UMBC Is For Real
by Sam Perkins

ALBANY, N.Y. – All season long the sentiment has leaked out from around the America East – from Prognosticators, fans, athletic departments. At times it has come in whispers, at times a dull roar, at times in droves. The notion: the UMBC Retrievers, whom have stood atop [...]

Great Danes Get Big Win When They Need it Most, Show Growth
by Sam Perkins

BURLINGTON, Vt. – Marqus Blakely had another monster game on the stat sheet, scoring 18 points while pulling down 16 rebounds, but the Albany great Danes learned how to take him out of the equation, as much as possible. They [...]

High-Flying Hawks Continue Their Roll
by Sam Perkins

HARTFORD, Conn. – The Hartford men’s basketball team certainly lived up to their name Wednesday night, as the Hawks soared above the rim for almost a half-dozen crowd-pleasing dunks. However, the long range heroics of Morgan Sabia were involved in the game winner, as the freshman canned a [...]

Just call them the Comeback Catamounts
by Sam Perkins

HARTFORD, Conn. – With three and a half minutes remaining in, Hartford was once again surging against Vermont. The feisty Hawks, playing the role of undaunted underdogs to perfection, had wrestled the lead away from the heavily-favored and high-powered Catamounts for the third time in the second [...]

Hawks Hang on Against Seawolves
by Sam Perkins

HARTFORD, Conn. – The Hartford Hawks need Warren McLendon.
If that wasn’t obvious before the Hawks’ game Thursday night, it certainly was afterwards. In what was truly a tale of two halves (or, perhaps more accurately, the tale of one and a third half and a two third’s of [...]

Retrievers Show They Can Win Ugly
by Sam Perkins

BOSTON – How much could one really take away from a game when the league’s best team takes on one of the league’s worst? When the best team plays well below its potential, and their opponent is playing without its best player, a player whom the offense [...]

This time, it’s the size of the Dog in the Fight
by Sam Perkins

BOSTON – Before the start of the season, most America East followers circled Wednesday night’s match up between the Albany Great Danes and the Boston University Terriers as an early battle for conference supremacy, and a potential preview for the conference championship [...]

Under-hyped Hawks have the look of a contender
by Sam Perkins

The University of Hartford Hawks have suffered from an absolute dearth of publicity during the 2007-2008 season, as despite putting together a solid showing during their non-conference season, and playing some of the best ball in the conference as of late. But don’t think that [...]

Terriers Show Some Fight, End Losing Skid
by Sam Perkins

BOSTON – No one would say it, but for Dennis Wolff and the Boston University Terriers, this was a must win game. Boston University entered their match-up against conference rival UNH riding a four-game losing streak. Corey Lowe put the Terriers on his back, and continued [...]

Christensen, Gibbs, lead gutsy Wildcats to dramatic Victory
by Sam Perkins

DURHAM, N.H. – Albany head coach Will Brown summed it up perfectly following his team’s Thursday night contest against the University of New Hampshire.
“Superior effort and superior toughness won this game,” remarked the Great Danes’ leader.
When games are decided by effort, toughness, and sheer determination, [...]

Growing Pains: Young Wildcats learning the hard way
by Sam Perkins

Growing Pains
Young Wildcats learning the hard way
By Sam Perkins
DURHAM, N.H. – There’s one big problem for New Hampshire right now.
“The real issue that we have with our basketball team is that we are a very, very, very, average defensive team right now. Teams are just [...]

UMBC the class of the conference
by Sam Perkins

With almost a third of the season in the books, things are not going the way the America East had hoped as a whole, as the conference record sits at a dismal 28-48 through Sunday. Furthermore, if you take out games against non-Division I opponents the conference [...]

Extreme week for growing Bears
by Sam Perkins

“We know this is going to be a growing process for a long time,” Maine head Coach Ted Woodward reflected following his team’s matchup against Providence College.
The Black Bears learned quite a lot about themselves in a week versus two very different opponents. They faced a very good [...]

Wildcats Hang Tough, Hold Off Quinnipiac
by Sam Perkins

DURHAM, N.H. – Dane DiLiegro opened and closed the game with authority, but it took a team effort during his absence to overcome a tenacious Quinnipiac team and earn a 77-70 victory.
With the win UNH improved to 3-1 on the season. Eric Gilchrese scored 20 points, while [...]

Reserves Glowiak, Sabia shine in star role
by Sam Perkins

HARTFORD, Conn. – Warren McClendon dominated every second that he was on the floor. Unfortunately for Hartford, the Hawks’ center only played seventeen minutes due to foul trouble. The loss of McClendon looked like it would prove disastrous, but the Hawks used a total team effort [...]

Wildcats stand tall in loss; Gibbs, DiLiegro shine
by Sam Perkins

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass – Coach Bill Herrion isn’t one to turn a loss into a win, as he bluntly said “I’m not in to moral victories” after Saturday’s game.
On paper, New Hampshire lost by ten to a freshmen laden team missing two of its best [...]