MEN'S BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK
Vermont (22-6, 12-2) will look to clinch the America East regular season title against Stony Brook (23-6, 11-3) on Saturday (March 2) as a part of Cabot Creamery Co-operative Night. The opening tip is set for 7 p.m. on the hardwood of Patrick Gym. The primetime matchup has been officially ruled a sellout.
TELEVISION AND RADIO COVERAGE
All of the action can be seen on
ESPN+ with a paid subscription. Fans can access ESPN+ with a seven-day free trial, followed by a subscription fee of $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year, with the ability to cancel at any time. Fans can also listen to the contest on 101.3 The Game and
1013TheGame.com with Jake Marsh on the call.
RELATED LINKS
Stony Brook: Video | Radio | Live Stats
Game Notes: Vermont | Stony Brook
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PROMOTIONS
Saturday is UVM's annual Rally Around Mental Health Game. The Cats will be wearing special Rally Around Mental Health shooting shirts. To donate & support our department's mental health initiatives, visit
go.uvm.edu/umy2q.
UVM will also be handing out free tank tops to the first 400 students in attendance presented by Redstone Apartments and Lofts.
REGULAR SEASON TITLE AND TOP OVERALL SEED AT STAKE
Vermont can clinch its ninth America East regular season crown with a win on Saturday. The Cats would move into sole possession of second place on the league's all-time list of most regular season titles behind Northeastern (10). UVM would also be the first team since Boston U from 2001-04 to earn three consecutive America East regular season championships and only the third school to win three straight - Northeastern did it twice from 1983-87 and 1979-82.
1,000 POINT-500 REBOUND CLUB
Anthony Lamb is nine rebounds short of joining the 1,000-point, 500-rebound club. He would become the 16th Catamount to accomplish the feat and fourth under Cioffi Men's Basketball Head Coach
John Becker - Ethan O'Day (1,233 points, 608 rebounds),
Kurt Steidl (1,146 points, 528 rebounds), and
Payton Henson (1,072 points, 558 rebounds).
300 THREE-POINTERS
Ernie Duncan already ranks third on the school's all-time three-point field goal list, but the redshirt senior is five triples away from draining 300 for his career. T.J. Sorrentine (2000-05) holds the all-time record with 354 treys and Tony Orciari (1997-01) follows in second with 305 long balls.
DOUBLE DOSE OF DUNCAN
Ernie and
Everett Duncan have combined to shoot exactly 50.0% from three-point land against Stony Brook during their UVM careers. The duo has connected on 28-of-56 attempts including 7-of-18 in the first go-around last month. Ernie had a game-high 25 points while Everett racked up a career-high 20 points in the win on Long Island.
REVISITING THE LOU HENSON AWARD MID-SEASON WATCH LIST
Saturday will feature Lamb and Stony Brook's Akwasi Yeboah - the only two America East players named to the Lou Henson Award Mid-Season Watch List last month. Lamb stands atop the league with a 21.4 scoring average this season while Yeboah trails in fourth at 17.1 points per game.
SCOUTING STONY BROOK
The Seawolves are making a mad dash to overtake the Catamounts for the regular season title and have won six out of their last seven games. Stony Brook is one of the top defensive and rebounding teams in the country. The Seawolves rank seventh in Division I with 41.2 rebounds per game and have the ninth-best field-goal percentage defense (38.8%). Yeboah paces the team with a 17.1 scoring average and 7.8 boards per game. The redshirt junior has boasted a near double-double in his last five games with 18.6 points and 8.8 rebounds per game. Jeff Otchere has been one of the top shot blockers in Division I. He leads the league with 70 denials, 19 more than Lamb and Binghamton's Caleb Stewart in second, which is also the eighth-highest total in the nation.
INSIDE THE SERIES
Vermont has won 30 of the 41 all-time meetings against Stony Brook including eight of the last 11. The Cats have beat the Seawolves six straight times in the series with SBU's last win coming in the 2016 America East Championship Game. The six-game streak is the fifth-longest active winning streak against a conference opponent for the Catamounts. Last month, the Green and Gold beat the Seawolves 74-65 behind the 20-point efforts from the two eldest Duncan brothers.
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