Bertram sets UAlbany three-point record

Former Cooperstown star makes 10 threes, scores college-best 36 points

(Instagram post from @ualbany_mbb highlighting Tyler Bertram’s big game Saturday in Albany.)

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Bertram sets Great Dane record for three-point baskets

Cooperstown Central School basketball’s all-time leading scorer, Tyler Bertram, scored a collegiate-career high 36 points for Albany during its 114-102 home loss to UMBC on Saturday, Feb. 3, setting a school record for three-point baskets made in a game in the process.

According to UAlbany Sports Information Department statistics, Bertram was 13-for-20 from the field, including 10-for-16 on three-point field goals.

“Accurate shooting by Tyler Bertram helped the Great Danes score 10 consecutive points and jump out to an early 11-2 lead only 3:29 minutes into the contest,” UAlbany reported.

Later in the game: “Looking to swing the momentum, Bertram made back-to-back shots from behind the arc to reduce the margin to single digits, 90-81.

“Bertram finished with a game-high 36 points on 65% shooting,” UAlbany reported.

Bertram has appeared in all 23 games for the Great Danes — who are 11-12 — with three starts. He was fourth on the team in scoring with 7.3 points-per game and fifth with 22 minutes-per game going into Saturday’s game.

A graduate student, Bertram started college at University of Charlotte, before transferring to Binghamton, then University of Alabama-Birmingham and Albany.

At Cooperstown, he scored a program record 1,897 points, while leading the Hawkeyes to back to back basketball section titles. He also won section titles in tennis, and in 2016, with doubles partner Pierce Snyder, made the state tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows. He left Cooperstown before his senior year and transferred to Vermont Academy to prepare for college basketball.

Bertram's successful homecoming has also been noticed by the Albany media.

(Stats from Saturday’s game as provided by UAlbany SID.)

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