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UConn has won 107 straight games in a row entering the NCAA tournament. If the UConn women go on to win a fifth straight national championship this spring, the Huskies will have to earn it. The women’s basketball selection committee laid down a gauntlet for them that could include last year’s national runner-up in the second round, a top 10 RPI team in the Sweet 16 and one of only two teams to play them close this season in the Elite Eight. Continue to Article

March 13, 2017 11:27:pm EST

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- Payton Henson scored 17 points, Anthony Lamb had 12 points and 10 rebounds, and Vermont beat Albany 56-53 on Saturday to win its sixth America East Conference Tournament. Continue to Article

March 11, 2017 3:47:pm EST

STONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) -- David Nichols scored 19 points with 8 of 10 free throws, Devonte Campbell added 16 points with seven rebounds, and Albany beat Stony Brook 63-56 on Monday night to advance to the America East Tournament Championship. Continue to Article

March 06, 2017 10:32:pm EST

David Nichols, playing in his first game since the death of his sister, tied Albany's 60-year-old record for most points in a game with 40, leading the Great Danes to a 100-71 victory over Hartford on Wednesday night in the first round of the America East Tournament. Nichols left the team and returned home to Chicago on Sunday following the death of his 24-year-old sister, Cecilia Coleman, from leukemia. Nichols, the team's leading scorer at 17.3 ppg, tied the school mark set of 40 by Gary Colway on Feb. 27, 1957, when the Great Danes were a Division III program. Continue to Article

March 01, 2017 10:34:pm EST