ualbany wbb WBB - Game 27/Conference Game 14 vs UMass-Lowell Broadview Center, Albany NY Saturday, February 24, 2024, 2:00 PM

[cwdickens]

Feb 24 (Sat) 2:00 PM

AE

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UMass Lowell

Autism Awareness/Senior Day

Albany, N.Y. Broadview Center

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Editorial Note: A 4:00 PM start time would have been nice due to scheduling conflicts on Saturday.

Edited February 23 by cwdickens

[cwdickens]

Good News:  Maine lost Thursday night.

2023-24 Women's Basketball Standings

 

2023-24 Women's Basketball Standings

SCHOOL	CONF	CPCT.	OVERALL	PCT.	STREAK
UAlbany	11-2	.846	22-4	.846	L1
Maine	11-2	.846	18-9	.667	L1
Vermont	11-3	.786	19-9	.679	W1
Binghamton	7-7	.500	12-15	.444	W3
Bryant	6-7	.462	13-13	.500	W1
UMBC	5-9	.357	9-17	.346	W1
UMass Lowell	4-9	.308	4-21	.160	L3
New Hampshire	3-10	.231	9-17	.346	L4
NJIT	2-11	.154	10-16	.385	W1

Edited February 23 by cwdickens

[tnehurley]

Wow! Great news just when we needed it. This will be challenging for our ladies to do, but if they can hold serve thru the final 3 games, they’re in. Starting tomorrow with Senior Day vs. UML.

[tnehurley]

The UA women beat UML 59-39. VT loses to Bryant 57-52.

[UAalum72]

So we and Maine have a two-game lead on UVM with two to play. Maine hosts Bing and we travel to New Hampshire before meeting in Maine for (we hope) all the marbles

[tnehurley]

Yep. Maybe Binghamton can help us out with an upset.

[bob87]

 I think if albany beats maine there is no scenario that albany is not the 1 seed. If albany loses to maine, I think that guarantees maine the 1 seed. In other words regardless of either teams results on Thursday.  However a win on Thursday means vermont would have no chance at a top 2 finish over albany. 

[cwdickens]

UAlbany WBB got the win that they needed today, the only UAlbany team that played today and did not lose.  UAlbany teams were 1-5 overall today. Yes, some tough opponents however, some ugly scores. 

[tnehurley]

Beat N..H. and avoid a post-season trip to Burlington. That would be great, considering last year’s nightmare there. Lots of possibilities here of course, but all signs point to a great finale in Maine.

[cwdickens]

2023-24 Women's Basketball Standings

 

2023-24 Women's Basketball Standings

SCHOOL	CONF	CPCT.	OVERALL	PCT.	STREAK
UAlbany	12-2	.857	23-4	.852	W1
Maine	12-2	.857	19-9	.679	W1
Vermont	11-4	.733	19-10	.655	L1
Bryant	7-7	.500	14-13	.519	W2
Binghamton	7-7	.500	12-15	.444	W3
UMBC	6-9	.400	10-17	.370	W2
UMass Lowell	4-10	.286	4-22	.154	L4
New Hampshire	3-11	.214	9-18	.333	L5
NJIT	2-12	.143	10-17	.370	L1

Edited February 25 by cwdickens

[cwdickens]

From Page 1 of today's Times-Union sports page:

UALBANY 59, UMASS LOWELL 39

 

Danes rebound for resounding victory

Coming off loss to Vermont, UAlbany tops UMass Lowell with strong Senior Day effort

 

By Pete Dougherty

Saint Rose’s Payton Graber drives to the basket in front of New Haven’s Gabrielle Stickle on Saturday.

Stephen Weaver/Special to the Times Union

From left, UAlbany’s Kayla Cooper, Sarah Karpell and Helene Haegerstrand are honored Saturday on Senior Day.

Stephen Weaver/Special to the Times Union

UAlbany’s Kayla Cooper takes a shot around Maddie Rice of UMass Lowell in Saturday’s game at Broadview Center. She had 10 points.

ALBANY — According to Dieter F. Uchdorf, it is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life story will develop.

Not that Uchdorf, a German aviator and religious leader, hangs around the University at Albany women’s basketball program, but his words seem to ring true for the Great Danes.

 

Barely 40 hours removed from its most lopsided America East loss in more than five seasons, UAlbany regrouped Saturday afternoon with an impressive 59-39 thumping of UMass Lowell in front of a Senior Day crowd of 1,395 at Broadview Center.

“That’s the beauty of how the conference is now,” said senior Kayla Cooper, who contributed 10 points and five assists to the latest victory. “You can’t spend too much time dwelling on the past, and we were able to move forward and bounce back.”

The Danes (23-4, 12-2 America East) were shellacked 67-35 Thursday night at Vermont, although they maintained a first-place tie in the America East with Maine, which also lost that day.

“Everything went wrong on our end, and everything went right on their end,” UAlbany coach Colleen Mullen said of the game in Vermont, the Danes’ worst conference result since an 82-35 loss to Hartford in 2018-19, Mullen’s first season. “It was a bizarre game. I told the players that it felt like such an outlier for our season. It was one of those conundrums, so shocking and surprising that at the same game so many players struggled.”

A short memory proved to be a good remedy for the Danes, who shot a season-high 56.5 percent and held UMass Lowell (4-22, 4-10) scoreless for a 9:38 stretch of the second half.

UAlbany got more good news Saturday when third-place Vermont was upset at Bryant. That means the Danes need just one victory in their final two games — Thursday night at New Hampshire, Saturday afternoon at Maine — to clinch at least a No. 2 seed for the America East Tournament. Winning both games will give UAlbany the top seed for the postseason event.

“Our teammates were able to feed us the ball when we were posting up hard,” said Deja Evans, a 6-foot-2 freshman who led both teams with 15 points and seven rebounds. “That brought us together, and we were able to take over the game.”

This literally was a wire-to-wire victory for the Danes, who led for all 40 minutes. Moments after UAlbany honored Cooper, and graduate students Helene Haegerstrand and Sarah Karpell, UMass Lowell was assessed a technical foul for failing to declare its starters 10 minutes before tipoff. That resulted in two free throws by Haegerstrand before the clock started, and UAlbany was off and running.

The Danes outscored the River Hawks in every quarter, although Lowell was down only 39-30 when Alex Gitchenko hit a shot with 4:47 to play in the third. From there, UAlbany clamped down defensively and went on a 14-0 run that didn’t end until 5:08 remained in the game.

“We switched up what we were doing on ball screens so that we had a little more of clear mismatches,” Mullen said. “The players did a good job in this game executing the game plan, and certainly executing what they needed to do in terms of player tendencies — much better than we had done against Vermont.”