Woe to Bryant, Last Winless Div. I School
Posted on | February 15, 2010 |
Filed under: Coaches
“What we are experiencing is almost completely unavoidable,” says Tim O’Shea, the head coach of the last winless basketball team in Division I. “I diagnosed the problem immediately: we just don’t have the offensive talent to compete.”
Bryant University (0-26) ranks last in the nation in scoring offense (51.7 ppg), but it is the transition game that has crushed them this year. The Bulldogs, formerly a Division II program, are in the second year of a four-year transition period into full Division I status. They are ineligible for both the NCAA tournament (granted, not a concern this season) as well as their own conference (Northeast) tourney until the 2012-13 season.
The upperclassmen were recruited to play at the Division II level at the Smithfield, R.I., school. Take senior point guard Chris Birrell, for example. As a freshman Birrell tried out at the University of Rhode Island but was cut. He transferred to Bryant, then a D-II program, where he made the team and now leads the Bulldogs in assists and steals. And yet Birrell, the playmaker who is second on the team in minutes played, has only attempted ten free throws in 26 games.
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