ALBANY, N.Y. - The UAlbany women's basketball team heads on the road for the first in a three-game road streak.
 
GAME INFORMATION
 
UAlbany at Stonehill
DATE: Sunday, December 1
TIME: 1:00 PM
SITE: Merkert Gymnasium - Easton, Mass.
RECORDS: UAlbany 6-0, 0-0 America East | Stonehill 2-4, 0-0 NEC
SERIES RECORD: 2-0, UAlbany leads
STATS: StonehillSkyhawks.com
STREAM: NEC Front Row
INT'L STREAM: NEC Front Row
TICKETS: StonehillSkyhawks.com
 
*records as of November 29
 
LAST TIME OUT

• Just before taking the day off for Thanksgiving, the Great Danes defeated RPI, 90-42.
• Four Great Danes led with double-digit point totals - senior Laycee Drake (17), graduate student Kayla Cooper (16), graduate student Lilly Phillips (14), and senior Meghan Huerter (13).
• Freshman Martina Borrellas tallied a team-high 10 rebounds.
• Senior Abby Ray led with six assists while Phillips and graduate student Jessica Tomasetti led with three steals each.
• All dressed players saw time in the Wednesday afternoon victory.

 
GREAT DANE REWIND

• In the team's best start since the 2013-14 season, UAlbany is unbeaten through the first six games of the season. During the opening of the 2013 season, the Great Danes went 8-0.
• After opening with a double-digit home victory against Rhode Island (11.8), 67-57, UAlbany grounded out a win at Dartmouth (11.13), 58-53, before taking a second double-digit victory, 61-49, against Sacred Heart (11.16).
• So far the highlight of the season came from an upset over Syracuse at the JMA Wireless Dome (11.20).
• Most recently, the Great Danes beat RPI (11.27) after beating Cornell (11.23) at home.
• Kayla Cooper leads with 20.7 points per game and 7.8 rebounds per game.
• Junior Gabriela Falcão owns a team-high nine blocks.
• Four-year Great Dane Lilly Phillips leads with 12 assists. Falcão and Cooper follow with 11 each.
• UAlbany point guard Jessica Tomasetti has totaled a team-high 12 steals in the first six games.
• As a team, the Great Danes are shooting .453 from the field, with a 32.5% accuracy from downtown, and .836 from the line.

 
MILESTONE WATCH

• Graduate student point guard Jessica Tomasetti tallied her 200th career assist against RPI (November 27).
• Kaci Donovan (8 away) and senior Laycee Drake (12 away) are closing in on 100 career assists while Lilly Phillips is nearing 100 career steals (13 away).
• Donovan is 55 points away from joining the 1000-point club. Cooper is nearing 1500 points (41 points away).

 
IN THE RECORD BOOK

• Kayla Cooper is ranked in the record book in four different stats.
  • 6th - 1459 points
  • 7th - 13.0 points per game
  • 4th - 797 rebounds
  • T8th - 7.1 rebounds per game
• In 2023-24, two Great Danes put up single-season numbers good enough to be ranked in program history.
  • Kayla Cooper
    • 7th - 509 points
    • 10th - 15.9 points per game
    • 8th - .528 field goal percentage
  • Meghan Huerter
    • 2nd - .459 three-point field goal percentage

 
ABOUT STONEHILL

• The Skyhawks are 2-4 on the season.
• After a season-opening loss at Rhode Island (11.4), Stonehill earned a victory over Emmanuel College (11.7) in their home opener.
• Recently returning home after a three-game road stretch, the Skyhawks beat Utah Tech (11.13) and fell to UNLV (11.15) and Bryant (11.22).
• Stonehill most recently hosted Maine (11.26) for an 87-75 loss.
• Three Skyhawks are averaging above 10 points per game - Sharn Hayward (16.8), Brooke Paquette (12.8), and Kylie Swider (11.0).
• Swider leads the team with 7.8 rebounds per game.
• Paquette owns two team-highs - 32 assists and 12 steals.
• Swider and Maureen Stapleton have blocked four shots each to lead the Skyhawks.
• As a team, Stonehill is shooting .421 from the field, including 35.4% accuracy from downtown, with a .810 free throw percentage.

 
SERIES AGAINST THE SKYHAWKS

• The Great Danes have won both games in the all-time series.
• The first contest took place at Stonehill in December 2022 with a one-point victory, 47-46.
• Most recently, UAlbany won at Broadview Center in December 2023.
• Tallying a 77-38 victory, Kayla Cooper led with 16 points (and 11 rebounds) while both Meghan Huerter and Lilly Phillips hit three field goals from outside the arc.

 
PAST CONNECTIONS

• Current UAlbany assistant coach and director of operations Emily Bramanti graduated from Stonehill. The five-year Skyhawk played for Trisha Brown before graduating in 2023.
• A guard for Stonehill, Bramanti averaged 9.9 points per game, 3.2 rebounds per game, and 2.9 assists per game while competing in 109 games (3019 minutes (27.7 per game)).

 
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 fourth consecutive year.
• Coaches Colleen Mullen and Dwayne Killings, along with select student-athletes, will join ESPN Radio 104.5 The Team's Dan Bahl and Michael Johnson Jr. 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 Killings, 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.

 
AMERICA EAST STANDINGS

• Over three weeks into the season, the Great Danes are the only remaining undefeated team in the conference.
• Bryant follows with just one loss in seven games.
• Binghamton is just above .500 with a 4-3 record.
• UMBC sits even with three wins in six contests while Vermont and New Hampshire also have a .500 winning record in eight contests.
• Maine (3-4) is one game away from an even .500 win percentage.
• NJIT has two wins in eight games while UMass Lowell rounds out the conference looking for their first win.

 
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST

• UAlbany's Kayla Cooper was named the Player of the Week on Monday for the third-straight week.
  • Cooper averaged 22.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game while shooting 74% in a pair of wins.
  • She has 21 points and 10 rebounds in a 73-70 win over Syracuse.
  • She is the first player to win POW three-straight weeks since Blanca Milan from Maine did it during the 2020-21 season.
• NJIT's Olivia Kulyk was selected as the Rookie of the Week.
  • Kulyk tallied 10.5 points and 3.5 rebounds per game in two losses.
  • Second ROW win for Kulyk and third-straight Highlander and Allison Cannon won it the previous week.
• Bryant is 6-1 and off to its best start since 2014-15.
  • The Bulldogs' lone loss was a 55-39 decision to Seton Hall.
  • Last season, the team's first under Lynne-Ann Kokoski, they went 15-15 and 8-8 in AE action.
  • Another win will give them their best start since 2004-05 when they were a Division II school.

 
*written by the America East; as of November 26
 
AMERICA EAST CONTESTS THIS WEEKEND

• Friday
  • UMBC at Colgate, 1 pm
  • Yale at Bryant, 1:30 pm
  • UNC Wilmington at UMass Lowell, 5 pm
  • Vermont at Rice, 6:30 pm
• Saturday
  • UMBC vs Akron/Iona, TBA
  • Loyola (Md.) at Binghamton, 2 pm
  • UMass Lowell at San Jose State, 5 pm
• Sunday
  • UAlbany at Stonehill, 1 pm
  • Maine at Indiana, 2 pm
  • NJIT at Saint Peter's, 2 pm
  • New Hampshire at Dartmouth, 2 pm

 
UP NEXT: The Great Danes will continue their three-game road streak at Siena on Saturday, December 7.

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