Meet the NEC champion LIU Sharks, who enter March Madness as a No. 16 seed in the West Region.
Rod Strickland, the Bronx native and former Knicks guard, achieved one of the most remarkable rebuilding feats in the nation after the Sharks went 3-26 during his first season as a head coach. Three years later, the former ball-handling wizard instilled his roster with a defensive identity and was cutting down a net in Brooklyn, capturing LIU’s first Northeast Conference regular-season title since 2012, and the school’s first conference tournament title in seven years.
Senior Greg Gordon, the MVP of the NEC Tournament and the NEC Defensive Player of the Year, is at his fourth school in four years, previously making pit stops at Iona and UAB after becoming a junior college All-American at Dyersburg State Community College. The 6-foot-5 guard ranked in the top 10 in the NEC in points , rebounds , steals and blocks .Stefan BondyStream It Or Skip It: 'The Madison' On Paramount+, Where Michelle Pfeiffer Is A New York Woman Who Goes To Montana To Deal With Her Grief After A Tragedy
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