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Conference and Athletics / Re: SB Logo
« on: March 28, 2024, 03:51:24 pm »
Everything about this is pretty fishy to me. I think SUNY was just sick of us winning every single year so they artificially made a story just to get a new champion.

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SBU Women's Basketball / Re: Women's Basketball- 2023-2024 Season
« on: March 25, 2024, 03:09:25 pm »
Sucks that NET was accurate. Illinois was an under-.500 B1G team and still beat the 28-4 CAA champs by that much.

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Around Stony Brook U... / Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
« on: March 22, 2024, 05:03:09 pm »
Interesting: plans to build a Bronze Wolfie Bench/Statue in the center of campus to become a landmark.

"The Wolfie Mascot Bench will provide a central point for gatherings, celebrations and spontaneous interactions, and it will emerge as a rallying point for school spirit. As students and visitors engage with this iconic statue, they'll forge connections with the university that extend far beyond academics, which will foster a profound sense of loyalty and pride in being part of the Stony Brook family."

https://x.com/stonybrooku/status/1771272406520258966?s=20

https://givingday.stonybrook.edu/o/stony-brook-university/i/stony-brook-giving-day-2024/s/wolfie-statue?utm_source=marcom-stonybrooku&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Twitter&utm_content=GivingDay-WolfieBench24

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SBU Women's Basketball / Re: Women's Basketball- 2023-2024 Season
« on: March 21, 2024, 09:06:21 pm »
I love beating JMU in anything. Mainly because we could never beat them in football, also because they "ascended" to the Sun Belt without us, and this time, also because Langford was an assistant under JMU's head coach for a long time (and took Pittman with her). That has to sting if you're him.

Next up is Illinois. Who is 14-15, but is ranked 49 in NET!

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SBU Women's Basketball / Re: Women's Basketball- 2023-2024 Season
« on: March 17, 2024, 09:32:45 pm »
I just wish I could care. Sorry, but if you have a 27-3 record, you have to make the NCAA Tournament at that point. We were over 70 spots higher than the next closest CAA team in the NET. It's not like it was a competitive season either, we steamrolled pretty much every team by double digit margin of victory. Columbia got the final at-large bid - a team we beat by double digits! In fact, I think they jinxed us because yesterday in their postgame presser, their coach used us to boost their resume by saying "Stony Brook's going to win the CAA tomorrow" when explaining how their losses were quality losses. It's still on their Twitter. There has to be a protection clause out there when the regular season results were that dominating.

I calculated this: we're 134-40 (.770) over the last 6 seasons - and there's just ONE NCAA bid to show for that? Yes, I know COVID and the America East ban struck two of those years from us, but of course it would. Just like how the men were 119-46 (.721) from 2012-16 with just ONE tournament from all of that. It's depressing and infuriating.

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SBU Women's Basketball / Re: Women's Basketball- 2023-2024 Season
« on: March 17, 2024, 05:17:28 pm »
I didn't even think it was an effort thing that led to the loss, really, because we were +15(!!!!) on the offensive glass and we fought hard to cause turnovers in the press in the fourth quarter. So many easy layups were blown on our end, which could be pressure. But also, we played exactly to the scout and got punished for it. Drexel shot 29% from three in the regular season, and then today they were 11-for-19 from 3, with so many banks and side-rim rolls in. Those are the shots that hypothetically, you want them to take from a defensive perspective because they're weak at it. Just a few too many bad passes on our end. Drexel had five players with 4 fouls for most of the fourth quarter and we still couldn't fully attack them.

And also, the broadcast said that the #1 seed hasn't won it on the women's side since 2017? What gives?

If anything, I think losing today keeps Langford here for us.

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SBU Women's Basketball / Re: Women's Basketball- 2023-2024 Season
« on: March 17, 2024, 04:26:54 pm »
Just devastating. Can't win the men's tournament as the underdog, can't win the women's tournament as the overwhelming favorite 80 spots ahead of the closest conferencemate in NET.

Nothing good ever happens to Stony Brook. This is the kind of the week that really makes you question the purpose of still rooting for these Seawolves. Hooley was a decade ago now and yet his spirit still lingers. Just so hard to feel good about having gone to this godforsaken cursed school.

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SBU Women's Basketball / Re: Women's Basketball- 2023-2024 Season
« on: March 17, 2024, 03:54:12 pm »
Typical [EDITED BY MODERATORS] Stony Brook luck.

This school is disgustingly cursed. We're not allowed to have anything ever go right for us.

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SBU Women's Basketball / Re: Women's Basketball- 2023-2024 Season
« on: March 17, 2024, 03:02:34 pm »
Absolutely horrific first half. Absolutely horrific.

This Drexel team does not make 3s at all and yet they're the ones who are 5-12 while we're 2-13. Just a mess. And 12 turnovers.

Being down just single digits at half would have helped, but of course we commit a horrific foul late in the shot clock on the final possession. There's still 20 minutes and our depth is our strength -- but an absolutely horrific start. You cannot squander the season like this.

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SBU Women's Basketball / Re: Women's Basketball- 2023-2024 Season
« on: March 17, 2024, 02:12:11 pm »
Nice that the women also get their championship game on CBS SN. I'll have it on in the background while doing some other stuff this afternoon

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SBU Women's Basketball / Re: Women's Basketball- 2023-2024 Season
« on: March 17, 2024, 02:07:23 am »
At home, we beat Drexel by 21 (we were up 21-1 at one point!), and on the road we beat them by 2 after being down by 19 points with 5 minutes left in the third quarter.

It's a reverse of the men's championship, where we were the surprise 7 seed facing 1 Charleston, as Drexel is the 7 that's playing in the title game against us, the regular season champion. Hope Langford has the team locked in and ready to go in the biggest game of the year.

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SBU Baseball / Re: 2024 Baseball Season
« on: March 15, 2024, 06:54:41 pm »
Another win vs Seton Hall today. Beating a Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big East opponent in the same season is impressive no matter what.

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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Looking ahead to 2024-25
« on: March 15, 2024, 10:10:49 am »
Don't have a full understanding of how it works but I believe TSM, Clarke, Noll and Maidoh were all NIL guys so theoretically that opens a good amount of NIL money for Geno to use in the portal. Assume Fitz will get a TSM level deal to stay.

He's already done 6 college years, including a redshirt and graduate season. I'm pretty sure his graduate season was also his COVID season. If not, do you want a seventh-year senior?

2018-19: redshirt
2019-20: 12 games
2020-21: 5 games (injury redshirt)
2021-22: missed entire season (redshirt)
2022-23: 33 games
2023-24: 35 games

Even when we got him as a graduate transfer from Stanford, he had only played 32 minutes on the court. He was at Stanford as a student for 4 years but only played in 2 of them, and one of those was an early season-ending injury. This year was only his 3rd "full" season.

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I don't know where Geno got that figure that we're 13th in the CAA in budget. Official reported numbers to the Department of Education for 2022 are below

CAA 2022 Men's basketball expenditures   
School                                            Total Expenditures
College of Charleston                           $3,714,314.00
Northeastern University                   $3,384,972.00
Hofstra University                           $3,311,186.00
Drexel University                           $2,937,611.00
University of Delaware                   $2,936,910.00
Stony Brook University                   $2,918,820.00
Monmouth University                           $2,785,235.00
Towson University                           $2,433,283.00
William & Mary                                   $2,402,895.00
Elon University                                   $2,376,314.00
University of North Carolina Wilmington    $2,303,502.00
Campbell University                           $1,949,426.00
North Carolina A & T State University   $1,425,053.00
Hampton University                           $1,147,789.00


I generally like Geno, think he's a great interview, and even defended his extension at the time, but I thought those comments were whiny (an untrue). Yes the College Charleston has a huge advantage in budget and NIL, but that was also essentially Stony Brook when they were in the AE.

Yeah, that's closer to what I would have expected. Maybe he's referring exclusively to the NIL budget.

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