Home has been sweet for the men's soccer team this season.

The Bearcats are 5-0-1 at the Sports Complex, but just 2-5 on the road following Wednesday night's loss at Hartford.

BU falls to 2-2 in the conference and continues a three-game road trip Saturday night at Vermont.

Volleyball freshman Alex Roland has been honored as the America East rookie of the week for the second time.

The Austin, Texas native helped the Bearcats to a conference split this past week, losing in five sets to UMBC and sweeping Stony Brook.

The women's basketball season tips off in four weeks.

The team talked about high expectations earlier this week at Media Day.

Four starters and ten letterwinners return including conference freshman of the year Andrea Holmes and leading-scorer Erica Carter.

The theme of this year's team will be run, run run.

"Our team is very athletic and maybe it might not look like that but we are very athletic," says Carter. "We can run. We can rebound. We, overall, are just a very athletic team this year."

"This year we're just really looking for a more offensive team, more transition, more fast break minded," adds senior Darryll Peterson. "We're just trying to speed up the pace this year and looking to just win the games that last year were close that we should've won."

The Bearcats were 14 and 17 a year ago.

On campus, I'm Justin Horowitz, with this week's Bearcat Brief.