Select a theme:   Light Mode  |  Dark Mode
May 26, 2026

Binghamton’s top sports teams of the Division I era

University moved to the highest athletics level in 2001

Fans support the women's basketball team during an America East Conference playoff game in March 2026. Binghamton, which has 21 intercollegiate sports programs (and will add women's flag football in 2028), consistently leafs the conference in attendance. Fans support the women's basketball team during an America East Conference playoff game in March 2026. Binghamton, which has 21 intercollegiate sports programs (and will add women's flag football in 2028), consistently leafs the conference in attendance.
Fans support the women's basketball team during an America East Conference playoff game in March 2026. Binghamton, which has 21 intercollegiate sports programs (and will add women's flag football in 2028), consistently leafs the conference in attendance. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.
May 12, 2026

John Hartrick, senior associate director of athletics-communications, is the longest-tenured member of the Athletics Division. Hartrick started at Binghamton in 1991 — and witnessed and wrote about the University’s move to Division I athletics in 2001. Here are Hartrick’s Top 5 Bearcats teams of the D1 era:


1) 2009-10 Men’s Tennis
• 25–2 overall record (only regular season loss was 4–3 to No. 56 Columbia)
• Set a school-record with 20 straight wins
• America East Conference champions
• Became first America East program to earn a point at NCAAs (4–1 loss to No. 24 Georgia Tech)

 

2) 2003 Men’s Soccer
• 12–3–7 overall record
• Captured program’s first America East tournament title with a shootout win at home
• Won NCAA tournament game with 1–0 road upset at No. 13 Fairleigh Dickinson
• Nation’s top defense with seven goals allowed and 15 shutouts

 

3) 2009 Baseball 
• Won America East regular season and tournament titles
• Set school record with 30 wins and set NCAA record by improving win total for sixth straight year
• America East tournament championship was won at 3 a.m. at Union-Endicott High School
• Team then won its first-ever NCAA tournament game (11–6 over No. 30 George Mason) at East Carolina Regional

 

 

4) 2008-09 Men’s Basketball
• Produced record-setting 23–9 season (13–3 in America East) that ended with a nationally televised NCAA tournament game vs. Duke on CBS in front of 20,000 in Greensboro, North Carolina
• Won first-ever America East regular season and tournament titles — both clinched at home in front of standing-room-only Events Center crowds
• Ran off 11 straight wins — third-longest streak in country that season
• Won program’s first conference title in 63 years

 

5) 2025 Softball
• Went 36–14 (16–2 in America East)
• Captured both America East regular season and tournament titles for first time
• Earned an NCAA No. 3 seed instead of the customary No. 4 seed for America East champion
• Became first America East team to sweep all four major awards (coach, player, pitcher and rookie of year)


Runners-up: 2011–12 Wrestling; 2016 Baseball; 2009 Men’s Cross Country; 2002-03 Golf
 

Posted in: Athletics