Resilient LIU-Brooklyn Returns to NEC Championship Game
By John Torenli
Down but never out, the LIU-Brooklyn men’s basketball team faced an eight-point deficit with just over seven minutes to play in Sunday’s Northeast Conference semifinal showdown against upset-minded Quinnipiac before 1,327 nervous fans at the Wellness, Recreation and Athletic Center.
Rather than cave in to the panic or frustration that comes along with seeing a dream season potentially go up in flames, the ever-resilient, top-seeded Blackbirds instead relied on the intangible that made them champions of the league last March: Poise under tremendous duress.