Women's Basketball Travels to UAlbany

STREAKS, STORYLINES & SIDEBARS 

• The Cornell women’s basketball team opened the 2022-23 season against its longest non-Ivy rival at Colgate on Monday, Nov. 7 where it fell 62-48 to the Raiders at Cotterell Court in Hamilton, N.Y.
• The Big Red have a three consecutive home win streak following the 71-48 win over Binghamton on Wednesday evening.
• Picked sixth in the Ivy League Preseason media poll, the Big Red is coming off a 9-16 season and a sixth-place finish among the Ancient Eight.
• Theresa Grace Mbanefo and Samantha Will were the lone 2022 grads for the Red, opening up new court opportunities for the returners.
• Freshman Emily Pape neared double-double territory in both of her first two collegiate outings (13 pts, 7 rebounds at Colgate; 7 pts, 10 rebounds at FDU). She tallied a remarkable 24 points in the 66-61 win over Mount St. Mary's.
• Cornell returns 11 athletes from last year, while adding four new faces.

THE SERIES 
Overall: Cornell leads, 8-1
In Albany, N.Y.: Cornell leads, 3-1
Current Streak: Cornell has won the past three
Last Meeting: Cornell won, 47-46, on November 24, 2021
Smith vs. UAlbany: Cornell leads, 5-1
Series Notes: 

• Saturday will mark the 10th all-time meeting between the Big Red and the Great Danes.
• UAlbany is coming off an 23-10 season last year that included an NCAA Tournament appearance against the number one seeded Louisville Cardinals. The Danes won their confrence tournament after defeating Maine, 56-47.
• Cornell's lone loss came at Albany in the 2009-10 season.

A WIN OVER UALBANY WOULD ... 

• move the Big Red back over .500 (5-4).
• be the first road win since Feb. 12, 2022 when Cornell beat Brown, 68-61.
• be the 461st win in program history (460-749 in seasons, .380).

LAST TIME OUT: Binghamton 48, Cornell 71
GAME STORY I BOX SCORE I GALLERY

• The Big Red dominated Binghamton, 71-48, with the help of three athletes who tallied double-digits (Ingram 18, Mulroy 16, Pape 12)
• Cornell tailed after Binghamton opened with a 7-2 run, but the Big Red battled with a 7-0 answer to take the lead at 9-7. Binghamton took an 11-9 lead at 1:54 in the first, but Cornell went on a 4-0 run to take a 13-11 lead with under a minute to go in the first. Cornell never gave up its lead throughout the remainder of the game
• Junior Kaya Ingram tallied 11 points in the first half alone. She ended the day shooting .583 from the field.
• Senior captain Ania McNicholas led the team in assists with seven.

Photos by Dave Burbank, Eldon Lindsay, Patrick Shanahan and Darl Zehr