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USCAA AND NCCAA COLLEGE BASKETBALL RANKINGS

 I’ve been getting some emails inquiring why I wasn’t covering USCAA and NCCAA basketball rankings yet this season. I was going to cover their tournaments, of course, but in the meantime I’m thrilled that enough people out there had an interest in the USCAA and NCCAA to let me know they missed me mentioning them! I’ll make a point out of listing the NCCAA and the two USCAA divisions from now on in my weekly posts about the polls.

By the way, people who followed my USCAA basketball tournament coverage last year may be interested to know it is now called Mountain Madness instead of Madness in the Mountains. Thank GOD! Anyway, for this week, the Rochester College Warriors are the number 1 team in the USCAA-1 poll. And here’s a look at the complete polls for both divisions of the USCAA (United States Collegiate Athletic Association):

USCAA-1 1. RC Warriors … 2. Ave Maria University Gyrenes … 3. Southern Virginia University Knights … 4. Belleville Lynx … 5. Newport News Builders … 6. Oakwood Ambassadors (love that name) … 7. UMFK Bengals … 8. Continue reading

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COOL-NAMED TEAM OF THE DAY: UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT MACHIAS CLIPPERS

 Location: Machias, ME (Well, duh!) 

Division: United States Collegiate Athletic Association 

Conference Affiliation: YSCC 

Site: http://ummclippers.com/landing/index

Comment: For months I’ve been waiting for the perfect opportunity to make the UMM Clippers one of my Cool- Named Teams of the Day. The excitement over the NBA’s Chris Paul being traded to the Los Angeles Clippers seemed too good to pass up. Will UMM’s basketball teams make Continue reading

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