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COVID-19: College Basketball Conference Suspends Player Handshakes Before, After Playoff Games COVID-19: College Basketball Conference Suspends Player Handshakes Before, After Playoff Games
Covid-19: College Basketball Conference Suspends Player Handshakes Before, After Playoff Games March will be mad for a different reason this year, as one NCAA Division I conference announced that the long time pre- and post-game tradition is being temporarily shelved to help curtail the spread of coronavirus. The Atlantic 10 Conference announced that it won’t permit handshakes between players before or after games in its upcoming postseason conference tournaments. The league is also expected to provide sanitizing gel to teams to use in locker rooms. The University of Dayton Arena will host the women’s basketball tournament this weekend, Friday, March 6 Sunday, through March 8; while…

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Former Westchester HS Standouts Help Fordham Win Atlantic 10 Title, Earn NCAA Tourney Bid Former Westchester HS Standouts Help Fordham Win Atlantic 10 Title, Earn NCAA Tourney Bid
Former Westchester HS Standouts Help Fordham Win Atlantic 10 Title, Earn NCAA Tourney Bid A pair of former high school basketball standouts in Westchester are going dancing after helping lead their team to an Atlantic 10 Conference championship and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. March is going to be mad for Hastings-on-Hudson resident Kaitlyn Downey and Ursuline graduate Katie McLoughlin, who both helped the Fordham University Rams defeat VCU in the A-10 title game 62-47. Bre Cavanaugh led the way for the Rams in the championship game, dropping 22 points, with Mary Goulding chipping in 19 points and four assists in the win. Both were named to the all-championship team, and Goul…

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Westchester's Obi Toppin Named Atlantic 10 Rookie Of Year Westchester's Obi Toppin Named Atlantic 10 Rookie Of Year
Westchester's Obi Toppin Named Atlantic 10 Rookie Of Year A record-setting basketball standout from Northern Westchester has taken his talents to the University of Dayton and was just named the Atlantic 10 Conference’s Rookie of the Year. Obi Toppin of Ossining wracked up the accolades this week and also became the first freshman first-team all-Atlantic 10 player since Lamar Odom two decades ago. Toppin was also named to the A-10 All-Rookie Team. The 6-foot-9, 220-pound redshirt freshman forward burst onto the scene after playing just one season of varsity high school ball. He led the Flyers in scoring with 14.4 ppg, and ranked fourth nationa…

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