Durham, NH –

The UMBC men’s basketball team scored the first 16 points of the contest and never looked back in a dominant, 85-63, America East Conference victory over the New Hampshire Wildcats on Saturday afternoon at Lundholm Gymnasium. UMBC (16-8, 9-2 AE) and NJIT remain even in the loss column for first place in the league standings pending the Highlanders result later today.

Junior guard Jah’Likai King and graduate student guard DJ Armstrong Jr. (3 assists, 3 steals) led five Retrievers in double-figures with 17 points apiece.  Sophomore forward Caden Diggs (15 points), graduate student forward Josh Odunowo (12 points), and sophomore guard Ace Valentine (10 points) provided a balanced scoring effort. Junior forward Jose Roberto Tanchyn grabbed a season-high 12 rebounds along with a team-high four assists.

UMBC, off to its best start in the conference since the 2017-18 season, blitzed the Wildcats in the opening half as they held a 47-28 advantage at intermission.  The Retrievers made 15-of-26 field goal attempts for a 57.7 percent clip and swished all 12 of their free throw attempts.

The Dawgs, winners of four straight, held a 16-0 advantage after Armstrong Jr. hit the first of his three treys of the day at the 14:09 mark.  UMBC continued to apply the pressure as they extended the lead to 27-7 following a jumper by Armstrong Jr. with 10:41 left in the stanza.

New Hampshire (8-16, 4-7 AE) went on their only run of the period as it used a 17-4 burst to trim the deficit to 31-24 at the 6:40 mark. However, King and Diggs splashed consecutive triples to ignite a 12-0 stretch over the next 3:40, resulting in a 43-24 lead. King scored seven points during the run.

The Retrievers left no doubt as they scored the first eight points of the second half to widen their lead to 55-28 with 17:09 remaining. King opened the scoring with a jumper, and Armstrong Jr. buried back-to-back 3-pointers to account for the scoring.

UMBC held its largest lead of the game at the 14:33 mark, 62-33, after Diggs converted a jumper following a turnover. The Retrievers matched their largest lead on three other occasions, the last one coming with 6:50 remaining after a layup by Odunowo.

The Retrievers held the Wildcats to 38.2 percent shooting (21-for-55), and the hosts went just 8-for-30 (26.7 percent) from behind the arc.

UMBC finished with a 51.7 percent shooting clip overall, making 30-of-58 attempts. The Dawgs also made 16-of-19 free throws for an 84.2 percent rate.

R.J. Kennedy led the Wildcats with 15 points while Belal El Shakery grabbed a game-high 14 rebounds.

UMBC, which swept the season series with New Hampshire, will host Vermont for hockey jersey giveaway night on Thursday evening.

New Jerseyans will lose an hour of sleep on March 8, 2026, when Daylight Saving Time returns, despite growing public frustration with the biannual clock changes and ongoing debate about making the practice permanent.

At 2 a.m. on that Sunday, clocks will jump forward to 3 a.m. across most of the United States. The clocks will fall back on November 1, 2026, returning to standard time.

The sun will set at around 5:57 p.m. in New Jersey on Saturday, March 7. The following day, after the time shift and the end of standard time, sunset is at about 6:58 p.m.

However, the sun will rise nearly an hour later at about 7:21 a.m. on Sunday, March 8, after coming up at approximately 6:23 a.m. the previous day, making for darker mornings.

Spring officially arrives at 10:46 a.m. on Friday, March 20.

Feb. 4 marked the mid-point of winter. From here on, we’re closer to the spring equinox than the winter solstice, and the amount of daylight we have each day in New Jersey continues to increase.

The sun will set at 5:31 p.m. in Atlantic City and and 5:27 p.m. in Newark on Thursday, Feb. 12.

Hawaii and most of Arizona remain the only states that don’t observe the time changes, along with several U.S. territories including Puerto Rico and Guam. The Navajo Nation observes daylight saving time despite being located within Arizona.

While many Americans want to end the twice-yearly ritual, chronobiologists generally advocate for permanent standard time instead, arguing it better aligns people’s schedules with the sun year-round.

Till Roenneberg, a pioneering chronobiologist and sleep researcher, warned that permanent DST would make Europeans “dicker, dümmer und grantiger” (fatter, dumber, and grumpier).

“Any schedule that implies that you have to get up before sunrise may cause problems,” said Derk-Jan Dijk, a sleep and physiology professor at the University of Surrey.

The Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act in March 2022, which would have established permanent daylight saving time nationwide, but the House never voted on the legislation.

A similar bill, the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025 was introduced last January. The proposal would make Daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time.

Multiple states have passed laws supporting year-round daylight saving time, but they cannot implement the change without federal authorization.

The practice originated during World War I as a fuel-saving measure, not for agricultural purposes as commonly believed. The 1966 Uniform Time Act established the current national schedule after decades of local time chaos.

A compact storm will bring some snow to portions of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York later Sunday into Monday. Snowfall amounts will generally be a light 1-2″ but there could be some isolated pockets of 3-4″ amounts, especially near I-195 in New Jersey.

Low pressure currently over the Southern Plains will track east along the Gulf Coast states tonight through Sunday. A warm front will develop out ahead of this low, and on this warm front, overrunning precipitation will push into parts of the Mid Atlantic, specifically the  Delmarva, extreme southern New Jersey, and the Delaware Valley late Sunday afternoon. Temperatures will be warm enough for precipitation to fall as plain rain at the start.

On Sunday night, low pressure will  track into the Southeastern U.S. and then move north into the Mid-Atlantic. It appears the storm track will take the system off of the North Carolina coast near Cape Hatteras late Sunday night and track it east-north-east out to sea on Monday.

Late Sunday night towards Monday morning, rain falling over southern Pennsylvania and New Jersey will change to snow. With cold air in place north of there, all precipitation should fall as snow. A widespread 1-2″ of snow is expected across eastern Pennsylvania, the northern half of New Jersey, southeastern New York including New York City and Long Island, and southwestern Connecticut.

It is possible just enough moisture and just enough cold air will mingle over portions of east-central Pennsylvania and central New Jersey to create isolated pockets of 3-4″ of snow. While possible, this type of heavier snow would be an outlier and would not be the rule with this system.

No advisories have been issued yet, but the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey says a Winter Weather Advisory may be needed for portions of New Jersey Sunday night and Monday morning should these light snow amounts verify.

The compact storm system will exit the coast Monday helping set the stage for a dramatic warm-up for the Mid Atlantic.  High pressure will builds into the Eastern Seaboard on Monday, then will establish itself offshore Tuesday through Wednesday. In this type of configuration, a return flow will sets up at the surface while a zonal flow sets up aloft. This allows for warm air advection to develop, and temperatures will finally push to above normal levels.

Although relatively warm for this time of the year, it will also remain cloudy. The temperatures should allow for some of the abundant snowpack to start to melt, but it may not melt as much as it could due to the cloudy skies.