ALBANY, N.Y. - The University at Albany women's basketball team will continue their schedule on the road against Vanderbilt.
 
Masks will be required inside all buildings on campus.
 
GAME INFORMATION
 
UAlbany at Vanderbilt
DATE: Wednesday, December 8
TIME: 11:00 AM CT/12:00 PM ET
SITE: Memorial Gymnasium
RECORDS: UAlbany 3-3, 0-0 America East | Vanderbilt 5-5, 0-0 SEC
SERIES RECORD: 0-0, first meeting
STATS: StatBroadcast
TICKETS: VUCommodores.com
RADIO: VUCommodores.com
STREAM: SECNetwork+
 
*records as of 12/7
 
HEAD COACH COLLEEN MULLEN
"Vanderbilt is an extremely athletic SEC team that will pressure us for 40 minutes. We need to take care of the ball and value possession. Defensively, we need to control the tempo and limit them to one shot."
 
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 collected a win against Colgate (12/5) on the road after defeating 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 66 points (11.0 per game), shooting a team-high 53.1% (14-26) from outside the arc.
• Senior Lucia Decortes leads the team with a 66.7 field goal percentage (16-24).
• On the rebound, sophomore Kayla Cooper leads with 34 overall (5.7 per game), while Decortes holds a team-high 16 offensive rebounds and redshirt-sophomore Morgan Haney leads with 21 defensive rebounds.
• Freshman Lilly Phillips (18 assists) and senior Ellen Hahne (11 steals) lead the team with their respective stats.
• Decortes owns a team-high five blocks while Cooper (4), Haegerstrand (3), Hahne (3) 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 353 points scored in five games, the bench has tallied 139 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 40.5% from the field, 35.9% outside the arc, and 59.4% from the free-throw line. 
• The Great Danes are averaging 58.8 points per game, 38.2 rebounds per game, and 13.5 assists per game.

 
ABOUT VANDERBILT

• The Commodores are 5-5 on the season.
• Vanderbilt opened their season with a victory over Garder-Webb on Nov. 9. 
• Following their home-opener, the Commodores tallied two losses - Little Rock (11/12) and Middle Tennessee State (11/15).
• Vanderbilt collected two straight victories on the road - Tennessee Tech (11/18) and Jacksonville State (11/21) - before going 1-2 at the Paradise Jam (11/25-27).
• Most recently, the Commodores beat Chattanooga (11/30) before falling at Kansas (12/5). 
• Brinae Alexander leads the team with 123 points, 12.3 per game, while Demi Washington leads shooting 56.1% from the field.
• De'Mauri Flournoy leads the team with a .400 three-point percentage. 
• Jordyn Cambridge owns the team-high in rebounds, totaling 54, 5.4 per game. Followed closely by Kaylon Smith (53 total) and Sacha Washington (52 total).
• Cambridge leads the team in assists with 37.
• As a team, Vanderbilt is hitting 41.3% from the field, 29.6% outside the arc, and 72.8% from the free-throw line. 
• The Commodores are averaging 63.6 points per game, 36.2 rebounds per game, and 12.3 assists per game.

 
SERIES AGAINST THE COMMODORES

• This will be Vanderbilt and UAlbany's first meeting.

 
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST

• Stony Brook leads the conference with seven wins and one loss.
• Two teams are .500 - UAlbany and Vermont with 3-3 and 4-4 records, respectively.
• NJIT sits in fourth with a 4-5 record.
• Currently, three teams are .429 owning a 3-4 record - Binghamton, UMass Lowell, and New Hampshire.
• Maine follows with a 2-6 record.
• UMBC has one win on the season (1-6) while Hartford is still looking for their first win after eight losses.

 
AMERICA EAST CONTESTS THIS WEEK

• Tuesday, 12/7
  • Marist at Stony Brook, Cancelled
  • University of Pittsburgh at Jamestown at Binghamton, 7 pm
• Wednesday, 12/8
  • Holy Cross at New Hampshire, 6 pm
  • Albany at Vanderbilt, 11 am
  • Towson at UMass Lowell, 3 pm
  • Dartmouth at Vermont, 6 pm
  • Hartford at Rhode Island, 6 pm
  • Monmouth at NJIT, 7 pm
• Thursday 12/9
  • Lafayette at UMBC, 5:30 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 return home to host Siena for the Albany Cup.