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Former NYIT Star Manix Auriantal Signs In Hungary
Former NYIT point guard Manix Auriantal has signed with with Polaroid-Lami-Ved Kormend of the Hungarian basketball League for the 2008-2009 season. Auriantal, who helped NYIT reach the semi-finals of the 2005 NCAA Northeast regional...Details

Lassiter, Wright Earn ECC All-Conference Honors
Central Islip, N.Y. (March 5, 2008) -
NYIT junior Bryant Lassiter (Bay Shore, N.Y.) and senior Andre Wright (Lauderdale Lakes, Fla.) earned East Coast Conference All-Conference First Team and All-Conference Third team honors respectively as announced by the conference office...Details

#6 Concordia Upends #3 NYIT 67-62 In ECC Quarterfinals
Old Westbury, N.Y. (March 5, 2008) – Concordia senior Richard Fields scored a game-high 25 points to lead the sixth seeded Clippers over the third seeded NYIT Bears this evening in the East Coast Conference tournament quarterfinals...Details



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Pierre Fanfan Named ECC Men's Basketball Co-Player of the Week

Central Islip, N.Y. (Jan. 22, 2008) - Graduate student Miguel Pierre-Fanfan (Dunkerque, France) was named the ECC Baden Men's Basketball Co-Player of the Week on Monday as announced by the conference office.

Pierre Fanfan averaged a double-double of 20 points and 10 rebounds in two victories for the Bears last week. Pierre Fanfan scored a game-high 24 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in a win over Queens on Wednesday, Jan 16 and followed with a 16-point, eight-rebound performance in a come-from-behind win over Dowling on Saturday, Jan. 19.