New for the 2011-2012 seasons, the America East Daily Word, a collaboration between AmericaEast.com and AExtra, will recap the previous day's games and on goings on our nine campuses and provide links to recaps, previews, features and exclusive coverage.

Albany men's basketball coach Will Brown brought his car to get an oil change this morning. 

Ah, the joys of Twitter. Thank you Coach Brown for contributing to today’s Daily Word.

Let that be a lesson to all coaches who tweet – send a good message into the Twitosphere and maybe, just maybe, I'll put it in the Word.

All kidding aside, basketball is the theme today as we inch closer and closer to the 2011-2012 tip-off. Official practices begin the first week in October, less than three weeks away. 

When Patrick Chambers left Boston U. to become the new head coach at Penn State, Boston College associate head coach Joe Jones was selected to lead the Terriers. It was the best job in America East, so writes ESPN's Andy Katz. The Terriers are perennially at the top of the standings and Jones didn’t have to move. What could be better? Katz features Jones in a recent entry on his ESPN.com blog. Jones chats about exceeding expectations and working with a team that is virtually the same less 2011 America East Player of the Year John Holland. Everything is in place, Katz says, for the Terriers to make another run at a conference title. 

Over to the women's side now, Maine's first-year head coach Richard Baron inherits a team that went a league worst 4-25 last season but brings a new attitude and excitement to Orono.  Maine's student newspaper The Maine Campus sat down with the new coach to discuss the 2011-2012 campaign.  No one can predict records but the Lady Black Bears suffered a blow in a pick-up game a few weeks back. Ali Nalivaika tore her ACL and will miss the entire season. Nalivaika was used in a reserve role mostly last season but was seen to be a big asset in the Maine front court this year. 

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