Aug. 24, 2006

Stony Brook, N.Y. - Stony Brook will host defending Big East co-champ and nationally ranked Villanova as part of an exciting 12-game non-conference men's basketball schedule in 2006-07. Jay Wright's Wildcats, a No. 1 seed in the 2005 NCAA tournament, will visit the Stony Brook campus on November 30 and will be one of two Big East teams that the Seawolves face this upcoming season. Stony Brook will travel to Notre Dame on December 30 and also take on Big 10 foe Penn State on November 17.

The Seawolves begin the 2006-07 season at Colgate on November 10. Three days later, Stony Brook will visit Cornell before heading to Penn State on November 17. The game will mark the first time that Stony Brook has faced a Big 10 opponent.

Pikiell's charges then open up the home schedule on November 19 against Navy.

Following a road contest at Columbia (Nov. 25), the Seawolves play three straight games at home beginning with Maryland-Eastern Shore on November 28. Two days later, Villanova comes to town as the first nationally-ranked and only the second Big East team to play at the Stony Brook University Arena

The homestand concludes with a matchup against local rival Hofstra (Dec. 5) on "Joe Nathan night." The former Stony Brook baseball great and now All-Star reliever for the Minnesota Twins will be honored during the game for his induction into the Stony Brook Athletics Hall of Fame.

The Seawolves finish up the non-conference slate with three of four games on the road beginning at New Jersey Institute of Technology (Dec. 11) and Dartmouth (Dec. 14). Stony Brook then returns home to face Fairleigh Dickinson (Dec. 16) before wrapping up the non-conference slate against the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame.

The America East Conference schedule will be announced in late September.