Marist men, women's basketball to compete in AE-Metro event
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Marist University will participate in the first America East-Metro Basketball Challenge in November, a showcase college event will that feature nine schools from each conference. It is the first year of a two-year agreement announced last July.
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The Marist men will host America East regular-season and postseason tourney champion Maryland-Baltimore County on Thursday, Nov. 5, and travel to Massachusetts Lowell on Sunday, Nov. 8. Marist owns a 2-0 career mark vs. UMBC (last winning in Nov. 2023) and 1-1 mark vs. UMass Lowell (last losing in Nov. 2017).
The Red Foxes (19-12) finished a win shy of the MAAC finals, bowing to Merrimack 58-57 in the semifinals.
The Marist women will travel to Bryant on Nov. 5 and host New Jersey Institute of Technology on Nov. 8. The Red Foxes lost to Bryant 66-56 on Nov. 11, 2025. Marist has never faced NJIT.
All nine America East members will participate with men's and women's teams. With the former Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (to be re-branded as the Metro Conference on July 1) at 13 members, eight schools will send only one gendered team into the event: Canisius Mount Saint Mary's, Niagara and Siena women; Iona, Rider, Sacred Heart, Saint Peter's men.
The Vermont women (27-8 last season) and Maryland-Baltimore County men (24-9) earned the AE's regular-season and postseason tourney titles. The Quinnipiac women (27-7) and Merrimack men (23-11) won the MAAC's regular-season crowns; the Fairfield women and Siena men won the postseason tourney.
Start times will be announced later by the host schools. Television partner ESPN will likely stream most of these contests on ESPN Plus.
There should be a number of Mid-Hudson ties to the event. Former Ketcham and Lourdes High School and Marist player Maureen Magarity has stepped back into coaching at New Hampshire, a year after leaving Holy Cross. Warwick graduate Paige Girardi will be a senior guard for the Quinnipiac women. Poughkeepsie's Noah Barnett is a forward for the Vermont men and Jason Schofield is a center for Marist. Former Army women's coach Missy Traversi is now the head coach at Merrimack. Former Army and Marist women's assistant coach is the new general manager at Albany, after her departure from Niagara as head coach.
The Metro has competed as the MAAC for 45 seasons. America East was founded in 1979.
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America East-Metro Basketball Challenge
Men's games
Thursday, Nov. 5 - Vermont (22-12) at Fairfield* (22-13) ; New Jersey Institute of Technology (16-17) at Iona* (18-14); Albany (11-21) at Manhattan* (12-20); Maryland-Baltimore County (24-9) at Marist* (19-12); Massachusetts Lowell (15-18) at Merrimack* (23-11); Bryant (9-22) at Quinnipiac* (19-13); New Hampshire (9-21) at Rider* (4-25); Maine (8-24) at Sacred Heart* (14-19); Binghamton (8-23) at Saint Peter's* (17-12)
Sunday, Nov. 8 - Rider* at Binghamton; Fairfield* at Bryant; Manhattan* at Maine; Sacred Heart* at New Hampshire; Saint Peter's* at New Jersey Institute of Technology; Merrimack* at Albany; Marist* at Massachusetts Lowell; Quinnipiac* at Vermont
Monday, Nov. 15 - Iona* at Maryland Baltimore County
Women's games
Thursday, Nov. 5 - Marist* (11-20) at Bryant (18-12); Siena* (13-17) at Maine (19-13); Canisius* (5-24) at New Hampshire (10-20); Merrimack* (19-13) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (19-13); Manhattan* (19-13) at Albany (14-16); Niagara* (1-28) at Massachusetts Lowell (8-21); Mount Saint Mary's* (15-15) at Maryland Baltimore County (17-15); Quinnipiac* (27-7) at Vermont (27-8)
Friday, Nov. 6 - Binghamton (20-13) at Fairfield* (28-4)
Sunday, Nov. 8 - Massachusetts Lowell at Canisius*; Vermont at Fairfield*; Bryant at Manhattan*; New Jersey Institute of Technology at Marist*; Maine at Merrimack*; Albany at Mount Saint Mary's*; New Hampshire at Niagara*; Maryland Baltimore County at Quinnipiac*; Binghamton at Siena*
Asterisk denotes MAAC/Metro member
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