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Binghamton in America East - Miscellaneous Notes
Within New York State
Binghamton will become the 22nd institution that sponsors NCAA Division I athletics in the state of New York. All 22 belong to a conference. The breakdown is as follows:
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (6): Canisius, Iona, Manhattan, Marist, Niagara, Siena
Northeast Conference (3): Long Island, St. Francis, Wagner
Big East (2): St. John’s, Syracuse
America East (4#): Albany, Binghamton, Hofstra#, Stony Brook
Patriot (2): Army, Colgate
Ivy (2): Columbia, Cornell
Atlantic 10 (2): Fordham, St. Bonaventure
Mid-American (1): Buffalo
# Hofstra will enter the Colonial Athletic Association beginning in winter season of 2001-2002
Catching up with fellow SUNY centers Buffalo, Albany and Stony Brook
- With membership in the America East, Binghamton avoids the financial and scheduling pitfalls of being a Division I independent.
- Buffalo went three years without a conference that had NCAA bids, and has been a member of three different conferences in its 10 years in Division I (East Coast, Mid-Continent and now Mid-American).
- Stony Brook and Albany are completing their second years as Division I independents before joining America East in the fall. Stony Brook’s men’s basketball traveled more than 20,000 miles as an independent last season.
Head-to-Head against America East Schools (11-7 overall in 2000-01)
Boston University: No competition
University of Hartford (1-1): men’s soccer lost 3-0, men’s tennis won 7-2
University of Maine (0-1): volleyball lost 3-2
University of New Hampshire: No competition
Northeastern University (0-1): women’s soccer lost 2-1 in OT
University of Vermont (2-0): volleyball won twice (3-0 and 3-0)
Stony Brook University (5-3): men’s soccer lost 4-0; women’s basketball won 74-47 and lost 57-64; women’s swimming won 125-105; men’s swimming won 122-104, softball won 1-0 and 2-0, men’s tennis lost 5-3
University at Albany (3-1): women’s soccer won 3-0; volleyball won 3-1; men’s soccer lost 4-2;
women’s basketball won 75-60
America East Basketball
- This season America East’s men’s and women’s basketball ranked near the middle of the nation’s 31 Division I athletic conferences in the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI), a formula used to determine selections and seedings for the NCAA tournament.
- America East’s men’s and women’s basketball each ranked 18th out of 31 conferences (ahead of Ivy League, Patriot League, and Northeast Conference among others).
- Binghamton’s women’s basketball is immediately eligible to compete for the America East Conference Championship and automatic NCAA bid, while the men will have to wait two years to play in the conference tournament, in order to fulfill a requirement for new Division I members. The men will be eligible to compete in the America East Championship and gain the NCAA automatic bid in 2003-04.
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