Two mid-major programs took to YouTube last Wednesday to not only announce a three-game series between the schools but also to chronicle their mascots playing a best-of-three rock/paper/scissors battle to determine which team hosts the game this year. A spokesman for one of the schools reminded those viewing the broadcast that both mascots would be available for comment afterward, though “…I don’t think they can speak, so I don’t know how that’s going to work.” And later, a Hall of Fame coach chimed in during and after the rock/paper/scissors duel.

RICHMOND, Va. – Hofstra, which won the program’s first CAA men’s basketball championship last March, is favored to claim the 2020-21 CAA men’s basketball championship, according to a vote of the league’s coaches, media relations directors and media members.

Desure Buie’s fourth birthday was a couple weeks in the rearview mirror on March 10, 2001, when Hofstra reached the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year by beating Delaware in the America East championship game. Eli Pemberton was still a few months from celebrating his fourth birthday. Joe Mihalich had just completed his third season as the head coach at Niagara University.

The first two rounds of the 2020 CAA Men's Basketball Championship will be streaming live and on demand exclusively on FloHoops and the FloSports apps from Saturday March 7th to Sunday March 8th.

The Hofstra men’s basketball team has spent its entire existence in the CAA trying to recapture the feeling the program enjoyed in the spring of 2001, when the then-Flying Dutchmen exited the America East by winning their second straight conference title and making the school’s most recent NCAA Tournament appearance.

Joe Mihalich is in his 17th season as a Division I head coach and his 39th year overall as a college coach. So there’s not much he hasn’t seen.