America East's newest web feature, #AEToday, will offer quick hits on what's happening in the conference, including upcoming conference games, key results, must know facts and much more!

Need To Know

• Albany hosts Hartford in a key men's basketball contest at 7 p.m. at SEFCU Arena.
  
• The game will air live on ESPNU domestically and on taped-delay on ESPN Pacific Rim in Austraila.
  
• The Great Danes suffered their first league loss Wednesday while Hartford won for just the second time in eight games, beating UMBC at home.
  
• With a win, Albany would secure no worse than the No. 2 seed for the America East Playoffs and at worst a share of the league's regular-season title.
  
• Stony Brook kicks off a three-game homestand in men's lacrosse, hosting NJIT at 3 p.m.
• Three softball programs are in action this weekend in Florida, including Albany and Stony Brook, last year's league champion and regular-season champion, which are starting their seasons.
  
• Four baseball teams are playing down south, including Albany and Hartford in their season-opening series.

What's On Tap

Men's Basketball
Hartford at Albany, 7 p.m.

Softball
Albany vs. North Florida, 10 a.m.
UMass Lowell vs. Texas State, 11 a.m.
Oakland vs. Stony Brook, 11:30 a.m.
UMass Lowell vs. Columbia, 1:30 p.m.
Albany vs. Princeton, 2:30 p.m.
Stony Brook vs. Bethune Cookman, 4:30 p.m.

Baseball
UMass Lowell at Georgia State, 2 p.m.
Albany at North Carolina State, 2 p.m.
Maine at Clemson, 4 p.m.
Stony Brook at Lousiana Lafayette, 6 p.m.

Tweet of the Day

BU track is on its way to the @AmericaEast indoor meet! #BingPride @binghamtonu @The_BU_Zoo pic.twitter.com/fj0e97jMxN

— Binghamton Athletics (@BU_Bearcats) February 20, 2015

Three (Pillars) Facts

• Albany can clinch a share of the America East men's basketball regular-season title with a win over Hartford tonight.
• Six elite America East student-athletes: Albany's Paula Heuser (field hockey), Hartford's Emma Donnelly (women's soccer), UMBC's Billy Heavner (UMBC), New Hampshire's Tori Forrest (volleyball) and Stony Brook's Christiana Melian (women's cross country) and Eric Speakman (men's cross country).
  
• The America East Indoor Track & Field Championships will start Friday, Feb. 20 at The New Balance Track & Field Center at The Armory.

Photo of the Day

We are getting ready for the #AETF Championship! Tune into the action on AmericaEast.TV beginning at 4 #AEChamps

A photo posted by @americaeast on Feb 20, 2015 at 11:18am PST