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'No Reason To Expect This Would Happen,' Says School Who Hired Rick Pitino, As Coach Faces Fresh NCAA ChargesYou get what you pay for — and Rick Pitino isn’t worth the hassle....

The One Thing Both Coaches Can Agree Upon: The Ref Sucks During the second half of tonight's NIT game between Iona and Rhode Island, Iona's Kelvin Amayo picked up a technical foul for hanging on the rim while attempting to complete an alley-oop. As the referees huddled to discuss the call—it would stand—the camera cut to Rhode Island coach Dan Hurley. B...

St. Peter's-Iona Ends In Brawl; Referee Eats ItIt was MAACtion City in New Rochelle as a postgame fight between St. Peter's and Iona led to a referee getting decked and multiple frays spread across the floor following a technical foul-filled regulation....

Kid Leaps Over Catcher, Compels You To Watch A College Baseball Highlight Just This Once

This is Brian Kownacki of Fordham (Royals of the A-10) leaping over the catcher for Iona (Royals of the MAAC), capping an eight-run comeback and performing a feat last accomplished by Wesley Snipes, when he jumped over an IRS agent. [YouTube, via]...

The MAAC: Where College Football Programs Go To Die

Astute college gridiron fans fans may be saying to themselves right now, "But the MAAC doesn't even exist anymore!" You're right! The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference still fields 10 Division I basketball team, but the Division I-AA (I refuse to write it) football arm disbanded after last season. ...

You Probably Won't Hear Billy Packer Breaking Down Iona's Offense This Season

New word to be added to the English lexicon, 21st century edition, right after "Truthiness" and before "eBays." Introducing "Fruscinating." That's the only word to describe Iona, which remained Division I's only winless men's basketball team on Wednesday after a 70-67 overtime loss to Fairfield, dro...

NCAA Pants Party: LSU Vs. Iona

LSU Tigers (23-8) vs. Iona Gaels (23-7). When: Thursday, 7:10 p.m. Where: Jacksonville, Fla....

Iona Gaels

1. Don t Give Up, Don t Ever Give Up. Even before he frantically ran around the court looking for someone to hug when he won his national championship at NC State, Jim Valvano was a hug-seeker as the Iona head coach (1975-80). Valvano's biggest recruit (literally and figuratively) was Jeff Ruland, n...