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Game 7-068: America East First Round
March 4, 2011 6:28 am ET by Kyle Whelliston

[9] Binghamton Bearcats vs. [8] Maryland-Baltimore County Retrievers

March 3, 2011 8:15 pm
Hartford, CT
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Championship Fortnight begins with the other side of March: a low-seed eliminator between recent champions Binghamton and the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. "Ladies and gentlemen, there will not be a national anthem for this game. Here are the starting lineups." Also: "Teach Me How To Bally," the Boing Alarm, why the game is like a banana and the difference between shooting #superhoops and peeing. Bonus: America East fanfest! Giant As-You-Go brackets and Evan Fjeld art. Not pictured: the UMBC charter bus nearly running us over on the way out of Hartford. (True story.)

@midmajority Game Tweets

19:54 Game No. 7-068: America East first round at Hartford - [8] UMBC vs. [9] Binghamton. Here we go. http://t.co/p52BgBe
19:56 #champfortnight Big South: [7] High Point 45 [3] North Carolina-Asheville 62 - Final
19:58 #champfortnight Missouri Valley: [9] Illinois State 21 [8] Southern Illinois 26 - Half
20:00 RT @binx310: #VMI #MarchREVENGE #TheChanticleersCANGETIT @MIDMAJORITY
20:00 UMBC seems more nervous. I've been hit by two stray balls during warmups. http://t.co/xRfqMH8
20:02 All four @NECSports quarters in chalk alley at the half. We'll be at the final next Wed, presumably at LIU or Quinnipiac.
20:05 Tourney confidence leading indicator: neither [9] Bing or [8] UMBC has sent bands (sadz) or cheerleaders (Title R sadz). Lots of PR music.
20:09 This is what March is all about. The stacks. http://t.co/JRLUPHX
20:10 And nobody has to teach you how to Bally. Just bounce and boing, bounce and boing. #youaintf___inwitmybally
20:14 From America East championships (UMBC 08, BING 09) to the 8/9 game. Unbelievable. For different reasons, of course. http://t.co/KWZNXvF
20:16 "Ladies and gentlemen, there will not be a national anthem for this game. Here are the starting lineups." #eightninegame
20:17 There are 20 Binghamton fans here. Your loyalty will be rewarded in heaven. One guy in a No. 10 jersey and fro snapping pics and yelling.
20:18 Tip. http://t.co/jgmEoDE
20:20 Greer Wright scores first for BING and adds a #superhoop, Chris De La Rosa for UMBC. 5-2 Bearcats. Non-transfers 0-for-0 from the floor.
20:22 11-4 Binghamton early on. Fans silent, coaches screaming. This is an important part of the March process. The end always has to make sense.
20:24 End also should come on the floor, so players know exactly when it happens. It's the same courtesy afforded to the NCAA Tournament teams.
20:25 20-6 Binghamton after five minutes. One team wants another night all together, the other is ready to go home on a bus and end the misery.
20:27 UMBC's Chris De La Rosa and Justin Fry have tossed up air balls that missed the rim by at least six inches. 23-6 BING at 13:10 1H.
20:28 "Upstream issue." #networkspeak RT @polarscribe: @midmajority Any #pixelvision games? Robot doesn't seem to be up and running at the moment.
20:29 RT @NECsports: LIU is fun to watch. All-NEC rookie Jason Brickman to All-NEC 1st teamer Julian Boyd for the flush has become a familiar refrain in Brooklyn
20:30 BING's junior G Greer Wright has 13 points on 5-for-6 shooting, 3-for-4 from #superhoopland. Pride. 26-8 Bearcats after eight minutes.
20:31 Not fair, I can't root. RT @sgreen3: @midmajority I've been told that Bing's band (and likely, all spirit squads) will be in Hartford tmrw.
20:34 Mark Macon's 100 Day Diet should be finishing up right about now. I know how much he likes cheesecake, this must be torture.
20:34 This is happening. RT @midmajority360: #champfortnight America East: [9] Binghamton 26 [8] Maryland-Baltimore County 8 - 11:56 1H
20:37 BING 32, UMBC 12 after one quarter. Greer Wright is personally outscoring the Retrievers by one.
20:40 35-14 Bearcats. UMBC players aren't bending their knees or looking their coach in the eye. Most people don't see this side of #marchmadness.
20:40 I like the shiny uniforms RT @StetsonSID: @midmajority warming up is Lipscomb and shiny gray space age jerseys vs Mercer and the home crowd
20:43 No surprises in the @NECSports games. All three top seeds are winning by comfortable margins; No. 4 CCSU is opening a lead on SFNY late too.
20:45 UMBC out of dubl-up territory (38-22), but they're not even challenging the hot outside shooters for BING, Camara and Wright, in soft M2M.
20:46 #champfortnight Northeast: [7] Mount Saint Mary's 59 [2] Quinnipiac 78 - Final
20:48 I'll try to explain this play. UMBC's Chris De La Rosa drove to the hole, but instead of a layup he wedged the ball in Mahamoud Jabbi's ass.
20:48 #champfortnight Ohio Valley: [8] Tennessee-Martin 59 [4] Tennessee Tech 83 - Final
20:51 Binghamton is 12-for-21 from three in 18 minutes. Most of those shots, there isn't a defender within two feet. 45-24 Bearcats at 2:12 1H..
20:53 RT @BigSkyConf: Ladies and gentlemen your 2010-11 Big Sky Men's Basketball All-Conference team: http://ow.ly/47AZQ #bigskybasketball
20:54 #champfortnight Northeast: [8] Saint Francis (PA) 75 [1] Long Island 90 - Final
20:55 There is an America East fanfest here! We are going to check it out during halftime! Which is soon. 20 seconds to go, 52-29 BING.
20:58 #champfortnight America East: [9] Binghamton 52 [8] Maryland-Baltimore County 29 - Half
20:59 Giant America East AYG bracket. http://t.co/xGL7uMH
21:00 Poster making! This kid knows what's up. #UVM http://t.co/rhcuoro
21:01 RT @AmericaEast: Binghamton leads UMBC, 52-29, at halftime of AE 1st round contest. Bearcats set tourney record for 3s in a half w/ 13 ! #AEBBChamps
21:04 #champfortnight Northeast: [6] Wagner 74 [3] Robert Morris 78 - Final
21:05 Alarm will sound. The BOING alarm! http://t.co/Tl357Gs
21:10 #champfortnight Northeast: [5] Saint Francis (NY) 62 [4] Central Connecticut State 64 - Final
21:12 #champfortnight Missouri Valley: [9] Illinois State 54 [8] Southern Illinois 57 - Final
21:12 #champfortnight Big South: [4] Virginia Military Institute 30 [1] Coastal Carolina 37 - Half
21:15 Discussing BING's 13 1H threes with the UVM contingent. Was reminded of an old Tom Brennan line: "I've seen guys less accurate at urinals."
21:15 RT @AtlanticSun: Tip off at the university center. Final quarterfinal game. Mercer vs Lipscomb #asun @midmajority http://t.co/Fp5KKAl
21:15 Yeah, I fixed it. #breakindalaw RT @chanford24: @midmajority Looks like Vermont has already won the BING-UMBC game. #offarow
21:16 RT @chrispalm: Would have destroyed me in the Bally fridge contest! RT @midmajority: Poster making! This kid knows what's up. #UVM http://img.ly/389m
21:16 RT @ValleyHoops: 1 game down - 8 more to go. #ArchMadness http://twitpic.com/45uerm
21:19 In Hartford, it's 60-36 Binghamton at 15:32 2H. The band can't get here fast enough. PA has gone through the entire Black Eyed Peas catalog.
21:23 Chase Plummer (UMBC) goes down hard. Arena goes silent. You can hear turbine fans whir and the MTO box scores crinkle as they're passed out.
21:24 He's back up. Light applause. There are fewer people here than for 1H (about 200). There was the women's 8/9 earlier, they've all left.
21:25 BING's Camara nails a three, UMBC defender Travis King practically had his back to him as he shot. 67-38 Bearcats at 12:30 2H.
21:27 Close game. RT @midmajority360: #champfortnight Big South: [4] Virginia Military Institute 33 [1] Coastal Carolina 37 - 19:09 2H
21:27 RT @thenational: Don't try to play me out RT @midmajority And nobody has to teach you how to Bally. Just bounce and boing, #youaintf___inwitmybally
21:29 Is Binghamton's band coming? We've run through the whole Salt N Pepa catalog now too.
21:32 74-43 Bearcats at 10:34 2H. BING is 16/28 from three; I'd estimate two were contested. Camara has eight (26 pts) and Wright has five (24).
21:35 74-44 Binghamton. At the end of the third quarter, #peopleareleaving... it works a little differently at tourneys. Folks come and go.
21:36 We will be here in Hartford all day on Saturday for the @AmericaEast quarterfinals. Four games, eight teams, hundreds of tweets!
21:36 That. RT @dcbradley @midmajority If all else fails, hook a computer up to the P.A. system, go to midmajority.com, click on Tom Petty's hat.
21:38 Home cookin, southern livin! RT @midmajority360: #champfortnight Atlantic Sun: [4] Lipscomb 15 [5] Mercer 23 - 7:15 1H
21:39 Random observation: the Hartford Courant crest logo looks like it would fit in on a $100 designer t-shirt.
21:41 5:13 left in regulation, 81-48 Binghamton. There will be no overtime. We might get this wrapped up in less than two hours.
21:42 RT @BigSouthSports: Faster still, dunks, traded threes, physical play, running up & down the court...53-51 favoring VMI with exactly 12min remaining.
21:42 G!O!T!N! RT @midmajority360: Utah Valley 61 New Jersey Tech 56 | UVU 19-10 (11-1) NJIT 14-14 (8-3) | http://t.co/FkV17Hg #GWC
21:44 83-51 Bearcats, 4:12 2H. Maybe it's just the floor or the shooting angles. Or something. Binghamton beat Hartford here 77-47 on Feb. 16.
21:47 March sadness. http://t.co/UiluUtj
21:50 Mark Macon calls off the dogs with three to go. Here comes the bench. http://t.co/ehJslEq
21:52 #champfortnight Atlantic Sun: [4] Lipscomb 27 [5] Mercer 39 - Half
21:52 Ouch for VMI RT @BigSouthSports: Could be a big moment--BSC Fr. of the Year DJ Covington FOULS OUT with more than 9 mins left. CCU up 60-56.
21:54 Not that the game needed an exclamation point, but Greer Wright with a #dunx. He had 31. Final score: Binghamton 91 UMBC 65.
21:57 Chris Plummer, who took that fall, leaves on crutches. Retrievers' heads down. Ends with a loss; this one didn't come soon enough for UMBC.
21:57 RT @AmericaEast: Binghamton downs UMBC, 91-65, in #AmericaEast 1st round contest. Bearcats play Vermont Sat. at 2:15 in qtrs. #AEBBChamps
21:58 #champfortnight America East: [9] Binghamton 91 [8] Maryland-Baltimore County 65 - Final
22:00 Vin's here in spirit. http://t.co/syjAh5u
22:01 America East: Hartford '11. http://t.co/tPXe06P
22:11 More Mark Macon food wisdom/game recap allegories: "The first two inches of the banana have all the sugar. The rest is just good food."
22:13 Macon: "We got the sugar going early, and just played good the rest of the night." #thisgamewilleatyou

Boxscore

BINGHAMTON 91, MARYLAND-BALTIMORE COUNTY 65
03/03/2011


BINGHAMTON 8-22 (4-12) -- M. Phillips 6-12 5-5 17; M. Camara 10-18 2-3 30; G. Wright 11-21 4-6 31; J. Gray 2-3 1-2 7; M. Jabbi 2-6 0-0 6; R. Mansell 3-5 1-1 7; C. Lukusa 1-3 2-3 4; A. Ogundadegbe 0-0 0-0 0; T. Johnston 0-1 0-0 0; P. Pena 1-1 1-1 3; J. Ralling 1-2 1-1 3; K. Sutton 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-60 12-17 91.
MARYLAND-BALTIMORE COUNTY 5-25 (4-12) -- C. De La Rosa 1-10 1-2 3; B. Neller 3-8 0-0 8; J. Wertz 1-4 0-0 3; J. Fry 5-9 3-4 13; T. King 3-4 2-2 10; L. Jolicoeur 3-4 4-4 11; A. Satchell 3-7 1-2 7; B. Smith 0-0 0-0 0; C. Plummer 3-4 0-0 6; J. Wasco 1-2 0-0 2; M. Conway 1-1 0-0 2; N. Groce 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 24-54 11-14 65.

Three-point goals: BING 17-32 (M. Camara 8-14; M. Jabbi 2-3; G. Wright 5-10; T. Johnston 0-1; J. Gray 2-3; R. Mansell 0-1), UMBC 6-15 (T. King 2-3; C. De La Rosa 0-3; L. Jolicoeur 1-2; B. Neller 2-5; J. Wertz 1-2); Rebounds: BING 31 (G. Wright 9), UMBC 26 (J. Fry 6); Assists: BING 20 (M. Jabbi 7), UMBC 18 (C. De La Rosa 8); Total Fouls -- BING 12, UMBC 16; Fouled Out: BING-None; UMBC-None.