| 2017–18Maine Black Bears women's basketball | |
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America East Regular Season and Tournament champions | |
NCAA Women's Tournament, first round | |
| Conference | America East Conference |
| Record | 23–10 (13–5 America East) |
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| Home arena | Memorial Gym Cross Insurance Center |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maine † | 13 | – | 3 | .813 | 23 | – | 10 | .697 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Albany | 12 | – | 4 | .750 | 24 | – | 8 | .750 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Binghamton | 10 | – | 6 | .625 | 20 | – | 12 | .625 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stony Brook | 10 | – | 6 | .625 | 18 | – | 12 | .600 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hartford | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 19 | – | 13 | .594 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Hampshire | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 19 | – | 12 | .613 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vermont | 5 | – | 11 | .313 | 8 | – | 22 | .267 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UMBC | 3 | – | 13 | .188 | 5 | – | 26 | .161 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UMass Lowell | 1 | – | 15 | .063 | 4 | – | 26 | .133 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| †2018 America East tournament winner As of 20 March 2018 Rankings fromAP poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The2017–18 Maine Black Bears women's basketball team represented theUniversity of MaineBlack Bears in the2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Black Bears, led by seventh year head coachRichard Barron and interim head coach Amy Vachon, play their home games at theCross Insurance Center with 2 games played atMemorial Gym and are members of theAmerica East Conference.[1][2][3] They finished the season 23–10, 15–1 in America East play to win the America East Regular Season. They also won theAmerica East women's tournament and earned an automatic trip to theNCAA women's tournament for the first time since 2004. They lost to Texas in the first round.
All home games and conference road games will stream on eitherESPN3 or AmericaEast.tv. Most road games will stream on the opponents website. All games will be broadcast on the radio onWGUY and online on theMaine Portal.
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| 10/28/2017* 5:00 pm | Stonehill | L 49–68 | Cross Insurance Center (1,250) Bangor, ME | ||||||||
| Non-conference regular season | |||||||||||
| 11/10/2017* 6:00 pm, ESPN3 | Tulane Maine Tip-Off Tournament semifinals | L 34–42 | 0–1 | Memorial Gym (1,054) Orono, ME | |||||||
| 11/11/2017* 4:00 pm, ESPN3 | Harvard Maine Tip-Off Tournament 3rd place game | W 76–51 | 1–1 | Memorial Gym (855) Orono, ME | |||||||
| 11/14/2017* 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | Bryant | W 70–68 OT | 2–1 | Cross Insurance Center (1,137) Bangor, ME | |||||||
| 11/16/2017* 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | Maine–Fort Kent | W 100–40 | 3–1 | Cross Insurance Center (1,082) Bangor, ME | |||||||
| 11/24/2017* 4:00 pm, ACCN Extra | at Miami (FL) Miami Thanksgiving Tournament | L 73–80 | 3–2 | Watsco Center (713) Coral Gables, FL | |||||||
| 11/26/2017* 2:30 pm | vs. Kennesaw State Miami Thanksgiving Tournament | W 75–39 | 4–2 | Watsco Center (884) Coral Gables, FL | |||||||
| 11/30/2017* 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | at Toledo | L 64–65 OT | 4–3 | Savage Arena (3,208) Toledo, OH | |||||||
| 12/03/2017* 1:00 pm | at No. 8 Ohio State | L 70–83 | 4–4 | Value City Arena (5,879) Columbus, OH | |||||||
| 12/05/2017* 5:00 pm, ESPN3 | Maine Maritime Academy | W 89–49 | 5–4 | Cross Insurance Center (1,964) Bangor, ME | |||||||
| 12/09/2017* 12:00 pm | at Dartmouth | W 64–51 | 6–4 | Leede Arena (571) Hanover, NH | |||||||
| 12/17/2017* 3:00 pm | at No. 5 Mississippi State | L 43–83 | 6–5 | Humphrey Coliseum (4,953) Starkville, MS | |||||||
| 12/19/2017* 7:00 pm, ACCN Extra | at No. 14 Duke | L 39–69 | 6–6 | Cameron Indoor Stadium (3,053) Durham, NC | |||||||
| 12/28/2017* 7:00 pm, ACCN Extra | at Boston College | W 61–40 | 7–6 | Conte Forum (1,337) Chestnut Hill, MA | |||||||
| America East regular season | |||||||||||
| 01/03/2018 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | Stony Brook | W 64–56 | 8–6 (1–0) | Cross Insurance Center (1,103) Bangor, ME | |||||||
| 01/06/2018 1:00 pm, ESPN3 | Binghamton | L 62–66 OT | 8–7 (1–1) | Cross Insurance Center (1,282) Bangor, ME | |||||||
| 01/10/2018 11:00 am, ESPN3 | at UMBC | W 64–50 | 9–7 (2–1) | Retriever Activities Center (2,366) Catonsville, MD | |||||||
| 01/13/2018 2:00 pm, ESPN3 | at Albany | L 54–68 | 9–8 (2–2) | SEFCU Arena (921) Albany, NY | |||||||
| 01/15/2018 1:00 pm, ESPN3 | Vermont | W 64–55 | 10–8 (3–2) | Cross Insurance Center (1,584) Bangor, ME | |||||||
| 01/18/2018 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | at Hartford | W 59–44 | 11–8 (4–2) | Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion (790) West Hartford, CT | |||||||
| 01/24/2018 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | at New Hampshire | W 56–46 | 12–8 (5–2) | Lundholm Gym (348) Durham, NH | |||||||
| 01/28/2018 1:00 pm, ESPN3 | UMBC | W 69–36 | 13–8 (6–2) | Cross Insurance Center (2,469) Bangor, ME | |||||||
| 01/31/2018 11:00 am, ESPN3 | at UMass Lowell | W 69–51 | 14–8 (7–2) | Tsongas Center (4,125) Lowell, MA | |||||||
| 02/03/2018 1:00 pm, ESPN3 | at Binghamton | W 61–38 | 15–8 (8–2) | Binghamton University Events Center (1,343) Vestal, NY | |||||||
| 02/05/2018 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | Hartford | W 59–56 | 16–8 (9–2) | Cross Insurance Center (1,208) Bangor, ME | |||||||
| 02/08/2018 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | New Hampshire | W 77–46 | 17–8 (10–2) | Cross Insurance Center (1,174) Bangor, ME | |||||||
| 02/11/2018 2:00 pm | at Stony Brook | L 68–76 | 17–9 (10–3) | Island Federal Credit Union Arena (1,107) Stony Brook, NY | |||||||
| 02/14/2018 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | UMass Lowell | W 70–65 | 18–9 (11–3) | Cross Insurance Center (1,141) Bangor, ME | |||||||
| 02/22/2018 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | at Vermont | W 79–47 | 19–9 (12–3) | Patrick Gym (505) Burlington, VT | |||||||
| 02/25/2018 1:00 pm, ESPN3 | Albany | W 74–69 OT | 20–9 (13–3) | Cross Insurance Center (3,140) Bangor, ME | |||||||
| America East Women's Tournament | |||||||||||
| 03/03/2018 12:00 pm, ESPN3 | (1) | vs. (8) UMBC Quarterfinals | W 65–43 | 21–9 | Cross Insurance Arena (2,158) Portland, ME | ||||||
| 03/04/2018 2:00 pm, ESPN3 | (1) | vs. (5) New Hampshire Semifinals | W 64–48 | 22–9 | Cross Insurance Arena Portland, ME | ||||||
| 03/09/2018 4:00 pm, ESPNU | (1) | (6) Hartford Championship Game | W 75–64 | 23–9 | Cross Insurance Center (3,373) Bangor, ME | ||||||
| NCAA Women's Tournament | |||||||||||
| 03/17/2018* 6:00 pm, ESPN2 | (15 KC) | at (2 KC) No. 8 Texas First Round | L 54–83 | 23–10 | Frank Erwin Center (3,878) Austin, TX | ||||||
*Non-conference game.#Rankings fromAP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. KC=Kansas City Region. All times are inEastern Time. | |||||||||||