University of Maine
Vermont
Men's Basketball Goes to Vermont
1/16/2012 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- The University of Maine men's basketball team travels to take on defending America East Regular Season Champion Vermont on Monday. Fans can catch all the action on the Black Bear Sports Network, or watch the game free at uvmathletics.com.
Storylines
The University of Maine men's basketball team (8-7, 2-2) travels to take on defending America East Regular Season Champion Vermont (9-10, 3-2).
Maine is coming off a heartbreaking 76-75 loss at Albany.
Justin Edwards scored 19 points and grabbed five rbeounds while Mike Allison added 12 points, five rebounds and four blocks.
Gerald McLemore scored 17 points, notching his 13th double-digit scoring effort in 14 games played this season.
The Catamounts are coming off a 72-64 loss at New Hampshire.
Brendan Bald and Matt Glass each scored 12 points to lead Vermont.
Maine's Gerald McLemore currently has scored 1,479 career points, putting him in eighth on the all-time list at Maine, 39 points away from Jim Stephenson; McLemore also has also made 292 three-pointers, and is 19 shy of Kevin Reed for the all-time lead at Maine.
Maine's Justin Edwards has scored at least 14 points in 11 out of 15 games this season while grabbing at least five rebounds in 11 contests.
McLemore has scored at least 20 points in seven out of the 14 games he's played in.
Fraser has been on a tear as of late, scoring at least 14 points and grabbing at least eight rebounds in five out of the last seven games.
Edwards is the only player in the conference ranked in the top-10 in points, rebounds and assists.
Andrew Rogers leads all of NCAA Division I (in games through Jan. 8) with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 4.36; McLemore ranks 11th in the country with 20.5 points per game and 14th while shooting 90.9 percent from the charity stripe, he is also 15th with 3.0 three-pointers made per game and 45th with a three-point percentage of 41.9; Fraser ranks 37th with a 55.2 percent field goal percentage.
Maine ranks 44th as a team (in games played through Jan. 8) with 76.2 points per game; 13th in assist-to-turnover ratio with 1.40; 15th in turnovers with 11.2 per contest; 25th in free throw percentage at 74.6 percent; 31st with 15.7 assists per game and 39th in field goal percentage with 47.7 percent.
