Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Four More on Snowy Wednesday

As snow pelts much of the Northeast, the show goes on for most of America East. Today's four contests are highlighted by Maine and Vermont squaring off on NESN at 7:30. Here are some notes going into all of Wednesday's games.

The Catamounts come into this matchup winners of five straight and have a margin of victory of +17.8 during that span... Evan Fjeld scored a career-high 18 points while shooting a perfect 7-of-7 from the field in a win over UNH Sunday... He is the sixth different player to lead Vermont in scoring... Mike Trimboli is twoThe Black Bears, who are winners in two of their last three games, have already eclisped last year's win total (8). Sean McNally is averaging 11.0 points and 9.3 rebounds over his last four games.

A trio of league leaders will face when UMBC and Binghamton meet at 7 in Baltimore... The Bearcats' D.J. Rivera continues to lead the league in scoring with 19.8 points per game, while UMBC's Darryl Proctor, the only player in the league to register double digits in every game, follows with 19.4 points and is also second with 8.7 rebounds per contest... Jay Greene, paces the conference with 6.9 assists per game, is tied for fifth place on America East's all-time list with 619 for his career.

Albany, which bounced back from a two-game slide Sunday, squares off with Hartford at 7 in at SEFCU Arena, where the Great Danes are 8-1 this season... The Hawks look to rebound from a three-game losing streak after dropping contests against Stony Brook, Vermont and Binghamton last week. Jaret von Rosenberg had led his team in scoring in 4 of the last 6 games and averaged 22.0 points in those contests... Albany, the nation's 8th best rebounding team with a +8.4 margin, are 7-0 when freshman point guard Anthony Raffa scores more at least 14 points in a game.

Stony Brook continues its homestand (the 2nd of 5 of 6 at Pritchard Gym) against New Hampshire at 7... The Seawolves, winners of back-to-back league games for the first time since 2005, can match their best win total (12) since the 2004-05 campaing with a victory... Bryan Dougher ranks 24th in the nation in 3-point percentage (.432) and is the top-ranked freshman in that category... The Wildcats have dropped 3 straight after running off 4-of-5 prior to that... Tyrece Gibbs, who ranks 7th with 15.7 ppg in conference play, is averaging 17.2 points and 5.8 rebounds over his last 5.