Saint Francis joined the NEC in 1988. In 2023, fellow longtime conference member St. Francis College in Brooklyn, N.Y., left the conference after electing to drop its athletic programs.

With a population of nearly 14,000, Quincy stood on the western frontier as Illinois’ second largest city behind Chicago, and since 1860 had been the home of St. Francis Solanus College (SFSC ...

St. Francis had tied the game with 40 seconds to go on a 3-pointer by Chris Moncrief. In the school’s announcement about dropping down, it cited the current college sports landscape.

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Saint Francis' Daemar Kelly reacts during the second half of a First Four college basketball game against the Alabama State in the NCAA Tournament, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Dayton, Ohio.

John Brennan lost his life watching his beloved Johnnies. The championship-winning St. Francis Prep boys and girls high school tennis coach, who attended St. John’s and played a year of freshman ...

Last week, Saint Francis was on the wrong end of a thriller when Alabama State's Amarr Knox's game winner knocked the Red Flash out of the NCAA tournament. That First Four game might have been ...

16 seed Alabama State and No. 16 seed St. Francis play ... predictions for the men's college basketball matchup. Alabama State is a 3.5-point favorite over Saint Francis in the game in March ...

but they came up a little bit short,” St. Francis coach Rob Krimmel said. “The ’91 team set the bar really for the modern standard for what success is in college basketball. To make the NCAA ...

PITTSBURGH — Saint Francis University was one of the Cinderella stories of the NCAA Tournament. The Red Flash had a losing record but got hot at the right time to win the Northeast Conference ...

Saint Francis (PA) will transition its athletic programs from Division I to Division III following the 2025-26 academic year. The university cited the changing landscape of college athletics ...