College Hoops Key Game Previews- America East

America East
-The Albany Great Danes are the defending champs, edging out Vermont for the conference crown last year. Albany has an 11/10 date at Patriot League contender Bucknell, and has a December 17th date a Duke that should be a measuring stick. They host Boise State and play at Iowa State to round out their nonconference slate. Both their Vermont matches is on an ESPN affiliate, as is their big game at Boston University on 1/16.
-Binghampton is a dark horse in the A-East, and games at Akron, home for George Washington, and a match at A-10 sleeper Fordham highlight their noncon schedule. Both games against Stony Brook in conference is on an ESPN affiliate.
-Boston University is one of the contenders this year in conference. They have a very healthy noncon schedule, playing GW, St Joe's, and Pitt in November. They have games at UMass and Holy Cross to round it out in December. Games against Hartford, Albany, and Vermont is ESPN affiliated.
-Hartford treks to many big teams including games at Louisville, BYU, Villanova, and Virginia. Their game at the Cardinals and a BU game is ESPN'd.
-Maine opens the season against Richmond in Memphis. The Black Bears play at Providence, Florida State, and UConn (ESPN affiliated) out of conference. They'll likely be one of the conference bottom feeders.
-UMBC shouldn't be so bad this season. The Retreivers have a challanging schedule out of conference. In November they travel to LaSalle and Richmond and host GW. They take December trips to Wichita State, West Virginia, and Ohio State.
-New Hampshire leads off at BC, but their schedule is ordinary the whole way, ans will try to keep up in AE play.
-Stony Brook will do some check collecting as they play at Villanova and Kentucky before noncon trips to Hofstra and Fairleigh Dickenson. Their Kentucky and both Binghampton games will be ESPN affiliated.
-Vermont is always a contender, and they schedule like it with their first two games at George Mason and Virginia. They also happen to travel down south to play the defending champs Florida. Both Albany games and a BU game are ESPN affiliated.