Former Madison star named to women’s all-time B-Ball team

March 16, 2021 Andy Furman

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Corin Adams has been named to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Women’s Basketball All-Time team, presented by the Home Depot, comprised of 50 outstanding student-athletes throughout the conference’s 50-year history.

The James Madison High School grad, who joined the Loyola University Maryland men’s basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach last October, is one of two female assistant coaches at the NCAA Division I level, joining the University of Maine’s Edniesha Curry.

On the basketball court, she was a star for the Morgan State University Bears, and still stands as the school’s all-time leader – for either women’s or men’s players – in points (2,058), assists (455) and steals (404). She’s already been inducted to the Varsity “M” Club, Morgan State’s Athletics Hall of Fame.

Adams was the 2010 MEAC Player of the Year, and was a three-time All-MEAC First Team honoree from 2008-2010. She earned MEAC Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2008 and was a member of the MEAC All-Rookie and All-Tournament teams in 2007.

Corin “Tiny” Adams, the 5-foot-5 former Madison High School and Morgan State basketball star. Photo courtesy of Tiny Adams

Despite standing just 5-foot-5, Adams also is 13th all-time at Morgan State in rebounds, grabbing 564 in her time with the Bears. She recorded the program’s first triple-double, logging 11 points, 10 assists and 11 steals in a November 21, 2007 game against North Carolina Central University.

After competing her undergraduate degree, Adams headed abroad where she would continue her career at the professional level with stops in Portugal, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Sweden, Czech Republic, Chile, Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Greece and Puerto Rico.

Nearly 3,500 votes were cast for the Women’s Basketball All-Time Team, with fans, media representatives, institution sports information contacts and others taking part. To be considered on the ballot, players must have been named to one of the following: Fust Team All-MEAC, MEAC Player of the Year, All-America or a MEAC Hall of Fame inductee.

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Bryant College of Smithfield, R.I. may have lost a bid for the NCAA basketball tournament – they dropped the Northeast Conference title game to Mt. St, Mary’s – but their coach Jared Grasso has turned that program around.

The son of Lafayette High star Freddie Grasso, the young coach posted 15 wins in his second – and this his third season for the Bulldogs – Bryant’s fourth-most in Division I history.

He posted the program’s first win over an Atlantic-10 opponent and three victories over Ivy League members – in addition to another near-upset of a Big 10 opponent with a two-point defeat at Rutgers.

In 2018-19 Grasso authored one of the nation’s best improvements, as the Bulldogs were the only team in the nation to triple their win total from a year-ago.

The seven-win improvement in Grasso’s first year at the helm ranked seventh among the 55 Division I head coaches in their first season leading a program.

A four-year starter and two-year captain at Quinnipiac as a guard, Grasso currently ranks 23rd on the Bobcats’ all-time scoring list with 1,134 career points. He was elected to the Quinnipiac Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.

At St. Anthony’s High School, Grasso earned honorable mention All-American honors as a senior after averaging 23 points, seven rebounds and eight assists per-game.

The Bryant roster boasts Dren Dedushaj, a 7-2, redshirt junior from Brooklyn – he was born in Prishtina, Kosovo.

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One of the best-kept secrets in local college basketball – The Maccabees from Yeshiva University.

Brooklyn’s Barry Neuberger, Yeshiva’s Assistant Athletics Director, proudly notes the Maccabees lost their first game, November 9, 2019 – and haven’t lost since. They’ve won their last 27 and topped that with a first and second-round NCAA wins – the NCAA then pulled the plug on their Sweet 16 game thanks to the pandemic.

Ryan Turell, a 6-7 junior guard and first-team All-American is joined by Gabriel Leifer, a 6-5 senior forward and a third-team All-American.

Yeshiva plays in the Skyline Conference, “and we play New York-style hoops,” Neuberger notes, “lots of movement, and great passing. We were shooting 49 percent from the field as a team.”

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Kadary Richmond, a 6-5 freshman guard for Syracuse University, played for Coach Shawn Mark at South Shore High School, 2017-18. The Vikings posted a 26-5 record and won the Brooklyn Championship bracket of the PSAL playoff. South Shore defeated Boys and Girls High School in the final, 72-52…The Vikes then topped Cardozo, 78-66 to claim the PSAL crown…South Shore’s season ended in the New York State Class A Federation title tilt, where the Vikings were defeated by Archbishop Stepinac and current Syracuse teammate, Alan Griffin, 88-66.

The Vikes went 30-4 in 2018-19 and Richmond averaged 16.3 points-per-game as a senior…The Vikes ousted Wings Academy in the PSAL semifinals, 54-43 and Richmond had a squad-leading 17 points…He had 23 points and eight rebounds as South Shore defended its PSAL Class AA title with a 71-70 win over Jefferson…He was selected most valuable player of the PSAL Class AA Tournament…The Vikes lost to Long Island Lutheran, 77-53 in the New York State Federation semifinals and Richmond had 20 points in the defeat. He was named the 2019 New York City Public School Player of the Year.

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One of the best lines by a radio basketball play-by-play announcer came from Joe Sunderman who calls games for Xavier University: “He took them to the washing machine – and hung ‘em out to dry…”

Andy Furman is a Fox Sports Radio national talk show host. Previously, he was a scholastic sports columnist for the Brooklyn Eagle. He may be reached at: [email protected]