MBB: vs. UNH 2/11

[MRSGDG]

On ESPN3.

[UAalum72]

UNH forward Jacoby Armstrong will not play, serving the second of three-game suspension for "violation of team rules"

http://blog.timesunion.com/collegesports/unh-will-be-a-man-down-for-ualbany-game/21584/

[Dane4ever]

I am still worried about this game. I guess I have not been playing close attention, with all of the build-up last week to Vermont and needing to win to make second-place more likely etc . . and now I see that, actually, UNH is 7-3, which means if we lose, we would be 9-3 and UNH 8-3, therefore 1/2 game behind for second-place. For some reason, I thought the Wildcats had lost more. They are always well-prepared against UA, and certainly have the incentive, given the 4-losses-by-10-points thing! On the other hand -- and let's pretend Maine never happened -- our guys always seem to do what they have to do (sometimes, it's "only what they have to do" but that's another matter). GO DANES!!

[Dane Pound]

Bing had their largest crowd of the year for us on Monday night and UNH is having their "White Out" on Thursday. We'll be getting everyone's best shot this week.

[UA'08]

They had almost 5K. If they ever got their $iena together again that place would be packed out every game.

[danstep]

UNH I believe has the worst attendance in the league??? I expect another close type game but our boys are the better team, know they are the better team and will play like the better team...

[UAalum72]

UNH I believe has the worst attendance in the league???

Yes, less than 700 per game. The three SUNYs lead the league with UA slightly behind SBU as the only two schools over 3000/game.

Edited February 11, 2016 by UAalum72

[Eli]

700? That's terrible. They aren't even that bad...WTH?

[UAalum72]

ATTENDANCE Home Avg

Albany 11-33174 3016

Binghamton 12-30255 2521

Hartford 13-16856 1297

Maine 9-11411 1268

New Hampshire 10-6161 616

Stony Brook 11-34719 3156

UMBC 10-9047 905

UMass Lowell 10-8674 867

Vermont 10-20833 2083

Totals 96-171130 1783

 

Note the 3 of the bottom four teams are "Hockey Schools"

Edited February 12, 2016 by UAalum72

[MRSGDG]

Rich limping, hurt his ankle or something.

[Eli]

Can we defend the 3 please? On the first 6 or 7 we went under the screen and then got blocked out. Come on.

[Eli]

Up 2 and they are shooting 56% from 3 after taking like 10 of them.

 

I'm not worried...they won't be able to keep that up.

[MRSGDG]

Can we defend the 3 please? On the first 6 or 7 we went under the screen and then got blocked out. Come on.

They just said we have the best 3 pt defense in the conference. Which is funny since people always say we are the worse.

 

Did notice Ray going under too..it was like why?!

[Eli]

Yeah it is surprising. We are 1st or 2nd in nearly every major stat in the conference.

[Eli]

Is it me or does Stire seem to get called for some insane phantom fouls. He's backing up with his arms up on a rebound and gets called for a foul. Either it was an extremely late whistle or the ref just made it up.