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stridsberry
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America East Conference Champions! First ever trip to the Big Dance! Goooooooooooooooooo Catamounts!
paul
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Yup! Good game too!!
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stridsberry
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They just got the full game story up at ESPN.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=230740104
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Catamounts shock Terriers for first trip to dance
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BOSTON (AP) -- David Hehn hit a 10-foot jumper with 5.6 seconds left to give Vermont a 56-55 win over Boston University in the America East finals and its first NCAA Tournament bid.
Matt Sheftic scored 23 points to lead the Catamounts (21-11), who became the league's first No. 2 seed to beat a No. 1 seed in the tournament title game.
Chaz Carr came up short on a 3-pointer as time expired for the Terriers, last year's tournament champions. About 700 Vermont fans who made the trip down to Boston rushed the court to celebrate.
After trailing by as many as 14 points in the first half, BU tied the game at 52 on Rashad Bell's putback with 4:47 left. Ryan Butt put BU ahead 55-54 by hitting a 3-pointer as the shot clock expired with 3:15 left.
The Terriers (20-10) maintained that lead and had the ball with 40 seconds left, but Paul Seymour turned it over on a travel.
After Vermont called timeout, Hehn drove on the right side with the shot clock winding down and hit a tough shot over the smaller Carr.
Seymour scored 16 points to lead BU, and Jason Grochowalski added 11.
Germain Njila scored 12 points for the Catamounts.
The first two rounds of the tournament were played at Walter Brown Arena, the hockey rink on Boston University's campus. The championship game was upstairs in Case Gym, where the Terriers play their regular-season games.
After BU scored the game's opening basket, Vermont broke off a 16-0 run to grab a 14-point lead with 12:21 left in the first half. The Terriers shot just 26.9 percent and were outrebounded 22-12 in the first half, but managed to cut the Catamounts' lead to 30-22 by halftime.
Seymour single-handedly brought BU back to 34-33 with 15:48 left, scoring all of his team's points in an 11-4 run.
Vermont pushed the lead back to 43-36, but BU took its first lead since the first basket with an 11-2 spurt -- capped by Butt's putback that gave the Terriers a 47-45 advantage with 8:15 to go.
The top two seeds have reached the championship game 11 times in the 21-year history of the conference. The top seed won the first 10 meetings.
The only other time Vermont even made it to the title game was 1990, when it lost to BU 75-57 at the Hartford Civic Center.
The teams split their two regular-season meetings.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=230740104
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Catamounts shock Terriers for first trip to dance
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RECAP | BOX SCORE | GAME LOG
BOSTON (AP) -- David Hehn hit a 10-foot jumper with 5.6 seconds left to give Vermont a 56-55 win over Boston University in the America East finals and its first NCAA Tournament bid.
Matt Sheftic scored 23 points to lead the Catamounts (21-11), who became the league's first No. 2 seed to beat a No. 1 seed in the tournament title game.
Chaz Carr came up short on a 3-pointer as time expired for the Terriers, last year's tournament champions. About 700 Vermont fans who made the trip down to Boston rushed the court to celebrate.
After trailing by as many as 14 points in the first half, BU tied the game at 52 on Rashad Bell's putback with 4:47 left. Ryan Butt put BU ahead 55-54 by hitting a 3-pointer as the shot clock expired with 3:15 left.
The Terriers (20-10) maintained that lead and had the ball with 40 seconds left, but Paul Seymour turned it over on a travel.
After Vermont called timeout, Hehn drove on the right side with the shot clock winding down and hit a tough shot over the smaller Carr.
Seymour scored 16 points to lead BU, and Jason Grochowalski added 11.
Germain Njila scored 12 points for the Catamounts.
The first two rounds of the tournament were played at Walter Brown Arena, the hockey rink on Boston University's campus. The championship game was upstairs in Case Gym, where the Terriers play their regular-season games.
After BU scored the game's opening basket, Vermont broke off a 16-0 run to grab a 14-point lead with 12:21 left in the first half. The Terriers shot just 26.9 percent and were outrebounded 22-12 in the first half, but managed to cut the Catamounts' lead to 30-22 by halftime.
Seymour single-handedly brought BU back to 34-33 with 15:48 left, scoring all of his team's points in an 11-4 run.
Vermont pushed the lead back to 43-36, but BU took its first lead since the first basket with an 11-2 spurt -- capped by Butt's putback that gave the Terriers a 47-45 advantage with 8:15 to go.
The top two seeds have reached the championship game 11 times in the 21-year history of the conference. The top seed won the first 10 meetings.
The only other time Vermont even made it to the title game was 1990, when it lost to BU 75-57 at the Hartford Civic Center.
The teams split their two regular-season meetings.