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The look in junior guard Asiah Dingle’s eyes told the whole story.
Her expression slowly shifted from frustration to pure joy as the Stony Brook women’s basketball team mounted an 11-point comeback to upset the top-seeded Maine Black Bears 64-60 in the America East Championship, clinching the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament berth.
“With Asiah, you can see in the emotion on her face just how badly she wanted to win,” head coach Caroline McCombs said in a postgame press conference. “She was going to will our team to this win.”
Dingle’s resilience, which powered her to 20 points, was matched only by junior guard Annie Warren’s career-defining performance: 31 points on 11-for-18 shooting, the most by a Stony Brook athlete since 2007.
UMaine has one more hurdle to reach the NCAAs – and it won’t be easy
Stony Brook will present a tough challenge for the Black Bears in the America East women s basketball championship game.
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University of Maine head coach Amy Vachon huddles with her players during a timeout. Vachon has an 11-1 coaching record in the America East tournament, including championships in 2018 and 2019.
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The University of Maine’s women’s basketball team knows Stony Brook has been its toughest conference opponent the past two seasons.
The teams have split four close games, none decided by more than five points.
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