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The Stony Brook men's basketball hits the road to take on Maine Sunday at Alfond Arena in Orono, Maine. The Seawolves (12-12, 6-7) will look to snap a two-game losing streak in its final regular season road game of the year. The game will be broadcast live on WLIE 540 AM. Tip-off is 1 p.m.

BACKDROP:
The Seawolves look to stop a two-game losing streak in its final regular season road game at Maine. Stony Brook has dropped its last two conference matchups to slip to 6-7 in the America East. Maine enters Sunday's game with a 7-7 mark in conference play.

RADIO INFORMATION:
The game will be broadcast Island Talk 540 WLIE and on the internet at www.goseawolves.org.

HEAD-TO-HEAD:
The all-time series is 3-3. Stony Brook has won three straight meetings. Last year, the Seawolves notched a 57-53 win at Alfond Arena. JonPaul Kobryn scored 18 points and D.J. Munir added 11. Munir's three-pointer late in the game gave SB the lead for good at 55-53.

EARLIER THIS YEAR:
Stony Brook tripped up Maine 81-79 at the Brook earlier this season. D.J. Munir scored a game-high 25 points and Jairus McCollum added 16 to pace the Seawolves.

VERSUS THE AMERICA EAST:
Stony Brook posted a 5-11 record last year in its inaugural season of America East play. SB is 12-23 all time against America East teams.

LAST TIME OUT:
Stony Brook couldn't find a way to stop Hartford's offense and allowed the Hawks to shoot 64 percent from the field in a 72-64 loss on Wednesday. Munir and Cori Spencer led SB with 15 points apiece in the loss, Stony Brook' third in its last four games.

SCOUTING MAINE:
Maine is a prolific scoring team, shooting 48 percent from the field on the season. It is led by Ricky White's 13.0 points per game. White is one of four Black Bears averaging in double figures. Seven-footer Justin Rowe patrols the paint, grabbing a team-best 9.5 boards per game. Rookie Kevin Reed is deadly from three-point range, connecting on over 40 percent from behind the arc. He has made 70 threes this season.

WHERE DID THE "D" GO?:
Hartford shot a season-high 64 percent from the field on Wednesday night against SB. That effort followed a 51 percent result against Albany that has sent SB to two straight defeats. The Seawolves have struggled defensively in conference play, allowing opponents to convert on 48 percent of its shots.

THE OFFENSE IS HUMMING:
Conversely, the Stony Brook offense has been putting up points. Averaging 46 percent from the field and 67.5 points per game, the Seawolves are showing the ability to score points. Last year, the Seawolves shot 41.1 percent from the field and averaged just under 61 points per game.

INSIDE AND OUTSIDE:
SB's scoring success has come in part due to their knack for getting the ball inside to free up its outside shooters. Center Cori Spencer is averaging over 12 points per game in conference action and that has loosened things up on the perimeter for the Seawolves where SB is shooting 37 percent from three-point land -- second best in the America East.

YOU WIN SOME, YOU LOSE SOME:
Stony Brook has been very streaky this season. Following a six-game losing streak, SB won six straight and seven of eight. The Seawolves have now dropped two consecutive games and three of its last four.

SPENCER FOR HIRE:
Cori Spencer has been the man in the middle for the Brook. He has scored in double figures in six of his last seven games and now ranks second on the team in scoring. He is averaging a team-best 6.1 rebounds per game.

KONOPKA STEPS UP:
Mike Konopka has stepped up his performance in the last few games. The junior forward has averaged six rebounds in his last two games and netted 11 points against Hartford.

SECOND HALF DEFENSE:
In SB's seven conference losses, the second-half defensive effort has been part of the problem. Here's a look at what opponents shot in the second half in SB's six conference defeats:

1/5 Vermont - 64%
1/8 Hartford - 63%
1/11 Binghamton - 38%
1/15 Boston Univ. - 59%
2/8 Vermont - 63%
2/14 Albany - 48%
2/19 Hartford - 63%

STREAK COMES TO AN END:
D.J. Munir hit five of six free throws against Hartford, missing his final free throw attempt of the game. Before that miss, Munir had hit 25 consecutive free throws.

D.J. MOVING UP:
Munir is moving up the all-time scoring list. Now with 1,052 career points, he ranks 14th all-time. He has scored in double figures in eight straight games.

LOOKING FOR HIS SCORING TOUCH:
Since going seven straight games scoring 10 or more points, Jairus McCollum has seemingly lost his scoring touch. McCollum has now gone six straight without scoring 10 or more points.

I AM THIRD:
Bobby Santiago ranks third in the conference in assists per game (3.9).

30 POINTS BACK-TO-BACK:
D.J. Munir scored 35 points against BU and then had 30 against Albany for Stony Brook's first back-to-back 30-point games since the move to the Division I level. It also marked the first time that has been done since 1987, when SB Hall of Famer Charlie Bryant scored 30 or more points three games in a row to finish the 1986-87 season.

A GRAND PERFORMANCE:
D.J. Munir's 35-point effort against BU equalled the eighth-best single-game scoring performance of all-time and second-best in Division I history. The 35 points was one point shy of his career high of 36 that he set on November 19, 2001 versus Sacred Heart. He entered the game needing 28 points to reach 1,000 for his career and wasted little time in making an assault on the milestone. He scored 15 of SB's first 17 points and went into the locker room with 17 points to his credit at halftime. He reached the milestone with 10:23 to go in the game, taking a pass from Patrick Spitler and draining a three for his 28th point of the night. In doing so, he became the 18th player in school history to reach the 1,000-point plateau.