2018–19 Maine Black Bears women's basketball team
The 2018–19 Maine Black Bears women's basketball team represents the University of Maine in the 2018–19 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Black Bears, led by second year head coach Amy Vachon, play their home games at the Cross Insurance Center and are members of the America East Conference. Maine won the championship game of the 2019 America East Women's Basketball Tournament over Hartford to earn the automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament.[1] They lost in the first round to NC State.
2018–19 Maine Black Bears women's basketball | |
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American East regular season and tournament champions | |
NCAA Women's Basketball, First Round | |
Conference | America East Conference |
2018–19 record | 25–8 (15–1 America East) |
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Home arena | Cross Insurance Center |
2018–19 America East Conference women's basketball standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maine † | 15 | – | 1 | .938 | 25 | – | 8 | .758 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hartford | 14 | – | 2 | .875 | 23 | – | 11 | .676 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stony Brook | 11 | – | 5 | .688 | 23 | – | 8 | .742 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albany | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 13 | – | 18 | .419 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Binghamton | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 12 | – | 18 | .400 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vermont | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 11 | – | 18 | .379 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UMBC | 3 | – | 13 | .188 | 10 | – | 20 | .333 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UMass Lowell | 3 | – | 13 | .188 | 7 | – | 22 | .241 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New Hampshire | 3 | – | 13 | .188 | 6 | – | 24 | .200 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 2019 America East Tournament winner |
Media
All home games and conference road games will stream on either ESPN3 or AmericaEast.tv. Most road games will stream on the opponents website. All games will be broadcast on the radio on WGUY and online on the Maine Portal.
Roster
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Schedule and results
Date time, TV |
Rank# | Opponent# | Result | Record | Site (attendance) city, state | ||||||
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Exhibition | |||||||||||
11/03/2018* 1:00 pm |
Stonehill | W 85–46 | Cross Insurance Center (1,430) Bangor, ME | ||||||||
Non-conference regular season | |||||||||||
11/10/2018* 1:00 pm, ESPN+ |
Toledo | W 73–59 | 1–0 |
Cross Insurance Center (1,578) Bangor, ME | |||||||
11/13/2018* 1:00 pm |
at Bryant | W 74–57 | 2–0 |
Chace Athletic Center (453) Smithfield, RI | |||||||
11/15/2018* 7:00 pm, ESPN+ |
No. 20 Duke | L 63–66 | 2–1 |
Cross Insurance Center (2,868) Bangor, ME | |||||||
11/20/2018* 8:00 pm, ESPN+ |
at Green Bay | L 39–70 | 2–2 |
Kress Events Center (1,280) Green Bay, WI | |||||||
11/24/2018* 3:15 pm |
vs. North Carolina A&T Navy Classic semifinals |
W 58–52 | 3–2 |
Alumni Hall (414) Annapolis, MD | |||||||
11/25/2018* 3:15 pm |
vs. Penn Navy Classic championship game |
W 47–46 | 4–2 |
Alumni Hall (368) Annapolis, MD | |||||||
12/02/2018* 2:00 pm, ACCNE |
at North Carolina | W 85–73 | 5–2 |
Carmichael Arena (2,159) Chapel Hill, NC | |||||||
12/04/2018* 7:00 pm, ESPN+ |
at Harvard | W 67–60 | 6–2 |
Lavietes Pavilion (426) Cambridge, MA | |||||||
12/08/2018* 1:00 pm, ESPN+ |
Brown | W 102–96 OT | 7–2 |
Cross Insurance Center (2,128) Bangor, ME | |||||||
12/15/2018* 6:00 pm, ACCNE |
at No. 10 NC State | L 46–84 | 7–3 |
Reynolds Coliseum (2,755) Raleigh, NC | |||||||
12/22/2018* 12:00 pm |
at Northeastern | L 55–63 | 7–4 |
Cabot Center (337) Boston, MA | |||||||
12/29/2018* 1:00 pm |
at Fordham Fordham Holiday Classic semifinals |
L 64–72 OT | 7–5 |
Rose Hill Gymnasium Bronx, NY | |||||||
12/30/2018* 1:00 pm |
vs. Chattanooga Fordham Holiday Classic 3rd place game |
L 61–66 | 7–6 |
Rose Hill Gymnasium Bronx, NY | |||||||
America East regular Season | |||||||||||
01/02/2019 7:00 pm, ESPN+ |
New Hampshire | W 67–46 | 8–6 (1–0) |
Cross Insurance Center (1,541) Bangor, ME | |||||||
01/05/2019 1:00 pm, ESPN3 |
UMBC | W 84–44 | 9–6 (2–0) |
Cross Insurance Center (1,829) Bangor, ME | |||||||
01/09/2019 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
at Vermont | W 63–51 | 10–6 (3–0) |
Patrick Gym (329) Burlington, VT | |||||||
01/12/2019 1:00 pm, ESPN3 |
Albany | W 76–65 | 11–6 (4–0) |
Cross Insurance Center (1,733) Bangor, ME | |||||||
01/16/2019 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
at Hartford | L 46–49 | 11–7 (4–1) |
Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion (566) West Hartford, CT | |||||||
01/19/2019 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
at Stony Brook | W 68–54 | 12–7 (5–1) |
Island Federal Credit Union Arena (683) Stony Brook, NY | |||||||
01/27/2019 12:00 pm, ESPN+ |
Binghamton | W 95–66 | 13–7 (6–1) |
Cross Insurance Center (2,180) Bangor, ME | |||||||
01/30/2019 7:00 pm, ESPN+ |
UMass Lowell | W 79–45 | 14–7 (7–1) |
Cross Insurance Center (1,118) Bangor, ME | |||||||
02/02/2019 1:00 pm, ESPN3 |
at New Hampshire | W 69–45 | 15–7 (8–1) |
Lundholm Gym (813) Durham, NH | |||||||
02/06/2019 7:00 pm, ESPN+ |
Vermont | W 66–45 | 16–7 (9–1) |
Cross Insurance Center (1,279) Bangor, ME | |||||||
02/09/2019 1:00 pm, ESPN3 |
at UMBC | W 58–45 | 17–7 (10–1) |
UMBC Event Center (728) Catonsville, MD | |||||||
02/13/2019 7:00 pm, ESPN+ |
Hartford | W 78–58 | 18–7 (11–1) |
Cross Insurance Center (1,443) Bangor, ME | |||||||
02/16/2019 2:00 pm, ESPN3 |
at Albany | W 67–61 | 19–7 (12–1) |
SEFCU Arena (1,014) Albany, NY | |||||||
02/24/2019 1:00 pm, ESPN+ |
Stony Brook | W 71–61 | 20–7 (13–1) |
Augusta Civic Center (1,008) Augusta, ME | |||||||
02/27/2019 7:00 pm, ESPN+ |
at UMass Lowell | W 60–41 | 21–7 (14–1) |
Tsongas Center (514) Lowell, MA | |||||||
03/02/2019 12:00 pm, ESPN3 |
at Binghamton | W 67–60 | 22–7 (15–1) |
Binghamton University Events Center (1,501) Vestal, NY | |||||||
America East Women's Tournament | |||||||||||
03/06/2019 7:00 pm, ESPN+ |
(1) | (8) New Hampshire Quarterfinals |
W 69–36 | 23–7 |
Cross Insurance Center (1,764) Bangor, ME | ||||||
03/10/2019 1:00 pm, ESPN+ |
(1) | (4) Albany Semifinals |
W 66–51 | 24–7 |
Memorial Gym (1,233) Orono, ME | ||||||
03/15/2019 5:00 pm, ESPNU |
(1) | (2) Hartford Championship Game |
W 68–48 | 25–7 |
Cross Insurance Center (3,234) Bangor, ME | ||||||
NCAA Women's Tournament | |||||||||||
03/23/2019* 1:30 pm, ESPN2 |
(14 G) | at (3 G) No. 10 NC State First Round |
L 51–63 | 25–8 |
Reynolds Coliseum (2,769) Raleigh, NC | ||||||
*Non-conference game. #Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. G=Greensboro Region. All times are in Eastern Time. |
References
- Writer, Mike LoweStaff (2019-03-15). "UMaine women back in NCAA tournament with win in America East title game". Press Herald. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
- "University of Maine Athletics". Goblackbears.com.