Maine Black Bears

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Maine Black Bears
Alfond Arena
MascotBananas T. Bear
NicknameBlack Bears
Fight songThe Maine Stein Song and For Maine
ColorsMaine blue, white, and navy[1]
     
Websitegoblackbears.com

The Maine Black Bears are the athletic teams that represent the University of Maine. A member of the America East Conference, the University of Maine sponsors teams in eight men's and nine women's NCAA sanctioned sports. The men's and women's ice hockey teams are members of Hockey East, and the football team is an associate member of the Coastal Athletic Association.

Teams

Men's sports Women's sports
Baseball Basketball
Basketball Cross country
Cross country Field hockey
Football Ice hockey
Ice hockey Soccer
Swimming and diving Softball
Track and field† Swimming and diving
Track and field†
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor.
America East Conference logo in Maine's colors

Ice hockey

Main articles: Maine Black Bears men's ice hockey and Maine Black Bears women's ice hockey

The men's

Alfond Arena into one of the most intimidating arenas in college hockey. Walsh died of renal cell carcinoma
on September 26, 2001.

Baseball

Main article: Maine Black Bears baseball

The

AEC Tournament five times, in 1993, 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2011. The program also won the conference in 1990 and 1991, before the America East sponsored a baseball tournament.[2][3]

Basketball

Main articles: Maine Black Bears men's basketball and Maine Black Bears women's basketball

The

NBA head coach Rick Carlisle (although Carlisle transferred to Virginia and finished his college career there). Other notables include Rufus Harris, Kevin Reed, Matt Rossignol, Jim Boylen, Andy Bedard, and several former Maine high school stars including Bangor's Jon McAllian and Edward Little's Troy Barnies. A prominent current player is San Diego-native Gerald Mclemore. The women's and men's basketball teams play at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor starting with the 2013-14 season. The men's team has held a total of eight games at Memorial Gym since 2003–04.[4] The team has never played in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.[5]

WNBA. She went on to serve as an assistant coach at Boston College and Brown
.

The

men's basketball team in recent years has made progress as in the 2009–10 season the team finished the season in second place in the America East conference with a 19–11 overall record with recording one of its biggest wins in recent years with a 52–51 win over Boston College
of the Atlantic Coast Conference and in the 2010–11 season defeating the University of Massachusetts, 68-56, and Penn State, 74-64.

On May 23, 2007, Blodgett was named the head coach of the women's team. She was released in March 2011.

The Black Bears'

rivalry with the New Hampshire Wildcats is the longest continuous basketball rivalry between any two non-Ivy League
schools: the men's teams have played each other 119 seasons in a row, from 1904–1905 to the present season (2023-2024).

The program has developed 2 NBA players those being former Los Angeles Clippers Jeff Cross and former Boston Celtics and current head coach of the Dallas Mavericks Rick Carlisle.

Football

Main article: Maine Black Bears football

Maine's

2006 NFL Draft, affectionately known as Mr. Irrelevant
. The University of Maine is known currently to have the most active players on NFL rosters at the Division I FCS level.

The team has played several

fans at Memorial Stadium, when Maine fell, 25–7, to the Nebraska Cornhuskers
in Lincoln. The team is scheduled to play BCS games at the ACC's Boston College in 2012 and the Big Ten's Northwestern in 2013. UM also defeated longtime rival and FBS opponent Massachusetts, 24-14, in 2013. Despite success over the past decade, including an NCAA tournament berth in 2011, Maine had never won a CAA regular season title. That drought ended on November 16, 2013 as Maine defeated the University of Rhode Island 41-0 at home to win their first CAA title.

Radio and television

Main article: Black Bear Sports Network

Currently[

Comcast SportsNet New England
also carry select games as part of a larger contract with the conferences the sports are in. During the school year the Black Bear Insider is carried Sunday mornings on WVII at noon, and rebroadcast on Fox College Sports as well.

In 2006 the university sold the multimedia advertising and broadcast rights to all athletic events to Missouri-based Learfield Sports. Starting with the fall 2007 sports season, WVOM and WGUY split radio coverage, WGUY carrying men's and women's basketball and select baseball and softball games and WVOM carrying football and hockey broadcasts. After the 2008 fall sports season, WAEI-FM became the flagship for all Maine sports; the rights were transferred again to WKSQ in 2011 (though WAEI's AM sister station remained a co-flagship), before coming back full circle locally to WVOM (Blueberry) and WGUY (WaterFront) in 2013.

Many Black Bear games can also be heard on WMEB-FM, a student-run, commercial-free radio station located on campus.

Championships

Men's ice hockey

National Champions 1993, 1999
Hockey East Champions 1989, 1992, 1993, 2000, 2004

Men's Cross Country – 1915 (IC4A)

Baseball

CWS appearances 1964, 1976, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986
America East Champions 1990, 1991, 1993, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2011

Softball
America East – 1994, 2004

Football
Yankee Conference – 1949, 1951, 1952, 1961, 1965, 1974, 1982,1989, 2000, 2009 Atlantic 10 – 2001, 2002
Coastal Athletic Association - 2013, 2018

Riflery
Yankee Conference – 1959, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1966[6]

Women's Basketball
America East – 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2018, 2019

Men's Cross Country
America East – 2004
Yankee Conference – 1950, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963
New England – 1913, 1914, 1921, 1922, 1927, 1928, 1934, 1935, 1938, 1939, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959

Men's Indoor Track
Yankee Conference – 1964

Men's Outdoor Track
America East – 1995
Yankee Conference – 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
New England – 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930

Women's Outdoor Track
New England – 2003

References

  1. ^ Colors – Branding Toolbox – University of Maine. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
  2. ^ "America East Conference Baseball Record Book" (PDF). America East. America East Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  3. ^ "2011 America East Baseball Championships". America East. America East Conference. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  4. ^ Wager, Pete (19 October 2011). "UMaine basketball teams to play 10 home games at Memorial Gym this season". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  5. ^ "Maine Black Bears Index | College Basketball at". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  6. ^ The Maine Book: University of Maine Athletics 1881-2007 online at: http://umaine.edu/mclub/files/2011/07/27-Riflery.pdf

External links

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