Preview:
Playing its 4th game in 8 days, Stanford takes on Albany at 1pm on Sunday at Maples. The game will be on Pac 12 networks, though which channel I’m not sure. Our team will hardly have a whole day to prepare, given that it needs to return from Las Vegas.
The Albany Great Danes play for the University of Albany, SUNY. Like SJSU, Albany is a former teachers’ college that grew into a full fledged state university, of 16,000 students located in the NY state capital.
The Albany WBB team is a good mid level team. Last year they were 22-12, 14-2 in their conference: America East. They mainly play similar schools (like Maine) but sprinkle in some military academies and Ivies, and once a year they play a major school. Last year it was Ohio State, that beat them 82-57. Albany went to the finals of its league and lost to Vermont by the repulsive score of 38-36. Whew.
This year Albany is 4-1, having beaten teams like Sarah Lawrence 118-27 and Cornell 57-45.
Albany is led in scoring by 6’0” senior guard Kayla Cooper, who is averaging 12 pts but hasn’t made a three.
Fatema Lee, a 5’7” grad student guard also scores nearly 12 ppg and makes over 40% of her threes.
Lily Phillips, a 5’’11” junior guard scores 11 ppg and makes 48% of her threes.
Albany has 3 other key players in its rotation—all grad students—and two of them are 6’1” and 6’2”.
In sum, Albany is a good three point shooting team and its players are very experienced. They don’t have anyone who can match Iriafen or Brink in the paint. Their best hope is to catch us under prepared and emotionally flat, and for them to get hot from three point range. I doubt those things will happen. Nevertheless, rather than repeat the platitudes about "trap games" I hope our freshmen and second stringers come out on fire and have a great game.
Playing its 4th game in 8 days, Stanford takes on Albany at 1pm on Sunday at Maples. The game will be on Pac 12 networks, though which channel I’m not sure. Our team will hardly have a whole day to prepare, given that it needs to return from Las Vegas.
The Albany Great Danes play for the University of Albany, SUNY. Like SJSU, Albany is a former teachers’ college that grew into a full fledged state university, of 16,000 students located in the NY state capital.
The Albany WBB team is a good mid level team. Last year they were 22-12, 14-2 in their conference: America East. They mainly play similar schools (like Maine) but sprinkle in some military academies and Ivies, and once a year they play a major school. Last year it was Ohio State, that beat them 82-57. Albany went to the finals of its league and lost to Vermont by the repulsive score of 38-36. Whew.
This year Albany is 4-1, having beaten teams like Sarah Lawrence 118-27 and Cornell 57-45.
Albany is led in scoring by 6’0” senior guard Kayla Cooper, who is averaging 12 pts but hasn’t made a three.
Fatema Lee, a 5’7” grad student guard also scores nearly 12 ppg and makes over 40% of her threes.
Lily Phillips, a 5’’11” junior guard scores 11 ppg and makes 48% of her threes.
Albany has 3 other key players in its rotation—all grad students—and two of them are 6’1” and 6’2”.
In sum, Albany is a good three point shooting team and its players are very experienced. They don’t have anyone who can match Iriafen or Brink in the paint. Their best hope is to catch us under prepared and emotionally flat, and for them to get hot from three point range. I doubt those things will happen. Nevertheless, rather than repeat the platitudes about "trap games" I hope our freshmen and second stringers come out on fire and have a great game.
