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FYI: Morrison was just named the CAA defensive player of the week; the first defensive POW for UA in the CAA (Osbourne got an offensive POW last year.)

This bothered me also. In the first twenty minutes of the game Fiacchi was trusted only once to throw the ball downfield. Then, needing ten yards to keep their drive alive, they twice try for 30+ yard sideline routes.

I think Brook was an 18.5 point favorite the last I looked.

You should know better than that by now...

I was always much more of a Denali fan myself.

I was told she only decided to stop playing basketball a few weeks ago. Maybe they can get another center in time for the season. If not, Tiana-Jo (6'2" from Maine) looks like she might be a capable freshman.

I heard that a couple of weeks ago Megan decided to give up her scholarship and will pursue a business internship instead. A big loss (no pun intended), as she was an AE first teamer, but the talent seems to get better each year. Best of luck to her!

Don't forget to vote...

Yabba Dabba Doooooooooo!

Great to see the organization for one of UA'S most successful sports. D96 brings up some legitimate questions; maybe attention should be focused more on one item than trying to solve all the issues at one time. If you compare the facilities from two years ago to the facilities we have now, just think what we can have in the future with continued success and interest! Missed you at the game (obviously), but we have had conversations about mats in the past: is there any money there or will older mats be used on brand new surfaces? (Still surprised at the costs of those things...)

Women win at UNH, 60-47, bringing their record to 25-3 and 15-0 in conference. With the win, the regular season championship is clinched. Another INCREDIBLE season for the Lady Danes...with the potential for more!

I think it is a fantastic idea, albeit a bit disappointing the university doesn't have money to throw around to all the programs...but maybe a dollar fundraised is sweeter than a dollar budget appropriated? So what's the plan for the approach? Who's spearheading it? What kind of dollar figure are we looking at? For this coming season?

I was waiting for your update, jali....trophy presentations just concluded. UA with two more championships.

Of course with McElroy's policy of maximum contracts after a championship season, this could go on in perpetuity...or you have to have gone five straight years with nothing. Neither option is particularly enticing. Winning "up" games consistently is the best option, but that has been taken off the table.

Come on, brah, you know I know the stats. Everything has been said that could be said. Just hope for lightning in a bottle again; playing at the SEFCU is the only saving grace.

$25K per win? You shut up and tell me how many winning seasons we have with this coaching staff at the helm. I think it's what...4 in 13 years? Look it up. Umm, I am pointing out that that figure is absurd at this level. Win how we could win, and that would multiply out to a Big East salary.

$25K per win?

If anybody is interested, coach Gordon Graham offers e-mail updates about players and matches if you tell him to add you to his distribution list. One interesting tidbit I got from the latest e-mail was this piece of information: "Next up for the Danes is a strong AmericaEast foe, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) on Friday, Feb. 14th, 3:00 pm in Newark, NJ. NJIT was recently added to the conference as an associate member in women's tennis only, thus giving the AE Conference the requisite number of teams so that they retain their automatic qualifier (AQ) for the NCAA team championships." It looks like NJIT is at least in the peripheral when the AE looks for peer institutions.

I didn't realize the kid was from the University of Akron. With him, Downer, and Shanley, Fiacchi can't be feeling too relaxed.

Agreed...specifically the UML game stands out with the injuries. I am starting to believe that in the AE anything can happen. It doesn't do anything if I want to talk basketball with a fan from a bigger and better conference, but I guess it is something.

So this is how a UVM fan feels when it plays UA in the regular season?

Better website than the university's athletics page.

UAlbany fans help us officially welcome Zach DeLuca (Pittsburgh Central Catholic, PA) to the #PURPLEFAM #CAAFB #NSD

LIKE!!!! And they are even making shout-outs while doing it: Taking a break in #NSD to S/O @UAlbanyWBB Conference Winning Streak at 33 Straight Games! #BeastMode