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Tournament Analysis
NEW YORK — The Blackbirds are crowing.
Long Island University is back in the NCAA tournament for the first time in 14 years, and the student body celebrated as though they’d waited that long — in a way, they did — after the top-seeded Blackbirds’ 85-82 overtime win against No. 3 Robert Morris Wednesday night. A tiny little Brooklyn-based campus that’s bracketed and clamped by constrictions — Brooklyn Hospital owning a lot of the late around the LIU campus prevents any sort of campus expansion — has gotten its chance to break through in basketball once again. It took a bonus five minutes for LIU to kick out the two-time defending NEC champions, Robert Morris. But, wow, was it worth it. The students swarmed the team and court once RMU’s Russell Johnson missed what would’ve been a game-tying 3 with .8 left. Read More >>
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