Monday, October 29, 2012

AU Eagles Kick Off 12-13 Season Wednesday

Jeff Jones is back for his 13th season as Eagles head coach

American University opens their 2012-13 season Wednesday night, hosting the Mary Washington Eagles in an exhibition game at Bender Arena. AU hopes to improve on last year's impressive 20-10 season, which ended with a CIT bid and a semifinal appearance in the Patriot League tournament. The Eagles are led by 6-8 senior forward Stephen Lumpkins, a member of the All-Patriot League Second Team in '11-12 Lumpkins averaged a team-high 13.5 points and 8.2 rebounds a game: He also led the Patriot League in FG percentage with a scintillating 59.2% mark.

The regular season gets underway on November 9th on the road versus Big 10 powerhouse Minnesota.  After another road game against Quinnipiac, AU returns home on November 15th to host Mt. St. Mary's at 7:30 PM. The Eagles will host 14 home games (counting Wednesday's exhibition) this season, including a January 16th showdown with Lehigh and AP First Team All-American C.J. McCollum.

In addition to the season opener vs. Minnesota, AU will travel to Georgetown and #7 Kansas for back-to-back games in December... bringing new meaning to the term "hard road ahead." Season tickets are available for only $215 (click here.) Individual game tickets are also available, ranging from $10 (endzone) to $17.

Here's a full rundown of this year's schedule...

Oct. 31 Mary Washington (Exhibition) 7:30 PM
Nov. 9 at Minnesota 8:00 PM
Nov. 12 at Quinnipiac 7:00 PM
Nov. 15 Mount St. Mary's 7:30 PM
Nov. 19 San Francisco 7:30 PM
Nov. 24 at Fla. Atlantic 1:00 PM
Nov. 28 at St. Joseph's 7:00 PM
Dec. 1 St. Francis (Pa.) 2:00 PM
Dec. 4 at Howard 7:00 PM
Dec. 6 at UMBC 7:00 PM
Dec. 9 Columbia 2:00 PM
Dec. 18 at Hampton 7:00 PM
Dec. 22 at Georgetown 12:00 PM
Dec. 29 at Kansas 8:00 PM
Jan. 3 Md.-East. Shore 7:30 PM
Jan. 6 Cornell 2:00 PM
Jan. 12 at Colgate * 2:00 PM
Jan. 16 Lehigh * 7:30 PM
Jan. 19 at Holy Cross * 2:00 PM
Jan. 23 Navy * 7:30 PM
Jan. 26 at Army * 3:00 PM
Jan. 30 Bucknell * 7:30 PM
Feb. 2 Lafayette * 2:00 PM
Feb. 9 Colgate * 3:00 PM
Feb. 13 at Lehigh * 7:00 PM
Feb. 17 Holy Cross * 12:00 PM
Feb. 20 at Navy * 7:00 PM
Feb. 23 Army * 2:00 PM
Feb. 27 at Bucknell * 7:00 PM
Mar. 2 at Lafayette * 12:00 PM

* Conference game