In a key conference matchup at home on Saturday, senior guard Jaron Cornish helped Stony Brook Men’s Basketball bounce back from a first-half slump to beat UMass-Lowell by a final score of 76-65. Cornish dropped his career-high 30 points against the River Hawks.
The Seawolves were sharp all night long from deep on Wednesday, Feb. 6, burying the Binghamton Bearcats on the road 85-59 for their largest margin of victory in conference action this season.
It took a nail-biting final minute on the road to secure it, but the Stony Brook men’s basketball team walked away with a split in their final games before the Christmas break.
Stony Brook Men’s Basketball completed two comeback victories against LIU Brooklyn and the Delaware Blue Hens to rebound from their defeat against Brown on Dec. 8.
Locked in a neck-and-neck battle against the Manhattan Jaspers on Wednesday, Dec. 5, Stony Brook Men’s Basketball redshirt-junior forward Akwasi Yeboah proved to the NCAA why he was named America East Player of the Week for three consecutive weeks.
As Quinnipiac graduate guard Cameron Young stepped to the free throw line with 3:58 remaining, his team had closed the Stony Brook Men’s Basketball lead to just four when they were down 20 in the first half.
Confidence has been running through Stony Brook Men’s Basketball heading into the upcoming 2018-19 season. This time however, things are just a bit different.
Despite trailing 22-0 in the first half and committing an accidental technical foul in the closing seconds of the game, Stony Brook Men’s Basketball fought back and won 77-74 in overtime over George Washington University in the season opener on Tuesday, Nov. 7.
"We are very excited to add three high-character young men, who love the game of basketball and are serious about academics to our Stony Brook basketball family," Stony Brook Men’s Basketball Head Coach Jeff Boals said.
