2018–19 America East Conference men's basketball season

The 2018–19 America East Conference men's basketball season will begin with practices in October 2018, followed by the start of the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. Regular season conference play began in December 2018 and concluded in March 2019. The 2019 America East Conference Tournament will be held from March 9-16, 2019. The Vermont Catamounts won their 3rd consecutive outright regular season championship, under the guidance of John Becker, who also received his third consecutive America East Coach of the Year Award, and fourth in total.

2018–19 America East Conference Men's Basketball Season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	9
TV partner(s)	ESPN+, ESPNU, ESPN3, Regional Networks
2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
Regular Season Champions	Vermont
Runners-up	Stony Brook
Season MVP	Anthony Lamb - Vermont
Top scorer	Anthony Lamb - Vermont
America East Conference Tournament
Champions	Vermont
Runners-up	UMBC
Finals MVP	Anthony Lamb - Vermont

2018–19 America East Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Vermont †	14	–	2		.875			27	–	7		.794
Stony Brook	12	–	4		.750			24	–	9		.727
UMBC	11	–	5		.688			21	–	13		.618
Hartford	10	–	6		.625			18	–	15		.545
UMass Lowell	7	–	9		.438			15	–	17		.469
Albany	7	–	9		.438			12	–	20		.375
Binghamton	5	–	11		.313			10	–	23		.303
Maine	3	–	13		.188			5	–	27		.156
New Hampshire	3	–	13		.188			5	–	24		.172
† 2019 America East Tournament winner

Head coaches

Coaching changes

• Bob Walsh did not have his contract extended as head coach of Maine and was replaced by Richard Barron.[1]

Coaches

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Years at school	Record at school	America East record	America East titles	NCAA Tournaments
Albany	Will Brown	Albany (assistant)	18	294-267	154-135	2	5
Binghamton	Tommy Dempsey	Rider	7	56-160	25-96	0	0
Hartford	John Gallagher	Penn (assistant)	9	123-162	63-69	0	0
Maine	Richard Barron	Maine (women's)	1	5-26	3-13	0	0
New Hampshire	Bill Herrion	East Carolina	13	172-251	97-134	0	0
Stony Brook	Jeff Boals	Ohio State (assistant)	3	55–40	31–17	0	0
UMass Lowell	Pat Duquette	Northeastern (assistant)	6	71-107	46-60	0	0
UMBC	Ryan Odom	Lenoir-Rhyne	3	65-36	27-13	0	1
Vermont	John Becker	Vermont (assistant)	8	190-83	107-21	4	2

Notes:

• Year at school includes 2018–19 season.
• Overall and America East records are from time at current school and are through the end the 2018–19 season.
• NCAA Tournament appearances are from time at current school only.

Preseason

Preseason poll

Source[2]

Rank	Team
1	Vermont (6)
2	Hartford (3)
3	UMBC
T4	Albany
T4	Stony Brook
6	Binghamton
T7	Maine
T7	New Hampshire
9	UMass Lowell

() first place votes

Preseason All-Conference Teams

Source[2]

Award	Recipients
All-Conference Team	John Carroll (Hartford) Ernie Duncan (Vermont) Jason Dunne (Hartford) Anthony Lamb (Vermont) Akwasi Yeboah (Stony Brook)

America East Preseason Player of the Year: Anthony Lamb (Vermont)

Regular season

Conference matrix

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play. Each team will play 16 conference games, and at least 1 against each opponent.

	Albany	Binghamton	Hartford	Maine	New Hampshire	Stony Brook	UMass Lowell	UMBC	Vermont
vs. Albany	–	0-2	1–1	1–1	1–1	1-1	2-0	1–1	2–0
vs. Binghamton	2-0	–	2–0	0-2	0–2	2–0	1-1	2–0	2–0
vs. Hartford	1–1	0–2	–	0–2	0–2	2-0	1-1	0-2	2-0
vs. Maine	1–1	2-0	2–0	–	1–1	2-0	1-1	2–0	2-0
vs. New Hampshire	1–1	2–0	2–0	1-1	–	2–0	1–1	2–0	2-0
vs. Stony Brook	1–1	0–2	0–2	0-2	0–2	–	0–2	1–1	2-0
vs. UMass Lowell	0–2	1–1	1–1	1-1	1–1	2–0	–	1-1	2-0
vs. UMBC	1–1	0–2	2–0	0–2	0–2	1–1	1-1	–	0–2
vs. Vermont	0–2	0–2	0-2	0-2	0-2	0-2	0–2	2–0	–
Total	7-9	5-11	10-6	3-13	3-13	12-4	7-9	11-5	14-2

Player of the week

Throughout the conference regular season, the America East Conference offices named one or two Players of the week and one or two Rookies of the week.

Week	Player of the week	Rookie of the week	Reference
1 – Nov. 12	Akwasi Yeboah – Stony Brook	Sam Sessoms – Binghamton	[3]
2 – Nov. 19	Akwasi Yeboah (2) – Stony Brook	Alex Rivera – UMass Lowell	[4]
	Anthony Lamb – Vermont
3 – Nov. 26	Andrew Garcia – Stony Brook	Sam Sessoms (2) – Binghamton	[5]
4 – Dec. 3	Akwasi Yeboah (3) – Stony Brook	Cameron Healy – Albany	[6]
	Jason Dunne – Hartford
5 – Dec. 10	Anthony Lamb (2) – Vermont	Sam Sessoms (3) – Binghamton	[7]
6 – Dec. 17	George Blagojevic – Hartford	Miles Latimer – Stony Brook	[8]
7 – Dec. 25	Christian Lutete – UMass Lowell	Sam Sessoms (4) – Binghamton	[9]
	Anthony Lamb (3) – Vermont
8 – Dec. 31	Christian Lutete (2) – UMass Lowell	Jules Moor – Stony Brook	[10]
	Andrew Garcia (2) – Stony Brook
9 – Jan. 7	J.R. Lynch – Hartford	Sam Sessoms (5) – Binghamton	[11]
	Anthony Lamb (4) – Vermont
10 – Jan. 14	Anthony Lamb (5) – Vermont	Robin Duncan – Vermont	[12]
11 – Jan. 21	Christian Lutete (2) – UMass Lowell	Josh Placer – UMBC	[13]
12 – Jan. 28	Caleb Stewart – Binghamton	Antonio Rizzuto – Albany	[14]
13 – Feb. 4	Andrew Fleming – Maine	Cameron Healy (2) – Albany	[15]
14 – Feb. 11	Anthony Lamb (6) – Vermont	Sam Sessoms (6) – Binghamton	[16]
15 – Feb. 18	Anthony Lamb (7) – Vermont	Adam Lulka – Albany	[17]
16 – Feb. 25	Akwasi Yeboah (4) – Stony Brook	Cameron Healy (3) – Albany	[18]
17 – Mar. 4	George Blagojevic (2) – Hartford	Sam Sessoms (7) – Binghamton	[19]

Statistics leaders

Source[20]

Category	Player	Games played	Totals	Average
Points Per Game	Anthony Lamb (Vermont)	28	582	20.8
Rebounds Per Game	Anthony Lamb (Vermont)	28	224	8.0
Assists Per Game	Ahmad Clark (Albany)	31	134	4.3
Steals Per Game	K.J. Jackson (UMBC)	31	69	2.2
Blocks Per Game	Jeff Otchere (Stony Brook)	31	73	2.4
Field Goal %	George Blagojevic (Hartford)	30	173–314	.551
3-Point %	Ernie Duncan (Vermont)	28	69–162	.426
Free Throw %	Cameron Healy (Albany)	31	75-84	.893

Final standings

Source[21]

Team	W	L	Win %
Vermont	14	2	.875
Stony Brook	12	4	.750
UMBC	11	5	.688
Hartford	10	6	.625
UMass Lowell	7	9	.438
Albany	7	9	.438
Binghamton	5	11	.313
Maine	3	13	.188
New Hampshire	3	13	.188

Postseason

America East Tournament

	Quarterfinals Saturday, March 9, 2018 ESPN+					Semifinals Tuesday, March 12, 2018 ESPN+					Championship Saturday, March 16, 2018 ESPN2
	1	Vermont	73
	8	Maine	57
						1	Vermont	84
						7	Binghamton	51
	4	Hartford	78
	5	UMass Lowell	70
		(Pairings are reseeded after the first round)									1	Vermont	66
											3	UMBC	49
	2	Stony Brook	72
	7	Binghamton	78
						3	UMBC	90**
						4	Hartford	84
	3	UMBC	62
	6	Albany	54

NCAA Tournament

Seed	Region	School	First Four	1st Round	2nd Round	Sweet 16	Elite Eight	Final Four	Championship
13	West	Vermont	N/A	eliminated by (4) Florida State, 69-76

National Invitation Tournament

Seed	Bracket	School	1st Round	2nd Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Championship

Awards

All-Americans

Consensus All-Americans
First Team	Second Team	Third Team

To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams. The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.[22]

Associated Press	NABC	Sporting News	USBWA
First Team
Second Team
Third Team

America East Awards

Source[23]

2019 America East Men's Basketball Individual Awards
Award	Recipient(s)
America East Player of the Year	Anthony Lamb, F., Vermont
Coach of the Year	John Becker, Vermont
Defensive Player of the Year	Jeff Otchere, C., Stony Brook
Rookie of the Year	Sam Sessoms, G., Binghamton
Sixth Man Award	Andrew Garcia, G/F., Stony Brook

2019 America East Men's Basketball All-Conference Teams
First Team	Second Team	Third Team
Anthony Lamb, Jr., F., Vermont † J.R. Lynch, Sr., G., Hartford Ernie Duncan, Sr., G., Vermont Joe Sherburne, Sr., F., UMBC Akwasi Yeboah, Jr., F., Stony Brook	George Blagojevic, Sr., F., Hartford Andrew Fleming, Jr., F., Maine K.J. Jackson, Jr., G., UMBC John Carroll, Sr., F., Hartford Christian Lutete, Jr., G., UMass Lowell	Ahmad Clark, Jr., G., Albany Jason Dunne, Sr., G., Hartford Cameron Healy, R-Fr., G., Albany Elijah Olaniyi, So., G., Stony Brook Sam Sessoms, Fr., G., Binghamton
† - denotes unanimous selection

Attendance

Team	Arena	Capacity	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Game 7	Game 8	Game 9	Game 10	Total	Average	% of Capacity
			Game 11	Game 12	Game 13	Game 14	Game 15	Game 16	Game 17	Game 18	Game 19	Game 20
Albany	SEFCU Arena	4,553	2,579	1,659	1,614	1,902	1,740	1,412	2,733	1,793	2,316	2,085	29,466	2,105	46%
			3,891	1,876	2,306	1,560
Binghamton	Binghamton University Events Center	5,322	2,108	2,509	1,577	1,827	1,501	2,748	1,527	1,624	2,142	4,710	34,683	2,168	41%
			2,452	1,683	2,001	2,546	1,564	2,164
Hartford	Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion	4,017	1,269	543	732	1,179	802	559	549	734	595	864	10,907	839	21%
			1,202	1,458	964
Maine	Cross Insurance Center	5,800	1,113	1,036	1,025	1,084	995	918	929	1,026	1,195	989	12,109	1,009	17%
			981	818
New Hampshire	Lundholm Gym	3,500	343	227	237	327	577	493	340	415	604	283	5,362	383	11%
			547	397	239	333
Stony Brook	Island Federal Credit Union Arena	4,160	2,449	3,123	2,475	2,435	2,539	2,647	2,817	4,009	3,153	3,658	38,541	2,965	71%
			3,210	3,236	2,790
UMass Lowell	Costello Athletic Center & Tsongas Center	2,100 & 6,003	1,078	617	1,152	1,428	706	652	3,118	411	1,232	2,378	4,216 & 12,201	602 & 2,034	29% & 34%
			451	301	2,893
UMBC	UMBC Event Center	5,000	1,083	1,164	1,037	2,476	1,204	805	1,328	1,081	915	1,659	24,001	1,600	32%
			2,260	1,888	2,688	2,411	2,002
Vermont	Patrick Gym	3,266	2,053	2,582	2,446	2,959	2,629	2,389	2,542	3,266	2,812	2,540	39,860	2,645	81%
			2,472	3,116	2,152	3,266	2,546

See also

• 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
• America East Conference

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