By Kyle Kandetzki – Sports Editor
The 2014-15 season isn’t quite over for the Pride just yet.
Despite being eliminated from the CAA Tournament in a heartbreaking double-OT loss to William & Mary, the Hofstra men’s basketball team (20-13) has accepted an invite to play in the 2015 College Basketball Invitational (CBI) against the University of Vermont Catamounts.
Hofstra will host the game, which will be played on Wednesday March 18th at the Mack Sports Complex. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.
The CBI is not a typical postseason tournament, as the field has just 16 teams, teams must pay to be involved, and institutes a 30 second shot clock instead of the usual 35.
Vermont is coming from the America East, where they lost in their conference tournament to Stony Brook (who is also in the CBI). They went 18-13 on the season, finishing tied for second.
If Hofstra were to win, they would move on to the quarterfinals to play the winner of Radford vs. Delaware State on March 23rd. The tournament also includes teams like Mercer, Colorado, Oral Roberts, and Seattle. The defending champion is also a New York school in Siena College.
The tournament also gives graduating players Dion Nesmith and Moussa Kone one final chance to play with the Pride, after they may have thought the CAA loss was their final game.
The full bracket can be found below:
