Maryland-Baltimore County Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:23:41 PDT

Beware of winning the America East title.

Look at what has happened to the past two winners.

While much of the attention has been on the turmoil that has taken down last year's champs, Binghamton, the 2008 winner, UMBC, has had nothing but heartache since winning the crown.

The Retrievers went 15-17 last year. They did pull off a first-round conference tournament win as a No. 6 seed, beating No. 3 Boston University, and then beat No. 7 Albany to make it all the way to the final, but the shorthanded group ran out of gas in the title game against Binghamton.

Now, things look worse.

Stars Jay Greene and Darryl Proctor are done, forward Rich Fleming left the team, sophomore Chauncey Gilliam is out until at least second semester because of academics and...