ALBANY, N.Y. - The University at Albany women's basketball team will host Maine in its final regular-season week.
 
Rally towels will be handed out to the first 300 fans in attendance.
 
Masks are required to attend UAlbany's indoor athletic events.
 
GAME INFORMATION
 
Maine at UAlbany
DATE: Wednesday, February 23
TIME: 7:00 PM
SITE: SEFCU Arena - Albany, N.Y.
RECORDS: UAlbany 19-8, 12-4 America East | Maine 15-10, 12-3 America East
SERIES RECORD: 29-19, Maine leads
STATS: UAlbanySports.com
TICKETS: UAlbanySports.com
STREAM: ESPN+
 
*records as of 2/22
 
HEAD COACH COLLEEN MULLEN
"Maine is a well-balanced team with a strong inside-out presence. They have great ball and player movement and a physical, aggressive defense. We need to play a complete game on both ends, execute a game plan, and compete for all forty minutes."
 
GREAT DANE REWIND

• With a defense-first mentality, UAlbany has risen to number one in the nation, holding its opponents to just 48.3 points per game.
• In addition to scoring defense, the Great Danes are 34th in the country, allowing just a .363 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, UMass Lowell, and New Hampshire.
• Going undefeated (13-0) at home, all eight of UAlbany's losses have been on the road.
• Junior Helene Haegerstrand (327, 12.1 per game) and sophomore Kayla Cooper (317, 11.7 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 .519 (56-108) 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 .373 (47-126) shooting percentage.
• Cooper leads the team as the only player with over 150 rebounds. She has totaled 193 (7.1 pg) so far with 120 defensive and 73 offensive rebounds. Decortes passed the 100-rebound mark against Maine, totaling 120 so far.
• Freshman Lilly Phillips owns a team-high 62 assists. Redshirt-sophomore Morgan Haney is close behind with 60.
• Cooper (37) and Haney (35) share the transition spotlight with their respective steal totals. 
• Decortes has compiled a team-high 41 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 1,560 points scored in 27 games, the bench has tallied 420 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, 32.2% outside the arc, and 67.0% from the free-throw line. 
• The Great Danes are averaging 57.8 points per game, 35.7 rebounds per game, and 12.7 assists per game.

 
ABOUT MAINE

• The Black Bears are 15-10 overall after competing with a tough non-conference slate.
• After winning its last nine games, Maine owns a 12-3 America East record.
• The Black Bears have completed seven series in the America East, sweeping New Hampshire, Vermont, Hartford, and Binghamton and splitting the series against UMass Lowell, NJIT, and Stony Brook.
• Maine will complete its schedule with its game against UAlbany and the series against UMBC to be played during this upcoming weekend.
• Anne Simon leads the team with 16.1 points per game (402 total). She also owns a team-high 74 steals.
• Maeve Carroll leads the Black Bear defense with 214 rebounds (8.6 per game). Her 152 defensive rebounds, 26 offensive rebounds, and 28 blocks serve as team highs.
• Tallying a .492 field goal percentage, Paula Gallegos is the team's most accurate shooter, while Caroline Bornemann (37.9%) takes that title from outside the arc.
• Alba Orois owns a team-high 142 assists.
• As a team, Maine is hitting 40.2% from the field, 29.3% outside the arc, and 65.9% from the free-throw line.
• The Black Bears are averaging 58.0 points per game, 33.1 rebounds per game, and 14.0 assists per game.

 
SERIES AGAINST THE BLACK BEARS

• Maine leads the all-time series, 29-19.
• The Black Bears have won the last 10 contests with UAlbany's most recent win being a 68-54 victory on Jan. 13, 2018.
• Having played nine games against Maine, including two America East semifinal contests, current head coach Colleen Mullen hopes to win her first game against Maine.
• During Mullen's time, the Great Danes and the Black Bears have gone head-to-head in the America East semifinal twice - 2019 & 2021. In both contests, Maine earned the victory.
• Most recently, the Black Bears took a 64-55 win in Orono.

 
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST

• Stony Brook leads the conference with a 14-2 record.
• With a nine-game win streak, Maine is second with a 12-3 record.
• UAlbany is third with a 12-4 America East record.
• Vermont rounds out the top four winning 11 games with five losses.
• NJIT (9-6) 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 with a 6-8 league record for sixth place.
• New Hampshire and Binghamton each have three wins for seventh and eighth place, respectively.
• UMBC and Hartford round out the conference with two wins each. 
• 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

• 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
• Saturday
  • UMBC at Maine, 1 pm
  • Hartford at NJIT, 2 pm
  • New Hampshire at Binghamton, 2 pm
  • Stony Brook at UAlbany, 4 pm
  • Vermont at UMass Lowell, 5 pm
• Sunday
  • UMBC at Maine, 1 pm
• Monday
  • Hartford at UMass Lowell, 6 pm
• Wednesday
  • UMBC at Binghamton, 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 continue at home to host their final game of the regular season - Stony Brook. 

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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