• Rhode Island and UAlbany are meeting for the first time in men's basketball.
• The Great Danes come to the Ryan Center with a 1-2 record, falling to Marquette 80-53 and Massachusetts 83-62 before beating Division III SUNY Delhi 115-52 on Tuesday night.
• UAlbany was picked to finish second in the America East Preseason Coaches Poll.
• Guard Amir Lindsey was named to the America East Preseason All-Conference Team.
• Lindsey leads the Great Danes with 15.3 points per game while also averaging 4.3 assists per game.

NEW MAN OF STEAL FOR RHODE ISLAND

• Tyler Cochran set a Rhode Island single-game program record with nine steals Monday against Stonehill.
• He broke the previous mark of eight by Fatts Russell against Saint Louis on March 1, 2020.
• Through three games, Cochran has already recorded 16 steals, which ranks second in the country behind Bowling Green's Javontae Campbell.
• Campbell and Cochran are 1-2 nationally in steals per game at 5.67 and 5.33, respectively.
• Cochran has had at least three steals in each game thus far.
• He had four in the season opener against Stetson and then three against Tulsa at the Veteran's Classic.
• He is just five steals shy of 200 for his career.
• Cochran has recorded 62 steals in a season twice, doing so at Ball State in 2021-22 and again at Toledo in 2023-24.
• He was the MAC Defensive Player of the Year for Toledo in 2023-24.

RAMS GETTING IT DONE AT THE FREE THROW LINE 

• During Monday's win over Stonehill, Rhode Island was 18-for-22 at the free throw line.
• The Rams rank 28th nationally with a .800 free throw percentage as a team.
• That percentage ranks third in the Atlantic 10.
• Rhode Island is 52-for-65 from the stripe.
• Myles Corey (1.000; 5-for-5), RJ Johnson (1.000; 4-for-4), Jahmere Tripp (.900; 9-for-10), Keeyan Itejere (.875; 7-for-8) and Jonah Hinton (.846; 11-for-13) are all shooting better than .800 while also attempting at least one free throw per game. 
• The Rams have outscored the opposition by 10 points at the free throw line thus far.
• Last season Rhode Island shot .694 from the free throw line.