mbb 2023 Game #13: 12/22/23 - 2PM @ South Florida

[Eli]

Last Up: W (93-79) vs Sacred Heart
Next Up: @ South Florida (5-4, 3 game winning streak)
Date: 12/22/23 @ 2:00PM
TV/Streaming: ESPN+
Local Radio: ESPN Radio 104.5 FM
ESPN Matchup Predictor: 17.6% chance of a UAlbany win

UAlbany Wins																																			
** Albany stats are the left side in each grouping **																																			
Opponent	Type	LOC	ATN	PTS		FGM		FGA		FG%		3PTM		3PTA		3PT%		FTM		FTA		FT%		REB		AST		STL		BLK		TO		FOUL	
Columbia	OOC	Away	761	78	75	27	23	59	57	45.8%	40.4%	6	7	17	22	35.3%	31.8%	18	22	27	24	66.7%	91.7%	40	25	14	11	4	7	3	3	15	10	18	19
Army		OOC	Home	2011	62	59	22	22	53	62	41.5%	35.5%	7	4	21	18	33.3%	22.2%	11	11	14	17	78.6%	64.7%	31	31	8	7	5	7	4	3	11	7	17	10
Siena		OOC	Away	7605	86	51	36	20	70	61	51.4%	32.8%	6	3	19	14	31.6%	21.4%	8	8	9	13	88.9%	61.5%	45	33	14	9	12	6	1	3	12	18	18	9
Boston Univ.	OOC	Home	3103	86	72	25	25	55	65	45.5%	38.5%	14	4	32	14	43.8%	28.6%	22	18	37	26	59.5%	69.2%	36	42	15	9	9	6	4	4	10	13	22	25
Dartmouth	OOC	Home	2075	73	68	27	25	63	56	42.9%	44.6%	5	6	20	26	25.0%	23.1%	14	12	24	16	58.3%	75.0%	38	34	14	10	11	5	1	9	14	17	20	23
SUNY Potsdam	OOC	Home	1653	98	59	39	22	73	65	53.4%	33.8%	9	4	23	19	39.1%	21.1%	11	11	15	13	73.3%	84.6%	38	32	20	7	17	5	3	5	13	21	14	10
Sacred Heart	OOC	Home	1415	93	79	31	34	58	65	53.4%	52.3%	10	5	21	18	47.6%	27.8%	21	6	26	13	80.8%	46.2%	40	22	18	19	7	8	1	3	17	10	13	18
Tot. W				18623	576	463	207	171	431	431	48.0%	39.7%	57	33	153	131	37.3%	25.2%	105	88	152	122	69.1%	72.1%	268	219	103	72	65	44	17	30	92	96	122	114
Avg. W				2660.4	82.3	66.1	29.6	24.4	61.6	61.6	47.7%	39.7%	8.1	4.7	21.9	18.7	36.5%	25.1%	15.0	12.6	21.7	17.4	72.3%	70.4%	38.3	31.3	14.7	10.3	9.3	6.3	2.4	4.3	13.1	13.7	17.4	16.3
																																			
UAlbany Losses																																			
** Albany stats are the left side in each grouping **																																			
Opponent	Type	LOC	ATN	PTS		FGM		FGA		FG%		3PTM		3PTA		3PT%		FTM		FTA		FT%		REB		AST		STL		BLK		TO		FOUL	
UMass		OOC	Away	3015	71	92	20	33	56	76	35.7%	43.4%	9	10	26	22	34.6%	45.5%	22	16	31	26	71.0%	61.5%	40	43	10	20	2	12	5	4	18	5	23	21
Seton Hall	OOC	Away	7712	71	96	25	36	61	58	41.0%	62.1%	8	5	28	14	28.6%	35.7%	13	19	19	25	68.4%	76.0%	29	33	12	17	7	11	3	3	13	9	20	13
Quinnipiac	OOC	Away	763	82	85	29	30	73	68	39.7%	44.1%	7	1	20	7	35.0%	14.3%	17	24	23	30	73.9%	80.0%	38	39	11	13	7	3	6	7	10	11	21	27
Temple		OOC	Neutral	-	73	78	27	26	62	57	43.5%	45.6%	5	4	24	16	20.8%	25.0%	14	22	18	32	77.8%	68.8%	37	37	16	12	8	10	6	3	17	13	22	16
Drexel		OOC	Away	991	52	71	21	29	66	67	31.8%	43.3%	4	6	22	17	18.2%	35.3%	6	7	7	11	85.7%	63.6%	26	54	10	12	10	4	2	6	10	18	16	11
																																		
Tot. L			12481	349	422	122	154	318	326	38.4%	47.2%	33	26	120	76	27.5%	34.2%	72	88	98	124	73.5%	71.0%	170	206	59	74	34	40	22	23	68	56	102	88
Avg. L			2496.2	69.8	84.4	24.4	30.8	63.6	65.2	38.4%	47.7%	6.6	5.2	24.0	15.2	27.4%	31.1%	14.4	17.6	19.6	24.8	75.4%	70.0%	34.0	41.2	11.8	14.8	6.8	8.0	4.4	4.6	13.6	11.2	20.4	17.6
																																			
Tot. (all)			31104	925	885	329	325	749	757	43.9%	42.9%	90	59	273	207	33.0%	28.5%	177	176	250	246	70.8%	71.5%	438	425	162	146	99	84	39	53	160	152	224	202
Avg. (all)			2592.0	77.1	73.8	27.4	27.1	62.4	63.1	43.8%	43.0%	7.5	4.9	22.8	17.3	32.7%	27.6%	14.8	14.7	20.8	20.5	73.6%	70.2%	36.5	35.4	13.5	12.2	8.3	7.0	3.3	4.4	13.3	12.7	18.7	16.8
			LOC	ATN	PTS		FGM		FGA		FG%		3PTM		3PTA		3PT%		FTM		FTA		FT%		REB		AST		STL		BLK		TO		FOUL	

 

 

Edited December 22, 2023 by Eli

[Eli]

A little bummed; I have a home 10 minutes from the USF campus in Temple Terrace but have relocated to Charlotte lol. Could have seen the team live with more ease than when I was in Albany (20 minute drive).

Edited December 20, 2023 by Eli

[BestDaneSinceHamlet]

I want so badly to go to this, but my ex-wife needs me to cover for her child-care.  BUMMED

[ctdanes]

Some bad defense from both teams here 

[dslyank]

UA can score with anybody. But not a defensive stopper anywhere?

Anyone notice has UA tried a zone this year. I’m not an expert, but do not think I’ve seen one at all??

Edited December 22, 2023 by dslyank

[UAalum72]

Love how the announcer thinks three minutes is a “drought,” that’s just a hiccup for this teams 

[cwdickens]

Sadly, the wheels have come off and the lack of defense shows.

[ctdanes]

Not a good second half. Should get one of the last two OOC 

[Clickclack]

Tale of two halves...can score with anyone, can't defend anyone. And when O slows down it's curtains. Good showing first half, there is something here to build on with this team. 

[cwdickens]

3 hours ago, Clickclack said:

Tale of two halves...can score with anyone, can't defend anyone. And when O slows down it's curtains. Good showing first half, there is something here to build on with this team. 

I am not as optimistic, yes, this team will their share of conference games, however the operating mode of this team will not change.  If we cannot win by overwhelming a team with our offense, our defense is not going to rescue a game, defense is just not in their DNA.

[cwdickens]

Playing on Tuesday night and flying to Florida equals Fatigue Factor:

SOUTH FLORIDA 89, UALBANY 73

 

Danes fade in the second half

 

By Pete Dougherty

Brent Warzocha/UAlbany athletics

UAlbany’s Sebastian Thomas, shown earlier this season, scored 17 points for the Danes in their loss to South Florida on Friday in Tampa, Fla.

Perhaps the holiday break is coming at a good time for the University at Albany men’s basketball team.

After shooting 60 percent in the first half and trailing the University of South Florida by just a point, the Great Danes looked worn down in the second half Friday afternoon and fell to the Bulls 89-73 in a nonconference game in front of 2,759 at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Fla.

UAlbany (7-6), which lost for the third time in four outings after a five-game winning streak, will give its players three days off for Christmas and return to game action Thursday at LIU.

The Danes followed their sharp-shooting first half with a 27 percent effort after the break. They committed a season-high 20 turnovers, 10 in each half.

“We didn’t have a ton of pop in the locker room (at the half ),” UAlbany coach Dwayne Killings said in a phone interview. “It’s been a long run to get to this point. They battled, they played hard, they tried. We didn’t get the 50-50 balls that we wanted. We need to learn to get those things. We got worn down as the game finished up.”

No play epitomized UAlbany’s second-half woes more than a sequence with seven minutes to go and the Danes in a 74-64 hole. Ny’Mire Little stole the ball and drove the length of the court, only to have his shot blocked by 6-foot-10 Kasean Pryor. Both players went off the court as UAlbany’s Amar’e Marshall missed two uncontested layups, then kicked the ball out of bounds.

That was part of a 10-0 South Florida run that put the Bulls in control of the game.

Three players scored in double figures for UAlbany — Marshall (19), Sebastian Thomas (17) and Jonathan Beagle (17) — but their teammates combined for just 20. Little fouled out with five points in 21 minutes. Tyler Bertram, averaging 9.4 points per game, was shut out.

Yet it was defense that did in UAlbany, which allowed 13 second-chance points in the second half. Brandon Stroud scored six straight points, all set up by offensive rebounds, in a two-minute stretch that punctuated South Florida’s second-half scoring run.

“You have three guys lead you (in scoring), you can definitely win games if you defend at a high level,” Killings said. “We’re not doing that, so then you’ve got to score at a pretty high level. We didn’t get a lot of bench scoring (five points, to USF’s 14), so it’s hard to win games like that, especially on the road.”

Beagle and Thomas starred in the first half, in which UAlbany led by three late in the half. Beagle had 15 points and Thomas 12 as UAlbany made 19 of its 31 field-goal attempts.

South Florida (6-4), which won its fourth consecutive game, had a seven-point surge late in the half to retake the lead, but Thomas hit a shot from just inside the midcourt line at the buzzer to trim the Bulls’ intermission margin to 47-46.

Pryor, who did a better job defensively on Beagle in the second half, was a matchup problem for the Danes. He scored six of South Florida’s first 10 points — including two dunks — in the second half, in which he scored 14 of his 21 points.

“They made it a little harder to get it to (Beagle),” Killings said. “It was a little harder to make some of those plays the way we wanted in the second half. We did try to call his number a couple of times, but it didn’t go our way. At that point, the game started getting out of reach.”

The Danes got to within two on Thomas’ three-point play with 13:41 remaining, but the Bulls never let them closer than that the rest of the way. USF led for 36:28 of the game’s 40 minutes.