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Sunday, March 05, 2023

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Saturday might have been the worst day ever in Rhode Island basketball historical past. Three Division I applications had their bids for the Large Dance dashed, and all 4 D-I males’s groups — and the URI ladies — misplaced.

Going into the weekend, 4 males’s groups and one ladies’s workforce had hopes of creating the NCAA event. After the brutal Saturday, simply Windfall Faculty and URI males’s groups are alive.

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Bryant Males Bounced – Accomplished for the Yr

The sixth-seeded Bryant College males’s basketball workforce fell to third-seeded New Hampshire, 67-60, on Saturday afternoon at Lundholm Gymnasium.

With the loss, the Bulldogs see their season come to a detailed with a 17-13 document. The Black and Gold dropped 5 of their remaining six on the 12 months.

For the second 12 months in a row, the Atlantic-10 event was heartbreak for the College of Rhode Island ladies’s basketball workforce.

The Rams (24-6) fell behind by as many as 21 factors within the first half. Saint Louis (16-17) dominated each ends of the ground. Reserve ahead Peyton Kennedy scored 16 factors on 7-of-7 taking pictures because the Billikens scored 24 factors within the paint. Defensively, Saint Louis held Rhode Island to twenty.0 p.c from the ground (7-of-35), together with 4-for-17 from 3-point vary.

A livid second-half comeback was not sufficient as No. 2 Rhode Island fell to No. 3 Saint Louis within the semifinals of the Atlantic 10 Championship Saturday.

The Rams have in all probability misplaced out on their likelihood for the NCAA event. They could possibly be invited to WNIT event.

The No. 20 Windfall Faculty males’s basketball workforce was overwhelmed by the Seton Corridor Pirates (17-14, 10-10 Large East), 82-58, on Senior Day on Saturday at house. The Friars fell to 21-10 on the season and 13-7 within the convention.

It was the third Friar loss previously 4 video games. PC goes into this week’s Large East convention needing to regroup shortly. There have been few variety phrases spoken in regards to the Friars’ efficiency on social media.

For the Friars, the season continues — PC will journey to the Large East Event at Madison Sq. Backyard. The Friars will play their first sport on Thursday, Mar. 9, at both 2:30 p.m. (No. 4 vs. No. 5 sport) or 9:30 p.m. (No. 3 vs. No. 6/11 sport) within the Quarterfinals. The sport might be televised on FS1. 

The Brown males’s basketball workforce fell to Yale 84-75 on Senior Evening Saturday night time on the Pizzitola Sports activities Middle. The Bulldogs claimed a share of the common season Ivy Title with the win, whereas the Bears missed qualifying for Ivy Insanity with the loss. Brown has by no means certified for the Ivy top-four event because it was established in 2017.

Brown misplaced three out of 4 remaining Ivy video games. The Bears’ season is over except it performs in a third-tier pay-to-play post-season event. Brown completed 14-13 (7-7 in Ivy League).

Martin tried to make sense of the late collapse. “I take a look at the place we had been final 12 months and I take a look at progress and enchancment,” Martin mentioned. “There may be nonetheless loads left in entrance of us, a whole lot of enchancment and progress needed, and it hurts that we have come up brief, but when I simply take a look at every little thing that you simply analyze and consider a workforce on, I see a significantly better workforce proper now than we had been right now final 12 months … We must always be ok with the course and the place we’re at regardless of arising brief.”

URI Males Lose for the twenty first Time

Davidson beat the URI males 68-54 Saturday night time on the Ryan Middle.  URI suffered by way of a brutal season and the Rams are 9-21 and 5-13 within the A-10.

Rhode Island would be the No. 14 seed within the 2023 Atlantic 10 event, which begins Tuesday, March 7 at Barclays Middle in Brooklyn. The Rams will face No. 11 La Salle at 4:30 p.m.

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