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Quinnipiac is the No. 1-ranked hockey team in the nation, yet it seems as if none of the experts are picking the Bobcats to win the national championship. Over at ESPN this week, for instance, Dave Starman was picking UMass-Lowell and Barry Melrose was...

Jimmy Patsos got what he wanted after all. "Three games in March," he said Sunday after Loyola beat Manhattan, 63-61, at Reitz Arena. Three games to win the upcoming Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championships and get the automatic bid to the...

C.J. McCollum imposed his will on the Patriot League from the moment he first stepped onto a college court as a freshman. The Lehigh senior is the league's only winner of the rookie of the year and player of the year in the same season. The guard is a...

Et cetera No. 6 Terps edged, 4-3, in OT by No. 1 UNC in field hockey Host and No. 6 Maryland pushed No. 1 North Carolina to the brink in field hockey before losing, 4-3, in overtime on a goal by Emily Wold in the 77th minute. Junior goalkeeper Natalie...

Central Plays SaturdayFor NEC Softball Title Senior Nicole Springer hit two homers as the Central Connecticut softball team defeated LIU Brooklyn 5-4. Sophomore Laura Messina (26-9) was the winning pitcher. Central plays in its first NEC championship...

College Softball UConn split a doubleheader with the Seton Hall Pirates in Orange, N.J. The Huskies lost the first game 11-10 and won the second game, 11-1. ... Central beat Robert Morris, the top team in the NEC, in the first game of a doubleheader, 3-...

COLLEGE PARK – It was growing late in the first half and Maryland trailed Niagara by six points. The sparse, fidgety Comcast Center crowd had to be wondering when and if the Terps would check in mentally for their National Invitation Tournament...

Maryland has to settle for the NIT, Cyprus is thinking about taxing bank deposits, and it turns out that your Amazon bestseller won't actually make you rich. Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for Monday, March 18, 2013. An author who managed...

Coach Mark Turgeon is hoarse with a bad cold, scoring leader Dez Wells has been nursing a sore knee since midway through the ACC tournament, and Maryland has had to get over playing four games in seven days and not making the NCAA tournament. Despite...

Maryland's men's basketball season will continue in the NIT, where the Terps are a No. 2 seed and will open Tuesday night at Comcast Center against seventh-seeded Niagara of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. If Maryland (22-12) defeats Niagara...

The Hartford men's basketball team will host Rider Tuesday in the first round of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament. The Hawks, making their first-ever national postseason appearance, are 17-13 after a quarterfinal loss to UMBC in the...

|TODAY| |HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL| North Dakota| |Region 3 Tournament at Hazelton|  Napoleon vs. Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier, 3 p.m.  LaMoure-Litchville-Marion vs. Kidder County, 20 minutes after  Ellendale vs. Central Prairie, 20...