by Alex Schwartz

The defending NEC regular season champion Quinnipiac Bobcats added two new players on Saturday, according to a source close to the situation. In new that was broken by Northstar Basketball via our Twitter page, Lance Brown has decided to transfer from Fordham to Quinnipiac and William Harrison of Western Texas College committed to QU.

Lance Brown, a 6'3 shooting guard, was a top 10 player in New Jersey's class of 2009 coming out of Paterson Catholic (NJ). After one year at Fordham, Brown decided to transfer and selected Quinnipiac this evening while on his official visit. Brown will have three years of eligibility left at QU. According to his player page on CBSSports.com, Brown averaged 6.5 points and 4.0 rebounds in 22.2 minutes per game for the Rams. He had his best game of the season in the team's last game, scoring a career high 18 points to go along with a career high 9 rebounds.

Fordham finished the year at 2-26 overall, going 0-16 in the Atlantic-10. Dereck Whittenburg was fired as head coach early in the season and the team's best player Jio Fontan transferred out of the school to USC. Interim Head Coach Jared Grasso was not retained and is now on staff at Iona. With all of the turmoil and changes at the school in the Bronx, New York, Brown opted to leave and has now found a home at Quinnipiac.

While Lance Brown was the main addition for the Bobcats on Saturday, he was not the only one. William Harrison, a 6'3 wing from Western Texas College, a JuCo in the Lone Star State, committed to QU while on his official visit. Harrison graduated from Wadleigh (NY) as a part of the class of 208 before going the JuCo route. He will have two years of eligibility left.

"Quinnipiac is a school I was going to go to from high school, but when I found out I would not be qualified I went to JuCo in Texas and they slipped away and now my [last year there] we started talking again. I was still interested in the school and I went on an official visit and that's when I knew I really wanted to be there," said Harrison of how he picked QU.

Asked what other schools he considered, Harrison replied, "I was considering Montana State or Louisiana-Monroe, but they were just thoughts. I had a rough time this year with recruiting." Harrison said that ULM had offered and that Montana State "was just about ready to" offer. He added, "Coming out of high school I was considering Robert Morris, George Mason, and Quinnipiac."

Harrison is glad to have a long recruiting process finally behind him. "It feels good, I'm just happy [QU Head] Coach [Tom] Moore remembers me and stills wants me to come, and to have a chance to play for him and go to a great academic school and a great basketball program."

Note- photo is of Lance Brown and is from http://www.fordhamsports.com/