2015-16 Albany America East Preview

[ZLK]

http://rundexball.blogspot.com/2015/09/america-east-mbb-15-16-preview-albany.html

[Patch]

Is it my computer or is this a faulty link - it just to a blank page for me?????

[ZLK]

Works for me in Chrome and Safari, haven't tested IE yet. Here's the link again, if it doesn't work you can type in rundexball.blogspot.com and it's the top post.

 

http://rundexball.blogspot.com/2015/09/america-east-mbb-15-16-preview-albany.html

[Patch]

I solved my own problem it was my browser I entered the link with Firefox

[MRSGDG]

Sporting News America East Projections

http://www.pressconnects.com/story/sports/college/bu-blog/2015/09/29/bumen-preseason-rankings/73055764/

 

Sporting News America East Projections

 

All-America East

Jameel Warney, Stony Brook, F/C

Carson Puriefoy, Stony Brook, G

Peter Hooley, UAlbany, G

Ethan O'Day, Vermont, F

Willie Rodriguez, Binghamton, F

 

Top Player: Jameel Warney

 

Top Newcomer: Joe Cremo, UAlbany

 

Top Coach: Will Brown, UAlbany

 

Projected order of finish

1. Stony Brook

2. UAlbany

3. Vermont

4. New Hampshire

5. Binghamton

6. Hartford

7. UMass Lowell

8. Maine

9. UMBC

Edited October 1, 2015 by MsGDG

[UA'08]

Please send this to returning first team all-conference Evan Singletary...immediately.

Edited October 1, 2015 by UA'08

[MRSGDG]

First practice today.

 

Optimism for UAlbany men's basketball as practice begins

 

Of course, there should be optimism at SEFCU Arena on Thursday, the day the UAlbany men's basketball team will begin practice.

 

The Great Danes are the three-time defending America East Tournament champions, and they have three consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament to prove it.

There is no doubt in coach Will Brown's mind that the Danes can make another deep run through the America East.

 

"Can we win the regular season? Absolutely," Brown said. "We will have as good an opportunity as any team in the league to win the conference tournament."

It's October, and just about every coach in the country is saying the same thing. Brown isn't boasting; he's being honest.

 

UAlbany, which has been very good the past three years, should be good again.

The Danes return most of the heart of last year's team that went 24-9 overall and ripped through the America East season, going 15-1. When Brown greets the Danes at SEFCU at 3 p.m. Thursday, he'll see familiar faces like fifth-year senior guard Peter Hooley (13.7 points per game and the two-time defending America East Conference Tournament MVP) as well as seniors Evan Singletary (13.0 ppg) and Ray Sanders (9.7 ppg, 4.6 rebounds per game).

 

Those three will give the Danes the best perimeter game in the league. What the Danes have to work on is the inside game.

 

Seven players are gone from last year's team, and the biggest loss is easily that of the graduated 6-foot-5 Sam Rowley, who left as the program's Division I all-time leader in rebounds (756); he also scored 1,194 career points. As good as the returning players are — and as good as Brown thinks newcomers like freshman guard Joe Cremo (6-4, 190 pounds) from Scotia and junior college transfers Chas Brown (6-8, 220 pounds) and Travis Charles (6-6, 235 pounds) can be — Brown can't stress enough how much the Danes are going to miss Rowley's crafty inside presence.

 

"When people like to tell me how good we are going to be or they like to tell me we are going to win four (championships) in a row, I chuckle inside," Brown said. "People have no idea how big a loss Sam is. We ran everything through him."

 

Brown can't expect to have a Rowley lurking somewhere in his 14-man roster. But he thinks he has the answer to replacing Rowley. It might just take three or four players to do it.

The inside holders include 6-11, 280-pound junior Richard Peters; 6-8, 230-pound junior Mike Rowley (Sam's brother) and 6-7, 240-pound sophomore Greig Stire of Christian Brothers Academy, who has added 15 pounds for his second season.

 

Brown is confident the trio will defend and rebound. What they have to do is score. Last year, they combined to average 8.1 points per game. But with Sam Rowley around they didn't have to put the ball in the basket.

This winter, someone will.

 

"All three of them are better," Brown said, "but it has to show in production."

Brown has had success with junior-college transfers in the past — Singletary and Sanders came from that route last year — and he is hoping he has more luck this year.

From what he has seen in off-season workouts, Charles can "really score" and Brown is the best athlete on the roster, the coach says.

 

"A lot of people, including the head coach, will question this team," Brown says. "They should expect the challenge, embrace it and meet it head on. Practice will really show me a lot."

 

 

 

 

@CoachJPELLETIER 6h6 hours ago

@UAlbany_MBB Special Assistant Coach Don Bassett just commented he is starting season 58 in hoops. Literally a life time of basketball

Zach Bye ‏@byesline 11h11 hours ago

Practice begins today 4 @UAlbany_MBB. Great Danes trying to become 1st team to win 4 consecutive AE titles since Northeastern did it 1984-87

[MRSGDG]

UAlbany not at 100 percent as practice starts

ALBANY — Right at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Will Brown, the coach of the University at Albany basketball team, was getting a bit antsy. He was ready for his scheduled session with the media to be over.

“I want to get out there and coach my team,” Brown said in the concrete-walled basement of SEFCU Arena.

Thursday was the official first day of practice for the Danes; it was also Brown’s 44th birthday.

UAlbany, which opens the season Nov. 13 at Kentucky, has a little more than a month to get ready.

On Thursday, the Danes were starting out not at full strength. Two newcomers that Brown expects to make an impact on the team right away, are ailing.

Travis Charles, a 6-foot-6, 235-pound forward, and Chas Brown, a 6-8, 220-pound forward, both have different problems. It appears as though Charles, who is from Brooklyn, may have the more serious ailment.

Brown said that Charles, who averaged 13.9 points and 6.7 rebounds at Howard County Junior College in Texas, has what Brown called a “medical condition.” He said he was not able to discuss it any further than that. Charles, who Brown calls the best offensive big man on the roster, is scheduled to be evaluated. Right now, he is out.

Chas Brown averaged 10.9 points and 7.9 rebounds at Baltimore City Community College last season. Brown says Chas Brown (no relation), who is from Baltimore, is the best athlete the program has right now. He has been sidelined the last week with what Brown calls “jumper’s knee.” Chas Brown was going to try and practice on Thursday.

[MRSGDG]

In AE news, Warner is a candidate for Karl Malone Award

 

http://www.hoophall.com/news/2015/10/13/twenty-candidates-announced-for-2016-karl-malone-award.html

[godanesgo99]

Apparently Puriefoy is a finalist for the cousy award... It is just too fun to needle SBU fans though.

 

 

http://www.basketballforum.com/13778874-post309.html

Edited October 14, 2015 by godanesgo99

[UA'08]

I can imagine what will happen if SBU falls short again.

[UAFAN]

Are those awards for second place?

[UAFAN]

 

Albany Senior Peter Hooley Embracing His Final Season

 

[Eli]

Are those awards for second place?

Heeyyyyoooooooo

[Dane Pound]

Please send this to returning first team all-conference Evan Singletary...immediately.

Speaking of Singletary, a story on him and why CB thinks he can be the AE POY.