UALBANY MOVES INTO THE 8TH SEED IN THE AMERICA EAST TOURNAMENT

Binghamton President Lois DeFleur announced in today's press conference, "With the controversy currently surrounding the program it is not appropriate we play in this year's post-season,”. Without Binghamton in the tournament who was to be the 5th seed, the seeding for tournament has changed drastically. This nullifies the play-in game which would have been between UAlbany and UMBC scheduled for Thursday. Now all 8 teams participating will play on Saturday. The games being played on Saturday will be:

#1 Stony Brook vs. # 8 UAlbany (12:00 pm)
#4 Boston vs. #5 Hartford (2:15 pm)
#2 Vermont vs. #7 UMBC (6:00 pm)
#3 Maine vs. #6 New Hampshire (8:15 pm)

The new seeding helps UAlbany stay fresh and guarantees them a game against Stony Brook instead of having to play for a chance at a third meeting. Although UAlbany has lost to all their opponents in the America East aside from UMBC, they have played particularly well against Stony Brook. In their first meeting, Stony Brook won by 6 points in a very close game at Stony Brook. In the second meeting at SEFCU Arena, Stony Brook's Muhammad El-Amin hit a jump shot over Billy Allen with 1.8 seconds left on the clock to put Stony Brook up 2 and eventually win the game.

UAlbany has a good chance at pulling another huge upset in the tournament. Last year, UAlbany was the 7th seed, and pulled off an entertaining overtime victory against #2 seeded Vermont.