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Saturday's Schedule
UMass Lowell at Maine, 4 p.m. - AmericaEast.TV
Albany at New Hampshire, 7 p.m. - ESPN3
Binghamton at Hartford, 7 p.m. - AmericaEast.TV
Stony Brook at UMBC, 7 p.m. - AmericaEast.TV
Need to Know
- The conference season hits the three-quarter mark for five teams in action Thursday
- Albany visits New Hampshire in a battle of hot teams. The game will air on ESPN3.
- The Great Danes have won five straight while the Wildcats are victorious in six of their last seven.
- Just one and half games seperate the two teams in the league standings with Albany at 9-2 and UNH at 7-3.
- The last four meetings between the two teams have been decided by just 10 points, with Albany winning all four games, including an 80-75 overtime victory on Jan. 12.
- Stony Brook will try to improve to 11-0 in conference play when visits UMBC.
- The Seawolves have the nation's longest win streak at 16 games.
- Jameel Warney is coming off one of the best games of his career (36 points, 16-18 FG, 13 rebounds).
- UMBC beat Maine its last time out behind 37 points from reigning America East Player of the Week Jairus Lyles.
- UMass Lowell visits Maine looking for its third win in four games.
- The River Hawks put up 100 points in completing a season sweep of Vermont Monday.
- Maine took the first meeting between the two teams, 95-91, on Jan. 13 behing 25 points from Devine Eke.
Hartford hosts Binghamton in a battle of two teams needing a win.
- The Hawks have dropped five in a row while the Bearcats are winless in their last three outings.
- Hartford won the first get together, 76-72, on Jan. 13.
- Stony Brook sits atop the league standings at 11-0. SBU is just the third team in 12 years to start league play 11-0 (Albany, 2014-15; Vermont, 2004-05).
- Stony Brook holds a league-best RPI of 62 (as of 2/8), the best rating for an America East team this late in the season since Vermont’s 2004-05 squad finished at #25.
- The Seawolves’ 16-game win streak is Division I program record and the longest in the nation.
- The Seawolves are ranked 12th in the CollegeInsider.com Mid Major Top 25 and receiving votes in both national polls.
- Second-place Albany (9-2) has won 18 of its last 21 games and is a perfect 11-0 at home this year.
- Both Stony Brook and Albany reached the 20-win mark Monday, the Seawolves’ fifth-straight 20-win season and the Great Danes’ third in the last four years.
- New Hampshire, winner of six of its last seven, sits in third third place at 7-3.
- 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.