Northeast Conference report

SportsLine.com Report
April 5, 2000

After evenly splitting its first 16 games, FDU began to jell. After using five different lineups, number six became the charm when guards Jarvis Mitchell and Wim Van de Keere, forwards Keith Martin and Moralye Bangoura, and center Chris Ekwe formed a unit that won nine of FDU's last 10 regular season games. That was good enough to lead the Knights to a second-place finish.

But the season ended shockingly in the first round of the NEC Tournament when FDU was ambushed by Mount St. Mary's, which it had not only already defeated twice, but had defeated on the road one week earlier in the regular season finale.

A glance at 2001

FDU is always a dangerous, athletic, physical club, and should fill that bill with a veteran team in 2001.

The coach

In 16 years Tom Green, the winningest coach in NEC league games, has won 187 in the conference and 289 overall. His teams have won or shared four NEC regular-season titles and have gone to the NCAAS in 1985, '88, and '98. He is often rumored to be leaving but has never jumped ship.

Who'll be back

Barring transfers or injury FDU should return almost its entire roster for next season including its starting five led by 13-point scorers, Ekwe and Van de Keere.

Mensah Peterson, a 6-1 high school guard, signed with FDU in December.