The NCAA announced a list of 517 school nominees for their 2016 Woman of the Year award on Tuesday afternoon. Among the nominees were three student-athletes from the East Coast Conference; Tracey Balinskas of Molloy, Dina Ragab of NYIT, and Marlena Wright of University of the District of Columbia.
Three East Coast Conference women's basketball standouts have been named to the Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) All-East Region Team.
Gail Marquis discovered a love for playing basketball while growing up in Queens, New York. Along the way, she also acquired skills that have propelled her to success as a college, Olympic and professional women’s basketball player, on Wall Street as a top-rated financial service professional and as a citizen of the world
After being up ten-points at the half, the Bears ended their Cinderella story with a 79-74 final decision at the Dana Center to conclude the season at 26-9, with a new program record for wins.
Coming down to the final two minutes of regulation, the NYIT women's basketball team and the second-seeded American International Yellow Jackets were tied for the fourteenth time in the NCAA Division II East Region semifinal game. Timely free throws and solid defense from the Bears however, led the sixth seed to a 72-69 victory to advance to the program's first ever East Region Championship.
The Bears, who went into the contest as the No. 6 seed, topped the No. 3 Philadelphia Rams 88-74 to earn the program's first NCAA championship win and advance to the semifinal.
The Queens College women's basketball team defeated Holy Family 76-64 in the opening round of the 2016 NCAA Division II East Regional Friday evening at the Dana Athletic Center.
The East Coast Conference will send two teams to the NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Championship Tournament for the third straight season the NCAA announced on Sunday evening. ECC Champion, Queens College, will be joined by New York Institute of Technology in the 64 team bracket that will crown a National Champion.
For the second straight season the ECC Women's Basketball Champions are the Queens College Knights after they defeated the Roberts Wesleyan Redhawks by a score of 60-54 on Sunday afternoon.
Riding senior forward Samantha Courtney’s game-high 29 points, Roberts Wesleyan women’s basketball managed to punch their ticket to the East Coast Conference tournament final.
Led by senior Kristen Korzevinski and junior Madison Rowland, the second seeded Queens College women’s basketball team powered its way past third seeded University of the District of Columbia 82-56 in the East Coast Conference Championship semifinals Saturday afternoon.
Senior captain Dina Ragab of the NYIT women's basketball team has been named to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America Third Team for her performance this season on the court and in the classroom.
Roberts Wesleyan women’s basketball picked up their first-ever East Coast Conference tournament win with a 54-38 triumph over Molloy in the second quarterfinal Wednesday evening.
The No. 3 seed University of the District of Columbia women's basketball team used a pair of free-throws by senior forward Tatyana Calhoun with half a second remaining in regulation to beat No. 6 St. Thomas Aquinas College, 69-68 in East Coast Conference Quarterfinal action from our nation's capital Wednesday night.
After the conclusion of regular season play on Sunday afternoon, the brackets for the 2016 East Coast Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Championships are now set.
Monumental Network and the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) today announced a partnership to broadcast the East Coast Conference Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament hosted by the University on March 5-6, 2016.
The defending ECC Women's Basketball Champion, Queens College Knights, will open the season ranked as the No. 17 team in the WBCA/USA Today Division II Top 25 poll.
University of the District of Columbia Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Patricia Thomas, has announced the hiring of DeWayne Burroughs as the new Head Women's Basketball Coach.