New Hampshire at Bryant, 3:00 PM Eastern, necfrontrow.com
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Bryant. Oh Bryant.
What a last few weeks it has been for the Bulldogs.
On November 28, the Bulldogs were down by a point in their game at Brown when guard Ikenna Ndugba, mistakenly believing his team was ahead, dribbled out the clock and threw the ball up in the air to let the last seconds expire. As he went to celebrate his team’s victory, he discovered that the Bulldogs had in fact lost. We can’t help but empathize with Ndungba for this painful mistake.
If that was the only blemish on Bryant this season, it would have been enough. But it wasn’t. Last time out, on Tuesday night at Navy, the Bulldogs went to halftime with an impressive 49-24 lead. When the game ended, they had lost 76-74. Navy’s comeback from a 25 point halftime deficit was the second largest halftime deficit comeback in NCAA history, only topped by a Duke-Tulane game all the way back in 1950. Oh Bryant.
This afternoon, the hardluck Bulldogs will be at home hosting this year’s Team of the People, the Preseason NIT Champion (per HoopsHD.com at least) New Hampshire Wildcats. UNH enters today’s game with a 6-3 record that includes their huge early-season win at Temple. In fact, the only blemish on the Wildcats’ resume so far was a disappointing home loss to Abilene Christian that we have decided to write off as just a fluke of nature. The Wildcats had all five starters in double figures last time out against American, and if they can keep hitting teams with a tough balanced attack, there is no reason this team will not be dancing for the first time ever this March.
#GoDancingOrDie