Full Title: Women's Basketball Favored to Win America East; Kurowski and Brown Tabbed to Preseason All-Conference TeamHARTFORD, Conn.�The UMBC women's basketball team has been chosen as the 2011-12 America East preseason favorite as determined by a vote of the league's nine head coaches, the conference announced today at the 2011 America East Basketball Tip-Off Event at the Connecticut State Capitol. In addition, senior guards Michelle Kurowski and Erin Brown were both selected to the America East Preseason All-Conference Team.