Albany at New Hampshire, 2:00 PM Eastern, espn3
The Under the Radar Game of the Day heads to the Granite State this afternoon for an America East battle between the visiting Great Danes of UAlbany and the host Wildcats of New Hampshire. Albany enters today’s game at 3-6 overall and 3-4 in conference play, though notably having won a road game earlier this season at Vermont. New Hampshire, on the other hand, is 7-5 overall and 5-2 in conference, placing them in a tie for second place (with Vermont) half a game behind league-leader UMBC. The Wildcats have onw three straight, including a road sweep last weekend at Stony Brook and a home win yesterday over this same Albany team by a score of 71-64.
The Great Danes are led offensively by Antonio Rizzuto and CJ Kelly, both of whom are averaging 12.6 points per game. New Hampshire is led by the pair of Nick Guadarrama (16.2 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, along with a 93% free throw shooting percentage) and Jayden Martinez (13.4 points and 9.0 rebounds per game). Guadarrama was the star in yesterday’s game, scoring 25 points and pulling down 7 boards, while teammate Nick Johnson notched a double-double for the ‘cats. Efforts like that again today could give New Hampshire its fourth consecutive win and a shot at moving closer towards first place in the league standings.