Four basketball games to be Televised!!!

[Dane Pound]

From the University's site:

 

UALBANY BASKETBALL GAMES ARE PART OF AMERICA EAST TELEVISION PACKAGE

     Albany, N.Y. – The America East Conference has announced its basketball television schedule for the 2003-04 season, and the University at Albany’s men’s and women’s programs will appear a combined four times as part of that package.

     The UAlbany men will play at Boston University, the 2003 America East regular-season champion and NIT participant, on Sunday, Feb. 1. The broadcast begins at 12 noon on Super Bowl XXXVIII Sunday. The Great Danes also appear on the schedule at Hartford on Sunday, Jan. 25 at 12 noon. The Hawks, who finished third in the conference standings last year, are coming off a 16-13 campaign. WNYT-TV (NBC 13) will air both games live in the Capital Region market.

     "WNYT NewsChannel 13 is pleased to present two UAlbany men's basketball games this season," WNYT-TV General Manager Steve Baboulis said. "We think the team is positioned to have a solid year, and we are happy to play a part in showing the Capital Region the high quality of basketball played by the Great Danes."

     The UAlbany women will have two games televised as part of the America East schedule, including a home contest at the Recreation and Convocation Center. The Great Danes, who have three starters returning including All-America East center Danielle Hutcheson, will host Binghamton on Wednesday, Feb. 11 at 7:00 p.m. UAlbany also has an away date at Binghamton on Wednesday, Jan. 14 at 7:00 p.m.

[statefan]

This is very good news. We have 13 home games, an away game with Siena, two away games that are easy drives (Colgate and UMass) and now two away games televised.

[Albany Fan]

I agree that this is good news for the program as people will be able to see the talents of Wilson & Levine. I think a player such as Earl Oprong would have drawn in more people if had increased exposure as was very exciting to watch.

[scrabbleship]

From the University's site:

 

UALBANY BASKETBALL GAMES ARE PART OF AMERICA EAST TELEVISION PACKAGE

Albany, N.Y. – The America East Conference has announced its basketball television schedule for the 2003-04 season, and the University at Albany’s men’s and women’s programs will appear a combined four times as part of that package.

The UAlbany men will play at Boston University, the 2003 America East regular-season champion and NIT participant, on Sunday, Feb. 1. The broadcast begins at 12 noon on Super Bowl XXXVIII Sunday. The Great Danes also appear on the schedule at Hartford on Sunday, Jan. 25 at 12 noon. The Hawks, who finished third in the conference standings last year, are coming off a 16-13 campaign. WNYT-TV (NBC 13) will air both games live in the Capital Region market.

"WNYT NewsChannel 13 is pleased to present two UAlbany men's basketball games this season," WNYT-TV General Manager Steve Baboulis said. "We think the team is positioned to have a solid year, and we are happy to play a part in showing the Capital Region the high quality of basketball played by the Great Danes."

The UAlbany women will have two games televised as part of the America East schedule, including a home contest at the Recreation and Convocation Center. The Great Danes, who have three starters returning including All-America East center Danielle Hutcheson, will host Binghamton on Wednesday, Feb. 11 at 7:00 p.m. UAlbany also has an away date at Binghamton on Wednesday, Jan. 14 at 7:00 p.m.

 

Following the lead of another poster, here's another sign of how far we've come given that those four games aired out of the conference wanting to give fair exposure to all teams. I can't remember how many TW-3 games were aired in the 03-04 season (the campus still ran it's own cable system at the time), but it couldn't have been that much.

 

Three years later, we had 13 regular season games aired on some form including an ESPN game of sorts. The growth of game availability on TV (better teams = more AE-TV games, TW-3 being available on-campus, etc) may play some of a role in how much we've grown as a program and that can also be seen in how our attendance has increased. Some things could be better (why the $iena game is not on TV amazes me), but just another sign of how we've come so far so fast.

[albanyhoops31]

no offense to anyone, but i think we all get the point on how far we've come as a program. lets stop bumping old topics and just talk some current basketball and beating UVA!

[olddog71]

VCU beats Duke.

 

Who else had played at our court and then gone on to beat someone really big in the NCAA in the same season?

 

Did Bucknell go anywhere the year we beat them here before this season?