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NYU Earns Postseason Bid

NYU Earns Postseason Bid
Posted: Mar 03, 2014

From NYU Athletics

The New York University men's basketball team, which ended the regular season with a 16-9 overall record and a fourth-place 6-8 mark in the University Athletic Association (UAA), has received a bid to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Metro Championship.

The announcement was made on Monday afternoon, March 3.

The Violets, back in the ECAC Tournament for the second straight season, will travel to Hoboken, NJ, to face the Stevens Institute of Technology in the quarterfinal round. The Ducks, seeded #4 in the tournament, enter the ECAC's with a 17-9 overall record and a 10-4 record in Empire 8 Conference play. NYU enters as the #5 seed.

This will be the second meeting of the season between the two schools. The first contest also took place in Hoboken, as the home squad topped the Violets 68-65 in overtime on December 10, 2013.

The winner of Wednesday's match-up will face the winner of the contest between top-seeded College of Staten Island and #8 New Jersey City University on March 8. The site of that game is yet to be determined.

NYU has been led all season long by a trio of All-UAA players -- sophomore forwards Evan Kupferberg (First Team) and Costis Gontikas (Honorable Mention), and senior captain guard Ryan Tana (Second Team).

Kupferberg leads NYU in scoring (17.6 points per game), rebounding (9.2 per game), field goal percentage (52.7 percent), field goals made (173), and free throws made (95). He is also second in the UAA in scoring and rebounding, and fifth in field goal percentage.

Tana leads NYU in three-point shooting percentage (41.0 percent), three-point field goals made (50), free throw percentage (78.2 percent), and minutes played (32.9 minutes per game), and is second in scoring (13.9 ppg), free throws made (61), assists (4.1 per game), and steals (1.4 per game). He is also second in the UAA in minutes, third in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.1) and fifth in assists.

Gontikas leads NYU in blocks (19), is second in field goal percentage (52.5 percent), rebounding (6.0 rpg), field goals made (124), and is third in scoring (12.2 ppg). The 6-foot-9 center is fifth in the UAA in shooting percentage, and eighth in rebounding and blocks.