College of Staten Island finishes perfect CUNY basketball season with 73-66 win over Brooklyn Saturday, February 11, 2012, 12:22 AM
By
Jim Waggoner
The College of Staten Island expected to take host Brooklyn College’s best punch Friday night, and that’s exactly what happened in a regular-season finale that had playoff intensity at the West Quad Center. The Dolphins needed four free throws in the final 10.2 seconds to finally dispose of the Bulldogs, 73-66, and finish with a perfect CUNY Conference record for the first time in head coach Tony Petosa’s 22 years on the bench. CSI also has a 13-game winning streak, and needs a victory in Tuesday’s regularseason finale at St. Joseph’s of Brooklyn to equal the school record of 14 straight. “Everybody wants to play spoiler against us,” said senior forward Jordan Young, who had a game-high 24 points on 10-forStaten Island Advance file photo by Hilton Flores CSI senior forward Jordan Young scored a game-high 24 points in a 73 -66 victory at Brooklyn College.
13 shooting. “We have a big target on our backs.” The target got a little bigger for the 20-4 Dolphins when they learned on Wednesday
that they had earned the No. 1 ranking in the first NCAA Division III Atlantic Region poll of the season. It’s their first such ranking since 1997.
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