3/31: Men's lacrosse conference play begins today with Hartford hosting Albany at 3:30 p.m. Live stats and streaming video (pay-per-view) are available. The other four squads begin league action on Saturday as Stony Brook visits UMBC in a rematch of last year's championship game and Vermont hosts Binghamton. Both contests start at 1 p.m.

3/29: The Hartford Courant is reporting that Hartford women's basketball head coach Jen Rizzotti will be named USA Basketball's U-18 developmental team head coach later this week.

3/25: Check out the latest NCAA women's lacrosse national statistics. Some America East athletes rank well in Division 1, and the Albany women's lacrosse team leads the nation in offense and scoring margin!

3/17: Help the women's basketball coaches beat cancer! From now until April 6, when the code "beatcancer" is used for any order of an XL, two topping Papa John's pizza at PapaJohns.com, a $1 donation will be made to the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.

3/13: Maine's Riley Masters places fifth in the NCAA men's mile final. The fifth place finish guarantees that Masters will be named All-American.

3/12: Maine's Riley Masters finishes second in his heat and advances to the finals of the men's mile run at the NCAA Championships.

3/12: Former University at Albany men's lacrosse star Merrick Thomson was one of 23 players named to Canada's national team roster earliers this week. The team will compete at the 2010 FIL World Championships, held on July 15-24 in Manchester, England.

3/10: Stony Brook's Holly Van Dalen was named the USTFCCCA's Women's Northeast Region Track Athlete of the Year while University at Albany Head Coach Roberto Vives and Assistant Coach Matt Jones earned the USTFCCCA's Men's Northeast Region Head Coach and Assistant Coach of the Year Honors, respectively.

3/10: Five America East lacrosse players--including four men's and one women's--were named to the 2010 Tewaaraton Watch Lists recently.

3/9: Binghamton University's Erik van Ingen, Maine's Riley Masters and Stony Brook's Holly Van Dalen all qualified for the Indoor Track and Field NCAA Championship which will take place this weekend (March 12-13).

3/8: Binghamton and Stony Brook's men's cross country teams were also named USTFCCCA All-Academic Teams for the 2009 season.

3/5: Binghamton and Stony Brook's women's cross country teams earn the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honor.  Mike McCadney '09, a former team captain for the Great Danes and current volunteer assistant coach, placed eighth in the triple jump with a personal-best leap of 52-feet, 6-inches at the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships. During college, McCadney was an IC4A outdoor champion, a two-time America East indoor champion and a two-time America East outdoor champion in the triple jump. He still holds the indoor and outdoor school records in his premier event.

2/23: Binghamton's women's tennis team enters the ITA National Rankings at No. 74 after improving their record to 5-0 this past weekend.

2/23: After winning their fifth consecutive America East indoor track and field title, the University at Albany men are ranked third in the USTFCCCA Northeast regional rankings. The Bearcat men are also ranked, placing sixth while the Terrier women entered the top-seven in the region for the first time this season.

2/16: The Boston U. women are ranked third in the latest CollegeSwimming.com Mid-Major Poll while the Terrier men are fifth. The UMBC women are also ranked heading into the conference meet, placing 23rd. On the men's side, the Retrievers are 19th.

2/16: Hartford women's basketball remains ranked in the latest coaches' poll, up to #24 this week. The Hawks, 12-0 in America East play, are one of only eight teams still undefeated in their conference.

2/12: UMBC men's lacrosse senior Kyle Wimer was selected a candidate for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award earlier this week. Wimer is an All-American and All-America East First Team midfielder for the Retrievers, and was earlier named a Preseason All-American by Inside Lacrosse.

2/10: Boston U. women's lacrosse is ranked #12 in the preseason IWLCA poll just released. UNH is receiving votes.

2/9: With Hartford's entry into the USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Poll at #25, America East is now one of just three non-BCS women's basketball conferences that has had multiple teams in the national rankings this year. Vermont entered the AP Poll at #24 earlier this season.

2/5: With a winter storm brewing in the Baltimore area, UMBC has had to reschedule tomorrow's conference basketball games. UMBC vs. Vermont men will play today at 3 p.m., while the UMBC and Maine women will square off Sunday at 11 a.m.

2/2: The first women's lax poll of the season is out, and Inside Lacrosse ranks Boston U. #12 and UNH #20 entering the season. Inside Lacrosse also gave the Terrier attack unit a little national recognition.

1/27: This weekend (Jan. 29-31) the American Cancer Society is teaming up with the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) for Coaches vs. Cancer Suits and Sneakers Awareness Weekend. Coaches around the country will wear sneakers on the sidelines to bring awareness to the threat of cancer. Some America East programs without home games this weekend are celebrating the cause early. UMBC will support the cause during its game tonight against Binghamton, while Hartford collected $2,800 in donations from Saturday's game. 

1/27: Episode 2 of America East On Campus is now available at the league's You Tube page. There you'll find the latest news and notes from around the men's and women's basketball circuit and features on Boston University's first-year head coach Pat Chambers, UNH's Radar Onguetou, an All-Academic performer from Cameroon with aspirations beyond basketball, University of Hartford and Vermont women's programs and the conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) discussing the value and sportsmanship.

1/26: Chairback seats are going quickly for the 2010 America East Men's and Women's Basketball Championship. Get your all-session tickets now to ensure you get a chairback seat, plus you'll get free Newman's Own Pizza will all-session purchases!

1/21: Charlie Creme over at ESPN.com is giving America East two bids in the women's basketball NCAA field, including Hartford as the automatic and Vermont as an at-large. If the league were to have more than one bid come March, it would be the first time since 2000 (Vermont & Maine).

1/19: Vermont has cracked into the Mid-Major Top 25 Poll which is featured on CollegeInsider.com. The Catamounts, who are 13-5 overall and a perfect 4-0 in America East play, have won six straight  and 11 of their last 12. Maine is amongst teams receiving votes.

1/13: Inside Lacrosse is in the midst of its season previews and Stony Brook comes in at No. 28. The Seawolves bring back all but one starter, including preseason All-Americans Kevin Crowley and Jordan McBride, to a squad that went 9-6 and reached the America East championship game last season.

1/7: News out of Purdue... Former Black Bear coach Sharon Versyp is being inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in her first year of eligibility.

1/5: The Mid-Majority's Kyle Whelliston, one of the most devoted media members when it comes to the coverage of mid-major hoops, has a few America East related items on his website, midmajority.com. He sat down with Vermont head coach Mike Lonergan for a lengthy interview after Saturday's 73-58 win over UMBC and also discusses UAlbany's stature in the college basketball crazy Capital Region of New York in his Road Report.

1/3: Three former America East men's basketball standouts are among the 26 players chosen to CollegeInsider.com's Mid Major All-Decade Team. Three-time Player of the Year Taylor Coppenrath, who led Vermont to three league titles, was tabbed along with two-time Player of the Year Jamar Wilson, who led Albany to a pair of titles. Northeastern's Jose Juan Barea, a three-time all-conference honoree at Northeastern, was also selected by Division I coaches, NBA scouts and CollegeInsider.com staff