Binghamton University NCAA News

A month ago when the throne of the former America East men's basketball champions began to crumble and then collapse in a matter of days, there was little idea as to where the Bearcats program would go.

When the Binghamton University men's basketball team takes the floor Tuesday night for its exhibition game against Holy Family University, interim coach Mark Macon figures the game will give him not just an opportunity to assess his team, but also himself.

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As he embarks on his second season as head men's basketball coach for Broome Community College, Kevin Watson can already see a significant difference from last season.

When the defending champion is picked to finish last, the rest of the America East Conference can't help but feel the league title is within reach this season.

America East Conference basketball coaches voted Binghamton University's women third and the men ninth and last in the preseason poll.

The Bearcats men's basketball team added six walk-on players to its roster Thursday after open tryouts were held earlier this month.

Six Binghamton University students discovered this week they won't have to worry about getting good seats to their school's men's basketball games.

Binghamton , coming off its first trip to the NCAA Tournament, saw the roof cave in during the offseason.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: The Bearcats signed nine players -- six of them 6-foot-7 or taller -- and the added height was supposed to build up a small team.

Shortly after reaching the podium for the start of Binghamton University's men's basketball media day Thursday, interim head coach Mark Macon admitted he has discovered real quickly what it's like at the helm of a Division I basketball program.

Binghamton University interim athletic director Jim Norris shed little light Friday night on Kevin Broadus' future as the program's men's basketball coach.

Binghamton University men's basketball coach Kevin Broadus was placed on paid leave of absence Wednesday in the wake of a wide-ranging investigation into the basketball program.

Judge Judith Kaye will issue a preliminary report to state university trustees Tuesday, providing the first glimpse of her investigation into Binghamton University's troubled athletics program.

Mark Macon was given the reins to the Binghamton University men's basketball team Wednesday, just two days before the Bearcats are to be introduced to the community in their first practice of the season.

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Binghamton University basketball coach Kevin Broadus has been placed on paid leave of absence, the school announced in a release Wednesday.

A difference of one day put Binghamton University's men's basketball program back in the headlines.

America East teams have won a total of six NCAA tournament games since 1980, the last one being Vermont's thrilling first-round upset of Syracuse in 2005.

National publicity is usually hard to come by for the America East Conference, a mid-major college basketball league.