Every gameday throughout the 2008-09 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 day's action.
Upcoming Action
Saturday, December 13
New Hampshire at Long Island U., 4 p.m.
The Wildcats look for their first win against the Black Birds in four all-time meetings... Tyrece Gibbs is 13 points shy reaching the 1,000-point milestone for his career... Gibbs, a 39.4 percent career 3-point shooter (146-for-371) coming into his senior season, ranks third in America East converting 45.7 percent (21-for-46) of his attempts this season.
Boston University at #12/13 Notre Dame, 7 p.m.
Corey Lowe is 10 points shy of 1,000 for his career... Jake O'Brien leads all America East rookies averaging 13.1 points per game... Dennis Wolff holds a 7-7 all-time record against Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey, who won a pair of America East titles while at Delaware and was named the 1998 Co-Coach of the Year.
UMBC at #3 Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. (MASN)
The Retrievers face the highest-ranked opponent in program history in third-ranked Pittsburgh... Jay Greene again ranks among the nation's best in assists (7.1 pg) and assist-to-turnover ratio (2.71)... Darryl Proctor is one of just two players (D.J. Rivera) in America East to have scored in double-figures in in every game this season.
Canisius at Albany, 7 p.m. (TW3)
The Great Danes and Golden Griffins get together for the second straight year after meeting as part of the BracketBusters series... Canisius eeked out a 64-60 victory in the first-ever meeting between the two schools in Buffalo last February... Albany's Tim Ambrose has scored in double figures in seven straight games.
Recent Results
Wednesday, December 10
Hofstra 61, at Stony Brook 56
Stony Brook cut a 16-point second-half deficit to just three with under a minute to play, but fell short against the Pride... Demetrius Young scored a season-high 21 points on 8-of-10 shooting and grabbed nine rebounds in 22 minutes off the bench.
at Boston University 55, Yale 43
The Terriers won their 12 straight against an Ivy League opponent by holding the Bulldogs to just five field goals in the second half... Jake O'Brien led the way for Boston U. with 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting... Corey Lowe added 12.
at UMBC 68, Central Connectictut State 57
The Retrievers snapped a seven-game losing streak against the Blue Demons... Darryl Proctor recorded his 32nd career double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds... Justin Fry poured in a career-high 16... Jay Greene had 12 of his 14 in the second half.
at #5 Oklahoma 78, Maine 52
The Sooners remained unbeaten by scoring 28 points off 20 Black Bear turnovers and holding Maine to 29 percent shooting... Mark Socoby was the only Black Bear in double figures with 10 points and he added seven rebounds.
Tuesday, December 9
at Bucknell 63, Binghamton 60
D.J.
Rivera's jumper with 13 seconds left was blocked by the Bison's Bryan
Cohen and the bearcats comeback fell short... Rivera scored a game-high
21 points and tied a game high with nine rebounds... Reggie Fuller
added 17 pionts on 7of-10 shooting.
at Brown 72, Hartford 62
The
Bears hit nine 3-pointers in the first half and jumped out to a
19-point lead at the break... Morgan Sabia notched a season-high for
the second straight game with 19 points... Joe Zeglinski added 14.
at Rhode Island 88, New Hampshire 56
The
Rams had five players in double-figures and outrebounded the Wildcats
46-33... Alvin Abreu led UNH with 13 points off the bench... Tyrece
Gibbs, who is 13 points shy of 1,000 for his career, added 12.
Monday, December 8
at Lehigh 65, Albany 64
Zahir
Carrington hit a putback layup with three seconds remaining to cap the
Mountain Hawks' 15-point second-half comeback... Will Harris scored a
career-high 21 points for the Great Danes... Tim Ambrose extended his
double-digit scoring streak to seven games with 17 points.
at Maine 67, Colgate 56
The
Black Bears jumped out to a 20 point lead in the first half by holding
Colgate to 32 percent shooting in the frame, while converting half
their opportunites... Mark Socoby poured in a game-high 21 points for
Maine... Junior Bernal contributed all around with 17 points, six
rebounds and five assists.
Sunday, December 7
at Stony Brook 95, Mount Ida 50
The
Seawolves won their fourth straight for the first time since the
2002-03 season with a win over the Mustangs... Muhammad El-Amin scored
a career-high 22 points on 8-of-9 shooting.