ALBANY, N.Y. - The University at Albany women's basketball team will head to New Hampshire for their final regular-season road game.
 
Masks are required to attend New Hampshire's indoor athletic events.
 
GAME INFORMATION
 
UAlbany at New Hampshire
DATE: Saturday, February 19
TIME: 1:00 PM
SITE: Lundholm Gymnasium - Durham, N.H.
RECORDS: UAlbany 18-8, 11-4 America East | New Hampshire 6-18, 3-10 America East
SERIES RECORD: 27-18, UAlbany leads
STATS: UNHWildcats.com
TICKETS: UNHWildcats.com
STREAM: ESPN3
 
*records as of 2/17
 
HEAD COACH COLLEEN MULLEN
"UNH is a terrific rebounding team that likes to keep opponents off balance with changing defenses. We need to value the ball and limit turnovers. We want to control the tempo with our defense and rebounding."
 
GREAT DANE REWIND

• With a defense-first mentality, UAlbany has risen to number one in the nation, holding its opponents to just 48.4 points per game.
• In addition to scoring defense, the Great Danes are 44th in the country, allowing just a .365 field goal percentage from their opponents.
• UAlbany opened the season on a strong note, defeating Hofstra (11/10) for the first time in program history. The 29-point victory over the Pride served as the first of seven games, so far, in which the Great Danes won by at least 20 points.
• The Great Danes closed their non-conference slate with a 7-4 record.
• UAlbany has, so far, split the Hartford and Vermont series and swept NJIT, Binghamton, UMBC, and UMass Lowell.
• Going undefeated (13-0) at home, all eight of UAlbany's losses have been on the road.
• Junior Helene Haegerstrand (309, 11.9) and sophomore Kayla Cooper (307, 11.8 per game) lead the team with their respective point tallies.
• Redshirt-sophomore Abby Robinson leads the team, shooting 75% (6-8) from 28 minutes of play in 10 games. Senior Lucia Decortes holds a .533 (56-103) shooting percentage, leading all players who have seen the court for more than 40 minutes this season.
• Haegerstrand leads from outside the arc with a .367 (44-120) shooting percentage.
• Cooper leads the team as the only player with over 150 rebounds. She has totaled 184 (7.1 pg) so far with 114 defensive and 70 offensive rebounds. Decortes passed the 100-rebound mark against Maine, totaling 115 so far.
• Redshirt-sophomore Morgan Haney owns a team-high 59 assists. Freshman Lilly Phillips is close behind with 58.
• Cooper (37) and Haney (35) share the transition spotlight with their respective steal totals. 
• Decortes has compiled a team-high 38 blocks. Eleven players on the 13-person roster have totaled at least two blocks.
• Every single player from the 13-person roster saw action and contributed with a point or an assist in the season-opening game - Hofstra. 
• Of the 1,505 points scored in 26 games, the bench has tallied 403 points. This includes half (26) of the 52 points scored at Merrimack (11/16), almost half (29) of the 60 points scored against Bryant (12/1), almost half (32) of the 65 points scored against Canisius (12/15), and almost half (28) of the 61 points scored against New Hampshire (2/16).
• As a team, UAlbany is hitting 41.0% from the field, 32.1% outside the arc, and 66.5% from the free-throw line. 
• The Great Danes are averaging 57.9 points per game, 35.8 rebounds per game, and 12.8 assists per game.

 
ABOUT NEW HAMPSHIRE

• The Wildcats are 6-18 overall with a 3-10 America East record.
• New Hampshire opened the season on the road, falling to No. 9 Iowa (11/9), before winning its first game at home against Dartmouth (11/13).
• Before seeing their first conference game on January 5, the Wildcats closed their non-conference slate with a 3-8 record, earning wins against Dartmouth, Fisher (11/21), and Siena (11/23).
• The Wildcats opened America East play with four straight losses - Vermont (1/5), UAlbany (1/8), Maine (1/13), and Stony Brook (1/16). 
• After a win over Hartford (1/19), New Hampshire fell three more times as Maine and Stony Brook earned sweeps and UMass Lowell went up 1-0 in the series.
• In February alone, the Wildcats have seen UMBC (2/6), NJIT (2/9), and Vermont (2/16) for losses with wins against Binghamton (2/12) and Hartford (2/14).
• Amanda Torres leads the team with 10.7 points per game (247 total). She also owns team-highs with 45 steals and 65 assists.
• Ivy Gogolin has the most accurate shooting percentage, making 48% of her shots from the field. Héléna Delaruelle leads with 31% accuracy from outside the arc.
• Delaruelle leads the team with 5.4 rebounds per game. Her 42 offensive rebounds, 83 defensive rebounds, and 125 total rebounds serve as team-highs.
• Bella Stuart leads with 10 blocks.
• As a team, New Hampshire is hitting 36.6% from the field, 24% outside the arc, and 67% from the free-throw line.
• The Wildcats are averaging 53.6 points per game, 33.2 rebounds per game, and 10.8 assists per game.

 
PAST CONNECTIONS

• Head coach Colleen Mullen attended and graduated from New Hampshire. After playing at Rhode Island for two years, Mullen closed out her collegiate career as a two-year captain for the Wildcats. In just two seasons, she made her way to the 14th-highest mark in program history with 218 assists as a Wildcat.

 
SERIES AGAINST THE WILDCATS

• The Great Danes hold the lead in the all-time series, 27-18.
• Current head coach, Colleen Mullen, owns a 6-2 series record against New Hampshire.
• Her first year, 2018-19, the Great Danes saw two wins, but the Wildcats came back with their own two wins during the 2019-20 season.
• UAlbany saw three wins over New Hampshire during the 2020-21 season, including a 49-43 win to advance to the America East Semifinal.
• Earlier this season, the Great Danes defeated New Hampshire at SEFCU Arena, 50-39, for their conference opener on January 8.

 
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST

• Stony Brook leads the conference with a 13-2 record.
• After beating the Seawolves on Saturday (Feb. 12), Maine moved to second with an 11-3 record.
• UAlbany is third with an 11-4 America East record.
• Vermont rounds out the top four winning 10 games with five losses.
• NJIT (8-5) is in fifth with the final winning record of the conference.
• Each of the top-five America East teams enters the weekend winning at least their last contest.
• UMass Lowell sits even at 6-6 for sixth place.
• New Hampshire is coming off a loss at Vermont for a 3-10 league record.
• UMBC and Hartford each have two wins for eighth and ninth place, respectively. 
• Binghamton remains with a 1-12 conference record.
• Following the close of the non-conference season Stony Brook (9-1), UAlbany (7-4), and Vermont (6-5) were the only three teams with a winning record. NJIT (5-6), Binghamton (4-6), UMass Lowell (3-6), Maine (3-7), New Hampshire (3-8), UMBC (1-9), and Hartford (0-11) each had losing records before the start of the conference season.

 
AMERICA EAST CONTESTS THIS WEEK

• Saturday
  • UAlbany at New Hampshire, 1 pm
  • UMass Lowell at Binghamton, 2 pm
  • Stony Brook at Hartford, 2 pm
  • Maine at NJIT, 2 pm
  • Vermont at UMBC, 3:30 pm
• Monday
  • Binghamton at Hartford, 5 pm
  • UMass Lowell at NJIT, 7 pm
• Wednesday
  • NJIT at New Hampshire, 6 pm
  • Binghamton at Vermont, 6 pm
  • UMass Lowell at Stony Brook, 7 pm
  • Maine at UAlbany, 7 pm
  • Hartford at UMBC, 7 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 their final two games of the regular season. 

 
For more information on the University at Albany women's basketball team, follow the squad's official social media accounts shown below.
Twitter - @ualbanywbb
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