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Game 7-051: Long Island at Saint Francis (NY)
February 14, 2011 8:14 am ET by Kyle Whelliston

Long Island Blackbirds at Saint Francis (NY) Terriers

February 12, 2011 12:00 pm
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The game of the year, plus the reason why the TV thing works best when I'm not talking.

(The Battle of Brooklyn can be viewed in its entirety here.)

@midmajority Game Tweets

11:18 You know when you're having a really bad morning, then you find a sweet parking space and that makes everything OK? #New #York #City #MFer
11:20 Game No. 7-051: Long Island at Saint Francis (NY). Cooking raw with the Brooklyn boys.
11:33 This is the annual Battle of Brooklyn, the Star Game of the NEC. Last year's went 3 overtimes. It's serious s___.
11:35 And you know this is Big Time, because one of the greatest broadcasters in Hoops Nation is calling it. TIM CAPSTRAW! http://is.gd/O4Za9j
11:48 The BoB trophy. They stashed it under my table position! http://img.ly/2ZlH
11:52 Long Island is 19-5 and in first place (10-2 NEC), Saint Francis NY is 11-13 (6-7), 7th. LIU leads the series at 57-36. #youareinformed
11:54 The 12-team NEC also only accepts 8 for its tourney, so 7th place for SFNY is a bad place to be. Five games remaining, live or let die!
12:03 RT @midmajority360 http://tmm7.me/dv1 [STATS] Game Schedule for February 12
12:03 RT @jfreeze13: Even though Syracuse/Louisville is on, I'm watching St Louis/Richmond. Love the mid-majors! @midmajority would be proud.
12:03 RT @achiappazzi: @midmajority Enjoy watching LIU against a reasonable opponent. They run the gamut of #superhoops and #omgdunx
12:03 RT @ksvoboda: @midmajority Postgame. #DoItDoIt http://www.juniorscheesecake.com/
12:04 Junior's cheesecake is so good, the borough named the corner it's on "Cheesecake Corner." That's serious. #BK
12:05 It's tradition, or just common sense, that the Saint Francis NY & Long teams Island both walk to the other gym when they play each other.
12:05 RT @ECoastBias: @midmajority I'll be following your updates. I miss Bklyn! LIU! St. Francis!
12:06 LIU's Jamal Olasewere opens the scoring in the Battle of Brooklyn. Underway!
12:08 But SFNY comes back with a high-tempo attack! Two straight hoops, plus a +1, up 5-2. The records don't matter, etc.
12:09 The bleachers behind me are full, mostly for TV purposes. The other side is a little barren; people were moved. #stopworrying #lovetheNEC
12:09 RT @ksvoboda: or since you took their parking space @midmajority RT It's tradition, or common sense, that SFNY & LIU walk to the others gym when they play
12:11 It's also Shoot For The Cure day, and the assemblage is approx. 60% female. A SFNY and a LIU section, each trying to outscream each other.
12:12 Neither section is winning. It is really loud in here. 16:53 1H, LIU 5 SFNY 4.
12:13 David Hicks cans a j for LIU. I just saw a guy with Hicks' picture on a t-shirt, with career stats printed underneath. Related? #maybe
12:15 11-9 SFNY 14:28 1H. Fast end to end action. Lots of one-on-one iso, no-looks, playground ish. This is Brooklyn, and this is glorious.
12:17 Once again, there are two Saint Francises in the NEC. NY (Terriers) & PA (Red Flash). Or, if you're cool, "College" and "University."
12:18 RT @Starkman88: @midmajority LOL i <3 the battle of brooklyn and this time SF men don't totally suck LOL
12:19 College, it could be said, is a "water polo school." One of the only eastern outposts that can hang with the Pac-10 teams.
12:21 SFNY 14, LIU 14 at 13:01. Screaming on every basket, coaches swearing, players running hard, sweat all over the place. Serious rivalry.
12:24 SFNY huddlz. http://img.ly/2Zmt
12:27 Road team LIU has moved on to a better facility, but the Paramount lives on. One of my favorite 100GP's from wayback: http://is.gd/gI4cjN
12:30 End of the first quarter: SFNY 22, LIUB 21. Ricky Cadell, 6-2 SFNY senior and Terrier lding scorer: 7 pts and is drowning in his own sweat.
12:33 In lots of these leagues you don't care about, games like this = everything. NCAA bid would be great, but everyone knows what goes on there.
12:33 SFNY and LIU players are mostly BK locals, spend all year with each other in open gyms and at Junior's, and wait for this all year.
12:34 SFNY 28, LIU 27 at 6:25 1H. There has been a lead change on nearly every possession lately.
12:36 Level of #smac talk is high enough that the refs are calling pairs of players over to discuss, and making the "yapping" hand gesture a lot.
12:38 A SFNY player just tipped in a putback, ran up the floor, and clearly said to an LIU player (and I quote), "That's for you, bitch."
12:39 33-31 SFNY at 3:50 1H. LIU soph Julian Boyd with an #omgdunx, and he made the double-two finger "bird" gesture. This is on TV, right?
12:40 RT @NECsports: The NEC welcomes @midmajority to the Battle of Brooklyn. It's like a track meet in here.
12:41 Current point of discussion: the foul disparity. SFNY in the double-bonus, LIU with three. Sitting behind the SFNY bench. They are swearing.
12:43 LIU's Michael Culpo with a lonnnnng #superhoop to put Blackbirds back up, 35-33. SFNY bench: "F___! S___!". 2:24 left in a manic 1H.
12:46 The NEC has done this for the past few eyars: "Rivalry Week," where they stack regular-season home-and-homes over one long weekend.
12:47 So LIU and SFNY played on Wed, and the Blackbirds won easily and by 9. This, though, is the designated Battle of Brooklyn, with the trophy.
12:48 RT @jtanHC: @midmajority I wish I could be watching this. I love both #smac and prolific swearing!
12:50 SFNY holds for last shot. PG Cadell dribbles the ball while #smac talking his defender. Empty possession, defender looks back and just nods.
12:51 HT in the Battle of Brooklyn, 7th place SFNY up on 1st place LIU, 37-35. Need break! One of the more ridiculously intense games of the year.
12:53 This is the first of our tripleheader today; Great West champions South Dakota at NJIT next. That'll be just as good as this, I'll bet!
13:03 RT @asherfusco: @midmajority Wednesday's SFNY @ LIU game had plenty of smacktalk and a Hicks-Cadell standoff that required referee intervention
13:03 RT @NECsports: For our MSG followers, we apologize for the technical issues preventing us from getting on air live at 12 pm. Trying to get a replay slot.
13:04 Intervention has been necessary a lot today. Don't tell them they're not on TV. #smac @AsherFusco
13:05 OK, that was too short of a break. We're back for the second #smac, I mean half.
13:09 LIU 42-40 17:43 2H. According to the SFNY bench, rebounds are now called "f___ing rebounds." Terriers have but 22 of them.
13:10 The TV crew is still doing their thing, and Capper is announcing his brains out. But it's the best game you'll never see.
13:13 LIU takes a 4-point lead, tied for the biggest adv for either side today. This calls for impassioned MTO huddle speeches on both sides.
13:15 Kyle Johnson with a layup for LIU, and Blackbirds go up by six. Then SFNY misses the front end of two FT's. Panic mode! 15:52 left in reg.
13:18 Holy wow, Julian Boyd just rocked an #omgDUNX that shook the backboard for 60 seconds. Slam-bam-DAMN!!!! LIU up seven.
13:19 But here comes SFNY with eight straight points in a minute! Terriers 51, Blackbirds 50! LIU timeout! Brooklyn bedlam!!
13:21 Then Akeem Bennett nails a #superhoop for SFNY, Terriers up by four! 13 point swing in 120 seconds!
13:22 Been there RT @albolte: @midmajority What are the chances you'll make it to Texas Hall in Arlington - another court set on a theater stage?
13:24 This is a crime against basketball humanity if MSG can't find a replay slot for this game. What are they showing now? #amovieabout94ibet
13:25 11:02 remaining in reg, 57-56 SFNY.
13:25 LIU gets three offensive rebounds but can't put it in and retake the lead. Blackbirds were going to run away with this a few minutes ago.
13:27 A game like this is incomplete without a player puking his guts out in a garbage can behind the bench during a time out. #check
13:29 Julian Boyd gives the Blackbirds the lead back at the end of the third quarter, and one. He does that bird gesture on each one of those.
13:30 Actual job description: "The assistant coach who does nothing but harass the official scorer all the time" #notreally
13:31 Mmmmmmaybe RT @simmonsclass: @midmajority any chance you're coming up to Levien from Brooklyn for tonight's game?
13:32 Tied up again, 59-59. Water finds its own level, and so do Saint Francis (NY) and Long Island.
13:33 Julian Boyd strokes an outside shot from 18 out, and LIU goes up 63-61. He doesn't do The Bird after those.
13:35 Offensive foul on LIU. Half the gym applauds, including SFNY players. Many here believe that every LIU possession has contained a charge.
13:38 Akeem Bennett of SFNY thought the other basket stanchion was too boring, so he rocked it with an #OMGDUNX. +1. Terriers up 68-65, 6:15 2H.
13:39 I think it goes without saying that this is the best game we've seen in person this season (out of 51).
13:41 Tied back up at 68. 4:40 to go. Last year's game went 3OT, so, that.
13:47 LIU scores on two straight possessions and takes a 5-pt lead, but a SFNY 3 and 2 ties it again. 2:30 to go in regulation.
13:50 1:35 to go. LIU basket, SFNY basket.
13:51 C.J. Garner's basket puts LIU up 77-75 at 1:10, a SFNY miss led to the bloodiest, noisiest loose ball struggle we've seen in a while.
13:52 And results in a SFNY foul. Jamal Olasewere Free throws on the other end: make, make. LIU goes up by 4.
13:53 :46.7 left in regulation, 79-75 Blackbirds. The Battle of Brooklyn MVP trophy emerges from behind the scorer's table.
13:54 An Akeem Bennett 3 for SFNY cuts the LIU lead to 79-78 with 38.3 seconds left. Terriers press, and foul.
13:56 CJ Garner at the line for LIU: make, MISS. 80-78 Blackbirds.... SFNY wants to hold for a last shot. And they get it off an o-rebound!
13:56 But there are a few ticks left on the clock. How many? To be decided. 80-80, another down-to-the-wire Battle of Brooklyn.
13:57 A lot of ticks: 7.3. LIU will go the length of the floor for a chance at a win.
13:58 CJ Garner off balance j for the win! Long Island owns the borough!
14:00 Long Island 82, Saint Francis NY 80. CJ Garner is a South Alabama transfer, from Maryland. But Brooklyn will have him.
14:01 Garner gets interviewed on a broadcast that's not being shown on TV, and lifts up the MVP trophy most people don't know exists.

Boxscore

LONG ISLAND 82, at SAINT FRANCIS (NY) 80
02/12/2011

LONG ISLAND 20-5 (11-2) -- D. Hicks 4-12 4-5 14; J. Boyd 8-12 3-3 19; C. Garner 3-7 6-10 12; K. Johnson 3-8 0-2 6; J. Olasewere 6-11 2-4 14; J. Brickman 2-3 0-1 5; M. Culpo 1-3 2-2 5; K. Onyechi 2-4 1-3 5; B. Hucks 1-3 0-0 2; A. Mayorga 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-63 18-30 82.
SAINT FRANCIS (NY) 11-14 (6-8) -- A. Bennett 7-17 3-4 21; S. Perunicic 4-7 0-0 10; A. Johnson 5-12 0-0 10; D. Calloway 6-9 1-3 13; T. Nichols 5-9 0-0 12; R. Cadell 3-15 1-3 8; M. Milk 3-3 0-0 6; A. Chmielewski 0-1 0-0 0; J. Newton 0-1 0-0 0; A. Harrington 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 33-75 5-10 80.

Three-point goals: LIUB 4-16 (D. Hicks 2-5; B. Hucks 0-1; M. Culpo 1-3; J. Boyd 0-3; J. Olasewere 0-2; J. Brickman 1-2), SFNY 9-30 (R. Cadell 1-7; J. Newton 0-1; S. Perunicic 2-3; A. Bennett 4-11; D. Calloway 0-2; A. Chmielewski 0-1; T. Nichols 2-5); Rebounds: LIUB 34 (J. Boyd 8), SFNY 42 (T. Nichols 11); Assists: LIUB 15 (C. Garner 5), SFNY 15 (D. Calloway 7); Total Fouls -- LIUB 12, SFNY 23; Fouled Out: LIUB-None; SFNY-D. Calloway.