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 […]
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America East Notebook by Phil Kasiecki Catamounts In Command With Sunday’s 67-63 win at Albany, Vermont is now in control of the race for the top. The Catamounts, who have won eight straight following Wednesday night’s 90-75 win at Maine, are now 12-1 in America East play and two games […]
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America East Notebook by Phil Kasiecki Coaches Agree It’s Wide Open Through Sunday’s games, just a game and a half separates the top four teams, and three more are just another game behind. In the past week, just three games were decided by double digits. That makes one thing clear: […]
America East Notebook
America East Notebook by Phil Kasiecki The first week of America East play is in the books, and the top of the conference has a look that surely no one expected in the preseason. Tied at 2-0 atop the standings are Hartford and UMBC, while Vermont is 1-0. Also noteworthy […]
Vermont Is Back
Vermont Hasn’t Fallen Off the Map by Phil Kasiecki CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Vermont Catamounts were supposed to fall off the map. The 2005 team, a senior-driven team that scored a stunning victory over Syracuse in the NCAA Tournament, was supposed to be the last we would hear of […]
Talented America East Freshman Guards
Promising Freshman Guards of the America East by Jay Pearlman Just like coaches, in this day and age radio and TV analysts rely on tape (“discs” we call them now), and rarely travel to watch games out-of-town. But for season-openers there’s no useful tape, so there I went up to […]
America East Preview
America East 2006-07 Preview by Phil Kasiecki The 2005-06 season wasn’t the best for America East by a long shot, but it almost had a historic close during the NCAA Tournament. In their first-ever trip to the Big Dance, Albany had Connecticut on the ropes and looked like they could […]
America East Recap
America East 2005-06 Recap by Phil Kasiecki 2005-06 was a little different than the previous season in America East. Northeastern left the conference, but the loss of many key players on teams from the previous season left a number of teams with depleted rosters. Overall, the level of play in […]
America East Notebook
America East Notebook by Phil Kasiecki All Set At Last The suspense lasted up until the end, as it wasn’t until the last day that most of the seeds were known for the America East Tournament. The smoke has cleared, and here’s how it ended up. Boston University finished the […]
