ualbany wbb WBB - Game 6 UAlbany Great Danes vs RPI Engineers Broadview Center, Albany, NY 27 November 2024 2:00 PM ESPN+

[cwdickens]

Nov 27 (Wed) 2:00 PM

 

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A member of the RPI WBB team is Marley Mueller, daughter of UAlbany's Baseball Coach Jon Mueller.

 

Edited November 27 by cwdickens

[cwdickens]

From Wednesday's Times-Union:

Donovan making impact

Monmouth transfer averaging 10.2 points per game for Danes

BY MICHAEL KELLY

ALBANY — For three games, Kaci Donovan provided solid production. Kaci Donovan has been making a significant impact for the University at Albany women's basketball team. In the past two contests, the graduate student has looked more like the standout player the University at Albany women’s basketball program expects Donovan to be this season.

“She’s just really capable. She’s a 6-foot-1 guard,” UAlbany coach Colleen Mullen said Tuesday. “She can shoot the 3, come off ball screens, create a shot for herself or for a teammate. She can post up.” Basically, Donovan can do a bit of everything — and that’s the type of offensive versatility the Great Danes hoped to be adding when the Owego native joined them from Monmouth, where she was an all-conference player who averaged 11.6 points per game this past season.

Donovan started her college career at Penn State, then spent the past three seasons at Monmouth. While it was an adjustment to joining the Great Danes, she said it’s been an easier one to make as a more veteran player than the one she made several years ago from the Nittany Lions to the Hawks. “Definitely my experience and knowledge of the game is very different as a 22-year-old than as an 18- or 19-year-old,” said Donovan, who is averaging 10.2 points per game, second on the Great Danes behind Kayla Cooper’s 21.6. “And, we have a lot of players on this team that are also grads; we just have a better feel for the game. So, it’s been very quick for us to adjust to each other and play with each other.”

Heading into a 2 p.m. game Wednesday at Broadview Center against Division III RPI, Donovan is coming off games of 17 and 13 points, respectively, against Syracuse and Cornell for the Great Danes. Donovan averaged seven points per game through UAlbany’s first few contests, but has taken — and made — more 3-pointers during the past two games as she’s grown more comfortable in the team’s offense. Donovan made 3 of 9 attempts from 3-point territory in UAlbany’s first three games, and has made 6 of 11 long-range shots in the past two games.

“One thing I’ve really noticed the last few games is we’ve been playing a lot more within the offense,” Donovan said. “We’ve been more comfortable with each other. As much as I’ve been learning my (new) teammates, they’ve been learning me, and they’re putting me in great positions to score, great positions to shoot and giving me the ball where I want it.” That has helped the Great Danes to their first 5-0 start since the 2013-14 season, an opening burst that included the program’s first win against a Power 4 opponent since 2016 when it won this past week at JMA Wireless Dome in Syracuse. Donovan said UAlbany wants to keep its strong start going against its opponent from Troy.

“We treat every opponent the same. We prepare for every opponent the same,” Donovan said. “That’s the most important part, is just staying focused and locked in no matter who we play.” On the Engineers RPI, which will play Wednesday’s game as an exhibition, is off to a fast start this season.

The Engineers are 5-1, with that single loss coming in overtime. RPI has won its past two games and starts its Liberty League slate after playing UAlbany. Leading coach John Greene’s team has been senior guard Siena Smith, who is averaging 13.8 points per game. Besides Smith, RPI has six players averaging at least six points per game. One of those players is senior forward Marley Mueller, a Stillwater High School graduate whose father is Jon Mueller, the UAlbany baseball coach. UAlbany and RPI haven’t played each other since the 1994-95 season, the last that the Great Danes were also a Division III program. UAlbany won that overtime game 68-60 in Troy to take a 24-9 lead in the programs’ series

[UAalum72]

90-42 in a game that only took just over an hour and a half to play 

[nysteve661]

8 minutes ago, UAalum72 said:

90-42 in a game that only took just over an hour and a half to play 

40 minutes of a layup line for the ladies.  

[tnehurley]

Emma H. from 3……YES!

[jimbo]

Just curious…RPI shows this game as an exhibition, while UA does not. Oversight? Intentional? I’m confused. 

[UAalum72]

1 hour ago, jimbo said:

Just curious…RPI shows this game as an exhibition, while UA does not. Oversight? Intentional? I’m confused. 

Men's game against Oneonta was the same Maybe if you play a higher division you don't have to count it against your record?

Oneonta's game vs. Bing was also an exhibition for O

Edited November 28 by UAalum72