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May 23 2012

NYIT Baseball Season Comes to a Close with 11-1 Loss to Northern Colorado

May 23 2012

Bears Rally Falls Short As Wolverines Win 17-10

May 22 2012

Smith, Marcon Named CoSIDA At-Large All-District

May 22 2012

NYIT Baseball Set for Action at the 2012 GWC Tournament

May 17 2012

Bears Edged 1-0 by Highlanders

Athletics News
Oct 28, 2011
Men's Basketball Picked No. 6 in ECC Preseason Poll

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (Oct. 28, 2011) - NYIT men's basketball was selected to finish sixth in the East Coast Conference, it was announced in the preseason coaches poll on Friday. The Bears finished the 2010-2011 campaign with a 13-15 overall record and a 10-11 ECC mark. NYIT advanced the conference semifinals.

Reigning ECC Champions C.W. Post was selected as the conference favorite with five first-place votes. Bridgeport was chosen second with three first-place votes and league newcomer, District of Columbia rounds out the top-three with one first-place vote.

Pioneers senior guard Stefan Bonneau earned Preseason Player of the Year honors.

NYIT men's basketball opens the 2011-2012 season on Friday, Nov. 11 when it hosts American International. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Recreation Hall.

2011‐2012 Men’s Basketball Preseason Poll

1. C.W. Post (5) 
2. Bridgeport (3) 
3. District of Columbia (1)
4. Queens
5. Molloy
6. NYIT
7. Dowling 
8. St. Thomas Aquinas 
9. Mercy
( ) ‐ First Place Votes

 

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New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees in more than 90 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; education; engineering and computing sciences; health professions; management; and osteopathic medicine. A non-profit independent, private institution of higher education, NYIT has more than 14,000 students attending campuses on Long Island and Manhattan, online, and at its global campuses. NYIT sponsors 11 NCAA Division II programs and one Division I team.
 
Led by President Edward Guiliano, NYIT is guided by its mission to provide career-oriented professional education, offer access to opportunity to all qualified students, and support applications-oriented research that benefits the larger world. To date, 89,000 graduates have received degrees from NYIT. For more information, visit nyit.edu.
 
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