Every day throughout the 2006-07 season, America East will provide a men's basketball update that features notes on that day's matchups as well as recaps of the previous days' action. Be sure to download the PDF for complete daily update.
UPCOMING ACTION
Tuesday, November 28
Hartford at Cornell, 7 p.m.
The Hawks are coming off their first victory of the season as they travel to Ithaca, N.Y. to take on the Big Red... Hartford marks the third America East opponent Cornell has faced this season as the Big Red lost at Binghamton, 57-56, and defeated Stony Brook at home, 76-72... Bo Taylor leads the Hawks with 12.3 ppg and 5.0 rpg.
UMES at Stony Brook, 7 p.m.
The Seawolves look to make it two in a row as they host Maryland Eastern Shore... Stony Brook's Mitchell Beauford (19.2 ppg) and Ricky Lucas (18.4) combine to form the conference's highest-scoring duo as they rank second and third, respectively, in the league... This game for the Seawolves marks the first of a three-game homestand, which also features Villanova (Nov. 30) and Hofstra (Dec. 5).
RECENT RESULTS
Monday, November 27
UMBC 86, at Morgan State 72
Brian Hodges came off the bench to score a career-high 36 points in just 27 minutes played to lead the Retrievers to victory... UMBC evened its record at 3-3 as the Retrievers have now won three of their last four outings... On the back of Hodges, UMBC fought back from a nine-point deficit to earn its second non-conference road win of the season... The Retrievers won just one non-conference road game all of last season... Hodges’ 36 points marks the third-most prolific scoring game in UMBC’s 21-year Division I history... Hodges’ performance is the most since Derell Thompson scored a school-record 43 at Towson on February 15, 1992.
at Colgate 78, Binghamton 70
The Bearcats had their conference-best three-game win streak snapped by the Raiders... Binghamton led 41-37 four minutes into the second half before Colgate’s Jon Simon, who scored a game-high 23 points, reeled off nine-straight to give the Raiders the lead for good... Richard Forbes scored a team-high 19 points with six rebounds to pace the Bearcats... Colgate shot 54.0 percent from the field, compared to Binghamton’s 37.9 percent... Duane James (18 points) and Mike Gordon (13 points) also netted double-figures for the Bearcats.
at St. Joseph’s 55, Boston U. 39
The Terriers led by one, 26-25, at the half, but the Hawks held Boston to just 13 second-half points on 2-of-20 shooting to come away with the win... Corey Lowe netted 11 points to lead the Terrers as the only player to net double-figures... The Red Storm scored 29 points off Boston’s 26 turnovers... In a first half where neither team led by more than four points, the Terriers scored six of the final seven points before the break to take a slim 26-25 halftime lead... Ahmad Nivins led St. John’s with a game-high 12 points.