The men's basketball team followed the women's success in 2008 with their own championship victory to the NCAA Division I series. The Retrievers were defeated in the first round by Georgetown, 66-47.]]>

UMBC entered the America East Conference in Fall 2003, going from the Big South Conference to the Northeast Conference to the AEC in just eleven years and transforming its image as a small local sports school to a university capable of recruiting both nationally and internationally.]]>

The building's design, featuring two large corridors that intersect at the center and the use of glass walls, earned an award from the Maryland Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.]]>