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According to a Delaware source, Delaware remains a member of CAA Football for this season.

Yes, I cannot recall when I have seen this before however; we still have four home conference game with four away conference games. In the end Stony Brook was a horrible team last year and likely no better this year. Looks like a potential road win.

2024 Football Schedule Scheduled Games 2024 Football Schedule Date Time At Opponent Location TV Radio Result Links August 31, 2024 (Saturday) TBA Home LIU Albany, N.Y. / Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium History September 7, 2024 (Saturday) TBA Away West Virginia Morgantown, WV History September 14, 2024 (Saturday) TBA Away Idaho Moscow, ID History September 28, 2024 (Saturday) TBA Home Maine Albany, N.Y. / Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium History October 5, 2024 (Saturday) TBA Away Cornell Ithaca, NY History October 12, 2024 (Saturday) TBA Away Bryant Smithfield, RI History October 19, 2024 (Saturday) TBA Home Elon Albany, N.Y. / Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium History October 26, 2024 (Saturday) TBA Away Delaware Newark, DE History November 2, 2024 (Saturday) TBA Home New Hampshire Albany, N.Y. / Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium History November 9, 2024 (Saturday) TBA Away Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY History November 16, 2024 (Saturday) TBA Away Rhode Island Kingston, RI History November 23, 2024 (Saturday) TBA Home Hampton Albany, N.Y. / Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium History

How lucky is UAlbany to have Meghan Huerter playing for UAlbany WBB? Damm lucky!! CAMPUS WATCH Jillian Huerter embraces starting role for Rutgers By Bill Arsenault Dustin Satloff/Rutgers Athletics Rutgers freshman guard Jillian Huerter has four double figure outings and is averaging 7.1 points a game, aided by 32-for-82 from 3-point range (39 percent). Jillian Huerter has been solid off the bench for the 6-11 Rutgers women’s basketball team, but the 6-foot freshman guard got the first start of her college career and scored 16 points in a 77-76 Big Ten Conference loss to Purdue on Jan. 2 in West Lafayette, Ind. Huerter, from Clifton Park and a Shenendehowa High graduate, made her second start on Friday, but the Scarlet Knights ran into a buzz saw, dropping a 103-69 conference decision to No. 3-ranked Iowa before a sold-out crowd of 8,000 in Piscataway, N.J. She had seven points, two rebounds, two assists and two steals in 37 minutes of action. The 16 points matches her season high. She had that total in a 98-67 non-league victory over La Salle on Dec. 5. She has four double-figure outings and is averaging 7.1 points a game, aided by 32-for-82 from 3-point range (39 percent). Jillian is the third sibling to make a name for herself on the college level. Her brother Kevin was a standout at Maryland and is currently playing with the Sacramento Kings in the NBA while her junior sister Meghan is a key performer at UAlbany.

NOTES FROM THE FIELD Gattuso named FCS Coach of Year Gattuso University at Albany head coach Greg Gattuso was named Tuesday as the American Football Coaches Association FCS Coach of the Year. Gattuso, in his 10th season, guided UAlbany to the best season in program history. The Great Danes went 11-4 and reached the Football Championship Subdivision playoff semifinals before losing to eventual national champion South Dakota State. “It’s truly an honor to receive this award knowing that it was voted upon by my peers in college football,” Gattuso said in a news release. “This showcases the hard work and dedication from both the staff and the student-athletes - it’s a team award. They are the ones who made this season what it was, I cannot thank them enough.” Gattuso was honored in December as the AFCA FCS Region 1 (Northeast) Coach of the Year, nominating him for the national award.

UALBANY FOOTBALL Wisconsin QB commits to Danes Burkett, a former three-star recruit, has chance to replace Poffenbarger By Mark Singelais Courtesy of Wisconsin Athletics Former Wisconsin quarterback Myles Burkett, who committed Monday to UAlbany, was a three-star recruit coming out of high school in Franklin, Wis. Wisconsin Athletics New UAlbany quarterback Myles Burkett, who committed on Monday, played in two games for Wisconsin in the 2022 season. He didn't appear in any games for the Badgers in 2023. On the same day its former quarterback committed to a Power Five conference school, the University at Albany football program reached into the transfer portal for a P5 passer who could be the Great Danes’ next starter. University of Wisconsin transfer Myles Burkett tweeted Monday his commitment to UAlbany. He posted a photo of himself in a Great Dane uniform with the caption #UAUKNOW. On Instagram, Burkett posted the same photo and added, “New York State of Mind.” He has three years of eligibility remaining. Burkett, a native of Franklin, Wis., made the announcement about two hours before Reese Poffenbarger, who led the Great Danes to the Football Championship Subdivision semifinals, confirmed he’s headed to the University of Miami. Poffenbarger entered the portal on Dec. 20, five days after UAlbany’s season ended with a loss to eventual national champion South Dakota State. Burkett, a 6-foot, 202-pound redshirt freshman, spent two seasons as a Wisconsin backup. He appeared in two games in 2022, completing 4-of-5 passes for 84 yards in mop-up duty against Illinois State and New Mexico State. Burkett didn’t appear in any games in 2023 after new Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell brought in a pair of transfer quarterbacks, Tanner Mordecai and Braedyn Locke. The Badgers went 7-6 and lost to LSU in the ReliaQuest Bowl on New Year’s Day. Burkett was already gone by then, having entered the portal in November. Then Burkett tweeted he “achieved my dream of being a Badger” and thanked the Wisconsin coaching staff. “With that being said, it is time for me to take on a new challenge,” Burkett posted. That challenge will present itself at UAlbany, where Poffenbarger transformed from a transfer who sat his freshman year at Old Dominion to a player who led FCS in touchdown passes and passing yards this past season. Poffenbarger thrived under offensive coordinator Jared Ambrose, who will now tutor Burkett, a former three-star recruit coming out of high school. Burkett was the Wisconsin Associated Press and Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior. He was a two-time first-team all-state selection and won the Dave Krieg Award as the top quarterback in Wisconsin as a senior. He led Franklin to a 14-0 record and a state title as a senior, completing 71.3 percent of his passes for 36 touchdowns and four interceptions. In his high school career, Burkett passed for 6,483 yards and 71 touchdowns and rushed for 1,054 yards and 14 scores. UAlbany filled other needs in the transfer portal on Monday with the commitment of East Stroudsburg defensive tackle Dasean Dixon and Kent State defensive end Marcus Winfield. Dixon had six sacks and 59 tackles for Division II East Stroudsburg last season. Winfield was third-team all-conference at Delaware State before transferring to Kent State. UAlbany lost its entire defensive line to graduation or transfer. Defensive end Anton Juncaj chose Arkansas and defensive tackle Elijah Hills committed Tuesday to Wisconsin. A UAlbany spokesman said head coach Greg Gattuso is not commenting on recruits at this time and will issue statements in the future. Efforts were unsuccessful to reach Poffenbarger about his Miami commitment. “Albany will forever have a place in my heart and we did a lot of special things,” Poffenbarger told ESPN. “At the end of the day, I thought it was time to move on and put myself in the best position to compete for a national championship and one day play in the NFL.”

Binghamton has a 5-9 overall record and 0-1 in conference, Binghamton has a home game against Bryant on Thursday. Jan 13 (Sat) 2:00 PM AE at Binghamton Vestal, N.Y. ESPN+ Int'l Video Live Stats Tickets History

A reminder, the price of the season tickets goes up after Thursday.

From SDSU site: DEFENSE CARRIES JACKS TO TITLE REPEAT

At some point, $iena will wake up and send this ship to the scrap yard: SIENA MEN’S BASKETBALL Saints seek to steady the ship By Mark Singelais ALBANY — After his team was trounced by Fairfield on Friday night, Siena men’s basketball coach Carmen Maciariello found his thoughts drifting to Tucson, Ariz., to explain the Saints’ latest blowout loss. Arizona crushed Colorado by 47 points in a Pac-12 game the night before, Maciariello pointed out, trying to add context to his own team’s 93-69 loss to the Stags in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference matchup in front of 4,931 fans at MVP Arena. “No, I mean, you’ll see scores all over the country that are one team’s high one day and low the next,” Maciariello said. “I think that’s college basketball. I think you can look at (Thursday) night with Arizona and Colorado. I mean, some scores get crazy.” That’s happened a lot to Siena this season. The Saints have lost seven games by 20 or more points, including their past two MAAC games. Maciariello didn’t back off his opinion offered last week that Siena has “all the makings of a team that can win a championship.” The Saints lost their seventh straight to fall to 2-12 overall, 1-2 in the MAAC with 17 league games left. “At the end of the day, it’s about being consistent and the MAAC’s a wide-open league,” Maciariello said Friday. “I haven’t looked at the (other) scores tonight, but any given night, anybody can beat anybody. That’s what it is. We just have to make sure what our part is and what we have to do.” The Saints still have a lot of work to do. Fairfield shot 70.6 percent in the second half and senior guard Brycen Goodine came off the bench to score a career-high 40 points, the most in a regulation game by a Division I player this season. “We just had to be better defensively today,” redshirt sophomore center Giovanni Emejuru said. “We had no pride, essentially. That’s what it came down to.” Siena started well enough. The Saints led 20-13 and were still ahead 24-21 with 5:49 left in the first half. That’s when Fairfield went on a17-0 run that began with the first of Goodine’s eight 3-pointers. “I’m trying to put a finger on it,” Maciariello said. “We’re up seven, 10 minutes to go in (the first half), and I don’t know if we relax. … We have to make sure we understand how hard we have to play all the time. We can’t be inconsistent. We have too many inconsistent guys and right now, that’s hurting us.” Offensively, Siena received only five bench points. The Saints continue to rely heavily on the trio of Emejuru, who had 22 points, red-shirt junior guard Sean Durugordon (20 points) and sophomore guard Michael Eley, held to eight points after scoring 30 against UMass. “We have to understand teams are going to continually try to speed us up to take us out of offense,” Maciariello said. “It’s not like they (Fairfield) are a great pressing team… The ball has to move. Guys have to understand where the ball has to go.” The Saints seemed encouraged after last week’s 79-66 loss at UMass, a game Siena trailed by six with less than five minutes left. But Friday, Maciariello told his team that game was “fool’s gold” because UMass didn’t respect Siena and was exhausted after returning from a tournament in Hawaii. Emejuru was asked if Siena had too high an opinion of itself after the UMass game. “If we did, we had no reason to because we lost that game,” he said. “At the end of the day, it comes down to us being more mentally mature and being able to understand that, OK, there were good spurts in that game, but we still lost and its about having that mentality of, OK, we lost but we have to fight and be better from that game.” The situation doesn’t get easier for Siena, which travels to western New York to face Canisius and Niagara next weekend. The Saints have swept that trip only once (2016) since the 2007-08 season. “After being in this many games, that’s what it’s come down to now, is having pride and stopping the guy in front of us,” Emejuru said.

UALBANY 79, NJIT 73 Beagle’s big second half propels Danes Sophomore scores 17 points over the final 20 minutes as UAlbany takes league opener By Pete Dougherty Lori Van Buren/Times Union UAlbany guard Sebastian Thomas, shown earlier this season, led the Danes with 22 points at NJIT on Saturday. Lori Van Buren/TU archive Jonathan Beagle, right, shown earlier this season, had 19 points and 16 rebounds against NJIT on Saturday. Sophomore jinx? Not yet, at least, for University at Albany second-year player Jonathan Beagle. Beagle, the reigning America East basketball Rookie of the Year, turned on the afterburners in the second half Saturday afternoon in the conference opener against New Jersey Institute of Technology. He scored 17 of his 19 points after halftime to go with a career-best 16 rebounds to lift UAlbany to a 79-73 victory in Newark, N.J. “It’s a gutsy effort by him,” UAlbany coach Dwayne Killings said of Beagle, who played 36 minutes despite turning his ankle with five minutes remaining. “He’s OK. He turned it, but he’s fine. It’s good that we get some rest and don’t play till Saturday.” The Great Danes (9-7, 1-0) topped their overall victory total of last season (8-23), when NJIT pushed UAlbany out of the America East Tournament for the first time ever. The Highlanders (4-9, 0-1) escaped the first half with a 35-34 advantage, holding Beagle, a 6-foot-10 forward, to a pair of free throws and blocking three of his five field-goal attempts. Beagle, whose scoring is up 12 percent and rebounding ahead 30 percent over his stellar freshman year, didn’t get his first field goal until 14:55 remained, but at that point dominated inside. He had six second-half buckets, all dunks or layups, and went 7-for-7 on free throws. “The one thing that holds Jonathan back is he gets in his head a little bit,” said UAlbany guard Sebastian Thomas, who led the team with 22 points. “In the first half, he wasn’t getting calls and things like that, so going into halftime, we told him just focus on what you can control. In the second half, he showed us what he can do.” “Going into the second half, everyone’s giving me confidence,” Beagle said. “I know the type of player I can be. I just went out there with a lot of confidence. I knew that they could get me shots and that we have some talented players that can help me out.” It was far from a one-man show. Thomas fired in four 3-pointers, all at critical junctures. His first tied the game, the second gave the Danes a lead, the third doubled their lead, and the final with 59.4 seconds to go rattled in to put UAlbany ahead 74-67. Aaron Reddish got his fifth start of the season — the first since Dec. 16 at Drexel — and answered with 16 points and nine rebounds. Marcus Jackson added 10 points and eight rebounds. “I was really impressed with Aaron Reddish, the way he came out,” Killings said. “We challenged him about rebounding. The two areas that we have to improve at, just to have an impactful level of improvement in league play, is ball security — we had 15 turnovers; obviously we want to cut that down — but rebounding the ball, and Aaron was great there.” UAlbany held a 41-36 advantage on the boards, 23-15 in the second half. The Danes are now set up with three straight home games, although all are against teams that are over .500: Binghamton (8-5), UMass Lowell (10-4) and Bryant (9-7). “We’ve got to take them one game at a time, one possession at a time,” Killings said. “It’s going to be hard, but I’m excited to get going and start league play. I told our guys, when I woke up, it felt like Christmas morning because we’re going to go after this thing.”

Nice job by KIllings yesterday, keeping everyone's emotion in check ... there were at least two or three situations when the staff and/or teammates kept things from escalating. Killings has demonstrated high awareness to the emotional levels on the court.

Saturday, January 6, 2024 Men's Basketball Away Home Result Location Links UMass Lowell82 New Hampshire75 Final Durham, NH (Conf.) Box Score Live Event Bryant81 UMBC67 Final Baltimore, MD (Conf.) Box Score Full Game Archive Maine58 Vermont65 Final Burlington, VT (Conf.) Box Score UAlbany79 NJIT73 Final Newark, NJ (Conf.) Box Score

Anyone following UAlbany WBB is asking the same question .... Saturday, January 6, 2024 Women's Basketball Away Home Result Location Links Vermont48 Maine60 Final Orono, ME (Conf.) Box Score Full Game Archive NJIT36 UAlbany77 Final Albany, NY (Conf.) Box Score Full Game Archive New Hampshire53 UMass Lowell70 Final Lowell, Mass. (Conf.) Box Score UMBC64 Bryant63 Final Smithfield, RI (Conf.) Box Score

Every conference game is important, however; losing both games to Binghamton last year, we must get off on the right foot with a win at home on Saturday. This is a bell weather game for the season and on how much better this team is than last year's team. Hopefully, Beagle's misstep on the court, late in 2nd half, is nothing and any rehab is minor. I loved the way the team played in the last 90 seconds.

Women’s Basketball Remains Unstoppable at Home

Beagle is back in .... thank god next game in a week ...

Did everyone just catch Jonathan's awkward stumble... limped off ... being checked out

A chance to see a great team before the snow arrives. This is NJIT WBB team's first conference game. Jan 6 (Sat) 2:00 PM AE vs NJIT $3 Kids Day Albany, N.Y. Broadview Center ESPN+ Int'l Video Live Stats Program Tickets Preview History

The Tip-off for tomorrow's game will now be 2:00 PM. Since the storm, associated with the Winter Storm Warning for the Capital District, is moving up the coast, New Jersey will feel the effects of bad weather sooner.

Women’s Basketball Triumphant in First Conference Matchup

UALBANY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Danes set for their league opener By Pete Dougherty UALBANY VS. BRYANT When: 7 p.m. Thursday Where: Broadview Center, Albany TV: ESPN+ (streaming) ALBANY — In October, the America East women’s basketball coaches spoke. In November and December, the University at Albany players answered. Now, the preliminaries have ended. The 40th season of America East women’s basketball begins Thursday night. UAlbany, despite being picked just third in a preseason coaches’ poll, was dominant in non-conference games, finishing 11-2 and leading the AE in seven team statistical categories. “Everybody’s record really doesn’t matter because it’s apples to oranges,” sixth-year coach Colleen Mullen said Wednesday as she prepared her team for her conference opener against Bryant. “Everybody’s had a different non-conference schedule, everybody’s played different opponents. Now it’s about how you do in your league and how you do against like opponents.” Still, there’s no denying how the Great Danes played in the first two months. Their only losses came in the season’s second game at Fordham, 66-63, and on a Thanksgiving weekend trip to No. 4 Stanford, 79-35. UAlbany is on a seven-game winning streak, all double-digit victories. The Danes lead the America East in scoring (68.0), scoring defense (51.2), scoring margin (+16.8), field-goal defense (.359), 3-point shooting (.398), rebound margin (6.6) and turnover margin (2.7). Their nonconference record is 3 1 /2 games better than preseason favorite Vermont (8-6) and 4 1 /2 ahead of Maine (7-7), picked No. 2 in the preseason poll. “It’s kind of fun to be picked third,” Mullen said. “I know Helene Haegerstrand wasn’t back on the team, and we had a lot of new players when they picked us. … Honestly, I don’t blame them. I thought that it was pretty generous to pick us at third, with how many people that we lost and only returning five players. “The preseason poll is what it is, but I’m the type of person that likes to be the underdog. I like to be the one that has that underdog mentality. Although our record is 11-2 and we’re coming in with an X on our backs, I still feel like our team carries themselves as the underdog mentality. We have something to prove to ourselves, and we have something to prove to the league.” Bryant (7-6) was selected seventh in the preseason poll. The Bulldogs and Danes each have victories over nonconference foes Central Connecticut State, Dartmouth and Stonehill. Their other common opponent is Merrimack, which lost to UAlbany but defeated Bryant. UAlbany won both meetings against Bryant last season. “It definitely feels like a new season,” UAlbany junior guard Lilly Phillips said. “Also, just finishing the winter break off, you come back and have a restart.” One significant change in this year’s America East is a Thursday/Saturday scheduling format. The conference previously scheduled most games on Wednesdays and Saturdays. After Thursday night’s game, UAlbany will stay home to face NJIT on Saturday afternoon. “I think they’re hopeful that we’ll move to true travel partners, where it’s easier for the UMBCs and the Maines to travel,” Mullen said. “It kind of hurts us because we’re so centrally located that we have easier trips. It’s just something to adjust to. I love Wednesday/Saturday because it’s two days to prep, the game, two days to prep, but the landscape is ever-changing.”“It’ll definitely be a change,” Phillips said. “I’m not really sure yet because we haven’t actually done it, but it’ll be interesting. Everyone’s going through the same thing, so it’s not like we’re the only one who has a one-day prep.”

Easy drive for parents from Maryland.... depending on schedule an instate drive for his parents

Jan 4 (Thu) 7:00 PM AE vs Bryant F/S, SUNY, & Union Night Albany, N.Y. Broadview Center ESPN+ Int'l Video Live Stats Tickets History

Harvard had little more grit and I thought Killings was out-coached, in particular, when Harvard went with a taller team with no true point guards.