ALBANY, N.Y. - The University at Albany women's basketball will head on the road to Massachusetts for their second game of the season.
 
Masks will be required inside all buildings on campus.
 
GAME INFORMATION
 
UAlbany at Merrimack
DATE: Tuesday, November 16
TIME: 7:00 PM ET
SITE: Hammel Court - North Andover, Mass.
RECORDS: UAlbany 1-0, 0-0 America East | Merrimack 0-2, 0-0 NEC
SERIES RECORD: 3-2, Merrimack leads
STATS: MerrimackAthletics.com
TICKETS: MerrimackAthletics.com
STREAM: NEC Front Row
 
*records as of 11/15
 
HEAD COACH COLLEEN MULLEN
"Merrimack is a tough, scrappy team with a strong-inside out presence. We need to lock in defensively and defend the three-point line. Offensively, we need to execute and have great ball and player movement. This will be a good test for our first road game."
 
GREAT DANE REWIND

• In their first game of the 2021-22 season, the Great Danes defeated Hofstra, 70-41, in front of fans for the first time in almost two years.
• Senior Ellen Hahne led the team with 17 points and three steals, shooting 5-9 from the field and 2-3 from outside the arc.
• Senior Lucia Decortes led the team against Hofstra with seven rebounds, six of which came from the offensive glass.
• Every single player from the 13-person roster saw action and contributed with a point or an assist against the Pride. They saw 31 points come from the bench.
• After three surgeries and two years off the court, redshirt-sophomore Morgan Haney made her post-injury debut against Hofstra. She tallied six rebounds, second on the team, six points, and two assists.
• As a team, UAlbany hit 45.6% from the field, 36.4% outside the arc, and 66.7% from the free-throw line.
• UAlbany returned its 2020-21 leaders in points (Helene Haegerstrand), defensive and total rebounds (Ellen Hahne), offensive rebounds (Lucia Decortes), assists (Ellen Hahne), and blocks (Lucia Decortes).
• Four of the five starters from last year return - Haegerstrand, Hahne, Decortes, and Grace Heeps, plus Kayla Cooper returns after seeing the court in all 18 games in 2020-21

 
ABOUT MERRIMACK

• The Warriors opened the season with a loss to Vermont (11/9) before falling at Rhode Island (11/12).
• Merrimack will host its first home game of the season against UAlbany.
• Mayson Kimball and Kaylee Thomas lead the team with 19 points each while Amaya Staton leads with a .571 field goal percentage.
• On the rebound, Paige McCormick leads with nine - four offensive and five defensive. Teneisia Brown owns a team-high five offensive rebounds.
• Staton has tallied two blocks in two games.
• As a team, Merrimack is shooting 28.6% from the field, 22.2% from outside the arc, and 50% from the free-throw line. They are averaging 49.5 points per game.

 
SERIES AGAINST THE WARRIORS

• Merrimack leads the series, 3-2.
• This upcoming meeting will be the first since UAlbany was a Division II school. The Warriors are currently in the transition process and will become a full Division I school by 2023-24.
• Most recently, the Great Danes beat the Warrior 57-54 in 1998. 

 
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST

• Binghamton (2-0), Stony Brook (3-0), and UAlbany (1-0) currently lead the conference with only wins from their 2021-22 non-conference slate.
• New Hampshire, UMass Lowell, and UMBC are currently .500 with a 1-1 record each.
• NJIT and Vermont are sitting with one win and two losses each.
• Hartford and Maine round out the conference still looking for their first win of the season.

 
AMERICA EAST CONTESTS THIS WEEK

• Monday
  • Delaware at Maine, 7 pm
• Tuesday
  • Stony Brook at Rutgers, 11 am
  • UMass Lowell at Michigan, 6 pm
  • UAlbany at Merrimack, 7 pm
• Wednesday
  • UMBC at Loyola (Md.), 7 pm
  • New Hampshire at Northeastern, 7 pm
  • Cornell at Binghamton, 7 pm
• Thursday
  • LIU at NJIT, 7 pm
  • Hartford at Houston Baptist, 8 pm
• Friday
  • Maine at Yale, 6 pm
• Saturday
  • Vermont at Navy, 11 am
  • Stony Brook at Iona, 1 pm
  • UMass Lowell at Northeastern, 2 pm
  • St. Bonaventure at Binghamton, 2 pm
  • Hartford at Sam Houston, 4 pm
• Sunday
  • UMBC at Richmond, 2 pm
  • Maine at Boston U., 1 pm
  • NJIT at Central Connecticut State, 1 pm
  • Fisher at New Hampshire, 1 pm

 
WHAT'S UP, PRESEASON

• The Great Dane women's basketball team was picked to finish fifth in the conference in the preseason coaches' poll. With six first-place votes and 78 total points, Stony Brook was voted to finish first with Maine just behind (74 points, three first-place votes). 
• UAlbany added four new players to the roster for the 2021-22 season - Koi Sims, Lilly Phillips, Abby Ray, and Freja Werth

 
DRIVE THE LANE WITH UALBANY HOOPS

• UAlbany has expanded its partnership with ESPN Radio 104.5 The Team and City Line Bar & Grill.
• Coaches Colleen Mullen and Dwayne Killings, along with select student-athletes, will join ESPN Radio 104.5 The Team's Charlie Voelker and Dan Bahl every Monday from 6-7 pm live from City Line Bar & Grill for a weekly segment entitled 'Drive the Lane with UAlbany Hoops'.
• Fans are invited to come out to City Line Bar & Grill to join Coach Mullen, Coach Kills, the student-athletes, and the ESPN Radio 104.5 The Team crew. 
• Food and drink specials will be available on a weekly basis as the teams embark on their new seasons and talk hoops every Monday.

 
UP NEXT

• The Great Danes will continue on the road at Cornell on Wednesday, November 24.

For more information on the University at Albany women's basketball team, follow the squad's official social media accounts shown below.
Twitter - @ualbanywbb
Instagram - @ualbanywbb
Facebook – facebook.com/UAlbanyWBB