? 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.
? UMBC played No. 1 seed Connecticut in the NCAA Championship with the Retrievers’ dream season ending at the Hartford Civic Center in front of 6,824 fans on ESPN.
? Regular-season champion Hartford earned a berth in the WNIT. The Hawks defeated Bucknell in a first round game at home before dropping a decision at South Carolina.
? America East Player of the Year Mykeema Ford was invited to the training camp of the WNBA’s Washington Mystics.
? Hartford (RPI 47) and Stony Brook (84) helped America East to a No. 16 ranking in the conference RPI.
? Vermont upset #22 Boston College to earn the Catamounts’ first win over a ranked opponent in the program’s history and win its second straight in-season tournament title at the URI Invitational.
? Four-time All-American and America East career scoring leader Cindy Blodgett was hired as the head coach at Maine, her alma mater, while Stony Brook promoted Michele Cherry to head coach. Phil Stern of UMBC, Jen Rizzotti of Hartford and Sharon Dawley of Vermont received contract extensions.