ALBANY (13-15, 9-7 America East)Last Game: Albany 72, Maine 68 on 2/23/22
Last 10 Games: 6-4
Last Game with SBU: Stony Brook 86, Albany 75 on 2/21/21. Five players in double figures. SBU 10-21 from three.
Checkmate Unofficial Line: Stony Brook -1.5
NET Ranking: Stony Brook 244, Albany 265
KenPom Rating: Stony Brook 262, Albany 270
KenPom Prediction: Stony Brook 72, Albany 68
Watch: SNY or
https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/eventCalendarId/401369707?gameId=401369707&sourceLang=en&om-navmethod=espn:globalsearch:resultsListen: N/A
Notables:6-4/190 sr G Jamel Horton 12.4 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 4.0 apg, 1.0 spg
6-4/190 gr G Matt Cerruti 11.7 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 1.2 spg, .477 FG%, .471 3-pt FG%
6-9/215 gr F Jarvis Doles 7.0 ppg, 3.9 rpg
6-5/200 fr F Justin Neely 6.9 ppg, 4.7 rpg, .471 FG%, .833 FT%
OK everyone, home stretch.
Anyone else not sure what to feel about these games? You want to be positive, but what players are even going to be here next year? Not Sayles, Habwe or Christie. Roberts, Policelli and Greene are four years removed from high school. I have no idea where they stand academically, but might they be attractive graduate transfer candidates, or is a step up to the CAA satisfying enough? Roberts and Greene in particular have had monster individual years. And Diallo's a 2018 HS grad too. Will he be back? It's crazy what college basketball has become.
And it's not right, but doesn't more chaos increase the likelihood of Heilbron pressing for a change on the bench? I realize the odds aren't in our favor, but everyone picking up and leaving, whether during the season or afterward, is not a good look. And then you have past stars calling for a change on social. Just not good.
UA's a mutant team too, but Dwayne Killings has done a great job up there. They started the year 0-5, and 1-7, and now they find themselves tied with UMBC for second place in the conference. So there ought to be some fight in the dog Saturday night, whereas we'll see what our energy level is like.
Going back to the state of college basketball, it does make you long for where we were 5-10 years ago, with these games meaning
so much, battling for home court, familiar foes getting into these physical battles. All-time, we're 33-31 against Albany, with so many battles being decided by so few points. Who knows when the next time is we'll face UA? I suspect we'll see a couple AE teams on our schedule next year—Hartford's a ferry ride and will need opponents as an independent, NJIT can't be that angry with us as a conference noob, something like that.
Is ARob even available? And if he isn't, why isn't he? So many mysterious comings and goings. I don't know what to think.