New for the 2011-2012 seasons, the America East Daily Word, a collaboration between AmericaEast.com and AExtra, will recap the previous day's games and on goings on our nine campuses and provide links to previews, recaps, features and exclusive coverage.
Welcome
back from a nice Thanksgiving break. Hopefully you are all full of turkey and
all the fixings.
One
thing we got full on this weekend – hoops, and lots of them.
We
had three women’s basketball teams playing in the finals of holiday tournaments
and two of them came away with the tourney titles. Vermont and Hartford, two of
the hottest teams in the conference right now, continued their winning ways
with championships.
Vermont
didn’t win six games all of last season. The Catamounts have obviously put
their dreaded 5-25 campaign behind them as they are off to a 6-1 start. Lori
Gear McBride and company took top honors at the Husky Classic in Houston,
Texas. The Cats fast start caught the eye of Graham Hays who mentioned the
“Green Mountain Turnaround” in his blog post last night. It’s still early, Hays
says, but 6-1 after 5-25 is certainly something that deserves mention.
Hartford,
meanwhile, got some love from Hays as well. The Hawks, which beat TCU and
Central Florida in UCF’s tournament, take on Marist this Thursday in what Hays
calls a “test” for 5-1 Hartford. That lone loss came at the hands of then
second-ranked Notre Dame in the preseason WNIT.
Maine
came dangerously close to winning its own Dead River Company Classic but fell
to Brown on Saturday in overtime, 61-59.
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