NCAA tournament Preview Between Albany and Mount St. Mary’s

The first game of the NCAA tournament will feature two teams we’ve covered extensively this season here on Big Apple Buckets – Mount St. Mary’s and Albany. Both were seeded fourth in their respective conference tournaments, and yet, here they are as the last members standing for the America East and NEC. So rather than go outside BAB’s blogosphere to initiate a Q&A, I asked our MAAC and America East insider Ryan Restivo to partake in an e-mail discussion to preview these teams. Enjoy! Continue reading “NCAA tournament Preview Between Albany and Mount St. Mary’s”

How America East Hurts Itself

The theories behind this have been rehashed ad nauseam thanks to Stony Brook being eliminated by Albany in the America East tournament while playing the semifinals at SEFCU Arena last season, but I just wanted to point out one more time what the league is doing by allowing its fourth place team to host. Even if it is a lovely “neutral” site environment for everyone else.

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