ALBANY, N.Y. - The University at Albany women's basketball team is set to continue on the road at nationally-ranked Ohio State.
 
GAME INFORMATION
 
UAlbany at #3 Ohio State
DATE: Friday, December 16
TIME: 6:00 PM
SITE: Value City Arena - Columbus, Ohio
RECORDS: UAlbany 6-6, 0-0 America East | Ohio State 10-0, 2-0 Big Ten
SERIES RECORD: 0-0, first meeting
STATS: OhioStateBuckeyes.com
TICKETS: OhioStateBuckeyes.com
STREAM: B1G+
 
HEAD COACH COLLEEN MULLEN
"Ohio State is a powerful offensive team, scoring over 90 points per game on 20 assists. They have a balanced scoring attack and love to turn over their opponents with 40 minutes of full-court pressure. Our focus will be to maintain our composure versus their pressure defense and take care of the ball. We need to play a total team defensive game and limit them to one shot. We will compete on every play and control the tempo with poised decision-making."
 
GREAT DANE REWIND

• UAlbany opened the season 3-0 with victories over Merrimack (11/11), Siena (11/13), and Navy (11/16).
• Before heading to the UNLV Thanksgiving Tournament to compete against UNLV (11/25), ETSU (11/26), and Stetson (11/17), the Great Danes hosted Colgate (11/19) for their first loss of the season.
• Closing out November, UAlbany visited Canisius for its fourth victory (11/30). The Great Danes came back from a 10-point deficit in the beginning of the second half to take the 11-point victory.
• Hosting its final non-conference game of 2022, UAlbany fell in a close matchup to Cornell (12/3).
• The Great Danes are currently on a five-game road streak. Beginning with a win at Dartmouth (12/6) and a loss at Boston College (12/10), UAlbany most recently defeated Stonehill (12/14) on the road.
• Coming back from an injury, junior Kayla Cooper leads the team with a .500 field goal percentage from eight attempts while redshirt-junior Morgan Haney leads with 100% accuracy from outside the arc.
• Of those who have played in more than one contest, graduate student Ellen Hahne leads with a team-high .463 field goal percentage and senior Helene Haegerstrand leads from outside the arc with a 42.4% success rate.
• Hahne also leads the team with 14.9 points per game and 34 assists.
• Senior Grace Heeps and Haegerstrand are tied with a team-high six blocks while sophomore Lilly Phillips leads in transition with 12 steals.
• Cooper owns a team-high 6.0 rebounds per game from one contest. Hahne and sophomore Freja Werth follow with 5.5 rebounds per game.
• As a team, UAlbany is hitting 41.1% from the field, 31.8% outside the arc, and 71.3% from the free-throw line. The Great Danes are averaging 55.1 points per game and 32.5 rebounds per game with 10.9 assists per game, 5.6 steals per game, and 2.3 blocks per game.

 
ABOUT #3 OHIO STATE

• The Buckeyes are undefeated with 10 games, including two conference games, under their belt.
• Ohio State open the season with a victory over #4/5 Tennessee (11/8) at home.
• After seeing two wins over Boston College (11/13) and Ohio (11/17) on the road, OSU returned home to defeat McNeese State (11/20), Wright State (11/23), and North Alabama (11/27).
• In the last two weeks, the Buckeyes have seen two wins on the road - #18/15 Louisville (11/30) and Rutgers (12/4) - and two wins at home - New Hampshire (12/8) and Michigan State (12/11).
• Taylor Mikesell leads the team with 18.9 points per game while Taylor Thierry holds the highest success rate in the field (76.3%) and Madison Greene hits 55% of her three-point attempts.
• Rebeka Mikulasikova owns a team-high 6.0 rebounds per game.
• Jacy Sheldon leads in transition with 30 steals.
• Greene (58 assists) and Thierry (6 blocks) own team-highs with their respective stats.
• As a team, the Buckeyes are hitting 50.4% from the field, 37.2% outside the arc, and 69.5% from the free-throw line. Ohio State is averaging 90.8 points per game and 36.5 rebounds per game with 20.6 assists per game, 15.8 steals per game, and 2.8 blocks per game.

 
SERIES AGAINST THE BUCKEYES

• This will be the first meeting against Ohio State.

 
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST

• Vermont (7-4) is the only team in the conference with a winning record.
• UAlbany and Binghamton are tied for second with an even 6-6 record.
• NJIT rounds out the top-four with a 5-6 overall record.
• Bryant, Maine, and New Hampshire are tied with a 4-7 record.
• UMBC (2-7) and UMass Lowell (1-8) round out the America East.

 
AMERICA EAST CONTESTS THIS WEEK

• Friday
  • UAlbany at Ohio State, 6 pm
• Saturday
  • NJIT at Wagner, 3 pm
• Sunday
  • Mitchell at Bryant, 1 pm
  • Vermont at Sacred Heart, 2 pm
  • Maine at Harvard, 3 pm
  • American at UMBC, 3:30 pm
• Tuesday
  • UAlbany at Syracuse, 10:30 am
  • Vermont at Holy Cross, 10:30 am
  • Hartford at Binghamton, 6 pm

 
WHAT'S UP, PRESEASON

• With seven first-place votes and 59 total points, the Great Dane women's basketball team was picked to finish first in the conference in the preseason coaches' poll. Maine was just behind them with 54 points while Vermont came in third with 46 points and one first-place vote.
• Last season's offensive and defensive leaders, respectively, Helene Haegerstrand and Kayla Cooper were named to the America East Preseason All-Conference Team.
• UAlbany added three new players to the roster for the 2022-23 season - Taylor Moffat, Karyn Sanford, and Marie Sepp.

 
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 close their season-long road streak at Syracuse on Tuesday, December 20.

 
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