BROWN
Record: 6-4 (0-0 Ivy)
Last Game: Butler 70, Brown 55 on 12/5/18
Last Game with SBU: Stony Brook 77, Manhattan 64 on 11/22/17; Iroegbu's 14 lead five players in double figures
Checkmate Unofficial Line: Stony Brook -1.5
NET Ranking: Stony Brook 138, Brown 159
KenPom RPI: Stony Brook 168, Brown 179
KenPom Prediction: Brown 74, Stony Brook 71
Listen/Watch:TV:
http://bit.ly/MBBGm10VidStony Brook radio:
http://bit.ly/WUSBSportsNotables:6-4/180 so G Desmond Cambridge 16.2 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 1.6 bpg
6-5/210 so G Tamenang Choh 10.7 ppg, 8.6 rpg, 3.0 apg, 1.0 spg, 1.3 bpg, .507 FG%
6-1/170 jr G Brandon Anderson 10.6 ppg, 3.4 apg, 1.7 spg, .375 3-pt FG%
6-6/205 jr F Joshua Howard 9.3 ppg, 5.4 rpg, .579 FG%
6-5/205 sr G Obi Okolie 7.8 ppg, 3.6 rpg, .480 3-pt FG%
If we win, does seven away wins get us a vote? If not, if we beat Delaware and Hofstra at home, does 11-1 get us a vote? Whoa whoa whoa. Careful now. The last time we started thinking about polls we got shellacked by Holy Cross. So I'm not doing it. Brown Bears. Brown Bears. That's the only thing we should see in front of us.
A lot of these guys we saw a year ago when we notched a 13-point win at our place. But familiarity breeds contempt, and they're fully aware of the success that we've had this season so far. Brown had a narrow lead about midway through the second half before we raced out on a 10-0 run. Mike Almonacy hit 8 of 8 free throws in the second half to ice it en route to, I'd guess, a season-high 13.
Brown entered the season predicted to finish fifth in the Ivy out of nine teams. Cambridge and Anderson are the names we probably remember most from last year. Cambridge is coming off an Ivy League Rookie of the Year campaign in which he averaged 17.3 points per game, the same average that Anderson, a knock-down shooter, put up. But this kid Choh is interesting. He was a limited contributor off the bench for most of last year (including 20 largely quiet minutes against us), but by year's end he was a fixture in the starting lineup, putting up 23 and 9 in Brown's season finale against Penn. He's come out as a sophomore and he leads the team in minutes, rebounds and assists. Both he and Cambridge are really active defensively as you can tell by their block totals. From what I can tell, he's a junkyard dog kind of player. I always liken smaller post players to Jahad Thomas from Lowell, who I loved and appreciated, and maybe he's got that in him a bit. No real range, but will do a little bit of everything to help the team.
It's important that we guard the three-point stripe here. In Brown's four losses, they have shot a combined 23.6% from deep, whereas they're close to 36% in their wins. They've done a whale of a job running guys off the line themselves, with only three of 10 opponents shooting better than 30%, and teams shooting the three ball at just a 25.7% clip against Brown for the year.
One common opponent: Rhode Island. We won by 10. Brown lost by 20. Neither team shot it well, but URI killed them on the glass.
I won't read too much into that though. We're in their gym and they've got plenty of firepower to knock us off.
In closing: Vermont alum and Rhode Island native TJ Sorrentine is on the bench for another year with Brown. I hated that guy. But man, he hit that one from the parking lot. The video after it's a trip down memory lane too.
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