America East Releases 2025-26 Conference Hoops Schedules

BOSTON – College basketball returns in simply over three months! The America East is happy to launch its 2025-26 males’s and ladies’s convention schedules, that includes 72 contests on both sides, all of which is able to air on the ESPN+ as part of AE on ESPN.

 

Each workforce will play a 16-game, double spherical robin schedule, starting with ladies’s motion on New Years Day and concluding with the lads on March 3. This yr the league can even play 4 males’s video games on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday Jan. 19, with UAlbany, Binghamton, UMBC and NJIT serving as hosts.

 

 

Conference motion kick off on Thursday, Jan. 1 with a full slate of girls’s basketball motion, together with a 2025 championship rematch as Vermont performs at UAlbany. The males start two days later highlighted by defending champion Bryant touring to Maine in a rematch of the 2025 title recreation. Teams will by way of for house benefit within the 2026 #AEPlayoffs, the place as soon as once more all video games might be performed on the greater seed.

 

The ladies wrap up their common season on Saturday, February 28 with #AEPlayoffs quarterfinal motion set for Thursday, March 5. The semifinals will happen on Monday, March 9, with the #AEPlayoffs Championship set for Friday, March 13 at 5 p.m. on the highest remaining seed. 

 

The males’s common season ends on Tuesday, March 3, with the highest eight packages advancing to the #AEPlayoffs Quarterfinals on Saturday, March 7. Semifinal motion takes place on Tuesday, March 10 and the winners will advance to the Championship on the highest remaining seed on Saturday, March 14 at 11 a.m.

 

Women’s Early Season Must Watch Matchups

• Jan. 1 – Vermont at UAlbany: It’s a 2025 championship recreation rematch because the defending champion Catamounts battle the Great Danes. The two groups have confronted one another 12 occasions over the previous 4 seasons, with UVM holding an 8-4 benefit.
• Jan. 3 – Maine at Bryant: 2022-23 #AEHoops Player of the Year Adrianna Smith is again this season and appears to steer the Black Bears over a Bulldog squad which brings again 4 starters and earned the No. 3 seed within the playoffs.
• Jan. 3 – UMass Lowell at UAlbany: Jon Plefka’s first AE highway journey on I-90 received’t be simple because the River Hawks have misplaced 9 straight to the Great Danes, however a win at UAlbany would sign this system is within the hunt for a house playoff recreation this season.
• Jan. 8 – NJIT at New Hampshire: The high two returning scorers within the league may flip this recreation right into a shootout as UNH’s Eva DeChent averaged almost 18 factors per recreation and NJIT’s Alejandra Zuniga put up 16 factors per recreation.
• Jan. 15 – Vermont at Maine: These two groups have mixed to win the final three convention championships and whoever comes out on high of this contest may have the within observe on the No. 1 seed on this yr’s #AEPlayoffs.
• Jan. 17 – Binghamton at UMBC: Second-year head coaches Mary Grimes and Candice Hill lead packages on the rise and if one workforce is rolling this recreation might be essential in probably incomes homecourt benefit within the #AEPlayoffs.

 

Men’s Early Season Must Watch Matchups

• Jan. 3 – Bryant at Maine: Opening night time encompasses a rematch of the 2025 championship. Though just one starter from final yr’s recreation might be suiting up, the defending champion Bulldogs have an opportunity to make an early assertion on the highway.
• Jan. 8 –  New Hampshire at NJIT: Third-year head coach Grant Billmeier will search to set the tone within the Highlanders’ first house recreation of convention play in opposition to a new-look Wildcats that may attempt to push the tempo.
• Jan. 10 – UMass Lowell at Binghamton: An early large recreation for each groups, who need to bounce again after neither was capable of safe a playoff win final yr and get in place to host a quarterfinal contest.
• Jan. 19 – Vermont at UAlbany: On MLK Day, the Great Danes have the chance to make a press release at house in opposition to the Catamounts as they give the impression of being to earn a top-four seed for the second straight yr.
• Jan. 19 – UMBC at Binghamton: This MLK Day matchup is destined to be one as 5 of their final six matchups have been determined by 5 or fewer factors and every workforce has received thrice.
• Jan. 24 – UVM at Bryant: The Bulldogs ended the Catamounts’ streak of eight straight regular-season titles final season and beat them by 20 factors at house. A win for UVM can be key if they need one other common season title.

  

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Founded in 1979, the America East Conference is an elite NCAA Division I athletic convention that fosters an setting for student-athletes to develop into champions. Comprised of academically famend, like-minded member establishments positioned within the Northeast area of the United States, America East is dedicated to broad-based excellence and progressive in its strategy to supporting its greater than 3,500 student-athletes throughout 18 sponsored sports activities. For extra info, go to www.AmericaEast.com and comply with the America East Conference and its social media channels, @AmericaEast.

 

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