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BURLINGTON, Vt. - The Vermont women's basketball team hosts Binghamton Saturday at Patrick Gymnasium. Tipoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tickets are available online at UVMathletics.com or in person one hour before game time in the Patrick Gymnasium Lobby. The game can be heard on WVMT-620 AM (online: SportsJuice.com) with Kevin Fitzgerald calling the action. The game can also be seen online for free in HD via CatamounTV.com.
The Catamounts are coming off a 74-62 loss to Stony Brook on Wednesday. Vermont stands at 3-19 overall and 0-10 in America East. Binghamton owns a record of 4-19 overall and is 2-8 in America East after a 51-46 loss to Hartford on Wednesday.
PROMOTIONS & ALUMNI WEEKEND INFO
Women's basketball alumnae are invited to join the team for a reception following the game in the Hall of Fame Room ... An alumnae game will be held at 10:45am (check in at the Patrick Gym ticket counter beginning at 10:30 to pick up your tickets and t-shirt) ... Alumnae unable to attend the game can pick up game tickets at Will Call beginning at 1 p.m. and can visit the Coaches' Circle (Bostwick Room) ... Please RSVP to our Victory Club office at Victory.Club@uvm.edu or 802-656-0956 ... Alumnae in attendance will be recognized at halftime ... Saturday is also student-athlete faculty/staff appreciation day.
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Game Notes (.pdf)
CatamounTV Highlights - Stony Brook
LAST TIME OUT - Stony Brook 74, Vermont 62
Kayla Burchill scored a season-high 18 points for Vermont, but Sabre Proctor and Kori Bane-Walker netted 23 points each to lead Stony Brook to a 74-62 victory on Wednesday ... Burchill scored 13 of her points in 14 minutes off the bench in the first half ... She finished the game with four 3-pointers and added five rebounds and four assists ... Emilie Cloutier added 15 points and Niki Taylor chipped in 12 points and six rebounds ... Stony Brook went into the break leading 30-27 ... The second half was tightly contested, but Stony Brook maintained a two possession lead for much of the half ... The Catamounts tied the game up four times in the final 20 minutes, the last time on a layup by Kylie Butler with 6:41 remaining to make the score 55-55 ... Stony Brook held Vermont scoreless over the next 5:29 and used a 12-0 run to take a 67-55 lead with 1:12 left in the game. Cloutier converted a three-point play to stop the drought, but the Seawolves went 7-for-8 from the foul line to seal the victory.
ABOUT BINGHAMTON
Binghamton stands at 4-19 and 2-8 in America East … The Bearcats suffered a 51-46 loss to Hartford on Wednesday ... Freshman Jasmine Sina leads the Bearcats with 14.6 points per game (7th in America East) ... Classmate Imani Watkins is second on the team in scoring (14.1 ppg - 8th in America East) ... Sina and Watkins have combined for seven America East Rookie of the Week honors this season, Sina has been honored four times, while Watkins has garnered the honor three times ... Senior Sherae Swinson is collecting a team-high 7.0 rebounds per game … As a team, Binghamton is averaging 58.1 points per game, while giving up 70.9 to opponents ... The Bearcats are shooting 36.5 percent from the floor, 29.9 percent from 3-point range and 70.5 percent from the foul line ... Binghamton is being out rebounded by a +10.2 margin (43.6 to 33.4) ... Linda Cimino is in her first season on the Binghamton sidelines … She came to Binghamton following eight years at Caldwell College where she was the program's all-time leader in wins (128).
THE SERIES
Saturday is the 29th meeting between the two schools, all since 2002 when the Bearcats joined America East … Vermont owns a 19-9 advantage in the series … UVM had won a four-game win streak snapped in the first meeting between the two teams earlier this year ... The Catamounts have won six of the last eight meetings against Binghamton.
LAST TIME vs. BINGHAMTON - L, 73-62
Sydney Smith and Kayla Burchill scored 15 points each for Vermont, but Sherae Swinson and Imani Watkins netted 18 points apiece to lead Binghamton to a 73-62 victory at the Events Center. Vermont led 21-20 with 4:02 left in the first half, but the Bearcats out scored UVM 10-6 and went to the locker room with a 30-27 lead. UVM trailed by 10 with 12:23 remaining in the game, but stormed back to tie the game up at 49 with 8:48 left in the game, but could not regain the lead. Binghamton used a 7-0 run to push out to a 61-53 lead and went 7-for-8 from the line in the closing minutes to secure the win.
WHO'S NEXT
Vermont hits the road for a pair of games next week, traveling to New Hampshire on Wednesday and UMBC on Saturday ... Both games can be heard on WVMT-620 AM (online: SportsJuice.com) with Kevin Fitzgerald calling the actionand seen online for free via AmericaEast.tv.
