America East Conference league play begins Wednesday!
Wednesday's Schedule
Men's Basketball
Stony Brook at Binghamton, 7 PM - ESPN3
Hartford at UMass Lowell, 7 PM - AmericaEast.TV
Vermont at Maine, 7 PM - AmericaEast.TV
UMBC at Albany, 7 PM - AmericaEast.TV
Women's Basketball
Binghamton at Stony Brook, Noon - AmericaEast.TV
Albany at UMBC, 7 PM - AmericaEast.TV
UMass Lowell at Hartford, 7 PM - AmericaEast.TV
Maine at Vermont, 7 PM - AmericaEast.TV
Need to Know - Men's Hoops
- League play kicks off Wednesday and every game matters as only four of the 36 teams to win America East titles have finished outside of the top two in the regular-season standings.
- 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.
- 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.
- Seven of America East's nine teams have better RPIs than at this time last year.
- Stony Brook, which has a league-best RPI (60), is riding a five-game win streak.
- Albany enters conference play with 11 non-conference wins and winner of nine of its last 10 games.
- New Hampshire’s seven non-conference wins match its program record set last season.
- The top four teams in the league standings -Albany, New Hampshire, Stony Brook and Vermont- are a combined 35-21 on the season, including 20-1 at home.
Need to Know - Women's Hoops
- Three America East teams are featured in the Mid-Major Top-25 released on Dec. 29, including Albany (18), Maine (RV) and Stony Brook (RV).
- According to the latest College Basketball RPI report, the America East is 19th among Division I conferences, four spots higher than it was on this date a year ago.
- The America East and the Ivy League are the only two non-Power 5 Conferences with five teams in the top-100 of scoring defense (Maine-17, Albany-64, UMBC-76, New Hampshire-92 and Stony Brook-96)
- UMBC shot season-bests from the floor (50%) and 3-point range (64.3%) en route to its highest point total of the year in an 85-48 win over Vermont to open conference play.
- UMBC forced Vermont into 30 turnovers, marking the eighth time in 14 games the Retrievers have forced 20+ turnovers.
- Albany is one of only four teams in the country to boast the top two scorers in its respective conference joining St. John’s (Big East), UC Riverside (Big West) and James Madison (Colonial).
- Maine dropped a heartbreaker, 59-58, at North Carolina on New Year’s Eve. The Black Bears held a two-point lead with two seconds to go when the Tar Heels won the game with a 3-pointer at the buzzer. Sigi Koizar poured in 21 points, including the final eight for Maine.
- Albany’s Shereesha Richards posted 31 points in a win over Yale, her fourth 30+ point performance this season. The rest of the conference has four 30-point performances combined.
- Stony Brook won its fifth-straight game, 64-63, over Harvard on Wednesday. Freshman Ogechi Anyagaligbo notched her fifth double-double of the season in the win.
- UMBC ‘s nine non-conference victories this season are a new program record.
- Vermont’s five non-conference wins are the most for the team since 2011-12.
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