Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck NCAA News

Tags: Basketball , Ernie Zeigler , men's basketball , Sports CMU mena s basketball coach Ernie Zeigler said his team needed to seriously look at its play following Saturdaya s 62-53 loss at Fairleigh Dickinson.

Just a year ago, the Colonels went to Hackensack, N.J. and took an impressive 83-47 win away from Fairleigh Dickinson on their home court.

Michael Hunter scored 16 points to lead UC Irvine to a 75-54 victory over Fairleigh Dickinson on Wednesday night.

In its only win so far of the season, Fairleigh Dickinson used its defense - a triangle-two spread - to thoroughly disrupt Central Michigan.

Josh Daniel scored 14 points off the bench and Eastern Kentucky routed Fairleigh-Dickinson 68-39 in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Classic on Monday night.

Alvin Mofunanya scored 22 points to lead Fairleigh Dickinson to a 62-53 win over Central Michigan on Saturday night.

Tags: Basketball , Ernie Zeigler , Jalin Thomas , men's basketball , Robbie Harman , Rose Arena , Sports The CMU mena s basketball team seeks to beat Fairleigh Dickinson for the second consecutive season Saturday.

Wichita State balance prevails, 80-64 Eds: APNewsNow. Wichita State 80, Fairleigh Dickinson 64.

Fairleigh Dickinson: The Knights opened the season with an 84-61 loss at No. 5 Villanova on Friday.

Though raw, Villanova freshman Mouphtaou Yarou showed Friday night that he can defend, rebound and block out distractions.

Corey Stokes made five 3-pointers and scored 20 points Friday, sending No. 6 Villanova to an 84-61 season-opening whipping of Fairleigh-Dickinson. Villanova went 30-8 last season and won a spot in the Final Four.

Following the men's basketball team's run to the Final Four of the 2009 NCAA tournament, preseason expectations for them have never been higher.

Defending Northeast Conference regular season and playoff champion Robert Morris earned two first-place votes was picked to finish third in the conference by the coaches.

Fairleigh Dickenson fired long-time coach Tom Green and replaced him on an interim basis with assistant Greg Vetrone.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: The coaching change and a large returning group produced an incoming class of three, led by point guard Mike Scott, who played a year at TCU .

Thirty-point performances aren't anything new for Sean Baptiste, who led the Northeast Conference last season with five such outings.

John Galvin never saw this one coming. At 6-foot-8 and 250 pounds, Galvin is used to denying shots in the paint, but when his basketball coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Tom Green, got rejected last week, he was stunned.

THE GOOD NEWS: The coach is out, but the Knights lose no player of consequence, and the players will be more experienced.

Tom Green , the basketball coach at Farleigh Dickinson for the last 26 years who was fifth on the list of seniority among Division I coaches, found out how cruel life could be this past week.

June is normally a very quiet time for college basketball. It has been two months since the Final Four.