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The Albany Great Danes Basketball team is the basketball team that represent the University at Albany, The State University of New York in Albany, New York, and currently competes in the America East Conference. The team played in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament in both 2006 and 2007, and is currently coached by Will Brown. Their official uniform colors are purple and gold and their mascot is Great Danes. The second longest serving coach in UAlbany history belongs to Richard “Doc” Sauers.
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He served as Great Danes men's basketball coach from 1955-1997, and is one of the most victorious coaches in the history of college basketball with 702 victories. He led the program to eleven NCAA and four NAIA post-season tournament appearances in his tenure. Sauers finished his career with a 702-330 record in 41 seasons, and achieved the prestigious 700-win mark on Feb. 8, 1997 in an 89-71 victory over the University of Bridgeport. From the 1999-00 season, the first year in Division I, to the end of the 2004-05 season, UAlbany recorded a 48-118 record, and finished with over 10 victories in only two seasons.
However, in the 2005-06 campaign, the Great Danes compiled a 21-11 season, and in that season, the they would take on both the eventual national champion Florida Gators and UCLA Bruins, both of which would play each other for the National Championship. In 2009, the University at Albany will play host to its first America East Men’s Basketball Championship at the 4,538-seat SEFCU Arena on campus. The nine-team tournament runs from Friday, March 6 to Sunday, March 8, with the quarterfinal and semifinal games played on Saturday, March 7 and Sunday, March 8.
