Mascot Madness, organized each year through the State University of New York (SUNY) system, pitted 35 mascots against each ...

The University at Albany's mascot has pulled off a narrow victory in the 2025 State University of New York Mascot Madness competition.

University at Albany’s Damien the Great Dane made it to round three of voting. He won his matchup against SUNY Cortland’s dragon mascot Blaze by more than 1,000 votes. Brockport’s Ellsworth ...

For the first time, Damien the Great Dane has made it into the Final Four. The University at Albany mascot, a Great Dane who apparently has an appreciation for the campus’s post-modernist architecture ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — SUNY’s Mascot Madness competition is heating up, and Damien the Great Dane from the University at Albany is rising ... who took home the top prize in 2022 and 2023. Last year, ...