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Wednesday's Schedule
UMass Lowell at Binghamton, 4:30 p.m. - AmericaEast.TV
New Hampshire at Hartford, 7 p.m. - AmericaEast.TV
Vermont at UMBC, 7 p.m. - AmericaEast.TV
Need to Know
- Three America East men's hoops games are tap Saturday, all on AmericaEast.TV.
- Binghamton goes for the season sweep when it hosts UMass Lowell.
- The Bearcats took the first meeting, 64-57, on Jan. 24.
- UMass Lowell is looking secure a .500 league record for the second time in three seasons and can do so with a win.
- Hartford hosts UNH looking for its second-straight win.
- The matchup features the No. 2 and 3 scorers in conference play with the Hawks' Pancake Thomas averaging 21.4 ppg in league games and the Wildcats' Tanner Leissner scoring 18.0 ppg.
- UNH has won eight of its last 10, including an 84-71 win over Hartford on Jan. 24.
- Vermont heads to UMBC in search of its third win in a row.
- The Catamounts have won 18 straight against the Retrievers.
- Jairus Lyles leads America East averaging 21.7 points per game in league play.
- Stony Brook, Albany, New Hampshire and Vermont have secured top four seeds and quar-terfinal hosting rights for the America East Playoffs.
- Albany snapped Stony Brook’s 18-game win streak and handed the Seawolves’ their first conference loss on Wednesday.
- Stony Brook has clinched at least a share of the league’s regular-season title and can se-cure the title outright and the top seed for the #AEPlayoffs with a win at Maine Sunday.
- Second-place Albany (11-3) has reached the 20-win mark for the third time in the last four years and is a perfect 13-0 at home this season.
- The Seawolves are ranked seventh in the College Insider Mid Major Poll and are receiving votes in both national polls for the first time in program history.
- 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.
- Eight of America East’s nine teams have better RPIs than at this time last year.