Do these Mids look scared? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOlGUIuWyec[/youtube] Know who else is happy with the Navy’s draw in the NCAA women’s hoops tournament? Whoever’s in charge of the travel budget. After claiming their second-straight Patriot League tournament title with a 57-48 win over Holy Cross on Saturday, the Mids will open NCAA play at Maryland, facing the host Terps at 11:15 a.m. this Saturday. There’s already a link for tickets through the University of Maryland’s website. The hosts are coming off their own tournament title, taking the Atlantic Coast Conference crown with a 68-65 win over Georgia Tech on Sunday. Despite being…
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OK, maybe “over” is a stretch: The Midshipmen ended their season Wednesday night with an 87-63 loss at Bucknell in the opening round of the Patriot League tournament, keeping their losing streak alive at 22 games, tops in college basketball. Navy (3-26) will have eight solid months to adapt and overcome; the full 2012-2013 schedule likely won’t be released until August at the earliest, and games won’t begin until shortly before Thanksgiving — the Big East could add 27 football teams by then, give or take. Four quick silver linings for Navy fans who, at this point, would probably settle…
Forget March Madness. It’s just another reason for Navy basketball fans to be mad, period. The Binghamton Bearcats, the only winless team in NCAA Division I basketball entering Tuesday’s action, snapped a 27-game losing streak last night with a 57-53 win over Vermont. How does a late-season American East Conference upset affect the Midshipmen? Well, the Bearcats’ losing ways were providing the last bit of cover for Navy’s struggling squad: With Binghamton on a one-game tear, the Mids (3-23) now own the nation’s longest losing streak, which sits at 19 games entering tonight’s 7 p.m. home game against Patriot League…
This is not the kind of record athletes want to be chasing. A loss at Patriot League rival Lafayette on Saturday would be the 15th straight for the Navy Midshipmen — good enough, so to speak, to tie a team record for futility set during the 1988-89 season. A loss at home to Holy Cross on Feb. 8 would break the record, just in time to prepare for a Feb. 11 showdown at Army, which will air nationally on the CBS Sports Network. The streak and the season so far, by the numbers, after the jump:
Class of the league: The Black Knights go into Patriot League play Saturday with the best record in the conference. West Point’s 10-4 start is a pleasant surprise considering coach Zach Spiker was hired only 10 days before practice started when Jim Crews was unexpectedly fired. The early turmoil has not distracted the team, and they’ve reeled off nine non-conference wins against Division I competition, a program record. Getting noticed: The start has earned Army and first-year head coach Spiker attention in the national sports media, with the New York Times profiling the team earlier this year. The Black Knights…
