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Today's Game
Albany at Stony Brook, 9 p.m. - ESPNU
- Stony Brook and Albany, the top two teams in the league standings, meet in a rematch of the last two America East championship games Friday.
- The Seawolves, winners of 10 straight, sit atop the league standings at 5-0.
- Albany, which has won five of the last seven meetings vs. Stony Brook, has won eight of its last nine and 13 of of its last 15 games.
Yesterday's Results
New Hampshire 78, at UMass Lowell 76
- Daniel Dion's three pointer with 0.3 seconds lifted UNH to a comeback win at UMass Lowell.
- The Wildcats trailed by 14 with under 10 minutes to play but used a 14-0 run to tie the contest.
- Tanner Leissner scored 27 points and added eight rebounds to UNH while Mark Cornelius led four River Hawks in twin figures with a career-high 18.
Hartford 98, at UMBC 87
- Hartford shot 55 percent en route to a season-high 98 points in a road win at UMBC.
- Jalen Ross scored a career-high 27 points off the bench.
- Jairus Lyles had 24 points for UMBC.
Vermont 61, at Binghamton 52
- Vermont scored 23 points off 17 Binghamton turnovers to earn this third conference win, all on the road.
- The Catamounts held the Bearcats to 41.5 percent shooting.
- Kurt Steidl scored a season-high 16 points to lead Vermont and Marlon Beck's 18 points paced Binghamton.
Need to Know
- Scoring is up considerably from last season during conference play. Teams are averaging 74.1 ppg through 23 games, up 12.1 ppg from the first 23 games a year ago.
- 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.
- Jameel Warney is one of just two players in the country (New Mexico State’s Pascal Siakam) to lead his conference in scoring (18.7 ppg), rebounding (10.6 rpg) and blocks (3.2 bpg).
- 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.