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ALBANY, N.Y. - The Vermont women's basketball team wraps up the regular season at Albany. Tipoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. from SEFCU Arena. The game can be heard on WVMT-620 AM (online: SportsJuice.com) with Kevin Fitzgerald calling the action. The game will also be streamed online for free via AmericaEast.tv.
The Catamounts are 2-3 in their last five games and coming off a 72-64 loss to UMass Lowell on Wednesday.. Vermont stands at 5-22 overall and 2-13 in America East. Albany is in second place in America East with a 13-2 conference mark and a 20-8 overall record. The Great Danes have won five of their last six games, including a 65-50 win at Hartford on Wednesday.
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LAST TIME OUT - UMass Lowell 72, Vermont 64
Sydney Smith scored a game-high 19 points and Niki Taylor added her 11th career double-double with 12 points and a game-high 11 rebounds ... Smith scored 17 of her 19 points in the second half and finished the day shooting 8-for-13 from the floor ... Kylie Butler added eight points, six rebounds and a career-high seven assists ... Kayla Burchill added 16 points, including a 4-for-8 effort from beyond the arc ... UMass Lowell led by 17 with 4:33 left in the game ... UVM's last rally, an 11-0 run behind eight points from Burchill, closed the gap to six with 1:56 left, but the River Hawks closed out the game going 8-for-8 from the foul line to secure the win.
ABOUT ALBANY
Albany is 20-8 overall and 13-2 in America East and has won five of its last six games ... The Great Danes are coming off an 65-50 win at Hartford on Wednesday ... Junior Shereesha Richards leads the league in scoring (21.4 ppg), rebounding (8.8 rpg) and field goal percentage (59.7%) ... Imani Tate is chipping in 13.4 points and 5.9 rebounds per game while also shooting 50 percent from the floor ... As a team, Albany is shooting 47.7 percent from the floor, 29.2 percent from 3-point range and 70.1 percent from the foul line ... The Great Danes are out rebounding opponents by a +7.5 margin.
THE SERIES
Thursday marks the 28th meeting between the two teams ... Vermont leads series 15-12 ... Albany swept the Catamounts in the regular season last year ... The Great Danes have won 10 in a row over Vermont.
LAST TIME OUT - Albany 89, Vermont 48
Shereesha Richards scored a game-high 31 points and added eight rebounds and six steals to lead Albany to an 89-48 win over Vermont at Patrick Gymnasium ... The Great Danes led from the tip, building a 16-5 lead at the 13:42 mark of the first half ... The Catamounts trimmed the lead to five on back-to-back 3-pointers from Kayla Burchill (team-high 11 points), but Albany used a 12-2 spurt to push its lead to 13 and took a 39-22 advantage into the break. The Great Danes used a 7-0 spurt midway through the second half spurt to extend their lead to 24 and cruised to the win.
WHO'S NEXT | America East Championship Central
The America East Women's Basketball Tournament begins March 7 at the Events Center on the campus of Binghamton University ... The Catamounts are could be the No. 7 seed with win over Albany, or a Binghamton loss to UMBC ... If the Bearcats beat UMBC and Vermont falls to Albany, Binghamton will be the No. 7 seed and Vermont will be the No. 8 seed ... The quarterfinals and semifinals games will be held at the Events Center and broadcast on ESPN3 ... The championship game is set for March 13 at the highest remaining seed and will be broadcast on ESPNU.
