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SBU Men's Basketball / Game 29: vs. UMBC 2/27 7pm
« on: February 25, 2019, 09:23:53 pm »
UMBC
Record:
18-11 (10-4 America East)
Last 10: 8-2
Last Game: Albany 84, UMBC 75 on 2/23/19
Last Game with SBU: UMBC 57, Stony Brook 49 on 1/30/19; SBU 2 for 22 from three; Yeboah 5 for 17 overall
Checkmate Unofficial Line: Stony Brook -2.5
Net Ranking: Stony Brook 157, UMBC 218
KenPom RPI: Stony Brook 170, UMBC 215
KenPom Prediction: Stony Brook 66, UMBC 60
Yeboah Point Watch: 1,247
Division I: Currently 6th. Next up: Mitchell Beauford (2003-08) 1,359
All-time: Currently 12th. Next up: Mitchell Beauford (2003-08) 1,359
Listen/Watch:
TV: http://bit.ly/MBBGm29Vid
Stony Brook radio: http://bit.ly/WUSBSports_FM
Notables:
6-6/220 gr F Joe Sherburne 14.2 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 3.0 apg, .494 FG%, .902 FT%, .415 3-pt FG%
6-2/180 jr G KJ Jackson 12.4 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 3.2 apg, 2.2 spg
6-5/235 jr F Arkel Lamar 9.8 ppg, 4.9 rpg, 1.4 spg
6-10/200 so F Brandon Horvath 9.0 ppg, 4.3 rpg

A couple orders of business to touch on first.

Off the bat, I haven't heard anything from our camp or from the conference on the availability of Jeff Otchere. My sense is he will not play. No inside knowledge; just a hunch. I truly believe that there was no malicious intent whatsoever, but when a kid's season ends like that and it wasn't your typical hard foul, I could see him getting hit for a game. If the AE doesn't, we've seen Boals give players a game to observe – Garcia, McKenzie, Almonacy to name a few – and between the flagrant 2, the injury and the poor play of late, it seems like a good time to do that.

Second, I thought Healy from UA deserved POTW honors over Akwasi. The latter undoubtedly had a great week, but Healy and 20-plus points in wins over the second and third ranked teams in the league. Game results have to matter if the production is close. As great as he was, I'm not sure how Akwasi got the nod.

OK, on to the game that will factor greatly in the seeding of next month's conference tournament.

As I posted in the Maine thread, a win means that we're in the driver's seat for the 2, basically needing a win at Vermont or Hartford OR an unlikely UMBC loss to UNH. A loss Wednesday means it would be almost impossible to finish any higher than 3. Honestly, I'm good with either the 2 or the 3 – whatever allows us to avoid Albany in round one.

Our last meeting with UMBC was part of a two-game stretch in which we played our worst basketball in my opinion. A total of 101 points in the losses to UVM and UMBC, a total of 12 assists, and overall just a defeated look about us. I'm interested to see what we get out of Cornish because this is where he hit his swoon – seven points total in the final three games of the first AE cycle, too many jump shots, a dip in minutes. We're a different team when he's not getting to the rim, and we need him when facing the conference's best – in this case, teams 2, 1 and 4 in the standings.

You know, I was going to tout UMBC's defense, which has contributed more to its success than years past. But look at what we're doing – top TEN in the COUNTRY in field goal percentage defense, with teams shooting it under 39 percent from the field. Some of this has to do with our opponents – UNH twice, Binghamton twice, etc. But that really speaks to our athleticism and, more than anything in my mind, our effort and attitude. The same goes for work on the glass – we're currently 17th in rebounding margin. As for the Retrievers, they're 17th in scoring defense.

I hope Otchere plays. Like I said, I don't think he intended to harm Fleming – he thought about the block, then thought better of it, and was caught in the middle. If he sits though, can we afford to go small up front for better than half the game? Or can be actually count on Ochefu for big minutes? Christie for more than a few? UMBC lost Daniel Akin and Max Curran to injury during the non-conference schedule, but Sherburne, Horvath, Gerrity and Schwietz still suggest to me that we'll need big minutes from our bigs.

I hope the student body and area residents realize how important this one is. I have my doubts. Would it kill the students to stand the whole game though? Or ever?

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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 28: vs. Maine 2/23 7pm
« on: February 23, 2019, 10:10:49 pm »
All is well when the shots are falling.

Some scenarios I believe to be correct ...
If we win out, we get the #1 seed at 13-3 in conference and owning the tiebreaker over Vermont for having split the season series with #3/4 UMBC whereas they were swept.

If we finish in a tie with UMBC somehow, we lose as we'll have either been swept by UMBC OR we'll have split and UMBC wins the tiebreaker for having swept the highest seed remaining in the conference (Vermont).

If we finish in a three-way tie at 12-4 with Vermont and UMBC, UMBC gets the 1 with a 3-1 record against the group, and then I think the seeding for the 2 and 3 between us and Vermont would depend on who finishes fourth.

If we win Wednesday, our magic number for the #2 seed is 1, meaning that, assuming UMBC handles UNH in its finale, we'll have to go into either Vermont or Hartford and get a W. No easy task.

If we lose Wednesday, we drop to #3 and can't climb any higher without two wins AND either a home loss by Vermont against UMass Lowell OR a UMBC loss to UNH. OR if we all finish 12-4. See aforementioned tiebreaker scenarios.

Assuming Albany and Hartford are victorious on Wednesday, that would set up a huge clash next Saturday between the two teams in Hartford. If Albany won, they'd then have swept the season series and have the chance to steal the #4 seed with a win at Binghamton and a SBU win at Hartford on March 5.

Basically, I want no part of Albany in that first round, no matter where the game is. We can bully teams that are flimsy inside, but that's not UA.


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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 28: vs. Maine 2/23 7pm
« on: February 23, 2019, 07:18:53 pm »
Albany mauling UMBC early.


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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 28: vs. Maine 2/23 7pm
« on: February 23, 2019, 08:34:55 am »
Hopefully, we can get back to winning tonight, after a tough loss against UA.

I'll repeat what I said in the UA game thread:  SBU is in control of its own destiny.  Although we're in 3rd place in the conference now, there is a chance we can finish 2nd still, and if we run the table - yes, go 4-0 in our last 4 - we are GUARANTEED to finish 1st in the conference!  Certainly a tall order, but it starts tonight!  UMBC sweeping the season series against UVM makes this all a reality.

OK, enough talk about the # 1 seed - we need to take it one game at a time, and it starts tonight.  Let's give Jaron Cornish a great hand on Seniors Night - he has taken his game to the next level from last season - and then let's take it to Maine!

Go SBU!

Senior Night on Wednesday!

Maine opens up as a 12.5 point dog.


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SBU Men's Basketball / Game 28: vs. Maine 2/23 7pm
« on: February 22, 2019, 08:04:39 pm »
MAINE
Record:
5-22 (3-9 America East)
Last 10: 3-7
Last Game: Albany 63, Maine 54 on 2/17/19
Last Game with SBU: Stony Brook 64, Albany 61 on 1/19/19; trailed by as much as 18 in the second half; 0-9 threes in first half, 7-15 in second
Checkmate Unofficial Line: Stony Brook -11.5
Net Ranking: Stony Brook 162, Maine 329
KenPom RPI: Stony Brook 174, Maine 325
KenPom Prediction: Stony Brook 71, Maine 58
Yeboah Point Watch: 1,220
Division I: Currently 7th. Next up: Dave Coley (2010-14) 1,222
All-time: Currently 13th. Next up: Dave Coley (2010-14) 1,222
Listen/Watch:
TV: http://bit.ly/MBBGm28Vid
Stony Brook radio: http://bit.ly/WUSBSports_FM
Notables:
6-7/220 jr F Andrew Fleming 13.9 ppg, 7.1 rpg, 3.2 apg, 1.2 spg, .475 FG%
6-5/195 rjr G Isaiah White 13.9 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 1.4 spg
6-4/205 jr G Sergio El Darwich 11.4 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 3.2 apg, 1.4 spg, .504 FG%
6-8/215 so F Vilgot Larsson 7.3 ppg, 4.3 rpg

Gotta be bare bones with this one, fellas. Go Seawolves.

Yeboah will pass Coley tomorrow, but it would be tough for him to climb any higher on the scoring charts this year. Mitchell Beauford's next at 1,359.

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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Seawolves in the pros
« on: February 22, 2019, 04:01:38 pm »
Ty had 26 and 12 in his first game with Soleuvre of the Total League in Luxembourg. The box for the second game isn't up aside from this gobbledygook. I think he had the first 11 and a total of 19 but I'm not sure.

http://www.flbb.lu/resultats_info.php?id=11211&OptInfo=FM

Here's footage of the game. Ty's in yellow.

https://vimeopro.com/flbb/total-league-men-games/video/317590057

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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 27: vs. Albany 2/21 7pm
« on: February 22, 2019, 02:29:14 pm »
I actually thought we played one of our better offensive games yesterday. It's just that their shots went down and ours didn't. The last two games, the opposition has rained threes on us, and we're lucky to have gotten a split.

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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 27: vs. Albany 2/21 7pm
« on: February 22, 2019, 10:27:48 am »
it has.  back to the basket and sky/baby hooks are no longer.  kids want to make highlight reels, get rich quick on 3s.  some even take what is a long NBA three.

it wasnt so much an issue when warney grabbed the boards and provided a second chance 5x per game.

What I find strange is how the numbers for our three best shooters have fallen off a cliff since we started conference play.

Non-conference
Latimer: 32 for 74 (.432)
Garcia: 17 for 42 (.405)
Yeboah: 30 for 85 (.353)

Conference
Latimer: 20 for 63 (.317)
Garcia: 4 for 27 (.148)
Yeboah: 20 for 82 (.247)

As a team, we shot 36 percent from three in OOC games, and are a conference-worst 28 percent since.

You still need to space the floor and knock down these shots, but this downward trend is discouraging. It's a miracle we're 9-3.

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SBU Men's Basketball / Game 27: vs. Albany 2/21 7pm
« on: February 21, 2019, 10:46:42 pm »
The performance at the line was abysmal as we all know. I feel like it was in Garcia’s head after a few misses.

Still, we shot it so poorly from deep. In this day and age, it’s tough to win making just five threes. Even though they’ve been better, I cringe every time Cornish and Olaniyi put it up. I just don’t see them as pure shooters. Akwasi was 3 for 5, the rest of the team was 2 for 17 and one of those was Mac! Meanwhile, it was Healy first and then Rizzuto. They can both really shoot it ... and they’re both freshmen BTW #gulp

We shot it better than Vermont did though! Hope they go 4 for 24 against us.

As I said in a previous post, this just felt like a game where we had to ride Akwasi. He clearly had the hot hand, and pretty much did what he wanted to. There were so many times where he was trailing on the break and Campbell knew to pick him up just past the arc. Still we had scramble situations and breaks where he spotted up and didn’t get the ball, sharing his frustration with a teammate afterward.

We won the turnover battle but it felt like all 11 of our turnovers were just total gut punches. McKenzie on the break, fires a bullet to a streaking Moor (I think) and he can’t catch it, offensive rebound by Yeboah and his pass goes through the legs of Latimer, Christie on the block and he turns it over, Otchere gets the offensive board under the hoop and has it slapped out of his hands. Turnovers are going to happen but they just felt like these horribly squandered opportunities. Meanwhile, I thought we came with the halfcourt 1-2-2 press too late.

In addition to the turnovers in close, I wonder what our shooting percentage was on second chance opportunities in the paint. I feel like we forced a lot of shots in there rather than resetting, and they just didn’t go down.

While we have a quick turnaround, Maine’s been off for a week. Gotta rally.

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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 27: vs. Albany 2/21 7pm
« on: February 21, 2019, 10:10:06 pm »
Educate me. Olaniyi makes a free throw with 41 seconds left, Albany calls timeout with 15 on the shot clock, then get it across with 13 and a foul is called on Cornish. How is that not a 10 second violation?


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If you were at the game, you probably heard me yelling at the refs and asking the same question.  30 secs left and Clarke calls TO at 23 second mark.  In NCAA, I believe that resets the backcourt 10 second clock.  Then I think Will calls TO off the inbounds after 8 secs expire (down to 15).  The refs looked at each other as if a 10 sec violation should be called, but I think Brown called his final TO.  Stupid rule that TO's reset the 10 second clock, but clearly Brown out-coached Boals in that last minute.  No way Boals can let 15 seconds run off the clock without committing a foul, and down by 2 possessions.    Did the TV commentators see it any different?

Somehow I had no clue that it reset. I knew it had to be something because nobody else - including those who know way more than I do - was up in arms about it.


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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 27: vs. Albany 2/21 7pm
« on: February 21, 2019, 09:12:29 pm »
Educate me. Olaniyi makes a free throw with 41 seconds left, Albany calls timeout with 15 on the shot clock, then get it across with 13 and a foul is called on Cornish. How is that not a 10 second violation?


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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 27: vs. Albany 2/21 7pm
« on: February 21, 2019, 09:05:54 pm »
Why has there been no 10 second violation?!!!?!


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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 27: vs. Albany 2/21 7pm
« on: February 21, 2019, 09:03:28 pm »
Yeboah has begged for the ball all night. Gotta feed him and we’ve missed so many opportunities.


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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 27: vs. Albany 2/21 7pm
« on: February 21, 2019, 08:25:00 pm »
Fourth foul on Campbell is big. He’s been marking Yeboah.


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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Game 27: vs. Albany 2/21 7pm
« on: February 21, 2019, 08:04:32 pm »
After the early flurry, we took away Leahy and they took away Yeboah.

Albany’s getting their hands on everything. We were lucky to get that last bucket.

I’d like to see us press a young team like this, especially if Clark is out.


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