SCORE: UAlbany 69, UMBC 63
 
LOCATION: Broadview Center - Albany, N.Y.
 
RECORDS: UAlbany 14-13, 4-10 America East | UMBC 13-13, 8-6 America East
 
SHORT STORY: The University at Albany women's basketball team took home a double-overtime victory on senior night, Saturday evening.
 
KEY STATS

• Sophomore Delanie Hill led UAlbany with 19 points.
• Graduate student Júlia Palomo Vicente led the team in rebounds with seven, followed closely by Hill with six.
• Four additional Great Danes tallied four rebounds: graduate student Bella Stuart, sophomore Martina Borrellas, junior Gabriela Falcão, and freshman Amaya Stewart.
• Borrellas made a pair of clutch shots, one at the end of the fourth and one at the end of the first overtime, both of which tied the game and kept UAlbany alive.
• As a team, the Great Danes went 22-53 from the field (41.5%), 4-16 from three (25%), and 21-26 on free throws (80.8%).

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The first quarter started as a defensive stalemate with neither team producing much offense for the first five minutes. At the halfway mark of the period, UAlbany held a 5-2 lead courtesy of five points from Bella Stuart.
• Each team gathered five more points each as the first quarter came to a close, with the Great Danes holding a 10-7 advantage.
• UAlbany struck first in the second quarter, but UMBC responded with seven unanswered points and held a 14-12 lead with 4:55 left in the second quarter.
• Both squads traded four points over the last three and a half minutes, and the Retrievers held an 18-16 lead at halftime.
• Out of the break, UMBC went on a 6-2 run that lasted the first four minutes of the third quarter and pushed the lead to 24-18.
• The Great Danes were able to outpace the Retrievers, 11-7, over the remainder of the quarter and trailed 31-29 heading into the fourth.
• UMBC started the fourth with five unanswered, but was quickly countered by a four-point play from Delanie Hill to make the score 36-33 with six and a half to go.
• The Retrievers answered back with a 6-2 run that extended the lead to 42-35.
• As the fourth came to a close, UAlbany went on a 9-2 run, capped off by a Martina Borrellas layup with 15 seconds left to tie it up at 44 and send it to overtime.
• UMBC controlled most of the first overtime and held a 54-51 lead with nine seconds left, but another clutch Borrellas shot, this time from three with just a second left, gave the Great Danes new life and forced a second overtime.
• UAlbany jumped out to an early lead in the second overtime and led by seven with less than a minute left.
• Both teams traded layups and free throws as the game came to a close, but the Great Danes held on and walked away with a 69-63 double overtime victory.

 
NEXT: The Great Danes will close the regular season on the road at Maine (Feb. 26) and New Hampshire (Feb. 28).
 
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