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La Salle 80, Boise State 71: Garland and Galloway get Explorers to the weekend

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The Explorers will be playing on the weekend. Tyrone Garland finished with 22 points off the bench, leading La Salle, who will be moving on to face Kansas State on Friday. The Explorers took the lead early and held Boise State off for most of the way, winning 80-71. “Obviously, we’re ecstatic. We were able to [...]

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Big East announces new members and FOX Sports TV deal

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In a move that everybody expected, the members of the new Big East conference announced today that Butler, Xavier and Creighton would be joining the other seven schools that split from the Big East this winter. From the Washington Post: The soon-to-be-launched, basketball-driven Big East will formally introduce new membersButler, Creighton and Xavier during a news conference in New [...]

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Scouting Boise State: Learning about the Broncos

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Today, I was lucky enough to speak with Jesse Baker,  who covers Boise State for OBNUG.com, a site on SBNation.com. Jesse is a graduate of Boise State and was nice enough to provide us with some great insight to the Broncos. Describe Boise State as a team. Young and talented. In all honestly, this year has come [...]

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Wednesday Preview: La Salle faces Boise St. in ‘First Four’ game

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What: NCAA Tournament First Round Game Who: No. 13 Boise State vs. No. 13 La Salle When: 9:10 p.m. Wednesday Where: University of Dayton, Dayton, OH TV/Radio: Tru TV / 990 AM • GoExplorers.com – The press was abundant the last couple days. For the first time in 21 years, La Salle is having positive articles written about them in March, [...]

2013 will be added to this banner, but where should it hang? (Joe Fedorowicz)

La Salle’s 21-year drought ends as Explorers will play Boise State in First Four game

2013 will be added to this banner, but where should it hang? (Joe Fedorowicz)

Twenty-one years. That is how long it has been since the La Salle Explorers have been in the NCAA tournament, the selection committee and CBS’s producers decided to make them wait a little longer. It took over 50 other called schools and three sets of commercials for Greg Gumbel to finally make the announcement: La [...]

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Philahoops A10 Bracket Pick’Em: Two men vie for the crown

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Nearly 300 entries into the Philahoops A10 bracket contest, and we are down to two. Today’s championship, which tips at 1:00 at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, NY, will prove who is best in the Atlantic 10 and best at picking the Atlantic 10. Our leader to this point is Eric (@HeyyImEric). Eric has a perfect bracket [...]

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Philahoops A10 Bracket Pick’em – Day Two Report

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Hello all, I decided to drive back to Philadelphia last night after the three city teams lost. This morning, I calculated everything up and came up with who has a chance to win. Let me start by saying that we have two perfect brackets still, belonging to Jim Reilly and Eric. Both of these knowledgable [...]

La Salle's Tyreek Duren drives to the hoops in Friday's game. (Aaron Bracy/Philahoops)

Butler 69, La Salle 58: Explorers’ future now in jeopardy with loss to Butler

La Salle's Tyreek Duren drives to the hoops in Friday's game. (Aaron Bracy/Philahoops)

With a chance punch their ticket into the NCAA dance, La Salle was unable to keep up with Butler in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 tournament, falling 69-58, on Friday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Now, the Explorers will be forced to wait until Sunday night to know if they had done enough [...]