago Tribune
25-03-2025
- Sport
- Chicago Tribune
UConn women's basketball star Azzi Fudd announces she will return next season
UConn women's basketball star Azzi Fudd announced Tuesday that she will return to use her redshirt season of eligibility with the Huskies in 2025-26, positioning the team to bring back three of its five starters next season. Fudd signed with UConn as the No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2021, but the 5-11 guard has appeared in just 72 games with injuries limiting her for extended periods in each of the last four years. She sat out of 11 games in 2021-22 to resolve a lingering foot injury from her senior high school season, then missed 22 the following year with a right knee injury. Fudd appeared in two games in 2023-24 before suffering a season-ending ACL and meniscus tear in the same knee, and she didn't return to the court until UConn's Nov. 20 win over Fairleigh Dickinson. Since returning, Fudd is having the best — and healthiest — season of her career. She is the third-highest scorer on the team, averaging 13.4 points per game, and she leads the Huskies in three-point percentage hitting a career-high 45.3% plus 48.6% from the field and 92.6% at the free throw line. The redshirt junior has appeared in 30 games and started 26 averaging 25.3 minutes per game. The signature performance of Fudd's comeback season was in UConn's 87-58 upset at No. 2 South Carolina on Feb. 16. The star guard led the Huskies with 28 points shooting 6-for-10 from beyond the arc, also logging a season-high five rebounds plus two assists. She was named a first-team All-Big East selection for the first time in her career and made the all-conference tournament team. Fudd also shined in the first round of the NCAA Tournament with 27 points on six 3-pointers to lead UConn in a 103-34 rout. Fudd was widely considered a late first-round pick in 2025, though many mock drafts were not yet including her in the player pool amid uncertainty about her plans. She was projected as high as the No. 8 pick to the Connecticut Sun by the Bleacher Report's Rachel Galligan, while the New York Post's Madeleine Kenney and CBS Sports's Jack Maloney both had her landing with the Minnesota Lynx at No. 11. Fudd will return in 2025-26 alongside freshman Sarah Strong and redshirt freshman Jana El Alfy from this year's starting lineup, and sophomores KK Arnold and Ashlynn Shade also have experience taking on bigger roles after starting 33 games each in 2023-24. Fudd's classmate Caroline Ducharme will also be back to use her redshirt season in 2024-25 after lingering head and neck injuries limited her to 34 games over the last three seasons combined. UConn will lose three players to graduation after this season, headlined by superstar Paige Bueckers, who is all but guaranteed to be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft. Coach Geno Auriemma said during the Big East Tournament that he also expects graduate transfer Kaitlyn Chen will be selected in the later rounds of the draft, and sixth-year senior Aubrey Griffin is out of eligibility.
