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10:05

thefullcourtpress - Good morning from Alabny.

10:07

thefullcourtpress - After a few hours of sleep, I'm courtside at the TUC, where the third-seeded Fairfield women lead No. 2 Canisius 22-18 with just under three minutes left in the first half. ... Make that 22-21 after an Amanda Cavo 3.

10:07

thefullcourtpress - The winner of this game gets either top-seeded Marist or fifth-seeded Iona in tomorrow's final, though who are we kidding? There's a 99 percent chance it'll be Marist, which demolished Loyola 82-27 yesterday for the most lopsided victory in MAAC tournament history.

10:08

thefullcourtpress - Thanks to everyone who stopped by last night during the men's play-in games. We had about 50 people following -- a number with which I'm pretty happy.

10:10

thefullcourtpress - This is the first of three sessions today. The Marist-Iona women's game is the second game in this session. Then they'll clear the place out and open it up again for the Fairfield-Manhattan men's game. That will be followed in the second session by the local headliner of the day between the top-seeded Siena men and ninth-seeded Canisius. The last session includes the second-seeded Niagara men against No. 10 Marist and the third-seeded Rider men against No. 6 Saint Peter's.

10:11

thefullcourtpress - Micayla Drysdale's bucket made it 24-23 with 1:50 left in the first half. Desire Pina, however, answered immediately at the other end to make it 26-23 with 1:30 left.

10:11

thefullcourtpress - Ellie Radke drained a 3 from the right wing to tie it at 26. ... Almost everyone on Canisius has the same last name as a current or former Major League pitcher.

10:12

thefullcourtpress - No Koufax, unfortunately, to go with Drysdale.

10:13

thefullcourtpress - With 17.6 ticks left in the half, we're in a timeout with the score knotted at 26.

10:14

thefullcourtpress - The aforementioned Ellie Radke scored on a putback in traffic to send the Golden Griffs into the break with a 28-26 lead.

10:21

thefullcourtpress - The Canisius students here are absolutely disgraceful. They're taunting the Fairfield cheerleaders and coming up with some absurd (and completely untrue) chant about how ugly they are.

10:21

thefullcourtpress - Hard to imagine more embarrassing behavior.

10:22

thefullcourtpress - A look at the half time stats: ... Amanda Cavo leads all scorers with 11 points. Ellie Radke has seven for the Griffs; Brittane Rusell has four, while Micayla Drysdale, Marie Warner and JJ Williams all have two.

10:24

thefullcourtpress - Baeundu Lowenthal has eight to lead Fairfield, Desiree Pina has seven, Tara Flaherty six and Steph Geehan five.

10:30

thefullcourtpress - Megan Caskin's J opened the second half and tied it at 28.

10:30

thefullcourtpress - Marie Warner scored insde to put the Griffs back up. ... CC is playing man-to-man (woman-to-woman?) D to start the half.

10:31

thefullcourtpress - Caskin came down with a rebound after a Fairfield miss and the Stags re-set but couldn't score.

10:31

thefullcourtpress - Lauren Groom picked off a pass at the other end and the Stags have it, with Caskin running the point.

10:31

thefullcourtpress - Steph Geehan threw a pass out of bounds and CC has it back.

10:32

thefullcourtpress - Amanda Cavo banked a 3 from the right wing and CC leads 32-28. .... Then the Drysdale picked off a pass, took it to the hole and was fouled. .... Her first shot was good.

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