{"id":84,"date":"2012-02-01T15:52:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesauerbrunreport.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2012-02-01T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:54:05","slug":"84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesauerbrunreport.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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When you exit the Nassau Boulevard LIRR train station in Garden City, NY, you wouldn\u2019t immediately think you were within walking distance of a picturesque university campus dating to 1929.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I knew ahead of time where I was going when I decided to attend Tuesday night\u2019s Adelphi\/New Haven hoops game.\u00a0 I mapped it out, checked the train schedule and decided I could pull it off logistically without a vehicle.<\/p>\n

But what kinda blew me away when I arrived in Garden City was how secluded, dark and quiet it was in the proximate vicinity of the train station.\u00a0 Million dollar houses with nice big front yards are lined up for as far as the eye can see.\u00a0 They\u2019re positioned just off the train.\u00a0 It\u2019s 25 miles due east of Manhattan but feels like a hundred.\u00a0 When the train doors opened a little after 6 PM, men and women in business attire streamed off for short strolls into the quiet, commerce-free neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

The walk from the train to Adelphi\u2019s on-campus field house (Center for Recreation and Sports) is about ten minutes.\u00a0 There are no streetlights so it\u2019s pitch dark as you make the trek.\u00a0 A sidewalk runs parallel to South Avenue and comprises the northern border of the campus.<\/p>\n

About 8000 young people attend Adelphi.\u00a0 It\u2019s costs about 40 grand a year to go there (room and board included).\u00a0 Female students outnumber males by a ratio of 7 to 3.<\/p>\n

Adelphi is nationally famous for its lacrosse squads.\u00a0 Men with sticks were playing under the lights on what looked like a new field as I walked into the hoops game.<\/p>\n

Admission was five bucks.\u00a0 Adelphi is the reigning men\u2019s basketball champ in the Northeast-10 conference (a league with sixteen Division II schools from five northeast states).\u00a0 Added to the Northeast-10 in 2009, Adelphi\u2019s only bus ride longer than 300 miles is the one it makes to St. Michael\u2019s College in Colchester, VT.<\/p>\n

Adelphi had long been a fixture in the East Coast Conference, a smaller entity with more modest ambitions and more closely positioned campuses.\u00a0 The move to the NE-10 most certainly costs Adelphi more money but exposes its student-athletes to parts of Vermont, New Hampshire and upstate New York that likely broadens the enjoyment of competition.<\/p>\n

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D-II hoops is high quality basketball.\u00a0 It\u2019s a big notch below the Big East in terms of front line size and skill but the game I saw was more soundly executed than what I saw at the Garden a week earlier.\u00a0 Plays are run.\u00a0 Passes are made.\u00a0 Man covers man rather than general area.\u00a0 It\u2019s a brand of competition that better resembles the way I remember seeing the sport growing up.<\/p>\n

Attendance was announced at 398.\u00a0 New Haven raced out to a 12-nothing lead but two quick 30-second timeouts by Adelphi during the sequence helped right the ship.<\/p>\n

Adelphi won 64-61.\u00a0 New Haven had the ball down one with 26 seconds left but couldn\u2019t find a guy who wanted to shoot as the clock ticked down.<\/p>\n

Two man broadcast crews from both schools were on hand to describe the game.<\/p>\n

The Division II NCAA basketball tournament in March invites 64 teams.\u00a0 Adelphi got knocked out in the first round last year.\u00a0 They\u2019ll be back for another crack this year barring a bad swoon the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

After the game, I caught a 10:09 PM train to Jamaica and then rode the E train back home.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d go back to Adelphi for a baseball or basketball game for sure.\u00a0 It\u2019s a serene and beautiful environment hosting a high level of competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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