ALBANY, N.Y. - The UAlbany women's basketball team travels to Connecticut to take on CCSU.
GAME INFORMATION
UAlbany at CCSU
DATE: Wednesday, December 6
TIME: 7:00 PM
SITE: Detrick Gymnasium – New Britain, Conn.
RECORDS: UAlbany 5-2, 0-0 America East | CCSU 1-7, 0-0 NEC
SERIES RECORDS: 3-1, UAlbany leads
STATS:
CCSUBlueDevils.com
STREAM:
NEC Front Row
TICKETS: Free
HEAD COACH COLLEEN MULLEN
"CCSU is a tough, scrappy team with a lot of scoring threats. Defensively, they will look to pressure us and make us feel comfortable. We need to focus on taking care of the ball and controlling the tempo."
LAST WEEK IN REVIEW
- Defeating Siena, 76-58, the Great Danes earned their third straight Albany Cup victory on Saturday night.
- Graduate student Helene Haegerstrand and senior Kayla Cooper shared top-scoring honors with 13 points each.
- Tallying a team-high four assists, graduate student Sarah Karpell recorded her 250th career assist in the winning effort.
- Freshman Deja Evans tallied a team-best 10 rebounds, including four offensive boards.
- For the second time this season, four Great Danes earned double-digit point totals - Cooper (13), Haegerstrand (13), Karpell (11), and junior Lilly Phillips (11).
GREAT DANE REWIND
- UAlbany has started its season with four wins and two losses.
- The Great Danes opened their season with a down-to-the-buzzer win over Merrimack (Nov. 6) before falling to Fordham in a one-possession loss on November 10 and hosting Division III opponent Sarah Lawrence for a 91-point victory (Nov. 13).
- On a record-breaking night against the Gryphons, the Great Danes notched the highest single-game point total (118), single-half point total (61), and single-game assist total (37) in program history.
- After UAlbany took to the road to defeat St. Bonaventure, 66-56, on November 16, head coach Colleen Mullen and the Great Danes defeated Cornell (Nov. 22) for the first time in Mullen's tenure.
- UAlbany fell to fourth-ranked Stanford in California on Sunday, November 26.
- Most recently, UAlbany bested Siena in the Grand Opening of the Broadview Center, 76-58, on December 2.
- Senior Kayla Cooper leads the Great Danes with 13.0 points per game and 13 steals.
- Freshman Deja Evans holds a team-best 7.9 rebounds per game and seven blocks.
- Graduate student Sarah Karpell leads the team in transition with 24 assists and a 52.6% shooting percentage.
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
- Recruits Deja Evans and Sarah Karpell have become defensive anchors for the new-look UAlbany women's basketball team.
- Starting since her first collegiate game, Evans' team-high stats of 7.9 rebounds and seven blocks rank third and fifth, respectively, in the America East.
- Fitting in seamlessly with UAlbany's aggressive defense, Karpell is tied for seventh in the America East with 12 steals.
- The graduate transfer has started the season scoring 8.1 ppg from a team-best 52.6% shooting.
WATCH YOUR POCKETS
- UAlbany leads the America East with 67 steals (9.57 per game) and a 2.71 turnover margin.
- Turning defense into offense, the Great Danes have averaged 19.9 points off turnovers.
- Three Great Danes are ranked in the top 20 in steals in the conference:
AUTOMATIC SHOOTING
- The Great Danes are ranked second in the America East in Team 3-Point FG Percentage (35.9%).
- Accurate shooting has made UAlbany have the highest-scoring offense in the conference (67.6 ppg).
- UAlbany has leaders across all the shooting categories:
MILESTONE WATCH
- Kayla Cooper is 83 points away from scoring 1,000 career points. Averaging 13.0 points this season, Cooper could reach this milestone within the next seven games.
- Cooper is one game shy of reaching 10 career 20+ point games.
- Having tallied 246 boards, Sarah Karpell is chasing 250 career rebounds.
- Helene Haegerstrand is two starts away from recording her 100th career start for the Great Danes.
PLAY AS A TEAM, WIN AS A TEAM
- The Great Danes have utilized great teamwork to fuel their success so far this season.
- In seven contests, the Great Danes have had four different players lead the team in points.
- As a team, UAlbany's rank in the conference:
- 1st – 12.4 scoring margin
- 1st – 15.43 assists per game
- 1st – .428 team FG percentage
- 1st – 67.6 points per game
- 1st – 9.57 steals per game
- 1st – 1.06 assist/turnover ratio
- 2nd – 4.9 rebounding margin
- 2nd – .373 opponent FG percentage
- 2nd – 55.1 points per game allowed
- 2nd – 12.6 offensive rebounds per game
ABOUT CCSU
- The Blue Devils have started their campaign with a 1-7 record with conference play yet to begin.
- CCSU started the season with consecutive road losses to Manhattan (Nov. 6), Syracuse (Nov. 10), Saint Peter's (Nov. 13), and Bryant (Nov. 17).
- Earning their first victory of the season, CCSU defeated UMass Lowell, 58-49 (Nov. 21).
- Going on a three-game losing skid, the Blue Devils fell to Fairfield (Nov. 26), Illinois (Nov. 29), and, most recently, New Hampshire (Dec. 2).
- Samora Watson leads the team with 16.4 points per game.
- Meghan Kenefick has tallied a team-high 5.6 rebounds per game while Alonna Sellers has tallied 0.5 blocks per game to lead.
- Belle Lanpher leads the Blue Devils in transition with 2.6 assists per game and 2.5 steals per game.
SERIES AGAINST THE BLUE DEVILS
- The Great Danes led the all-time series, 3-1.
- The teams' last meeting was in 2021 (Dec. 21) with UAlbany coming out on top, 65-52, at home.
- Returning student-athlete Helene Haegerstrand led the scoring in the victory, tallying 13 points.
- As a team, the Great Danes recorded 41 rebounds, including 16 offensive boards, in the winning effort.
- As the series began with a UAlbany win in November of 2017, Colleen Mullen has been the head coach for all but one contest against the Blue Devils.
DRIVE THE LANE WITH UALBANY HOOPS
- UAlbany will continue its partnership with ESPN Radio 104.5 The Team and City Line Bar & Grill for the third consecutive year.
- 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 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.
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST
- UAlbany narrowly leads the conference with five wins in seven contests.
- NJIT, Maine, and Vermont follow with a .556 win percentage after nine games (5-4).
- Sitting just below .500, Bryant and New Hampshire are tied with a 4-5 record.
- The final three teams each hold seven losses. Binghamton has tallied two wins with UMBC following after one win.
- UMass Lowell rounds out the conference still fighting for its first win.
AMERICA EAST CONTESTS THIS WEEK
- Wednesday
- Bryant at Loyola, 11 am
- Vermont at Army, 5 pm
- Harvard at Maine, 6 pm
- New Hampshire at Stonehill, 6 pm
- UAlbany at CCSU, 7 pm
- NJIT at Sacred Heart, 7 pm
- Friday
- Canisius at Binghamton, 6 pm
- Saturday
- Brown at New Hampshire, 12 pm
- Vermont at Manhattan, 12 pm
- Marist at UAlbany, 2 pm
- UMBC at Morgan State, 2 pm
- Sunday
- UMass Lowell at UMass, 12 pm
UP NEXT: The Great Danes will return home to host Marist for the Toys for Tots game on Saturday, December 9.
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 & Threads - @ualbanywbb
Facebook – facebook.com/UAlbanyWBB
