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HARTFORD
Record: 6-13 (1-3 America East)
Last Game: W, 54-44, vs. Maine 1/16
Last 10: 4-6
Last Season: SBU 77-43 there; SBU 85-72 here; SBU 80-64 here (AE tournament)
Listen/Watch:
TV: http://www.espn.com/watchespn/index/_/id/2953887/hartford-vs-stony-brook
Stony Brook radio: http://www.whli.com/listen-live.aspx
Notables:
6-0/185 sr G Jalen Ross 20.8 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 1.4 spg, .826 FT%, .413 3-pt FG%
6-4/185 so G Jason Dunne 13.4 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 1.3 spg
5-10/170 so G JR Lynch 7.5 ppg, 3.1 apg, .862 FT%, .424 3-pt FG%
6-8/220 so F John Carroll 6.9 ppg, 4.4 rpg
6-10/270 jr F Hassan Attia 5.7 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 1.6 bpg, .607 FG%

Very interesting what's happened with Hartford. By now, you know that Pancake Thomas transferred to Western Kentucky where he's averaging in double figures. What's also happened is that two promising freshmen from a year ago are bit pieces – Carroll, who averaged 11 and 6 before getting hurt last year, and George Blagojevic, a lanky forward who was fourth in scoring.

I'm not sure Hartford has the guns in this one – although tell that to BC, which UH beat earlier in the year. Ross, a transfer from EMU years ago, is an experienced guard capable of putting up big numbers in the point column (35 against Niagara, two other 30-point games), and Dunne is an incredible athlete who's built like a high jumper. He had 25 in the BC win.

Do the Hawks have the horses to stay with us though? Did I just say that?

Attia has emerged a significant contributor after transferring in from a juco, having logged career highs in minutes (27) and rebounds (11) in UH's win over Maine on Monday. He's reckless defensively, having fouled out four times already this year despite playing only 18.5 minutes a night. We can't count on that though.

We've won eight straight in the series – of course we know who to credit for that. Let's make it nine nevertheless.

We just have to be careful with some of these teams . I expect us to win but cant let down our guard

Correct. Last year I felt like we could roll the ball out there and beat most of these teams and handily. Despite the quick start, we obviously can't feel that way this year, although the arrow is pointing up.

Woodhouse and Sturdivant with strong games again.. SB leading 62-47

Well done, SBU. Tough stretch of games coming up now starting with Bing, a team hungry for a win that always seems to play us tough. Keep it rolling!

A real nice effort tonight. It was nice to see us finish the first half with a flurry to go up eight, and then to carry that into the second half.

That was Saintel's best game. A season high in boards and his first-ever double double here. He really got on the defensive glass, and was more assertive offensively. He's about as bad as Walker was behind the arc but love the athleticism and motor.

Hartford did itself a disservice by not feeding Dunne the ball. I know he got his second foul early, but he was clearly feeling it. I also thought Ross was tentative for no apparent reason. He was giving up wide open threes for terrible twos.

Almonacy has to grow up if he's going to stick here. There's no excuse for challenging a seven footer late when up 20. Boals was justifiably irate, although he has to work on his I'm-really-mad game. He half took his coat off like Brian Johnson in the Breakfast Club when he was sitting next to Bender. I felt bad for the walk-ons when they got yanked but there was no reason not to kill clock on the Almonacy and Campbell shots at the rim.

+18 on the boards. 22 of 25 from the line. Good chance to win every time you do that.

Real nice second half from Ty. Hartford had little inside presence with Attia (a fouling machine!) on the pine. It was good to see Ty being aggressive.

Tough night for Kam. Turnovers and fouls, often together. Yuck.

When Hartford went zone, Yeboah had so many looks from 8-10 feet in the middle of the defense. I wish he spun and took that shot most times. Still a solid night despite a low percentage.

Can't believe we're 5-0.


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>>>> He half took his coat off like Brian Johnson in the Breakfast Club when he was sitting next to Bender.<<<<

Insight of the season so far!   

I typically never get these things right, but I immediate said to my son "too soon..." when Boals made that mass substitution at the end. You could see the Hartford staff and players licking their chops thinking, "We got one last shot at this."

Only big flub of the conference season for Boals, and credit him to make the quick hook of them all. You don't mess around with stuff like this. Hopefully a learning/growing moment for those guys, as you never know when you'll need them to step up at a more critical point later.

>>>> He half took his coat off like Brian Johnson in the Breakfast Club when he was sitting next to Bender.<<<<

Insight of the season so far!   

I typically never get these things right, but I immediate said to my son "too soon..." when Boals made that mass substitution at the end. You could see the Hartford staff and players licking their chops thinking, "We got one last shot at this."

Only big flub of the conference season for Boals, and credit him to make the quick hook of them all. You don't mess around with stuff like this. Hopefully a learning/growing moment for those guys, as you never know when you'll need them to step up at a more critical point later.

Thought the same thing with the substitutions. Pulling Woodhouse for Almonacy with four minutes left, pulling everybody for the walk-ons with two minutes to go, was a smidge too early for me. It's tough to turn the ball over to an inexperienced point guard in that spot, and it looked like a worse move when Almonacy and Campbell went to the rack instead of milking the shot clock. I do not see improvement with Almonacy but I gather I'm more skeptical than most.

Here's Boals basically: https://youtu.be/fBRFPvtcVdA?t=8m55s