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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Wajid Aminu scored 18 points and pulled down 10 rebounds, including five offensive, and North Florida eased to a 112-66 win over Florida National in the first round of the Wright State Invitational on Tuesday night. Continue to Article

November 22, 2016 9:23:pm EST

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Dallas Moore scored a career-high 37 points and North Florida rolled to a 109-73 win over Edward Waters on Monday night. Continue to Article

November 14, 2016 10:02:pm EST

Bryce Brown scored 19 points, freshman Danjel Purifoy added 14 points and Auburn hit 13 3-pointers in an 83-66 victory over North Florida on Friday night in a season opener for both teams. Freshmen Mustafa Heron and Jared Harper each had 10 points for Auburn. ''I thought our defense in the first half was tremendous,'' Auburn coach Bruce Pearl said. Continue to Article

November 12, 2016 12:59:am EST

Stetson and Florida Gulf Coast will meet in the Atlantic Sun tournament championship game, and the big winner could be North Florida. Stetson (12-21) is ineligible to appear in the NCAA Tournament, so the Hatters' season - win or lose - will end after Sunday night's title matchup in Fort Myers, Florida. If the Hatters win, then North Florida will get the A-Sun's automatic berth in the NCAA field because it won the regular-season crown. Continue to Article

March 05, 2016 11:49:am EST

A pair of upsets in Thursday's Atlantic Sun semifinals has created an unusual scenario for Sunday night's title game. North Florida's NCAA tournament hopes now rest on the outcome of a game in which they're not even playing. Fourth-seeded Florida Gulf Coast and seventh-seeded Stetson will meet in the Atlantic Sun championship game after the Eagles ousted top-seeded North Florida and the Hatters toppled sixth-seeded Lipscomb. Stetson is participating in the Atlantic Sun tournament even though it is ineligible to play in March Madness this year after falling one point shy of clearing the NCAA's minimum Academic Progress Report threshold. If Florida Gulf Coast wins Sunday's title game, it will receive the Atlantic Sun's automatic NCAA tournament bid. If Stetson pulls a third straight upset, the automatic NCAA bid will go to North Florida by virtue of the Ospreys' Atlantic Sun regular season title.  So will North Florida coach Matthew Driscoll don a Stetson cap and T-shirt and camp out in front of his TV for Sunday night's title game? He did not immediately return a message from Yahoo Sports on Thursday night, but his postgame press conference suggests that's not the approach he will take. Coach Driscoll says he won't even watch the FGCU vs Stetson game. "Not going to root for anyone." — Sam Kouvaris (@samsportsline) March 4, 2016 More Driscoll: "No interest in answering questions about Stetson. Not a story Til it happens. We are in the NIT now." — Sam Kouvaris (@samsportsline) March 4, 2016 It has to be disappointing for Driscoll that his team no longer controls its own destiny because North Florida has been the Atlantic Sun's best team all season. The Ospreys (22-11, 10-4) won the league title by two games, their second straight outright regular season championship. When North Florida opened a nine-point first-half lead in front of a roaring home crowd on Thursday night, it appeared the Ospreys would have little trouble advancing to Sunday's title game. Instead Florida Gulf Coast stormed back behind the scoring of Marc Eddy Norelia and guards Zach Johnson and Christian Terrell, taking a 14-point lead at halftime and putting the game away early in the second half en route to an 89-56 rout. Florida Gulf Coast (19-13) is one win away from its first NCAA tournament bid since its stunning 2013 Sweet 16 run, but this year's Eagles bear little resemblance to Andy Enfield's high-octane Dunk City squad. Out of the 351 teams in Division I, Florida Gulf Coast is 247th in tempo. In two games against Stetson this season, Florida Gulf won by 29 at home on Jan. 9 and lost by seven on the road in its regular season finale. North Florida will have to hope the Hatters have one more upset left in them. The Ospreys' NCAA tournament hopes depend on it. - - - - - - - Jeff Eisenberg is the editor of The Dagger on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at daggerblog@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @JeffEisenberg Continue to Article

March 03, 2016 10:40:pm EST