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Sunday's Schedule
New Hampshire at UMBC, 1 p.m. - AmericaEast.TV
Stony Brook at Vermont, 2 p.m. - ESPN3
Binghamton at Maine, 2 p.m. - AmericaEast.TV
Albany at Hartford, 7 p.m. - AmericaEast.TV
Need to Know
- The first half of the conference schedule wraps up with four contests Saturday.
- Vermont hosts Stony Brook on ESPN3 in a battle of first and second-place teams.
- The Catamounts have won three in a row and sit in a tie for second place in the league standings with Albany at 5-2.
- The Seawolves are riding their longest win streak in their Division I history, 12 games.
- UMBC hosts New Hampshire at 1 p.m.
- The Retrievers will try to snap a five-game losing skid while the Wildcats aim for their fourth win in five games.
- Binghamton visits Maine at 2 p.m.
- The Bearcats are seeking their first three-game win streak in five seasons.
- The Black Bears, who have improved its win total from last season by four with nine games left, scored 105 points Wednesday at Hartford, the most in a conference game in over 15 years.
- Hartford hosts Albany at 7 p.m.
- Albany sits in a tie with Vermont for second place in the league standings at 5-2.
- The Great Danes have won eight of the last 10 meetings in the series.
- Hartford's Pancake Thomas ranks second in the league averaging 17.5 ppg.
- Scoring is up considerably in league play from a year ago with teams averaging 73.7 points per game, up 11.7 points from this time last year.
- America East ranks 23rd out of 32 Division I conferences in RPI, according to the Jan. 25 College Basketball News RPI Report, a three-spot improvement from this time last year.
- Seven of America East’s nine teams have better RPIs than at this time last year.
- Stony Brook holds a league-best RPI of 65, the best rating for an America East team this late in the season since Vermont’s 2004-05 squad finished at #25.
- 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.