Congratulations
to LIU's Jason Brickman With an assist to fellow senior Troy with Joseph with 13:39 left in last
night's 96-93 Blackbirds' win at N.J.I.T. Jason Brickman set a new Northeast
Conference career assists record. In that game the speedy guard who's led the
Blackbirds to 3 straight NCAA tournament appearances scored 21 points and hit a
career high 5 three point shots. He helped the Blackbirds hold off an improving
N.J.I.T. team for a big road win.
Since former Blackbirds' coach Jim
Ferry and current head coach Jack Perri brought the crafty and deceptively
quick point guard to Flatbush from San Antonio Texas, he has provided an
understated unselfish and underpublicized example of excellence to fans
visiting the Wellness Recreation and Athletics Center. Brooklyn hoops fans
should take the time to see a game in this his last season because both he and
his team play some terrific basketball and are great fun to watch.
A Blast
From the Past With Help From Jason It turns out that the guy whose record Brickman broke is one of my favorite players
from back in the day. I suspect not many folks remember that Marist College
played in the Northeast Conference before joining the Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference. And point guard Drafton Davis, a crafty lefthander who played at
John F. Kennedy High in the Bronx set the record for the Red Foxes in 1988. Many
of those assists went to former Indiana Pacers center Rik Smits who starred at
Marist before his long NBA career. Finally, one more piece of what some might
call trivia but I call "historical context". When Davis graduated
from JFK in 1984 he was one of two terrific but under recruited guards to come
from the Bronx PSAL. The other was a 6'3" scorer deluxe from Adlai
Stevenson High named Drederick Irving, who would move on to Boston University
and a pro career that included a stop in Australia where his son was born.
While only hard core New York hoops fanatics remember dad even the most casual
basketball fans know his son, former St. Pat's (NJ) High and Duke star and
current Cleveland Cavalier Kyrie Irving.
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