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America East
Championship Game
Hofstra 68, Delaware
54
March 10 2001
Pride Downs
Blue Hens in Title Game for Second Straight
Year
Senior
Greg Miller scored a team-high 17 points and was
named to the All-Tournament
team
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HEMPSTEAD, NY -- For the second
straight year, Hofstra University has dashed the University
of Delaware's hopes for an NCAA Tournament
appearance.
The No. 1 seed Pride got a game-high 20
points from league Player of the Year Norman Richardson and
forward Roberto Gittens scored 14 of his 17 points in the
second half as Hofstra held off the Blue Hens 68-54 to
capture its second straight America East men's basketball
title and second straight NCAA Tournament berth Saturday
afternoon at Hofstra Arena.
The No. 2 seed Blue Hens, who lost to
Hofstra in last year's championship game by a 76-69 score,
had a seven-game win streak snapped to fall to 20-10 on the
season. Delaware will hold out hopes for a second straight
bid to the National Invitational Tournament, which will
announce its 32-team field Sunday evening following the NCAA
Tournament bracket announcement.
Senior guard Greg Miller led the
Blue Hens with 17 points while senior forward Ajmal
Basit recorded his 18th double-double of the season with
10 points and 11 rebounds despite foul trouble the entire
afternoon. The Hens shot just 31.7 percent from the field
for the game (19-6) and their trademark three-point shooting
was off, hitting just 3 of 21 shots from beyond the arc for
the game. Delaware senior guard Billy Wells, who was
red-hot from the three-point line in the Hens' first two
tournament wins, hit just 3 of 15 shots from the field and 2
of 7 from beyond the three-point arc and finished with eight
points.
Hofstra, whose 18-game winning streak is
tops among all NCAA Division I teams, took a 31-27 lead at
halftime and stayed in front the rest of the way. Delaware
stayed close the entire second half and cut the lead to
58-54 on a Miller layup with 3:46. But the Hens would not
score again.
Hofstra senior guard Jason Hernandez
(seven points, five assists) nailed a fallaway jumper just
before the shot clock expired with 3:06 left to put the
Pride up by six at 60-54 then came back with another jumper
less than a minute later for a 62-54 lead. The Pride iced
the game by connecting on six free throws in the final
1:17.
Wells and Miller were named to the
All-Tournament team.
Delaware vs Hofstra
OFFICIAL BASKETBALL BOX SCORE -- G A M E T O T A L S
Delaware vs Hofstra
3/10/01 11:37 a.m. at Hofstra Arena, Hempstead, NY
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VISITORS: Delaware 20-10
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
No. N A M E FG FGA FG FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
03 BASIT, Ajmal f 4 10 0 1 2 5 4 7 11 4 10 0 3 1 1 24
44 SESSOMS, Maurice f 2 3 0 0 2 2 2 3 5 5 6 0 3 0 0 25
22 ROWLAND, Austen g 2 9 0 4 1 2 1 2 3 3 5 4 2 0 2 30
24 MILLER, Greg g 5 10 1 4 6 6 4 1 5 3 17 0 0 2 2 33
25 WELLS, Billy g 3 15 2 7 0 0 1 2 3 2 8 1 1 0 1 32
10 AMES, Mike 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 5
23 WENTT, Robin 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4
32 IVERSEN, Ryan 2 8 0 2 2 2 0 3 3 4 6 0 1 0 0 25
33 KNITTER, Sean 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 11
42 HINDENLANG, Dave 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 11
TEAM ........................................ 1 2 3
TOTALS 19 60 3 21 13 17 14 23 37 27 54 7 10 4 6 200
TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 9-32 .000 2nd Half: 10-28 .357 Game: .317 DEADBALL
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 2-10 .200 2nd Half: 1-11 .091 Game: .143 REBOUNDS
F Throw % 1st Half: 7- 8 .875 2nd Half: 6- 9 .667 Game: .765 4
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HOME TEAM: Hofstra 26-4
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
No. N A M E FG FGA FG FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
04 GITTENS, Roberto f 8 13 0 0 1 5 3 4 7 3 17 1 4 2 1 30
03 SPRINGFIELD, Greg c 2 4 0 0 2 4 4 6 10 4 6 0 1 1 1 29
12 HERNANDEZ, Jason g 3 9 0 1 1 2 1 2 3 0 7 5 1 2 0 39
21 RICHARDSON, Norman g 6 16 1 2 7 9 2 4 6 1 20 2 2 1 0 38
22 APODACA, Rick g 3 7 1 2 4 4 0 8 8 0 11 2 1 0 1 38
11 SUAREZ, Joel 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5
20 SYLLA, Abdou 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
23 WALKER, Danny 0 0 0 0 1 4 3 1 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 9
32 GRUBLER, Lars 0 0 0 0 4 6 0 1 1 4 4 0 1 0 0 11
TEAM ........................................ 2 1 3
TOTALS 23 51 2 6 20 34 15 27 42 13 68 10 10 6 3 200
TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 9-26 .346 2nd Half: 14-25 .560 Game: .451 DEADBALL
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 1- 4 .250 2nd Half: 1- 2 .500 Game: .333 REBOUNDS
F Throw % 1st Half: 12-18 .667 2nd Half: 8-16 .500 Game: .588 4
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OFFICIALS: John Hughes, Fran Connolly, Joe Mingle
TECHNICAL FOULS:
Delaware - none
Hofstra - none
ATTENDANCE: 5124
SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st 2nd OT1 OT2 OT3 OT4 TOTAL
Delaware 27 27 54
Hofstra 31 37 68
America East Championship Game
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