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2012-13 RTC Conference Primers: America East Conference

Brian Goodman — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:17:55 +0000

Ryan Peters of Big Apple Buckets is the RTC correspondent for the America East conference. You can follow him on Twitter @pioneer_pride and read his musings online at Big Apple Buckets and Pioneer Pride.

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League On The Rebound – After suffering though one of the worst collective seasons in conference history, several top teams of the America East saw much of their talent defect via graduation and/or transfer. With 60% of the all-conference players from last season now gone, can the top America East programs replenish their talent and improve the overall performance of the conference? Can The Seawolves Break Through? Stony Brook, [...]

America East Tournament Preview & Season Wrap-Up

Brian Goodman — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:43:15 +0000

John Templon is the RTC correspondent for America East. You can also find his musings online at NYC Buckets or on Twitter @nybuckets.

Conference Tournament Preview

The top four seeds in the America East have been dominating conference play all season. That’s why they’re expected to meet up in the semifinals. The team that could potentially crash the party is six-seed Hartford, which is playing close to home. If the Hawks get hot from three, there’s always a chance to pull an upset, because they love to shoot the long ball. Also, seven-seed Maine has a ton of talent, but crashed at [...]

Checking In On… the America East Conference

Brian Goodman — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:02:06 +0000

John Templon is the RTC correspondent for America East. You can also find his musings online at NYC Buckets or on Twitter @nybuckets.

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The Week That Was:

Walk-on Sensation – With Chase Plummer sidelined due to a concussion against Albany, former walk-on Ryan Cook took over the scoring duties for UMBC and scored a career-high 28 points in an 11-point defeat on the road. In the Retrievers’ next game against Maine, he teamed up with Plummer to help them almost pull the upset, before falling 78-77 in overtime. Cook scored 21 points in that game. The junior [...]

Checking In On… the America East Conference

Brian Goodman — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:43:58 +0000

John Templon is the RTC correspondent for the America East. You can also find his musings online at NYC Buckets or on Twitter @nybuckets.

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Nicks and Bruises: Every team has a few injuries at this time in the season and they’re impacting some rotations. Ben Crenca is out for a few weeks for Vermont and his backup Luke Apfeld also tweaked something. Apfeld, though, returned to play 23 minutes in Vermont’s last game against Saint Louis. Dropping the Albany Cup: Siena and Albany have a great rivalry. Unfortunately, this time the Saints took home the victory, [...]

RTC Conference Primers: #29 – America East Conference

Brian Goodman — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:00:51 +0000

John Templon of Big Apple Buckets is the RTC correspondent for America East. You can find him on Twitter at @nybuckets.

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Getting Healthy: A number of America East teams are counting on the healthy return of star players to help boost their fortunes this season. New Hampshire has two players returning from injuries that cost them time last season, Alvin Abreu and Ferg Myrick. Abreu was a second-team all-league choice in 2009-10 before missing all but two games of last season with a knee injury. Myrick averaged 12.1 PPG and [...]

America East Wrap & Tourney Preview

Brian Goodman — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:47:08 +0000

Matt McKillip of Purple and Gold Nation is the RTC correspondent for the America East Conference.

Postseason Preview

Injury Updates: Brenadan Bald and Evan Fjeld were held out of practice for Vermont- if they’re significantly hampered, the Catamounts will need heroic efforts from the rest of their cast. Their body of work has been garnering 14-seeds from bracketologists, but health will be the key factor to weather they will dance. Hot Black: Albany’s Mike Black was the best player in the conference over the past week and if he can keep it up, the Danes will be a tough out. Maine Who?: [...]

Checking in on… the America East

Brian Goodman — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:00:44 +0000

Matt McKillip is the RTC correspondent for the America East conference.

A Look Back

Believe It or Not: Ripley’s should consider sponsoring the America East this season, because the standing are mind-boggling. Hartford (6th in the preseason coaches poll, 3-10 OOC) went into the week on top of the league, before being overtaken by the undefeated Binghamton Bears (who were tabbed 7th, and were also 3-10 outside the America East) Don’t Play for New Hampshire, Kids: After Alvin Abreu, the Wildcats’ leading scorer, from last year went down with a season ending injury, sophomore Ferg Myrick stepped into the [...]

Checking in on… the America East

Brian Goodman — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:09:28 +0000

Matt McKillip is the RTC correspondent for the America East Conference.

A Look Back

Stony Brook for Breakfast: Those not heroic enough to last the full 24 hours had a chance to wake up to Stony Brook’s 6 am game, or the last half for those who couldn’t quite get out of bed at six. The Seawolves won a sloppy but exciting game, 51-49, over Monmouth. Road Warriors: Vermont notched the top win so far of the season when they snapped Siena’s 38-game home winning streak, and followed it up by scaring UConn, leading 36-33 at [...]

RTC Conference Primers: #25 – America East

Brian Goodman — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:58:07 +0000

Matt McKillip is the RTC correspondent for the America East Conference.

Stony Brook took the regular season crown in 2010, but Evan Fjeld’s Catamounts had the last laugh – they represented the America East in the Big Dance in 2010 by way of the conference tournament.

Predicted Order of Finish

Maine (12-4) Boston University (11-5) Stony Brook (10-6) New Hampshire (8-8) Vermont (7-9) Binghamton (7-9) UMBC (6-10) Albany (6-10) Hartford (5-11)

All-Conference Team (key stats from last season in parentheses)

Joe Zeglinski (G) – Hartford (16.5 PPG) Gerald McLemore (G) – Maine (14.6 PPG, 102 3FG, [...]

Morning Five: 09.29.10 Edition

rtmsf — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:07:51 +0000

And so it begins… Michigan State’s Korie Lucious will miss two to six weeks as a result of knee surgery to repair a small meniscus tear in his left wheel. It’s a relatively minor injury that Lucious should expect to be recovered from prior to the Spartans’ home opener versus Eastern Michigan on November 12, but MSU fans have to wonder when the nagging injuries with their players will end. It seems that over the last few years Tom Izzo’s team has often represented the walking wounded, which makes you wonder how good [...]

Checking in on… the America East

jstevrtc — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:24:18 +0000

Michael Hurley is the RTC correspondent for the America East Conference.

America East Standings (conf/over):

Maine 5-1 13-6 Stony Brook 6-2 14-7 Boston University 6-2 11-9 Vermont 5-2 14-7 Binghamton 3-3 8-13 Hartford 3-4 5-15 New Hampshire 2-4 7-10 Albany 1-6 6-16 UMBC 0-7 1-19

Hottest Team — Maine

Maine has won five straight since the loss at Vermont. The Black Bears now have sole possession of first place.

Stud Player– Gerald McLemore, soph. G – 24 PPG in two wins away from home. McLemore is really coming into his own including a 7-11 night from downtown against Hartford. [...]

Checking in on… the America East

rtmsf — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:23:24 +0000

Michael Hurley is the RTC correspondent for the America East Conference.

Standings

Stony Brook 5-2 Vermont 4-4 Maine 3-3 New Hampshire 2-3 Albany 3-5 Binghamton 3-5 Hartford 2-6 Boston University 2-6 UMBC 0-6

Hottest Team. Stony Brook

We still have to see what the Seawolves do once they start playing better competition, but they have beaten the teams they should have and lost the games we expected. Regardless, they are the only team in the conference with a winning record, and what more can you ask from a team other than that.

Stud Player. Maurice Joseph (G) Vermont – 14.8 ppg, 40% three-point. [...]

2009-10 Conference Primers: #21 – America East

rtmsf — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:01:26 +0000

Michael Hurley is the RTC correspondent for the Patriot League and America East Conference. Click here for all of our 2009-10 Season Preview materials.

Predicted Order of Finish:

Boston University (13-3) Stony Brook (11-5) Vermont (10-6) Albany (10-6) New Hampshire (8-8) UMBC (7-9) Hartford (6-10) Maine (5-11) Binghamton (2-14)

All-Conference Team:

Corey Lowe (G), Sr., Boston U. Joe Zeglinski (G), Jr., Hartford Marqus Blakely (F), Sr., Vermont John Holland (F), Jr., Boston U. Will Harris (F), Sr., Albany

6th Man. Muhammad El-Amin (G), Sr., Stony Brook

Impact Newcomer. Luke Apfeld (F), Fr., Vermont

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America East Wrapup & Tourney Preview

rtmsf — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:33:56 +0000

Corey Johns of UMBC Sports Blog is the RTC correspondent for the America East Conference.

Checking in on the… America East

rtmsf — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:58:28 +0000

Corey Johns is the RTC correspondent for the America East Conference.

Over the past two weeks Boston U and Albany played their way out of contention for the regular season conference championship. Albany just went in a free fall down the standings, losing five straight while Boston U needed to win out for hope but most recently lost to Stony Brook, taking them out. It’s down to Vermont and Binghamton. If Binghamton wins out they are the champion. They beat Vermont twice this year and have the tie breaker. But if they slip at all Vermont is [...]