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General Conference Notes

? America East Player of the Year Jamar Wilson scored 22 points to lead Albany to a 60-59 win over Vermont, and its second-consecutive America East Men’s Basketball Championship, before a sellout crowd at Patrick Gymnasium and a national audience on ESPN2. It marked the 20th-straight year the conference championship had been aired on ESPN or ESPN2 and the 16th year in a row the game had soldout.

? America East had a conference record 95 basketball television appearances in 2006-07. Vermont men appeared on the ESPN family of networks six times, while Albany men had two appearances on ESPN and another on CBS.

? Albany (RPI 84) and Vermont (86) helped America East improve its conference RPI six spots to 21. Only two other conferences had greater improvement from 2006 to 2007.

? Mike Lonergan was one of seven current college coaches to travel to Kuwait for a six-day tour in late May. The trip was part of “Operation Hardwood IV,” organized by the United Services Organization, to help boost morale among U.S. Troops serving in the Middle East. Former America East Coach of the Year Mike Brey, now the head coach at Notre Dame, was also part of the tour.

? UMBC became the first team in conference hisory to upset each of the top three seeds en route to the America East Women’s Basketball Championship. The seventh-seeded Retrievers knocked off No. 2 Stony Brook, No. 3 Vermont and top-seeded Hartford on successive days to earn their first title at the Events Center in Binghamton, N.Y.

? Albany earned its fourth America East Men’s Lacrosse Championship in five years with a 15-14 win over UMBC in front of a crowd of 1,293 at John Fallon Field in Albany. Only the ACC had a higher attended championship game.

? Albany and UMBC were both selected to the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship. The Great Danes defeated Loyola, 19-10, while UMBC upset Maryland, 13-9, to advance to the NCAA Quarterfinals.

? America East and the ACC were the only conferences in the nation with two teams in the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Quarterfinals. 

? UMBC was a co-host of the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Semifinals and Championship which drew a championship game-record 48,443 fans to Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium. The championship weekend, which includes the Division I semifinals and the championship games in Division I, II and III attracted a record 123,225 to Baltimore.

? Boston University defeated Albany, 17-9, to win its third-straight America East Women’s Lacrosse Championship and sixth overall at LaVallee Stadium in Stony Brook, N.Y.

? Barry Neville’s penalty kick in the first overtime was the game’s lone goal as Binghamton defeated Vermont, 1-0, to win the America East Men’s Soccer Championship for the second time in four years.

? Meagan Riemer’s goal in the 76th minute lifted Hartford to a 1-0 win over Maine and the Hawks’ first America East Women’s Soccer Championship since 2002.

? Hartford and Boston University each advanced to the NCAA Women’s Soccer Championship. It was the 13th trip for the Hawks and the fifth appearance for the Terriers, including three in the last four years.

? Albany became the first America East school to host an NCAA Volleyball Championship match since 1995 when eighth-ranked Minnesota, Siena and St. John’s joined the Great Danes for first and second rounds at University Gymnasium. 

? Kary Goodman of New Hampshire, who set a conference record in the 100 backstroke, a pool record in the 100 butterfly, and won the 200 butterfly, was named the Most Outstanding Swimmer for the second-consecutive year. Goodman set America East records in the 100 and 200 backstroke and contributed to the record-breaking 400 medley relay team in 2007.

? David Holmes of Binghamton became the first men’s swimmer in conference history to qualify for the NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships in Minneapolis. He finished in the top 30 in the nation in the 200 freestyle, 500 freestyle and 200 butterfly.

? Binghamton’s Rory Quiller earned All-America honors with his second place finish in the pole vault at the NCAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field Championship in Fayetteville, Ark. The senior, who was one of three America East athletes to compete at the championship, set a school-record with a personal best 18-00.50. Arel Gordon finished seventh in the 60 meters with a time of 6.71, while David Proctor competed in the mile.

? Quiller of Binghamton continued his assault on the America East record book, establishing yet another mark in the pole vault (16-08.75) at the 2007 outdoor championship.

? Quiller along with Joe Greene and Marc Pallozzi of Albany each earned All-America honors at the NCAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship at Sacramento, Calif. Greene was fourth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 49.92. Quiller tied for fourth in the pole vault at 17-06.50. Pallozzi was eighth in the javelin with a throw of 224-05. Gered Burns of Albany also competed in the national meet in the 800 meters. Quiller had advanced to the championship after setting the NCAA East Regional record with 18-01.00 at Gainesville, Fla.

? Albany became the first team in conference history to advance to an NCAA Softball Regional Final. The Great Danes defeated Harvard and Hofstra, before falling to No. 7 Baylor at Hempstead, N.Y.

? The NCAA honored 23 America East teams with Public Recognition Awards from its Academic Progress Rate (APR) data. The APR is a component of academic reform and provides a real-time snapshot of a team’s academic success each semester by looking academic progress of student-athletes.

? Boston University edged Albany, 358-353, to win its second-straight Stuart P. Haskell Commissioner’s Cup, in the closest race since the conference began handing out the award at the conclusion of the 1989-90 season. The Terriers, which won their seventh Commissioner’s Cup title, were aided by six women’s championships: Cross country, field hockey, indoor track and field, tennis, golf and lacrosse. Boston University was also the regular-season champion in field hockey, women’s lacrosse and softball.

? Binghamton began construction on a $3.6 million facility for lacrosse and soccer.