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With A.J. Price injured and Scottie Haralson struggling, Donnell Beverly knew chances were good his number would be called Monday against Hartford.

Big Green women's basketball began its regular season on Saturday with a rough 73-40 loss to the University of Hartford in Hartford, Conn.

Quinnipiac 3 MICHAEL TURNER , G/F, 6-5, Sr., 15.0 - Made 3 of 4 three-pointers Friday 23 MORGAN SABIA , F, 6-8, So., 4.0 - Seven rebounds vs.

A couple of upsets have already sent tremors through the first week of the men's college basketball season.

As it makes its way home from Connecticut, Dartmouth will drive by the turnoff on I-91 in Vermont that takes travelers north and west toward Burlington.

The nation's longest home winning-streak will live another day as the Hartford Hawks defeated the Dartmouth women's basketball team in the season-opener for both squads, 73-40. The Hawks, who are receiving ...

BKCQuinnipiac-Hartford,0153 Quinnipiac beats Hartford 63-62 Eds: APNewsNow. Quinnipiac 63, Hartford 62.

The students aren't sleeping out in tents for tickets to tonight's opener against Quinnipiac, but for the first time in more than a decade there is a buzz surrounding the University of Hartford men's basketball ...

Last season, nobody could predict what happened as the preseason fifth ranked team, UMBC, dominated the entire season to win their first America East Conference championship, and the preseason sixth team, ...

GARRICK EMBRACES the heritage of her mother through Native American dancing, as well as that of her father through basketball as a freshman center at the University of Hartford .

The Binghamton University men's basketball was picked to finish fifth in the preseason coaches poll at Monday's America East Conference media day in Cambridge, Mass.

Hartford had its most successful season on the Division I level last winter by going 18-16 and losing to Maryland-Baltimore County in the championship game of the America East Conference tournament.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: Hartford brought in a five-man recruiting class, all high school seniors, and led by guard Drake Uu, an outstanding all-around player from Rio Americano High School in Sacramento, ...

Drew Dawson was hired as an assistant coach after serving in the same position for four seasons at Lafayette , where he also a three-year letterman.

Michael Turner could feel it as he walked around campus Friday. This was the day.

With every rock-solid read and on-target spiral, Matt Ryan takes another step toward making everybody forget Michael Vick, Bobby Petrino and everything else in the Atlanta Falcons' ugly recent past.

OF the seven Geelong Falcons who will run onto the MCG this Saturday, regional manager Michael Turner rates Colac export Luke Hodge a cut above the rest.

In the height of the July evaluation period, when downtime is more or less a pipe dream, Hartford head coach Dan Leibovitz still found the time for an hour-long phone call with his family friend and mentor, ...

“Under the leadership of Dan Leibovitz, Hartford men's basketball has a chance to experience more success than it ever has in its Division I history”

After leading Hartford to the first winning season in five years, coach Dan Leibovitz signed a two-year contract extension today. Terms were not disclosed.

Leibovitz, who has fulfilled two years of his original six-year contract, is now signed through the 2013-14 season. The Hawks were 18-16 this season, recording the most victories since the program upgraded to Division I in 1984. They were also 10-6 in America East, advancing to the conference tournament title game for the first time.

'Dan has done an excellent job with the basketball program in a very short period of time, instilling a sense of pride and a winning attitude in our student-athletes, campus community and alumni,' Hartford President Walter Harrison said in a statement. 'We are committed to competing at a high level in men's basketball, and retaining a coach of Dan's caliber is crucial.' Read more

“She's real talented. She runs the floor well and she has good moves from the top of the key. And playing for Jen Rizzotti didn't hurt.”

- Jen Rizzotti was at Chase Arena Wednesday afternoon. Danielle Hood was in her room at the University of Hartford, doing homework.

Rizzotti was planning on checking out the WNBA draft, but she never got the chance because Hood, a Hartford senior forward, came screaming into the gym with the news that she had been drafted.

'We're pretty excited around here right now,' Rizzotti said.

Hood, who was chosen in the third round, 32nd overall by the expansion Atlanta Dream, is the first player from the Hawks to be drafted, and the second player from the America East (Cindy Blodgett was drafted from Maine in 1998). Hood was invited to pre-draft camp over the weekend at the Final Four in Tampa, but nobody talked to her or Rizzotti. Read more