Every
gameday
throughout the 2009-10 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. Fans can also follow
basketball action throughout the season at the America East Facebook page, Twitter account and blog! For links to all the media coverage and live stats, visit the full men's basketball schedule.
Upcoming Action
Wednesday, February 24
Vermont at Stony Brook, 7 p.m. (MSG+, NESN, ESPN Full Court, ESPN360, AmericaEast.tv) Live Stats | Live Video | Stony Brook Radio | Vermont Radio
- Stony Brook hosts Vermont on Long Island in a game that will likely decide the regular-season champion.Catamounts won a BracketBuster game at Patrick Gym for the second year in a row and have won eight straight overall.
- With , the Catamounts will position themselves
for the conference tournament's No. 1 seed and their third
regular-season title in four years.
- With a win, Stony Brook can clinch its first-ever regular-season title, the No. 1
seed for the league tournament and will be guaranteed a postseason
berth.
- Evan Fjeld led four 'Cats in double figures with 17 points and eight rebounds in a BracketBusters win over Fairfield Saturday. He averaging 16.3 points and 7.3 boards over his last three games.
- Muhammad El-Amin, who scored 19 points at Albany Friday, sank a 15-foot jumper with 1.8 seconds left to lift SBU to its ninth straight win.
- The win gave Stony Brook its first 20-win season since the 1990-91 campaign. The Seawolves have now won 36 games over the last two years after compiling only 20 in the previous three seasons combined.
Hartford at Binghamton, 7 p.m. Live Stats | Live Video | Binghamton Radio | Hartford Radio
- Binghamton
snapped a four-game losing skid with a win over UMBC Sunday. and can
lock up the No. 5 seed for the tournament with a win over Hartford.
- Dylan
Talley, the league's top rookie scorer with 11.3 ppg), poured in 25
points on 11-of-16 shooting and added five assists and four rebounds.
- Mahmound
Jabbi recorded his fourth double-double of the season (20 points, 11
rebounds) and ranks third among league leaders in rebounding (8.6 rpg)
against league foes and first in blocks (2.1 bpg).
- The
Bearcats are 8-3 this season at the Events
Center, where they have averaged a league-best 3,567 fans this season.
- The Hawks were outrebounded by the Maine Sunday, 49-26, and dropped their fourth straight decision overall.
- Milton Burton scored a career-high 23 points on 9-of-17 shooting and added four assists and three steals.
- Morgan Sabia, who had six points and six rebounds Sunday, scored his 1,000th career point earlier in the week.
- The Hawks can earn a season sweep of Binghamton with a win Wednesday, after posting a 64-53 victory at Chase Arena on Jan. 21.
UMBC at New Hampshire, 7 p.m. Live Stats | Live Video | New Hampshire Radio | UMBC Radio
- The Retrievers allowed the Bearcats to shoot 50 percent from the field en route to their third straight defeat.
- Chauncey Gilliam, who is averaging 18.6 ppg in conference road contests, scored 21 points and had seven steals, which tied UMBC Division I program record and is the most by an America East player this season.
- Senior Matt Spadafora extended his league-best starting streak to 72 games.
- UMBC concludes its regular season at UNH Saturday and has taken three of the last five matchups.
- The Retrievers allowed the Bearcats to shoot 50 percent from the field en route to their third straight defeat.
- Tyrone Conley's runner with 0.7 seconds left at Loyola Saturday completed UNH's comeback.
- UNH, which
edged UMBC 62-58 earlier this season, are 8-3 at Lundholm Gym this
season and have won 11 of their last 14 at home overall.
- Alvin Abreu paced New Hampshire with 16 points and is averaging 19.5 ppg over his last five games.
- Conley scored 10 of the Wildcats' 36 bench points.
- In their 11 victories this season, the Wildcats are holding opponents to an average of 56.2 ppg.
Albany at Maine, 7 p.m. Live Stats | Live Video | Maine Radio | Albany Radio
- Maine can secure no worse than the No. 3 seed for the league tournament with a win over Albany Wednesday.Sean McNally had a double-double of 16 points and 11 rebounds and Maine held an opponent under 60 points for a league-best 13th time this season to win for the fourth time in five games Sunday vs. Hartford.
- The win also gives the Black Bears 10 league wins for the first time since the 2003-04 season.
- Gerald McLemore sank two more 3-pointers Sunday and leads the nation with 94 treys, also a Maine single-season record.
- The Great Danes overcame a 16-point deficit and held a three-point lead in the final minutes against Stony Brook Friday, but could not hold on and fell for the ninth time in 10 games.
- Will Harris scored 17 points, his most since tallying 20 at New Hampshire on Jan. 13, and added seven rebounds.
- Scotty McRae scored 16 points, just one game after netting a career-high 21 points to lead Albany to a win at UMBC.
- Albany has not been swept by Maine since the 2003-04 season.