HARTFORD, Conn. – Based on the box score, this one was a laugher: The University of Connecticut Huskies 99, the University of Hartford Hawks 56. End of story, right?
Hardly.
“The final score was in not indicative of this game,” reflected UConn head coach Jim Calhoun after his clubs victory.
“I thought it was a great night for [...]

A True Gunslinger rides off into the sunset
by Sam Perkins

“I have no problem taking a big shot, at the end of the game, I have no problem taking it, I don’t know that I’m always going to make it, but I have no problem taking it.”
-Jon Iati
When the University of Albany Great Danes’ [...]

America East Off-Season News, Notes and Analysis
by Sam Perkins

The off-season can be a hard time to take for college basketball fans, and it can be a downright death valley for fans of small conferences like the America East, in which off-season reporting from news outlets is even rarer than a good haircut on Greg [...]

Looking back, looking ahead, news and notes on the America East
by Sam Perkins

Well, another College Basketball season has come and gone, and while the America East’s RPI and rankings as a conference were down this year, it was anything but a dull season. Unfortunately almost the entire league was in a rebuilding phase, resulting [...]

Little Man Comes Up Big For UMBC
by Phil Kasiecki

CATONSVILLE, Md. – Jay Greene has been the “little guy” his whole life. He’s always been viewed that way, with his size defining him to outsiders. When it comes to basketball, a game where size often matters, his size defines him to some even [...]

Vindicated Retrievers
by Sam Perkins

CATONSVILLE, Md. – Confetti spilled from the rafters as most of the crowd, a record attendance for the RAC Arena, spilled onto the court in celebration. Jay Greene leapt on top of the media table and then into the throngs of fans. Cavell Johnson and Ray Barbosa, both of whom have [...]

For America East Seniors, there was no tomorrow
by Sam Perkins

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – When the America East conference tournament tipped off this past Friday night, it was much like that of any other one-bid conference in the country: under-hyped, under-publicized, and under attended. Mid-majors (and perhaps more accurately “low-majors”) just don’t attract the fan base [...]

This is the Story of a Warrior
by Sam Perkins

On February 20th the visiting University of Maryland-Baltimore County Retrievers were clinging to a one point lead with a half a minute left over the University of Albany Great Danes. The Great Danes were surging, having just completed a four-point play, the latest of a half [...]

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 [...]