Kareem, Abdul, Jabaar

Last week's Northeast Conference basketball tournament featured Marist 's Kareem Hill, Abdu-Allah (Abdul) Torrence of St. Francis (N.Y.) and Rider's Jabaar Jones. Alas, none could skyhook a place in next week's NCAA tournament field—Mount St. Mary's defeated Rider 69-62 on Sunday to earn the NEC 's automatic bid—but the trio suited a season in which no fewer than nine Kareems dotted Division I rosters (not including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Jr., who was a redshirt at Valparaiso ), and in which Maryland-Eastern Shore briefly boasted a player whose name evoked the future even as it recalled the past: Ishaq Jabbar.