Score: UAlbany 74, Binghamton 62
 
Location: Events Center in Vestal, N.Y.
 
Records: UAlbany (8-8, 1-0); Binghamton (6-8, 0-1)
 
Short Story: UAlbany wins its second-straight road game, opening the conference season with a 74-62 victory at Binghamton to close a four-game road swing.
 
Key Stats

• Cameron Healy has hit a three-pointer in 48-straight games
• Healy finished with 17 points, including 12 in the first half
• Ahmad Clark scored 16 points and grabbed seven rebounds
• UAlbany outscored Binghamton 19-0 off the bench

 
Coach Brown: "I was pleased with our overall effort.  It's nice to have more bodies.  Having their presence out there helps us.  I thought we did a really good job on Sessoms, he's a really hard cover.  But we have to start helping ourselves.  The careless turnovers and the self-inflicted mistakes have to stop.  And if we can stop them, and get healthy, I think we have a chance to be pretty good.  We took care of business today on the road, and we'll enjoy this win."
 
Recap
 
The University at Albany men's basketball team opened America East play on Saturday, knocking off Binghamton on the road 74-62 to win their second-straight road game.  Saturday's game featured the 2018-19 America East Rookie of the Year in Binghamton's Sam Sessoms, and the Rookie of the Year runner-up in Cameron Healy.
 
After trailing 3-2 early, UAlbany went on an 8-0 run to take a 10-0 lead before Binghamton scored again.  During the run, Healy hit a three-pointer, extending his made-threes streak to 48 games.
 
Binghamton closed their deficit to 10-8 with 14:22 remaining, before Healy hit a second three to put UAlbany back up five.  A layup from Adam Lulka with 10:40 to go before the break put UAlbany up 20-11.  Binghamton quickly closed within three within one minute before UAlbany scored five straight to go up 25-17 with 8:22 left in the first.
 
The Bearcats closed back within five before UAlbany began pulling away towards the end of the half.  Freshman Trey Hutcheston hit a layup with 4:09 to go to give UAlbany a double-digit lead for the first time in the game.
 
UAlbany led by 14 points at the break, their largest halftime lead of the season.  Healy had scored a team-high 12 points on 3-4 from three, and grabbed a team-high four rebounds.  Collectively, the Great Danes outrebounded Binghamton 24-15 in the first half, and outscored the Bearcats 14-0 off the bench, 14-4 in the paint, and 10-4 off of turnovers.
 
Within the first minute-and-a-half of the second, the Bearcats had closed UAlbany's lead from 14 to eight.  Back-to-back layups from Malachi de Sousa and Brent Hank quickly put the Great Danes back up by 12.  For the next four minutes, UAlbany held a low double-digits lead, going up by as many as 13.
 
Binghamton cut UAlbany's lead back to single digits with 12:27 to go on a layup and-one.  The Bearcats ultimately went on a 9-0 run to cut the Danes' lead to just four, 54-50, with 10:54 remaining.
 
A three-pointer from Clark with 10:04 remaining ended Binghamton's scoring run, and the Bearcats wouldn't come any closer for the remainder of the game.
 
Clark hit another three with 7:42 to go to put UAlbany back up by double-digits.  Two minutes later, Sessoms hit back-to-back threes to cut the lead to six, before Healy responded with a three of his own to put UAlbany back up by nine.  UAlbany would go on to win by 12, 74-62.
 
Binghamton closed the game shooting just 1-8 from the floor, and just 1-6 from three.  Healy finished with a team-high 17 points, shooting 4-8 from three.  Clark added 16 with a team-high seven rebounds.  Sessoms led all scorers with 22 points on 8-16 shooting.  UAlbany outrebounded Binghamton 42-33, tying its second-highest rebounding total of the season.
 
The Great Danes hand Binghamton just its second loss at home of the season.
 
Next: The Great Danes return to SEFCU Arena on Saturday, January 11 to host Maine in their first home game since December 14.