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UAlbany's freshman guard Joe Cremo was a big winner Monday afternoon during the American East award ceremony. The Scotia-Glenville native, won 6th Man of the Year, Rookie of the Year, and was selected to the America East All-Rookie team...

UAlbany sophomore big man Greig Stire was named America East Men’s Basketball Player of the Week. Stire helped lead the Great Danes to a 2-0 week, he averaged 17.0 points and 12.5 rebounds. The sophomore's week was full of career records as he recorded his first career double-doubles in wins against UMass Lowell and Hartford...

2015 was a pretty good one for Lake George native Joel Wincowski. The star basketball player graduated high school, won a state championship, broke Jimmer Fredette's all-time Section II scoring record and started his career at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County...

UAlbany had four players in double-figures, finally shot well from the outside, and distributed the ball well as they blew out Yale on Sunday afternoon, 88-54 at SEFCU Arena. The win moves the Danes to 4-3 on the season. The Danes, who had shot awful from the outside during their first six games, connected on 9-20 from the three-point arc...

The America East released it's Women's Basketball preseason coaches poll on Wednesday and on Thursday it was the men's turn. UAlbany has won the America East tournament the last three years and was picked to finish second in that poll behind Stony Brook...

After advancing to its fourth consecutive NCAA tournament last March, the UAlbany women's basketball program is set for another run in 2015-16. The Danes return the best player in the America East in Shereesha Richards and also are armed with a bevy of solid recruits...

After winning the America East Conference for the third straight year, the UAlbany men's basketball team is looking to head to the NCAA tournament for a fourth time in 2015-16. The first step? Recruit. The second? Release the schedule. UAlbany did some of that on Monday, announcing its non-conference opponents: DATE OPPONENT   November     13 at Kentucky 16 at Boston University 19 COLGATE   21 ONE

It's hard to believe that we are rapidly approaching the start of the 2015-16 academic year, and with that, comes the start again of college and high school athletics. On the college front, UAlbany figures to be a major player again in the America East, but before we move ahead, we take one last look back...

UAlbany will be well represented in the America East, Man of the Year award by basketball player Sam Rowley, and lacrosse phenom Lyle Thompson. The criteria to be nominated is, student-athletes must have completed intercollegiate eligibility in her primary sport by the end of the 2015 spring season or received his undergraduate degree prior to the conclusion of the summer 2015 term, and have a min

On Sunday, the Danes learned they would be playing Cornell in the first round of this year's tournament.After beating Stony Brook and winning the America East title on Saturday, the UAlbany men's lacrosse team secured another trip to the NCAA tournament...

After leading the University at Albany men's basketball team to an America East regular season title, an America East tournament title, and a third straight berth in the NCAA tournament, Will Brown has been named a finalist for the 2015 Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year Award...

The 2014-15 UAlbany men's basketball season may have ended on Friday night in Columbus, Ohio with the Danes 69-60 loss to No. 3 Oklahoma in the NCAA tournament, but there is no reason to doubt that the '15-'16 Danes can't earn a fourth straight trip to the "Big Dance" for UA...