Table of Contents 2013 Men’s Basketball Championship Results................................ 4 Championship Participants............................................................. 5-10
2013-14 Men’s Basketball Championship Schedule Play-in Round
Wednesday, March 5 No. 6 Queens at No. 3 Molloy No. 5 St. Thomas Aquinas at No. 4 LIU Post
Semifinals
Friday, March 7 No. 4/No. 5 at No. 1 Dowling No. 3/No. 6 at No. 2 Bridgeport
Finals
Sunday, March 9 TBA at Highest Remaining Seed
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2013 ECC Men’s Basketball Championship Quarterfinals
No. 6 Dowling d. No. 3 LIU Post, 70-64 at Brookville, N.Y. No. 4 Molloy d. No. 5 Queens, 72-62 at Rockville Centre, N.Y.
Semifinals
No. 1 Bridgeport d. No. 4 Molloy, 64-49 at Bridgeport, Conn. No. 6 Dowling d. No. 2 NYIT, 85-67 at Old Westbury, N.Y.
Finals
No. 1 Bridgeport d. No. 6 Dowling, 61-53 at Bridgeport, Conn.
All-Tournament Team
John Petrucelli - Molloy Azel Prather, Jr. - NYIT Josh Malone - Dowling Leon Taylor - Dowling Dion Waiters - Bridgeport Darian David - Bridgeport
Tournament MOP
JoJo Swift - Bridgeport
Past Champions 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
C.W. Post C.W. Post Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia St. Rose Adelphi St. Rose St. Rose Adelphi St. Rose Adelphi
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Queens Adelphi C.W. Post Queens Adelphi Adelphi C.W. Post C.W. Post Bridgeport C.W. Post C.W. Post Bridgeport
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UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT No. Name 1 Ivan Simic 2 DaQuan Allen 3 JoJo Swift 4 Herschel Howell 5 Antoine Brown 11 Eddie Asamoah 12 Naqwan Crowell 15 Ernest Rouse 22 Ognjen Zoric 23 Willie Williams III 30 Curtis Loving 31 Mike Theophil 32 Frank Dogali 34 Adam Glantz 50 Sean Berry
Yr Sr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Jr. So. Jr. So. Sr. Jr. Sr. So. Jr. Jr. Sr.
Pos F F G G G C/F G G G F F G C/F G C/F
Ht 6-6 5-8 6-0 6-0 6-2 6-6 6-1 6-1 6-2 6-6 6-5 6-1 6-6 6-3 6-8
Wt 220 175 175 195 200 220 180 185 190 215 200 180 255 190 260
Hometown/Previous School Belgrade, Serbia/E. Wyoming C.C. Brooklyn, N.Y./Alfred State CC Brooklyn, N.Y./Maryland Eastern Shore Bronx, N.Y./ Rice HS Brooklyn, N.Y./Lon Morris CC Calgary, Canada/Southwest Academy Poughkeepsie, N.Y./Sullivan CC Freeport, N.Y./Harvard University Subotica, Serbia/Weatherford College Norwalk, Conn./Sullivan CC Harlem, N.Y./The Thomas School Fairfield, Conn./ Housatonic CC Oxford, Conn./Oxford HS Helsginborg, Sweden/ Filborna HS Irvington, N.J./Maryland Eastern Shore
Coach Mike Ruane
Head Coach: Mike Ruane (13th Season) Associate Head Coach: Kranthi Senadhi Assistant Coaches: Will Logan and Abdul Smith
Sean Berry
Ivan Simic
Quick Facts Location: Bridgeport, CT Founded: 1927 Enrollment: 4,800 Nickname: Purple Knights Colors: Purple and White President: Neil Albert Salonen Director of Athletics: Jay Moran Arena (capacity): Harvey Hubbell Gym (1,200) About Bridgeport
Did You Know? • The University of Bridgeport women’s gymnastics team has won the last five USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships. • UB men’s swimming team took eighth place at the 2013 NCAA Division II National Championship Meet. • The Bridgeport women’s volleyball team won the school’s first-ever NCAA Division II East Regional Title in the fall of 2011. • The UB men’s soccer team has made 11 consecutive conference tournament appearances.
JoJo Swift
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An international, doctoral intensive comprehensive university, with award-winning academic programs, at the University of Bridgeport, the New England’s fastest growing university, students can earn degrees in a variety of innovative undergraduate and graduate degree programs. UB is among America’s strong international universities with 25 percent of our students coming from overseas. The University’s commitment to educate students from throughout the world is recognized in the US News and World Report issue on colleges. With students from more than 80 countries who are active in student government, publications and clubs, the University of Bridgeport prides itself in being a real world experience in globalization. Through its International Programs, the University provides academic, co-curricular, and extracurricular activities which support the University’s commitment to promote global citizenship and a commitment to public service. There are 200 full- and part-time faculty, including Fulbright Scholars, National Science Foundation Fellows, Ford Fellows, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows, American Council for Learned Societies Scholars and Phi Beta Kappa Scholars. Known for its competent, committed, caring faculty, the University prides itself on its student-faculty ratio of 11:1. It also takes pride in its commitment to diversity. Some 32 percent of its students are members of minorities. Committed to creating new learning venues, the University of Bridgeport’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies and its Office of Distance Learning pioneered the first online graduate degree program in the State of Connecticut. A variety of online courses and certificate programs are also available.
DOWLING COLLEGE
Coach Steve Hayn
No. Name Yr Pos Ht Wt Hometown/Previous School 00 Darien Davis Jr. G 6-2 180 Middle Island, N.Y./Longwood 2 Jerrell Harris Fr. G 6-5 200 Dallas, Texas/Pinkston 4 Corwin Austin Sr. G 6-2 180 Brooklyn, N.Y./Thomas Jefferson 5 Dor Yfrah Jr. F 6-6 210 Gita, Israel/Ort Bialik 12 Travis McGhie So. G 6-0 170 Brooklyn, N.Y./John Jay 11 Justin Alexander Sr. F 6-3 195 Staten Island, N.Y./New Dorp 15 Ryan Hickey Fr. G 5-10 165 Smithtown, N.Y./Smithtown W. 20 Lorenzo Warren So. F 6-3 180 Lindenhurst, N.Y./Lindenhurst 21 Donte Adams Jr. F 6-3 185 Amityville, N.Y./TC Williams 22 Leon Taylor Sr. G 6-0 160 Rockville Centre, N.Y./Southside 23 Dominique Spann Jr. F 6-4 220 West Babylon, N.Y./St. Thomas More 24 Ramiel Coleman Fr. F 6-5 160 Bronx, N.Y./Cardinal Hayes 30 McKenzie Felix Sr. F 6-4 220 St. Lucia/Vieux Fort 32 Evan Maxwell So. C 6-8 210 East Islip, N.Y./East Islip 50 Michael Guzzardi Fr. F 6-7 195 Mount Sinai, N.Y./Mount Sinai Head Coach: Steve Hayn (8th season) Assistant Coaches: Marlon McRae, Josh Malone, and Doug Davis
Justin Alexander
Corwin Austin
Darien Davis
Quick Facts Did You Know? • The men’s soccer program won the National Championship in Location: Oakdale, N.Y. 2006 and advanced to the National Championship game in 2008 Founded: 1955 • Dowling has had four baseball student-athletes selected in the MLB First Year Player draft (Kip Roggendorf, ‘93, Toronto; Wilberto Enrollment: Over 6,500 Ortiz, ‘06, Los Angeles (AL); Billy Mottram, ‘07, Chicago (NL); Nickname: Golden Lions David Wendt, ‘09, Tampa Bay) Colors: Navy Blue and Gold • The men’s lacrosse team won the program’s first National Championship in 2012 President: Dr. Norman R. Smith • In 2012-13 Dowling’s women’s basketball team advanced to the Vice President for Athletics: Melody Cope National Championship game after becoming the second team in Arena (capacity): Dowling Gymnasium at ECC history to win the NCAA East Region Tournament. • The volleyball team has made 11 consecutive NCAA Tournament SJU Eastern Long Island Campus (800) appearances.
About Dowling Founded in 1955 as part of Adelphi University’s Suffolk Campus, the college purchased the former W.K. Vanderbilt estate in Oakdale in 1962. In 1968 the college was renamed after its chief benefactor, Robert Dowling, a noted city planner and aviator. Situated on the banks of the Connetquot River on a former Vanderbilt estate, Dowling’s Rudolph Campus in Oakdale is among the nation’s most beautiful. The 105-acre Brookhaven Center is located on William Floyd Parkway in Shirley and features high-tech learning facilities for a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses. Located within walking distance to the Long Island Rail Road and featuring free parking and shuttle bus service, Dowling is easily accessible from both Suffolk and Nassau counties, as well as the five boroughs of New York City.
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LIU POST Yr No. Name 0 1 3 5 10 11 15 20 24 31 34
Akosa Maduegbunam So. Vaughn Allen Sr. Chris Orozco So. Isiah Stokley Jr. Jared Hall Fr. P.J. Torres Jr. Dillon Burns So. Jovanni Moreno Fr. Sean Dillon So. Tyuan Williams Jr. Charles McCann Jr.
Pos G F G G G G G F G F F
Ht 6-3 6-6 6-2 6-4 6-1 6-3 5-7 6-3 6-1 6-5 6-4
Wt 205 210 185 200 170 200 145 223 160 220 215
Hometown/Previous School Hyde Park, Mass./Penn State Mount Vernon, N.Y./Mount Vernon Tenafly, N.J. /New Hampshire Queens, N.Y./Western Texas South Orange, N.J./Hudson Catholic New Rochelle, N.Y./Duquesne Staten Island, N.Y./Xaverian Freeport, N.Y./Freeport Staten Island, N.Y./Xaverian Newark, N.J./St. Anthony’s Springfield Gardens, N.Y./St. Mary’s
Coach Erik Smiles
Head Coach: Erik Smiles (1st Season) Assistant Coaches: T.J. Newman, Devine Smith, Peter Lipka, and Marlon Bottoms
Vaughn Allen
P.J. Torres
Quick Facts Location: Brookville N.Y. Founded: 1954 Enrollment: 8,472 Nickname: Pioneers Colors: Green and Gold President: Dr. Kimberly R. Cline Director of Athletics: Bryan Collins Arena (capacity): Pratt Recreation Center (3,000)
Did You Know? • The LIU Post men’s basketball team currently leads the country in rebounding, and ranks in the Top-5 in offensive rebounds per game, and rebound margin. • Senior forward Vaughn Allen became the program’s all-time leading rebounder, after grabbing 11 boards at Dowling on Feb. 15, 2014. • The Pioneers posted a season-high eight-game winning streak between Nov. 23, 2013 and Jan. 4, 2014. • The LIU Post men’s basketball team was chosen second in the 2013-14 ECC Preseason Poll.
Tyuan Williams
About LIU Post The LIU Post Campus of Long Island University is a private, residential campus in Brookville, New York, offering more than 250 undergraduate and graduate degrees in accountancy, business, computer science, education, liberal arts and sciences, library and information science, health professions and nursing, public service, and visual and performing arts. Founded in 1954, LIU Post offers small classes, state-of-the art facilities and a safe, beautiful campus just 25 miles from Manhattan. Situated on 307 acres on the North Shore of Long Island, the campus features stately historic mansions, redbrick academic buildings, rolling green lawns, and formal gardens. Special campus highlights include wireless classrooms, a writing center, a museum, a recreation center, and one of the largest research libraries in the New York Metropolitan Region. LIU Post’s’ 8,500 undergraduate and graduate students enjoy exceptional health and fitness facilities, more than 80 clubs and 1,000 activities each year, competitive NCAA sports programs and the celebrated Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. More than 85 percent of the LIU Post students receive some form of financial assistance or scholarship. LIU Post graduates have gone on to become entrepreneurs, executives at major firms, teachers, doctors, artists, scientists and journalists. Many of our more than 100,000 alumni have achieved prominence in society’s most dynamic fields. For more information, visit the LIU Post Web Site at www.liu.edu/post.
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MOLLOY COLLEGE No. Name
Coach Charles Marquardt
1 3 11 13 15 20 21 23 25 30 32 42
Yr Brandon Williams So. Maurice Gatson So. Matt McLeod Jr. John Petrucelli Sr. Kevin Bowles So. Tyler Hammett Sr. Miles Prendergast Jr. Joe Campay Fr. Chucks Obunse So. Jaylen Morris Fr. Charlie Marquardt Fr. Richard Zoller Jr.
Pos G G G F F C F F C/F G F F/C
Ht 5-10 6-0 6-3 6-4 6-4 7-0 6-5 6-4 6-5 6-3 6-3 6-8
Wt 158 160 195 190 185 270 190 210 235 170 215 225
Hometown/Previous School Baldwin, N.Y./Baldwin New York, N.Y./School of the Future Greenlawn, N.Y./Harborfields Hicksville, N.Y./Hicksville Wantagh, N.Y./Kellenberg Memorial Clifton Park, N.Y./Lansingburgh Bayport, N.Y./Suffolk C.C. East Meadow, N.Y./East Meadow Saint Albans, N.Y./Martin Van Buren Amherst, N.Y./St. Joseph’s Collegiate Rockaway Beach, N.Y./Poly Prep Syosset, N.Y./Chaminade
Head Coach: Charles Marquardt (20th Season) Assistant Coaches: Pat Morris and Jason Fiscina
Charlie Marquardt
Matt McLeod
John Petrucelli
Quick Facts Did You Know? • Senior John Petrucelli of the men’s basketball team set a few new program Location: Rockville Centre, N.Y. records this year, including: single-game scoring (39 points versus Bridgeport on December 11, 2013), single-season scoring (currently has 623 points), and Founded: 1955 all-time scoring (currently has 1,942 points). He also has led NCAA Division II Enrollment: 3,300 in steals per game for the majority of the season, and ranked in the Top-5 for points per game in the country throughout the year. Nickname: Lions • Senior Kelly Guerriero of the women’s basketball team set a new singleColors: Maroon and White season three-point record as she has drained 85 treys. She currently paces the ECC in that category. President: Drew Bogner, Ph.D • The men’s indoor track and team won its second-straight East Coast ConDirector of Athletics: Susan Cassidy-Lyke ference Championship on February 22, 2014. The Lions amassed a total of 138 Areana (capacity): Quealy Gymnasium points at the title meet. • Senior Dan Brown was named to the All-ECC Men’s Soccer First Team this (525) past Fall. • For the Fall 2013 semester, 10 Lions earned a perfect and pristine 4.0 GPA to join the 4.0 GPA Club. The 10 student-athletes were: Alexa De La Torre (women’s soccer), Michael DioGuardi (cross country, track and field), Jessica Falcone (cheerleading), Nicholas Gonchar (baseball), Nicole Hein (cross country, track and field), Katie Jacques (women’s soccer), Keri Korwan (cheerleading), Ryan Lane (cheerleading), Lisa Nappi (equestrian) and Nicolette Sinagra (softball).
About Molloy:
Molloy College is an institution of the Dominican tradition which offers students a rich, multi-dimensional educational experience in an academically challenging environment. We foster critical thinking and creative exploration while preparing students to live and work in the global world of today.
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QUEENS COLLEGE No. Name Yr Pos 1 Dallas Serrano Jr.. G 3 Tommie Starkes, Jr. Jr. G 4 Patrick Parker Sr. G 5 George Holmes Sr. G/F 11 Ronald Washington, Jr. Jr. G 12 Elisee Joseph R-Fr. G 20 Kyheim Chaplin Fr. G 24 Jeremiah Mordi Sr. F 30 Amir Tarif Sr.. F/C 32 Dejuhan Gray So. F 42 Richard Council, Jr. Jr. C 43 Diego Maldonaldo Fr. G
Ht 5-10 6-0 6-1 6-3 6-0 6-0 6-1 6-4 6-6 6-5 6-7 6-3
Wt Hometown/Previous School 170 Valley Stream, N.Y./Newbury College 165 Bronx, N.Y./Rockland C.C. 180 Queens, N.Y./Alfred State 205 Gordon Heights, N.Y./Suffolk C.C. 160 Bronx, N.Y/Bronx C.C. 165 Brooklyn, N.Y./Siena 165 Freeport, N.Y./Freeport 180 Valley Stream, N.Y./Valley Stream Central 215 New York, N.Y/LIU Post 205 Toronto, Ontario/Amityville 230 New York, N.Y./Holy Family University 150 Valley Stream, N.Y./Valley Stream
Coach Darryl Jacobs
Head Coach: Darryl Jacobs (1st Season) Assistant Coaches: Thomas Helmeyer, Cedric Pitt, and Jerry Wimberly
Jeremiah Mordi
Patrick Parker
Quick Facts Location: Flushing, N.Y. Founded: 1937 Enrollment: 20,000 Nickname: Knights Colors: Navy Blue and Red Interim President: Dr. Evangelos J. Gizis Assistant VP for Athletics: China Jude Arena (capacity): Fitzgerald Gymnasium (3,000)
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Did You Know? • The Lady Knights made it to the AIAW Finals in 1973 and were one of the two participants in the first women’s basketball game ever played at Madison Square Garden in 1975. • Gail Marquis was a silver medalist for the first United States Olympic Women’s Basketball Team. • The Queens College men’s and women’s tennis teams both advanced to the NCAA Round of 16 last year, earning top-25 rankings along the way.
Amir Tarif
About Queens: Queens College, located on a beautiful 77-acre campus in Flushing, New York, opened its doors in 1937 with the goal of offering a firstrate education to talented people of all backgrounds and financial means. Part of the City University of New York (CUNY) since its founding in 1961, Queens College is one of CUNY’s largest senior colleges. It enjoys a national reputation for its liberal arts and sciences and professional programs, and was cited in the 2012 edition of The Princeton Review’s The Best 376 Colleges for its academic excellence and generous financial aid packages. The college has 69 undergraduate and 62 graduate programs in four divisions, which offer day and evening courses: Arts and Humanities; Education; Mathematics and the Natural Sciences; and the Social Sciences. Students are taught by top scholars who are dedicated to teaching and research. Of our 641 full-time faculty, nearly 90% have the terminal degree in their fields (not all fields offer doctorates) and 65% have tenure. Over 120,000 students have graduated since the college’s first class of 1941. Our alumni include such household names as Paul Simon and Jerry Seinfeld, as well as the CEOs of major companies and leaders in the fields of medicine, education, media, the law, and politics.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE
Coach Tobin Anderson
No. Name 1 Sam Wilson 3 Marcus Henderson 5 Alushula Odongo 10 Eli Maravich 11 Jonathan McNair 12 Bradley Saxton 15 Chaz Watler 21 Matt Darnell 25 Aaron Cust 32 Kiernan Hayes 33 Omar Kellman 34 Steve Henrici 44 William Wrightson
Yr Sr. Jr. Jr. Gr. Jr. So. Fr. Sr. Fr. Fr. Sr. Fr. So.
Pos G G F G G G G F G F F C C
Ht 5-11 5-5 6-4 6-1 6-3 6-4 6-2 6-6 6-0 6-4 6-6 6-6 6-9
Wt 170 140 190 165 190 190 165 215 175 180 230 210 255
Hometown/Previous School Bridgeport, Conn./St. Joseph’s Newburgh, N.Y./Newburgh Free Academy Suffern, N.Y./Suffern Pittsburgh, Pa./Chartiers Valley N.E. Washington, D.C./Calvin Coolidge Hilliard, Ohio/Grove City Brooklyn, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy Stafford, Va./North Stafford Uniondale, N.Y./Uniondale Washingtonville, N.Y./Washingtonville Bronx, N.Y./All Hallows Northvale, N.J./Northern Valley Old Tappan Toms River, N.J./Toms River North
Head Coach: Tobin Anderson (1st Season) Assistant Coaches: Matt Capell, Tim Coyne and John Dwinell Volunteer Assistant Coach: Brian Stafman
Marcus Henderson
Alushula Odongo
Chaz Watler
Quick Facts Location: Sparkill, N.Y. Founded: 1896 Enrollment: 2,200 Nickname: Spartans Colors: Maroon and Gold President: Dr. Margaret Fitzpatrick Director of Athletics: Gerald Oswald Arena (capacity): Aquinas Hall (900)
Did You Know? • First year head coach Tobin Anderson has guided the Spartans to their first conference playoff game since 2009 • Spartan guard, Eli Maravich is a distant relative of the late Pistol Pete Maravich. • Spartan freshmen Chaz Watler and Aaron Cust have combined for eight ECC Rookie of the Week honors this season.
About St. Thomas Aquinas
The College’s 2,000 full and part time undergraduate students major in one of 31 programs offered in five division areas: The Humanitites; Business Administration; Social Sciences; Natrual Sciences & Mathematics; and Teacher Education. The College offers a full scholarship Honors Program which provides studens with a Summer Study experience at Oxford University in England. In addition there are several study abroud opportunities and strategic alliances designed to offer expanded opportunities for students. For example, students can major in mathematics at St. Thomas for three years and then enter a engineering program at either George Washington University or Manhattan College as part of a dual degree program. St. Thomas Aquinas College now fields 16 NCAA Division II sports, is an active member of the NCAA and supports 200 student-athletes. Men’s sports include: baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis and track & field (indoor and outdoor). Women’s sports include: basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis and track & field (indoor and outdoor). The Spartans’ and Lady Spartan’s teams compete in more than 300 contests annually.
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