SCORE: UAlbany 60, Bryant 32
 
LOCATION: SEFCU Arena - Albany, N.Y.
 
RECORDS: UAlbany 2-3, 0-0 America East | Bryant 1-7, 0-0 NEC
 
SHORT STORY: The Great Danes began hot and continued to improve upon themselves to defeat Bryant, Wednesday night.
 
COACH COLLEEN MULLEN: "I am so proud of the way our team responded tonight. This game was a statement game for us, and I am happy with the way we played together. We knew Bryant was a tough, scrappy team and our defensive pressure was consistent all night."
 
KEY STATS

• Redshirt-sophomore Morgan Haney led the team with 13 points, going 5-11 from the field and 2-4 outside the arc.
• Sophomore Kayla Cooper owned the team's highest efficiency score tallying eight points, six rebounds, three steals, and 1 assist. 
• Senior Lucia Decortes shot a team-high 80% going 4-5 from the field.
• Junior Helene Haegerstrand made both of her basket attempts from outside the arc, going 4-7 from the field, to compile the team's runner-up 10 total points.
• Freshman Koi Sims led the team defense, totaling seven rebounds including a team-high four offensive rebounds.
• Senior Ellen Hahne tallied a team-high four assists.
• Three Great Danes garnered three steals - Haney, Coopers, and Sims.
• All 13 UAlbany student-athletes saw time with 29 points coming from the Great Dane bench.
• As a team, the Great Danes outshot the Bulldogs, 40.4%-30%.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Bulldogs opened the game with an 8-0 advantage but the Great Danes tallied 12 unanswered points to take the lead.
• Helene Haegerstrand finished the quarter with five more UAlbany points to earn the team a 17-10 lead.
• The Great Danes opened the second quarter with eight straight points, holding Bryant off for the first three minutes of the quarter.
• About midway through the quarter, the Bulldogs closed to lead to nine but UAlbany went on an 8-2 scoring run to take back a 13-point lead, 35-20.
• The Great Danes allowed just six Bryant points in the third quarter, all of which were scored before the clock hit 7:30.
• UAlbany tallied another scoring run, totaling 13 unanswered points to lead 50-28 with seven and a half minutes left in the fourth quarter.
• The Great Danes went on to score 10 points in their remaining time to take the game, 60-34.

 
NEXT: The Great Danes will head to Colgate for a Sunday afternoon contest on December 5.

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