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Sunday, February 25, 2007
Bucknell's Brown set to return
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Bison standout Donald Brown has been out sinceout since breaking a bone in his right (shooting) hand during the Bison's Jan. 20 win at Colgate.

Brown will rejoin the Bison rotation for the postseason.

"I had an X-ray Friday. Everything looks good. I'm a go for Wednesday," said Brown after the Bison's win at Army Saturday.

Brown has been doing light shooting drills since a week after the surgery that placed pins in the bone to speed its healing. Those drills became more aggressive basketball drills using both hands once the pain in the broken hand subsided, Brown said.

The team's leading scorer and the league's top rebounder when he was hurt, Brown said he is not worried about re-injuring the hand in the normal course of the game because the bone that was broken is in a part of the hand that is not used to play basketball. He also feels more confident about being able to avoid re-injuring the hand after he took a knee to the hand trying to draw a charge in practice. Brown will wear a protective pad on the back of his hand.

NO ZOO, JUST A CREW -- New at Army since our last visit, a student section calling itself "The Crew." Decked out in yellow toy hard hats and yellow T-shirts, they numbered about 25 strong and pretty much accounted for the cadet population in attendance. Less than a dozen cadets in regular uniforms were on hand, which must mean, as a whole, the kids at West Point have been on their good behavior.

The back of those "The Crew" shirts includes a tagline: "The Hardest Working Fans in the Patriot League." Of course the obvious tag: "The few, the proud" was already taken.

SALUTE -- Senior Day at West Point did not mean a start for all of Jim Crews seniors. Center Jimmy Sewell, who has spent four years in and out of Crews' doghouse, started on the bench, as did guard Marshall Jackson. Sewell did get nine minutes of action. Jackson played 11 minutes.

CROWDED HOUSE -- You have to wonder how Crews will handle senior day in three years. His current roster of 20 players includes 8 freshmen, with who knows how many stashed away at USMAPS. The eight freshmen points out the factor about recruiting at the service academies that is oft overlooked. While the rest of the league is limited in how many scholarships it can offer, Army and Navy can bring in as many kids as they want and can also stash prospects at their prep schools for what amounts to a redshirt year unavailable to the rest of the league.

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