Men’s basketball ends season at AE semifinals

Falko and Gibson score 19 and 16, respectively. BU ends season in semifinal round for second year straight.

Aidan Jennings and Johnny Yang assistant sports editor

Last Tuesday, the Binghamton men’s basketball team traveled to Burlington, Vermont looking to advance to the America East (AE) Championship final and overcome the regular season’s top seeded squad. The Bearcats looked to get their revenge and flip the script against the Catamounts after being defeated 74-42 in last year’s AE semifinals, as well as dropping both regular season contests to them this year. However, Binghamton would fall short as UVM cruised to a 79-57 victory, ultimately ending BU’s season.

“I thought we had a good game plan, especially defensively,” said

Binghamton head coach Levell Sanders. “I thought we were going to be able to guard [Vermont]. We had an emphasis on taking away their 3-pointers, and I know [Vermont senior guard Dylan Penn] hit 3-pointers, but that wasn’t his strong suit. He hasn’t done that all year, so his threes are not something that we thought hurt us that bad. They only made, as a team, five threes and in all of their losses they had five threes or less, so we thought if we held them to that number we’ll be good.”