#AEToday: Maine Upsets Albany; 3 Games Saturday

#AEToday: Maine Upsets Albany; 3 Games Saturday

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Friday's Results
at Maine 81, Albany 79. - Box Score | Highlights

  • Maine shot 56.9 percent from the field en route to its first win over Albany in its last seven meetings.
  • Playing in his first game since Nov. 25, Issac Vann scored a team-high 19 points on 8-of-9 shooting off the bench.
  • Peter Hooley scored a season-high 29 points for Albany, which had its seven-game win streak snapped.

Saturday's Schedule
UMass Lowell at UMBC, 12 p.m. - AmericaEast.TV

  • Both teams are looking for their second conference win after getting off to 1-2 starts.

Stony Brook at New Hampshire, 1 p.m. - AmericaEast.TV

  • The two teams have split the last four get togethers with each team winning once each of the last two seasons.

 

Vermont at Hartford, 7 p.m. - AmericaEast.TV

 

  • Two of the league's top scorers will square off with Hartford's Pancake Thomas and Vermont's Trae Bell-Haynes ranking second and seventh in the conference, respectively.

Need to Know

  • Maine's six wins double its total from 2014-15.
  • Stony Brook is one of just two teams (Hawaii) to lead its conference in both scoring offense and defense. 
  • America East ranks 23rd out of 32 Division I conferences in RPI, according to the Jan. 4 College Basketball News RPI Report, a four-spot improvement from this time last year.
  • Stony Brook (80) and Albany (93) both had top-100 RPIs entering the week. It’s the first time America East has had two top-100 RPI teams after the first week of conference games since 2009 when both Binghamton and Vermont finished the season in the top 100. 
  • America East teams combined for 55 regular-season non-conference wins, the most since the 2012-13 season and 11 more than a year ago.

Watch on AmericaEast.TV

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