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Thursday, May 11, 2006
Bucknell-Towson? maybe
The Towerlight, Towson's student paper, reports the Tigers are looking to upgrade their schedule and are in negotiations with, among others, Bucknell, for the upcoming season.

A Bucknell-Towson game would rekindle an old East Coast Conference rivalry. If the game were played at Towson, it would also be a return to the scene of two of the program's biggest wins, East Coast Conference championship games in 1987 and 1989 that accounted for Bucknell's only trips to the NCAA Tournament prior to its run the past two years.

Bucknell and Towson met 23 times between 1983 and 1002, with the Bison winning 15, including that 1987 title game.

Back in those days, the Towson Center was a very popular destination for Bucknell fans. The Bison have a large alumni base in the Baltimore-Washington area and at times their fans almost outnumbered the Towson fans for games there.

Towson has been in the rebuilding mode for the last several years. The Tigers finished 12-16 last season, ending with a disappointing first round loss to 7-21 Georgia State in the CAA Tournament. Towson's 12 wins included one at Lehigh and a home win over Hofstra. The Tigers return eight of their top nine in the rotation, including leading scorer Gary Neal, who averaged 26.1 points per game after becoming eligible in the second semester following his transfer from LaSalle.
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