The Long Island University basketball team, last seen playing Michigan State tough for 30 minutes in the NCAA Tournament last March, got into a brawl with the school’s track team last weekend, and four players have been charged with assault. According to the Post:

Four track-team members were taken to Brooklyn Hospital after the Brooklyn dormitory brawl early Saturday. They were not seriously injured.

The busted basketball players — C.J. Garner, 22, Julian Boyd, 22, Troy Joseph, 21, and Jamal Olasewere, 21 — were charged with third-degree assault. It was unclear what sparked the fight.

Boyd, Olasewere and Garner were LIU Brooklyn’s three leading scorers last season.

The Blackbirds have made the NCAA tourney two years in a row. That could be in jeopardy. College basketball is less than four weeks away. Can you feel the excitement? [Post via Rob Dauster]