Michael Kelly

United States

Content Director at The Daily Gazette

Times Union reporter covering @UAlbanyMBB, @UAlbanyWBB, @FirebirdsAF1 and other sports in the Albany area.

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Articles

Lilly Phillips' UAlbany team tops Sophie Phillips, Rhode Island

Nov 8, 2024 | timesunion.com | Michael Kelly

The UAlbany women's basketball team beats Rhode Island Friday in a nonconference game featuring a matchup of twin sisters.
UAlbany men’s basketball picked 7th in America East preseason poll

Oct 21, 2024 | star-telegram.com | Michael Kelly

During his team's offseason and preseason workouts, University at Albany men's basketball coach Dwayne Killings has often referenced the need to close the gap with three specific America East Conference rivals. Those programs - Vermont, UMass Lowell and Bryant - were picked to finish in the top three slots in the league's preseason coaches' poll, which the America East unveiled Monday.
Siena softball to play in program's 1st NCAA Tournament

May 15, 2024 | timesunion.com | Michael Kelly

No. 1 Texas awaits the Siena College softball team in its first trip to the NCAA Tournament. The Saints won the MAAC championship to qualify.
Transfer portal season shows evolving college basketball landscape

May 8, 2024 | star-telegram.com | Michael Kelly

May 8-ALBANY - The list was long, littered with names of players to try to recruit. Each day, that list in University at Albany men's basketball coach Dwayne Killings' office would receive several more names. Most nights, when Killings was at home, he'd receive a text message from one of his assistants about another player or two to add to the list when he got back to the office the next morning.
NIL collective to launch soon in support of UAlbany men’s basketball

May 4, 2024 | star-telegram.com | Michael Kelly

May 4-ALBANY - A name, image and likeness (NIL) collective is planning to launch soon to support the University at Albany men's basketball program. Chris Wyatt, who played for the team from 2001-05, said in a recent interview that the formation of the Danes of Greatness collective has been in the works for more than a year. "We're looking to go live within the next few weeks," Wyatt said Friday. "The website is built up.
UAlbany women to travel to meet Colgate in WNIT

Mar 18, 2024 | timesunion.com | Michael Kelly

For the University at Albany women’s basketball program, its Women’s National Invitational Tournament first-round opponent is certainly a familiar one. UAlbany found out Monday evening that it will travel to play Thursday against Colgate of the Patriot League. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. between the programs that played in 2021-22 and 2022-23. “We actually scrimmaged them this year, too,” said UAlbany coach Colleen Mullen, whose Great Danes topped Colgate 60-39 on Dec.
UAlbany men's basketball: Great Danes force overtime, but can't earn win vs. Maine

Mar 3, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Michael Kelly
UAlbany men's basketball: Great Danes force overtime, but can't earn win vs. Maine

Mar 2, 2024 | dailygazette.com | Michael Kelly

ALBANY — The opportunity for a dramatic comeback win was there for them, the chance still alive to push toward a home playoff game next weekend. The Great Danes just couldn’t seize the moment. So, instead of with a momentum-building overtime win, the UAlbany men’s basketball program exited Saturday’s 74-71 loss to Maine knowing it had let one slip away. “Got to find a way to win,” forward Aaron Reddish said.
UAlbany women's basketball: Great Danes fall to Maine in regular-season finale, settle for No. 2 postseason seed

Mar 1, 2024 | dailygazette.com | Michael Kelly

If UAlbany is to win a second America East Conference women’s basketball championship in three years, it likely would need to win that title game back where it won in 2022. That’s Memorial Gymnasium in Orono, Maine, where the Great Danes’ regular season closed in defeat this weekend, as the Black Bears won the de facto regular-season championship game 63-46 between the teams on their home court.
UAlbany women's basketball: Game at Maine to decide America East regular-season title

Mar 1, 2024 | dailygazette.com | Michael Kelly

When the America East Conference women’s basketball schedule arrived last year, UAlbany head coach Colleen Mullen’s had an unusual reaction to her team’s 2023-24 regular-season finale. She laughed. “Against Maine, at Maine,” she remembered thinking. All these months later, and the game set for 1 p.m. Saturday in Orono, Maine, is as important as Mullen figured.