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The Hofstra University softball team is two wins away from making the Women's College World Series for the first time in school history.

The Pride begin a three-game series against No. 19 South Florida on Friday night at 7 p.m. in Tampa, Fla, airing on ESPNU.

Game 2 will be on Saturday at 2:30 p.m., and Game 3 (if necessary) will follow at 5 p.m. (Those games will also be on ESPNU.)

Hofstra advanced to the Super Regionals by upsetting No. 12 UCLA and beating San Diego State to win the Los Angeles Regional championship.

The Pride are 41-13 on the season, and have won 20 games in a row. They are led by star pitcher Olivia Galati, who is 33-5 and has won 31 straight starts. Galati, a junior, has the lowest ERA in Division I (0.91), and the most shutouts (17).

Fordham University is in the market for a new athletic director, to replace longtime AD Frank McLaughlin.

McLaughlin has been given a new position, as the associate vice president of student affairs for athletic alumni relations and external affairs/athletic director emeritus.

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St. John's will play St. Francis (NY) at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Saturday, Dec. 15, the school announced on Thursday.

The game will be part of a triple-header. The other matchups are Michigan versus West Virginia and Fordham versus Princeton, which had already been announced.

The event is dubbed the Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival, and tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster.

Jeff Hathaway, the former athletic director at UConn and the chair of the NCAA Tournament selection committee last season, is the new director of athletics at Hofstra.

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Seton Hall made it official on Monday, announcing that former Texas guard Sterling Gibbs is transferring and joining the Pirates.

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The Ivy League announced on Thursday that it has decided not to move forward with proposals for a men's and women's postseason basketball tournament.

"After careful consideration of these proposals, the athletics directors decided that our current method of determining the Ivy League champion and our automatic bid recipient to the NCAA Championship is the best model moving forward," said Robin Harris, Ivy League executive director.

The Ivy League remains the lone Division I conference that awards its automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament to its regular season champion.

St. John's men's basketball coach Steve Lavin officially announced the addition of six new players to his roster on Wednesday.

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St. John's assistant coach Mike Dunlap is a candidate for the head coaching job with the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats, and is expected to be formally interviewed in Charlotte next week.

“Coach Dunlap’s being invited to interview for the head coaching position with the Charlotte Bobcats is a compliment to Mike and our program," said St. John's head coach Steve Lavin. "I enthusiastically support Mike in the process. As a head coach, I encourage all of my assistants to aspire to become head coaches.”

Dunlap has some NBA experience, having spent two years as an assistant coach under George Karl with the Denver Nuggets. And he served as the de facto head coach at St. John's for most of this past season, as Lavin recuperated from prostate cancer surgery.

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Former St. John's forward Justin Burrell was named the most valuable player in Japan's professional basketball league on Thursday.

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Eric LeGrand isn't the only Rutgers player to sign with an NFL team in recent days.

Four other Scarlet Knights who went undrafted in last week's NFL Draft have signed free agent contracts: fullback Joe Martinek (Giants), offensive linemen Desmond Stapleton (Steeleres) and Desmond Wynn (Buccaneers), and defensive lineman Justin Francis (Patriots).

They hope to join wide receiver Mohamed Sanu, the third-round pick of the Bengals, in the NFL next season.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, under former Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano, signed Eric LeGrand to a contract on Wednesday.

LeGrand is the former Rutgers defensive tackle who was paralyzed in a game against Army back in 2010.

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Former Rutgers wide receiver Mohamed Sanu was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the third round of the NFL draft on Friday night.

Sanu was the 83rd player selected overall. Ironically, he went to the team that Sanu thought had picked him in the first round on Thursday night, which turned out to be a hoax.

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Rutgers men's basketball coach Mike Rice has added another player to the mix for next season.

Vincent Garrett, a 6-foot-5 wing player originally from Chicago, has signed to play for the Scarlet Knights starting in 2012-13.

Garrett averaged 16 points and 6 rebounds per game for Lee College in Baytown, Texas, last season as a sophomore. He will have two years of eligibility at Rutgers.

“Signing Vincent was a priority for us this recruiting period, and we are thrilled to welcome him into the program,” said Rice in a statement. “He is a very gifted athlete with the ability to score the ball at many levels. Vincent is also a mature young man who has developed and excelled due to a tremendous work ethic.”

Iona guard Scott Machado has won the 79th Haggerty Award, given to the top Division I college basketball player in the New York area.

Machado, a senior, averaged 13.6 points and 9.9 assists per game this season for the Gaels, leading the nation in assists.

He was joined on the All-Metropolitan first team by St. John's forward Moe Harkless, Seton Hall guard Jordan Theodore, Seton Hall forward Herb Pope, Iona forward Mike Glover, and LIU Brooklyn forward Julian Boyd.

Harkless was named Rookie of the Year, and is headed to the NBA after just one season with the Red Storm.

Manhattan first-year coach Steve Masiello and Wagner coach Danny Hurley shared the Coach of the Year award. Hurley has since departed to take over at Rhode Island.

Here are the second and third All-Met teams:

SECOND

Chris Gaston, Fordham
Rakim Sanders, Fairfield
George Beamon, Manhattan
Jamal Olasewere, LIU Brooklyn
D'Angelo Harrison, St. John's
Mike Moore, Hofstra

THIRD

Brian Barbour, Columbia
Lamont Jones, Iona
Isaiah Wilkerson, NJIT
Eli Carter, Rutgers
Ella Ellis, Army

Former St. John's forward D.J. Kennedy has been signed by the Cleveland Cavaliers for the final few days of the NBA regular season.

Kennedy had an outstanding season with the Erie BayHawks of the NBA Development League, averaging 15.7 points, 7.3 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 37.4 minutes per game. He shot 44.7 percent from the field, 37.8 percent from 3-point range, and 81.6 percent from the foul line.

The talented 6-foot-6 swingman has recovered nicely after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during the 2011 Big East tournament. The Red Storm sorely missed Kennedy in that year's NCAA Tournament, when they were upset in the first round by Gonzaga.

Kennedy finished his St. John's career 12th in school history in career points, with 1,504.