The University at Albany hosts a big game Wednesday night when UMBC comes to town.

The Retrievers have won six straight games, their second longest winning streak in school history and already have 18 wins.

As UAlbany coach Will Brown said after practice on Tuesday, the league has been pretty crazy this year, but UMBC has been able to avoid that craziness, for the most part.

Brown is hoping his team can help the Retrievers feel some of that by posting their biggest win of the season (next to the two Vermont wins).

UMBC is playing without senior leading scorer Brian Hodges, who has missed the past four games with a bad ankle.

While Brown is preparing his team to see the sixth all-time leading scorer in UMBC school history, he explains here why the Retrievers are 4-0 without their top player.

"They can score," Brown said. "Instead of having five guys that can score, now they have four guys that can score."

While scoring is a positive for UMBC, Brown says this ball control is their biggest strength.

"Probably their biggest strength offensively is they don't turn the ball over," Brown said.

The lack of turnovers has a lot to do with junior point guard Jay Greene, who runs the Retrievers offense and handles the ball a majority of the time.

Maybe it was the amount of media at practice on Tuesday, but Brown broke down slightly and released this nugget, about his predictions for the team before the year, when the question of realistic goals came up for the back-to-back league champs.

"I had thought, coming into this season, if we finished in the top four, that would be pretty good for us," Brown said.

With three games left in the conference schedule, Brown has his team's sights set on second place for now.

America East Standings
UMBC 10-2, 18-7
Hartford 9-3, 15-13
UAlbany 8-5, 13-12
Binghamton 8-6, 12-14
Vermont 7-6, 12-13
Boston U 7-6, 12-15
New Hampshire 4-9, 7-18
Maine 3-9, 7-18
Stony Brook 2-11, 5-20