ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Mike Black scored 17 points and Jacob Iati 15 to lead Albany to a 65-48 victory over Maryland-Baltimore County in the America East Conference opener for both teams.
The Great Danes (12-3) have won nine of their past 10 games.
Brett Roseboro had 12 points and eight rebounds, and Ryan Cook scored 12 for UMBC (2-12).
Albany shot 45.5 percent from the field (20 of 44) to the Retrievers' 34.5 percent (19 of 55), and the Great Danes made 20 of 25 free throws to UMBC's 5 of 9. Albany won the rebounding battle 33-24.
The Great Danes led 30-24 at the break, but Albany's Peter Hooley and Black made four free throws each around Sam Rowley's jumper for a 43-28 advantage. After Roseboro knocked down a jumper, Black and Hooley made two foul shots each to lead 47-30 with 11 minutes remaining.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Maryland-Baltimore County (2-12) | 24 | 24 | 48 |
| Albany (12-3) « | 30 | 35 | 65 |
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| Maryland-Baltimore County Retrievers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| M. Garner, F | 18 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| B. Roseboro, C | 27 | 6-11 | 0-0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| R. Cook, G | 29 | 5-14 | 1-2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| B. Neller, G | 26 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| A. Morgan, G | 21 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Getz | 18 | 1-6 | 1-1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Q. Jones | 14 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Satchell | 14 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| C. Plummer | 12 | 0-5 | 1-2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| J. Wertz | 6 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| W. Wise | 6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Lane | 5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Wejnert | 4 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals | 19-55 | 5-9 | 28 | 6 | 22 | 48 | |
| 34.5% | 55.6% | ||||||
| Albany Great Danes | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| B. Metcalf, F | 20 | 2-5 | 2-4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| J. Guerrier, F | 11 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| J. Puk, C | 19 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| M. Black, G | 35 | 4-8 | 8-9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 17 |
| J. Iati, G | 34 | 4-9 | 4-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| S. Rowley | 24 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| P. Hooley | 21 | 1-2 | 6-6 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| L. Devlin | 13 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| D. Evans | 13 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| C. Page | 5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| G. Johnson | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D. Wiegmann | 2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| R. Williams | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 20-44 | 20-25 | 36 | 12 | 13 | 65 | |
| 45.5% | 80% | ||||||
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