• Sat, 02/25 | Men's Basketball vs. Mount St. Mary's L, 71-62 (Final) BX | RC
  • Thu, 02/23 | Men's Basketball vs. Wagner L, 86-73 (Final) BX | RC
  • Sat, 02/18 | Men's Basketball at Saint Francis (PA) L, 76-61 (Final) BX | RC
  • Thu, 02/16 | Men's Basketball at Robert Morris L, 69-40 (Final) BX | RC
  • Sat, 02/11 | Men's Basketball vs. Sacred Heart L, 72-46 (Final) BX | RC
  • Wed, 02/08 | Men's Basketball at Sacred Heart L, 79-77 (Final) BX | RC
  • Sat, 02/04 | Men's Basketball at St. Francis (NY) L, 80-67 (Final) BX | RC
  • Thu, 02/02 | Men's Basketball at LIU Brooklyn L, 75-70 (Final) BX | RC
  • Sat, 01/28 | Men's Basketball vs. Monmouth L, 78-68 (Final) BX | RC
  • Thu, 01/26 | Men's Basketball vs. Fairleigh Dickinson L, 66-63 (Final) BX | RC
 
December 9, 2008

BRYANT BASKETBALL TAKES ON BC WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT CONTE FORUM; GAME BROADCAST ON WOON 1240AM

December 9, 2008

Game Notes

BRYANT BASKETBALL TAKES ON BC WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT CONTE FORUM; GAME BROADCAST ON WOON 1240AM

UPDATE
The Bryant University men's basketball team hits the road Wednesday night to travel to Boston College to battle the Eagles at Conte Forum.  Tipoff is at 7 pm ET.  Bryant is coming off a 59-48 loss at home to Army on Monday night. The Bulldogs will be looking to snap a four-game losing skid since earning a 59-50 win over Quinnipiac on Nov. 22.  The Bulldogs will have 10 days off in between games before heading to Rutgers on Dec. 20. This is the first of five straight road games for the Bulldogs before returning home to play Yale on Jan. 2. The Eagles have won three straight games since falling to Purdue back on November 26, 71-64, with wins over Iowa, UAB, and UMass.  On Saturday, BC knocked-off the Minutemen in a clash of in-state rivals in an overtime thriller, 85-81.  

THE BOSTON COLLEGE EAGLES
The Boston College Eagles will host the Bulldogs tonight at Conte Forum at 7:00 pm. This will be the first meeting all time between the two programs. The Eagles are coming off a thrilling 85-81 overtime win over UMass on Saturday at the Mullins Center. BC is led by preseason All-ACC first team selection Tyrese Rice who is averaging 18.1 points per game. Rice came up big with 21 points against the Minuteman with six coming in overtime. Sophomores Corey Raji, Rakim Sanders and Joe Trapani each contributed 16 points as part of a very balanced Eagle attack. Boston College has stayed balanced all year, with four players averaging double-figures. Trapani also grabbed 12 rebounds, putting up his first double-double of the season. He leads the team in rebounding with 6.8 per game.

BULLDOGS COME UP SHORT AGAINST ARMY
Returning home from a five game road trip, the Bulldogs fell to Army, 59-48, Monday night at the Chace Center. Cecil Gresham had a game-high 14 points while connecting on four three's and grabbing a season-high seven rebounds. Senior guard Pete Lambert had a season-high 11 points in 22 minutes. Army shot 50 percent from the floor for the game while holding Bryant to 40 percent.

BRYANT-BC CONNECTIONS
Bulldog head coach Tim O'Shea played his college basketball at Boston College where he was a point guard from 1980-1984. O'Shea won two Big East regular-season titles and earned four postseason tournament berths during his career. In his four years, BC advanced twice to the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16 and once to the Elite Eight. O'Shea also served nine years as an assistant coach at URI under current BC head coach Al Skinner. In 1997, O'Shea returned to his alma mater with Skinner for four seasons with the Eagles before earning the head coaching job at Ohio University. Bryant assistant coach Dwayne Pina also played four years of basketball at Boston College from 1997-2001 for Al Skinner with O'Shea as the assistant. Pina played 78 career games, starting in 38 while ranking seventh in the Big East, averaging 4.5 assists per game in the 1998-99 season. The Eagles won the Big East regular-season and tournament championships in 2000-2001, Pina's senior season, while going 27-5 and earning a three seed in the NCAA tournament.

STIFLING DEFENSE
Over the past three games, the Bulldogs have held opponents to an average of just 59.0 points per game, with only Iowa breaking the 60-point barrier. Bryant also held Qunnipiac to 50 points earlier this season in the squad's lone victory.  

GRESHAM SHOWS HOT HAND
Junior forward Cecil Gresham (Bloomfield, Conn. / MCI)  averaged 21.7 points per game over a three game span while going 15-25 from three-point range (60 percent) against Columbia, Quinnipiac and UConn. He has recorded double figures in five of the team's first seven contests. The junior grabbed All-Tournament accolades at the Columbia Classic for his 23 points per game effort. Gresham bounced back against Army after Albany and Iowa were able to slow him down in two straight contests, holding him to 0-for-7 from behind the arc and 5-for-22 from the field while averaging just six points. He scored a game-high 14 points while knocking down four three's while grabbing a season-best seven rebounds.

BULLDOGS EARN FIRST DIVISION I WIN
With a 59-50 win over Quinnipiac in the consolation game of the Columbia Classic, Bryant grabbed its first Division I men's basketball win in the history of the program.

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