There is no better feeling for a sports fan when a season that is climactically concluding collides with the beginning of a season full of hyped anticipation.

This phenomenon is taking place at Binghamton University throughout the next week, and you should be a part of it.

Your men’s soccer team is the No. 1 seed in the America East tournament and will host a semifinal game here next Wednesday at 2 p.m., and with a win, will a host the championship game and a chance to go to the NCAA Tournament.

And later that day, that night, actually, will be the men’s basketball home opener against Quinnipiac, the first home game of the Kevin Broadus era.

Two huge sporting events that you can, and should, be a part of. This is the BU equivalent of that day in early April when the NCAA Final Four and Championship game is taking place while Major League Baseball is in its opening week.

Now for some degenerate sports fans, we live for this.

Chances are if you are a committed and loyal and crazy sports fan, you will already be there cheering on your Bearcats. But to the average fan, who is unsure about braving the cold weather in the afternoon or missing a TV show that night, I guarantee it will be worth it. In fact, what better way to warm up from an afternoon outside of jumping and screaming than to do the same inside the Events Center?

Spend a day with your classmates and friends and be, and feel, a part of something.

But men’s soccer isn’t the only sport coming to an end.

Your women’s volleyball team, which is fourth in the conference at 6-4 with two games left, hosts the first-place Stony Brook Seawolves Thursday night at 7. Then their last regular season game is Sunday against last-place Hartford at 2 p.m.

UMBC, who sits right behind the Bearcats with a 4-6 record faces those same two teams. But New Hampshire, which sits in third place at 7-4, still has one game left with Albany.

Barring disaster, Binghamton will advance to the AE tournament, but now they will be fighting for their seed. And you should be there, to cheer on the Bearcats as they try to pull off an upset against SBU on Thursday and to send of a group of great seniors on Sunday.

A few weeks ago, the Bearcats knocked off then first-place UMBC in four games so anything is possible.

Before you attend the volleyball match, at 11 a.m. you can watch the swimming and diving teams take on Atlantic-10 Champions UMass, head coach Sean Clark’s alma mater and where he was the lead assistant coach from 2000-2003.

Anytime your team is facing the No. 1 team, whether it’s in the conference or nation, no matter what position you are in, it’s always a must-watch game.

The University of Washington football team averages 68,000 fans a game. When No. 1 Ohio Sate came to town in September, about 75,000 showed up. The Rutgers men’s basketball team, who finished towards the bottom of the Big East conference last season, averaged 5,453 fans but are expecting over 8,000 when No. 1 UNC rolls through New Jersey in December.

I know those are big names and nationally-recognized dominant programs, but to our Bearcats and within the context of the America East, a team like Stony Brook is OSU or UNC. Needless to say, you should be at the West Gym Thursday night and Saturday afternoon.

Which makes it even more special when the tables are turned and we are the dominant powerhouse, like in men’s soccer.

But sometimes neither is the case as in tonight when the women’s basketball team takes on Division-II St. Rose at the Events Center. This may seem like an insignificant game on paper being that it is an exhibition game, but it’s a chance to see your Bearcats look for revenge for last season, after St. Rose defeated Binghamton by 10. Plus Binghamton won’t return to the Events Center floor for their home opener until Nov. 28 when they take on Bucknell.

And if you aren’t interested in the underlying story, then you at least have a chance to win some cool prizes. And who knows, you may like what you see on the court, too.

But no matter the reason for being at all of these games and matches (the free giveaways, the hot chocolate and of course, your Bearcats), the bottom line is you should be there.

Women’s basketball tonight, then volleyball Thursday and again on Sunday, with swimming and diving on Sunday, then men’s soccer and men’s basketball on Wednesday; six sporting events in nine days.

It’s a big week for Binghamton sports as some seasons come to an exciting end while others get off to a thrilling start, and you should be there for both.