10 Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo!, Inc. All rights reserved. en-us 126 15 http://sports.yahoo.com Yahoo! Sports http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sp/b/ysp_logo_rss.gif Latest news and information about the Holy Cross Crusaders. Yahoo! Sports - NCAA Men's Hoops - Holy Cross Crusaders News http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/teams/hal Holy Cross Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Holy Cross was last year's Cinderella squad of the Patriot League.

With a roster packed with underclassmen, the Crusaders marched all the way to the Patriot League tournament final before falling to American.

Now with a new coach—former Notre Dame assistant Sean Kearney—and a strong nucleus, Holy Cross has been tabbed an early favorite.

The core group includes junior forward Andrew Keister, sophomore guard R.J. Evans (last year's Patriot League Rookie of the Year), 6-8 senior Eric Meister (an all-tournament team pick last season) and 6-4 junior playmaker Andrew Beinert.

Keister (8.5 ppg, 6.3 rpg) in particular was the fulcrum of an exciting shooting attack.]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:26:30 PDT ncaab urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,sportsxchange:20080101:ncaab,article,teamreports-2009-ncaab-hal:1 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:26:30 PDT