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Quinnipiac tops Albany in OT
Albany freshman Wheeler Baker. OBW Photo / Sam Perkins Last season, the Albany Great Danes rode excellent foul shooting and the Quinnipiac Bobcats used their rebounding advantage to earn crucial...
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OBW America East Power Rankings v1
Sam Rowley and the Great Danes have raced out of the blocks to claim a spot atop OBW’s first Power Rankings of the season. OBW Photo / Sam Perkins The college basketball season is now fully in swing,...
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Evan Singletary makes his mark in latest installment of Stony Brook-Albany...
Evan Singletary. OBW Photo / Sam Perkins Stony Brook-Albany has become perhaps the America East’s most intense rivalry of recent memory. With some of the usual suspects absent, both literally and...
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The Brawling Rowleys: How brothers Sam and Mike Rowley forged a friendship
Mike Rowley and his older brother Sam have forged a bond by playing together at Albany. OBW Photo / Sam Perkins Every once in a great while, a basketball game would break out in the middle of an...
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Catching up with Albany forward Sam Rowley
Sam Rowley. OBW Photo / Sam Perkins Before tipping off against UMBC, a 69-55 win that pushed Albany to 7-0 in America East play, Great Danes senior forward Sam Rowley sat down with OBW reporter Jason...
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In remembrance of Sue Hooley
Peter Hooley’s mother, Sue, passed away after a long, inspiring fight against colon cancer on Friday. Courtesy photo / Peter Hooley Sue Hooley, the mother of Albany junior guard Peter Hooley, passed...
View ArticleVideo — Albany wins one for Sue Hooley
For the past two and a half weeks, the games themselves have been easy for Albany men’s basketball – a few hours of reprieve from the real world heartbreak hanging over their heads. It’s the rest of...
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Albany men’s basketball plays on the shadows of something so much bigger
Albany head coach Will Brown and the Great Danes have carried on for Peter Hooley and his family. OBW Photo / Sam Perkins In his 14 seasons at Albany, Great Danes head coach Will Brown has seen just...
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Heaven is a Playground — Levi Levine, Vince Carter, racism, and Rucker Park
The most important basketball game in the sports history occurred on Feb. 19, 1948, when the embodiment of pointed white elbows, stiff horizontal movement, set shots and athletic goggles faced off...
View ArticleMarch Madness: Best Round of 64 matchups
The First Four is over, and we’re ready for the real March Madness to begin. Here are the matchups we’re looking forward to most in the Round of 64. Midwest Region Sam Perkins: No. 8 Cincinnati vs. No....
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