ALBANY, N.Y. - The University at Albany women's basketball team heads back on the road to face Colgate.
 
Masks will be required inside all buildings on campus.
 
GAME INFORMATION
 
UAlbany at Colgate
DATE: Sunday, December 5
TIME: 2:00 PM
SITE: Cotterell Court
RECORDS: UAlbany 2-3, 0-0 America East | Colgate 2-5, 0-0 Patriot League
SERIES RECORD: 8-4, Colgate leads
STATS: StatBroadcast
TICKETS: ColgateAthletics.com
STREAM: ESPN+
INT'l STREAM: Patriot League
 
UAlbany game notes

*records as of 12/2
 
HEAD COACH COLLEEN MULLEN
"Colgate is a tough, scrappy team with a talented backcourt. They are coming off a stretch of away games and I'm sure are looking forward to being home. We need to be focused in the defensive end and keep them off the offensive glass."
 
GREAT DANE REWIND

• UAlbany opened the season with a 29-point victory over Hofstra (11/10), beating the Pride for the first time in program history.
• Most recently, the Great Danes saw a 26-point victory over Bryant at home (12/1).
• UAlbany has three losses on the road - Boston College (11/28), Cornell (11/24), and Merrimack (11/16).
• Junior Helene Haegerstrand leads the team with 57 points (11.4 per game), shooting a team-high 55% (11-20) from outside the arc.
• Senior Lucia Decortes leads the team with a 70.6 field goal percentage (12-17).
• On the rebound, sophomore Kayla Cooper leads with 27 overall (5.4 per game), while Decortes holds a team-high 14 offensive rebounds and redshirt-sophomore Morgan Haney leads with 18 defensive rebounds.
• Freshman Lilly Phillips (16 assists) and senior Ellen Hahne (9 steals) lead the team with their respective stats.
• Decortes owns a team-high five blocks while Haegerstrand (3), Cooper (2), Hahne (2) have tallied multiple blocks.
• Every single player from the 13-person roster saw action and contributed with a point or an assist in the season-opening game. 
• Of the 293 points scored in five games, the bench has tallied 114 points. This includes half (26) of the 52 points scored at Merrimack and almost half (29) of the 60 points scored against Bryant.
• As a team, UAlbany is hitting 40% from the field, 35.4% outside the arc, and 57.7% from the free-throw line. The Great Danes are averaging 58.6 points per game, 37.6 rebounds per game, and 13.6 assists per game.

 
ABOUT COLGATE

• The Raiders are 2-5 on the season.
• Colgate opened the season with a loss to Cornell (11/10) before taking a win over UMBC (11/13).
• The Raiders tallied four straight losses on the road - Niagara (11/17), Canisius (11/20), Wagner (11/23), and Syracuse (11/28).
• Most recently, Colgate found a 56-54 victory at Siena (12/2).
• Taylor Langan leads the team with 10.3 points per game while Katlyn Ghavidel leads shooting 44% from the field and from outside the arc.
• Langan also leads the defense, making 6.7 rebounds per game with a team-high 2.7 offensive rebounds per game. 
• Alexa Brodie leads with 3.9 assists per game.
• Taylor Golembiewski leads in transition with 1.6 steals per game while Tiasia McMillan owns a team-high 0.7 blocks per game.
• As a team, Colgate is hitting 36.6% from the field, 26.4% outside the arc, and 77.1% from the free-throw line. The Raiders are averaging 54.86 points per game, 34.4 rebounds per game, and 11.9 assists per game.

 
SERIES AGAINST THE RAIDERS

• Colgate leads the all-time series, 8-4.
• Most recently, the Great Danes found a 67-48 win in 2014.

 
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST

• Stony Brook leads the conference with seven wins and one loss.
• Four teams are .500 as Binghamton, New Hampshire, and UMass Lowell each have 3-3 records and NJIT owns a 4-4 record.
• UAlbany sits sixth overall with a 2-3 record with Vermont (2-4) and Maine (2-5) following.
• UMBC has one win on the season (1-5) while Hartford is still looking for their first win after seven losses.

 
AMERICA EAST CONTESTS THIS WEEK

• Saturday
  • Drexel at Maine, 12 pm
  • Bryant at New Hampshire, 1 pm
  • Binghamton at Lehigh, 2 pm
  • NJIT at Lafayette, 2 pm
• Sunday
  • Loyola Chicago at Vermont, 12 pm
  • UMass Lowell at Massachusetts, 12 pm
  • St. Francis Brooklyn at UMBC, 1 pm
  • Northeastern at Hartford, 1 pm
  • UAlbany at Colgate, 2 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 head to Tennessee to face Vanderbilt of the SEC on Wednesday.

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