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COLUMBIA
Last Year's Record: 24-10
Last Game: season opener
Last Meeting: Stony Brook, 69-60, 1/2/16
Notable Returnees:
6-10 sr F Luke Petrasek 10.0 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 1.2 bpg, .504 FG%, .792 FT%, .454 3-pt FG%
6-8 sr F Jeff Coby 5.4 ppg, 4.5 rpg
6-4 jr G Kyle Castlin 4.8 ppg
6-8 jr F Lukas Meisner 4.2 ppg, 3.3 rpg, .397 3-pt FG%

And we're off! Very excited to get the season going.

Columbia lost four starters from a team that won the CIT title, and that spelled the end for its coach, Kyle Smith, who took the job at San Francisco. So like us, Columbia has a new leader – Jim Engles, who spent the past eight seasons at NJIT. He was an assistant at Columbia from 2003-2008 before taking the NJIT gig.

The Lions were picked to finish fifth out of eight teams in the Ivy, this despite returning just one starter. Petrasek's an island kid (East Northport) and was a factor for them against us last season. Meisner and Coby came on strong, with Meisner putting up 11 and 10 against NJIT in the CIT semis, and Coby posting a 14 and 10 night in the final against UC Irvine. So although the lion's share of their scoring is gone and we're talking about a couple games, perhaps the cupboards aren't bare. By comparison, our guys have zero double-doubles, at least at SBU. Woodhouse had three at Longwood, and I'm guessing Saintel had a fair share of them in juco.

From last year's game, we have 13 of our 69 points back (Sekunda 7, Woodhouse 4, Nyama 3). Columbia has 34 of its 60, with six players led by Petrasek's 11.

For me, this game, and this season, will depend a lot on how well we fare on the glass without Warney. I think we'll shoot the ball OK, but can we get and prevent second-chance opportunities?

I'm hoping you all are correct about Yeboah being a major factor for us. We need a couple of these newcomers to emerge because there isn't enough juice among the returnees for the noobs to sit back and watch this year.

Columbia will be a good test for us right away .  Hopefully we can pull off a win early in the season.

I imagine there will be some type of ceremony before the home opener to celebrate last year's AE title? Hoping for a sell out.

We've talked about this. They wouldn't wait until Pikiell shows up with Rutgers, right? I think they do it Friday and then give Pikiell a long standing ovation.

Lots of empty seats.

Columbia up 2 at the half. Good offensive rebounding for SBU. 8 in the half. Petrascek
only played about 8 minutes in the half due to fouls. That could be a cause for concern for Stony Brook if he gets going. Disappointed with the turnout tonight.
Lots of empty seats. Not too bad a turnout by the students however. Nyama looks confident in his jumper. Has a couple of 3 pointers.

This is going to be a tough year- Boals is trying to find his rotation right now. UC Iroegbu has taken some ugly shots and doesn't look like a good jumpshooter. Rebounding looks good but we have no post players that can even sniff what Warney did. We were really spoiled by him. At some point, we ought to see Campbell.

Columbia wins by 7. Crazy 3 pointer at the shot clock buzzer seals it. SBU has work to do. There are some things to build on.

Columbia wins by 7. Crazy 3 pointer at the shot clock buzzer seals it. SBU has work to do. There are some things to build on.

I actually think SB played better then I thought they would..

Woodhouse and Mitchel stunk it up
Petras, well is Petras
The rest of the team I thought was ok. I'm not sure why Boles didnt use Sekunda more then he did.
Not much more to say except I am sticking with my 8 wins this season.