People (myself included) were very high on the Unversity at Albany basketball team early this season when they got out to the best start in program history through various numbers of games and then even more so when they won at Vermont home against Binghamton and Boston University.

Well those days seem long ago now for the Great Danes, who have lost four games in a row and are trying to stay out of the bottom of the America East standings.

UAlbany takes on New Hampshire at the SEFCU Arena at 2 p.m.

The Great Danes have lost six of eight games after getting out to a 3-1 conference start.

The thing is that maybe this team was out-performing themselves early on this season and it has just caught up to them.

The team is very young, their top scorers are a sophomore in Tim Ambrose, a junior in his first year with the team in Will Harris and a freshman in Anthony Raffa.

When any or all of those players have stuggled, the team has followed suit.

The great/aggravating thing for coach Will Brown must be that his team is 8-2 at home this season and they will just have to win two games on their home court (as long as they don't slip to eighth) to get to the championship game.

As great as it was to see this team succeed early on, it's been just as difficult watching them struggle the past month.

They still have a chance to turn things around and with this could be the perfect year to have the tournament on their home court, but we'll see.

This team may be a year away.

Prediction: UAlbany 65, New Hampshire 58 (My record is 17-8)