HARTFORD
Record: 8-19 (3-9 America East)
Last Game: W, 87-84 (OT), vs. UMass Lowell 2/12
Last 10: 3-7
Last Meeting: SBU 80-64 here
Listen/Watch:TV:
http://es.pn/2kcm4cPStony Brook radio:
http://www.whli.com/listen-live.aspxNotables:6-0/185 sr G Jalen Ross 20.1 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 1.3 spg, .816 FT%, .376 3-pt FG%
6-4/185 so G Jason Dunne 13.1 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 1.2 spg, .363 3-pt FG%
5-10/170 so G JR Lynch 7.6 ppg, 1.1 spg, .814 FT%, .400 3-pt FG%
6-10/270 jr F Hassan Attia 6.8 ppg, 6.2 rpg, 1.0 spg, 2.2 bpg, .608 FG%
6-7/195 jr F Jack Hobbs 6.7 ppg, 3.6 rpg, .410 3-pt FG%
Hartford might have a little something here. It's just two wins in a row, but a W here is no certainty. Then again, when you're taken to the wire at home against Maine, what is?
The Hawks not only won at UMBC last week but also scored an overtime win over Lowell WITHOUT the services of their leading scorer, Jalen Ross, who missed the game with an injury ... it just occurred to me he could have easily been named after Jalen Rose. I dunno. Maybe not. Anyway, for UH to do it without Ross as well as John Carroll, a key member of their frontcourt, that's pretty good. It took overtime and also career highs from Dunne (29), Lynch (22) and Attia (19) to get it done.
Dunne came out piping hot against us, scoring the Hawks' first 13 points en route to a 22-point day. He ran into some foul trouble shortly after that run – second foul with 14 minutes left in the first half; third foul with 4 minutes left – but I thought UH did itself a disservice by not feeding him the ball when he was on the floor. Attia and Hobbs played just half the game due to fouls also, allowing George Blagojevic to make an imprint on the game. Lynch played 26 minutes but didn't score; quite a difference from his most recent effort.
We murdered them on the glass last time – 46-28 – and a similar disparity would go a long way in getting us another W. As we said in the Maine thread, an SBU win and UMBC loss (at Albany) means we're locked into the #2 seed for the conference tournament. Surely no one could have anticipated that in the preseason.
Yeboah had one of his better games the last time against UH. I'd love to revive him for the stretch run here. He's topped 20 minutes just once in the last five contests and shot 2 for 21 over that stretch.
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