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Parking for MBB Broadview Lot parking will be allocated based on Priority Points Rankings, as well. Broadview Lot passes will be allocated based off ranking until the lot reaches capacity. Like football season parking, a minimum contribution of $250 to the GDAC must be made to be considered for the Broadview Lot. Once the Broadview Lot reaches capacity, all remaining donors of $100 or more will be allocated Dutch Lot parking. Thank you again for your support and looking forward to welcoming everyone to the Broadview Center! IMPORTANT DATES Thursday, 10/26: GDAC Points and Rankings Received Monday, 10/30: Season Ticket Deposit and Donation Deadline Wednesday, 11/1: Final Rankings and Seat Selection Window Sent Tuesday, 11/7: Women’s Basketball Select-A-Seat Night Wednesday, 11/8: Men’s Basketball Select-A-Seat-Night (1) Thursday, 11/9: Men’s Basketball Select-A-Seat Night (2) Monday, 11/13 Parking Allocation

I have received the email on my ranking as a GDAC contributor. I have included some of the text leaving out my ranking and points as a matter of privacy. GDAC Priority Points/Ranking as of 10.26.23 - MBB Thank you for your continued support of UAlbany Basketball through your 2023-24 season ticket commitment. We are so excited to welcome you all to the brand-new Broadview Center. You and all the Great Dane fans that placed season ticket deposits will be welcomed to the Broadview Center on either November 8 or 9 to select your new season ticket location(s). The Great Dane Athletic Club (GDAC) priority point system is designed to reward loyalty and philanthropic support and will be used to determine the order in which fans choose their new seat locations. The priority point system is a ranking that is used to allocate a multitude of benefits including, America East and NCAA Tournament ticket availability and location, season ticket upgrades, parking, and special events. Priority points are awarded to donors who contribute annual gifts to the GDAC, season tickets as well as gifts to athletic scholarship endowments, athletic facility projects, and other special contributions to UAlbany Athletics. The following is the format used to determine points and ranking: · Current Giving to Athletics (Unrestricted): 2 per $100 · Current Giving to Athletics (Restricted): 5 per $100 · Consecutive Years Giving: 5 per year · Lifetime Giving to Athletics: 1 per $100 · Consecutive Years Purchasing Season Tickets: 5 per year · Current Faculty/Staff at UAlbany: 10 points (one time) · UAlbany Alumni: 10 points (one time) As of Thursday, October 26th, you have accumulated nnnn GDAC Priority Points. Your donor ranking, which includes all athletic contributors, is nnn of 8,843. As of, October 26th, 2023, your seat selection slot would be 27. Deadline for season ticket deposits and donations is Monday, October 30, 2023. Fans looking to improve their season ticket selection slot prior to the Select-a-Seat Night would need to make an additional contribution by the October 30 deadline. If you would like to make an additional GDAC contribution to support our student-athletes, click here. All donations made prior to October 27th, will be added to your priority point total, and will improve your seat selection slot. A final email determining your order and containing your final point total will be sent on November 1, 2023.

Question: Will there be any impacts, from the Lewiston mass shooting, on this weekend's game in Orono, ME. Lewiston and Orono are not that close however, our team needs to travel on I-95, which passes Lewiston area.

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That is how I understood the article.

The arena project at UVM has reached mythical proportions similar to the Lake Champlain water creature known as Champ. Neither exists and never will. The concept for a new arena at UVM predates UAlbany entrance to the conference.

Just received an e-mail stating November 7- 9 still a go... Reminder: Basketball Select-A-Seat Nights for Nov. 7-9 ALBANY, N.Y. – Season ticket deposits for the highly anticipated 2023-24 UAlbany men’s and women’s basketball seasons are now being accepted. In addition, special “Select-a-Seat” nights have been scheduled for early November. Click To Read Full Release

The MAAC is shaking up the college lacrosse conference alignment. The America East will retain its automatic qualifier as seven teams will remain, all full members of the America East. As someone said to me after the end of the Merrimack context this past season, I do not expect to see them in the conference for long.

My guess: I do not expect the work to be completed by November 7 seat selection date for WBB nor for the MBB date of November 8.

At this point, UAlbanysports.com still refers to selection dates as November 7-9, 2023. Contractors have two weeks to install the remaining seats. Yes, a picture update would be nice.

A long season will come to end on Senior Night as even with a win, there is no statistical way to qualify for the America East Tournament. A win by UAlbany would leave UVM on the outside looking in. Oct 26 (Thu) 7:00 PM AE vs Vermont Senior Night Albany, N.Y. Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium Live Stats History

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Jonathan Beagle and family get a game close to home. Oh, what the H*** is going on with the Broadview Center? UALBANY MEN Great Danes to play Nov. 21 in Glens Falls By Mark Singelais Jenn March/Times Union archive UAlbany’s Jonathan Beagle of Hudson Falls will get to play near home when the Great Danes face Army Nov. 21 at Cool Insuring Arena in Glens Falls. The University at Albany men’s basketball team’s first game in the Capital Region this season won’t be at the team’s renovated campus arena. The Great Danes will play Army Nov. 21 at Cool Insuring Arena in Glens Falls, athletic director Mark Benson said. It will be UAlbany’s first game in Glens Falls. The game is part of the Doc Sauers Invitational, named for the retired UAlbany coaching great. UAlbany is completing renovations on Broad-view Center, previously known as SEFCU Arena, which is scheduled to open Nov. 29 when the Great Danes face Boston University. Playing in Glens Falls will allow UAlbany sophomore forward Jonathan Beagle, a Hudson Falls native, to play just a few miles from his home. As of Sunday morning, the UAlbany-Army game was not yet listed on the Cool Insuring Arena website, nor was there any site mentioned on UAlbany’s online schedule. The Army website still has the game being played at SEFCU Arena. Great Danes head coach Dwayne Killings said last week he wasn’t certain when his team would be able to start practicing in Broadview Center. “I think that’s going be evaluated here in the next couple of weeks,” Killings said. “It’s a massive project and when you go in and see the progression, day-to-day, week-to-week, I think No. 1 thing is making sure it’s done, making sure it’s a safe environment to go in and practice. I’m hoping in the next couple weeks we have a hard date. Obviously, we don’t play (there) until the latter part of November, so getting in there isn’t necessarily the biggest concern because we’ve got some time before we play our first game. But it’s going to be exciting.” UAlbany played its home games at Hudson Valley Community College last season while Broadview Center was closed for improvements. The Great Danes still practice inside a converted pool in UAlbany’s Physical Education Building. Army went 17-16 last season, 10-8 in the Patriot League. The Black Knights have a new head coach in Kevin Kuwik, who previously served as an assistant at Ohio State and Butler. UAlbany is 5-3 all-time against Army. They last met on Dec. 5, 2004, a Great Danes victory in Albany. MORE FROM Classifieds

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UALBANY FOOTBALL Danes look to tighten defense By Mark Singelais RHODE ISLAND AT UALBANY When: 3:30 p.m. Saturday Where: Casey Stadium, Albany Radio: 104.5 FM WTMM Courtesy of New Hampshire Athletics UAlbany wide receiver Julian Hicks, shown in a game last season, had touchdown catches of 75 and 32 yards last week at New Hampshire. Jim Franco/Times Union archive UAlbany football coach Greg Gattuso said ideally he’d like the offense to be more balanced between running and passing this week vs. Rhode Island. ALBANY — The passing game flourished. The defense faltered. The University at Albany football team saw the positive and negative in its 38-31 loss at New Hampshire last week. The Great Danes (4-3 overall, 2-1 Coastal Athletic Association) return to Casey Stadium on Saturday to take on Rhode Island, which has beaten them the past three seasons. Against UNH, UAlbany wide receiver Julian Hicks caught touchdown passes of 75 and 32 yards and wide receiver Brevin Easton added scoring receptions of 50 and 38 yards from quarterback Reese Poffenbarger. “I think it helps our offense,” Hicks said. “It gives us a better look at what we can be and how dynamic we can be as an offense. We’ve just got to continue to work in practice and continue to just lock into the game plan.” Saturday’s weather might not be optimal for the passing game. The forecast calls for rain and 11 mph winds gusting to 27 at kickoff. URI (4-3, 2-2) is susceptible to the run. The Rams are allowing 164.7 rushing yards per game, seventh in the CAA, and 4.8 yards per carry. But the Great Danes are second-to-last in the conference in rushing at 100 yards per contest. Great Danes coach Greg Gattuso hopes success in the air against UNH could help the run game against URI. He said he’d like to get the ball more to freshman running back Griffin Woo-dell of Glens Falls, who is averaging 4.5 yards per carry. He rushed 12 times for 46 yards against the Wildcats. “We’ve been trying to break out with the deep balls a little bit,” Gattuso said. “(Poffenbarger) is really starting to play. I thought he played a good football game. … If we can get a little more balance, it certainly will help us. Backing the safeties off is a big part of running the ball and I think we were able to do that in the game. Just unfortunately couldn’t pull it out.” UAlbany’s defense, one of the best in the CAA through the first six games, allowed season highs for points and yards (435) against UNH. Those numbers topped even Football Subdivision opponents Marshall and Hawaii earlier this season. While UNH quarterback Max Brosmer (342 yards, three touchdowns) played well, UAlbany also had breakdowns in pass coverages. “We take everything we do personally,” UAlbany safety Larry Walker Jr. said. “This game, for sure, we took it personally, but on a motivational type of tip, we came out here (at practice) and just do what we do, keep working, that’s all.” The Great Danes will face another good quarterback in URI’s Kasim Hill, the Maryland and Tennessee transfer who has directed the Rams to three straight wins over UAlbany. Hill leads the CAA with 2,037 passing yards and is third with 15 touchdown passes, behind Brosmer’s 17 and Poffenbarger’s 16. “Kasim Hill, he’s a good player,” Walker said. “I’ve been playing him, like you said, a couple of times throughout my years here at Albany. He’s a dual threat when he wants to be. He’s a good pocket passer. He sees zone coverages, he reads man well. He’s got trust in his guys and that’s what a quarterback’s supposed to do. It’s going to be fun playing against him one more time.” Saturday is UAlbany’s homecoming game. The Great Danes are 2-0 at home this season with decisive wins over Fordham and Villanova in front of crowds larger than 7,000 in both contests. “Definitely the crowd and just the atmosphere with the students and our family being there,” said Easton, explaining UAlbany’s home success. “But definitely just the comfortability of being on our own field and having our own routine, whether it be with the trainers and just getting ready for the game.” MORE FROM Sports

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From today's Times Union: UALBANY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Karpell looks for title with Danes By Mark Singelais UAlbany Marketing Services/ UAlbany graduate point guard Sarah Karpell, a Fordham transfer, said she transferred to the Great Danes partly to capture a title that eluded her with the Rams. Sarah Karpell won at Fordham. Just not as much as she wanted. Her four seasons with the Rams produced four straight winning records and three consecutive Women’s NIT appearances, but no championships. With the option of playing a fifth year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Karpell decided to make the University at Albany women’s basketball program her final stop. “Last one best one!!” Karpell, a 5-foot-7 graduate point guard, tweeted in May when she chose to transfer to the Great Danes. “One of the biggest reasons why I decided to take my fifth year was because I had never won a championship at Fordham before,” Karpell explained Thursday. “With the coaching change happening there, I kind of felt my best option was to look for somewhere else that I could do that, and Albany was a great option. Their past success, and obviously their track record, speaks for itself. It was truly an easy decision for me and I do believe it’s going to be my best one, and I hope it is.” The Great Danes were picked third in the America East Conference preseason coaches’ poll that was released Thursday. UAlbany senior guard Kayla Cooper was chosen to the preseason all-conference team. Karpell is one of three transfers brought in by coach Colleen Mullen to reinforce a team that lost at Vermont in the America East championship game last season. Vermont is the preseason choice to repeat, followed by Maine and UAlbany. The Catamounts received seven first-place votes and the Black Bears got the other two. UAlbany didn’t return five of its top seven scorers from a year ago because of graduation, injury and transfer. “Now it’s kind of turn the page to a new era of UAlbany women’s basketball,” said Mullen, who won the America East title two years ago. “Sometimes change is really good and it’s exciting. Having a nice core back, adding a terrific player with the woman sitting next to me, Sarah, amazing point guard, somebody that makes everybody around her better, and just really having some nice pieces that people don’t know about yet.” Karpell, from Holmdel, N.J., started 67 games and played in 109 over her Fordham career. She averaged 2.5 points and 2.1 assists per game playing for two head coaches, Stephanie Gaitley and Candice Green. She won’t have to wait long to face her old program. UAlbany, which opens its season Nov. 6 at Merrimack, plays its second game Nov. 10 at Fordham’s Rose Hill Gymnasium. Fordham has a new head coach in Bridgette Mitchell, a former Siena assistant. “It’s going to be a lot of fun,” Karpell said. “Obviously, I played there for four years, so I’m used to the gym. Hopefully, I’ll shoot well, but I’m really excited. My friends and my family are all going to be there and it would be great to beat the Rams, so looking forward to it.” Karpell’s mother, Dawn, is a former Fairleigh Dickinson and Sacred Heart point guard who coached Sarah in high school and AAU. “It’s definitely been extremely helpful and I feel like I understand the game really, really well and I kind of owe a lot of that to my mom,” Sarah said. UAlbany faced Fordham once when Karpell played for the Rams, who blew out the Great Danes 71-42 on Dec. 22, 2020, in the Bronx. “I’m happy that she’s on our side now in purple this time around,” Mullen said.