College Basketball - America East Conference
Albany Great Danes
| Location: Albany, NY University Founded: 1844 Enrollment: 17,038  Nickname: Great Danes Mascot: Great Dane School Colors: Purple and Gold Joined the AEC: 2001 Varsity Sports: 19 U. President: Susan V. Herbst Director of Athletics: Lee McElroy Basketball Head Coach: Will Brown Conference (Co-) Champions: 2 (2006, 2007) Basketball Arena: SEFCU Arena Current Capacity: 4,553 First Year of Basketball: 1909 |
The school’s athletic program is known as the Great Danes and it is part of the American East Conference in the Division I since 2001.
The Great Danes basketball team is guided by Will Brown, who led them to their first-ever NCAA Division I Tournament berth in 2005-06 season after winning both the America East Conference tournament and regular-season titles.
The team participated in the Bracket Buster during the 2007-08 season.They won their second consecutive American East Conference Title in that season.
The team has produced many great players throughout its years, including: Levi Levine (UCC Demons), Jamar Wilson (Pepinster of Belgium), Lucious Jordan (Albany Patroons) and Kirsten Zöellner currently playing for the AONS Milonas Athens.
For the 2008-09 season the Great Danes only kept 2 of their previous year's team members. Coach Will Brown had to rebuild his squad with 8 new players. Albany held a 6-10 game record in Conference games, and a 15-16 overall mark for the season. It was not their best season, but on the other hand, they were rebuilding the foundations of a new team. Albany ended up 6th in the America East Conference standings during the2008-2009 season.
Albany 2009/2010 Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Time/Result |
| November-10 | at No. 25 Syracuse | L 75-43 |
| November-10 | Morgan State | L 69-65 |
| November-10 | at American University | W 51-50 |
| November-10 | Alcorn State | W 71-55 |
| November-10 | Detroit | L 66-54 |
| November-10 | Robert Morris | W 71-66 |
| November-10 | at UCF | L 76-72 |
| November-10 | at Florida Atlantic | L 81-65 |
| December-10 | at Siena | L 83-54 |
| December-10 | at Pennsylvania | W 78-60 |
| December-10 | at Central Connecticut State | L 70-68 |
| December-10 | at Iona | L 75-62 |
| December-10 | at Loyola (IL) | L 68-56 |
| December-10 | at No. 9 North Carolina | L 87-70 |
| January-10 | Yale | W 89-68 |
| January-10 | Binghamton | L 62-57 |
| January-10 | Vermont | L 71-54 |
| January-10 | at New Hampshire | L 67-59 |
| January-10 | UMBC | W 76-69 |
| January-10 | at Boston University | L 79-58 |
| January-10 | Maine | L 63-54 |
| January-10 | at Stony Brook | L 67-61 |
| January-10 | Hartford | L 64-62 |
| January-10 | at Vermont | L 64-46 |
| February-10 | at Binghamton | 7:00 PM ET |
| February-10 | Boston University | 7:00 PM ET |
| February-10 | New Hampshire | 7:00 PM ET |
| February-10 | at UMBC | 7:00 PM ET |
| February-10 | Stony Brook | 7:00 PM ET |
| February-10 | at Maine | TBA |
| February-10 | at Hartford | 2:00 PM ET |