GAME 16: STONY BROOK SEAWOLVES at MAINE BLACK BEARS
LOCATION	Cross Insurance Center | Bangor, Maine
DATE  | TIME	Saturday, Jan. 14  |  2 p.m.
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GAME NOTES	Stony Brook  |  Maine

STONY BROOK, N.Y. -- The Stony Brook men's basketball team looks to keep things rolling in conference play as they travel to Maine for an afternoon matchup with the Black Bears. Both teams are coming off of league wins at home as the Seawolves most recently topped Albany in dramatic fashion on Sunday afternoon and Maine took it down to the final seconds to knock off UMass Lowell.
 

NOTEWORTHY

- The Seawolves overcame the largest deficit in program history as they trailed Albany by 21 with under just over seven minutes remaining and went on to claim a 72-70 win at the buzzer. 

- Stony Brook has seen nine of its 15 games so far this season be decided in the final minute of play. 

- After starting the season 0-4, the Seawolves have turned it around to go 7-4 since, claiming four of their last five. 

- Stony Brook has limited itself to single-digit turnovers six times this season, committing 10 or fewer on nine occasions, ranking 31st in the nation in turnover margin. 

- This is the ninth straight season the Seawolves have opened America East play with a victory, and the fifth time in six years they have started 2-0. 

- Tyrell Sturdivant had a clutch opening week of conference play, scoring the game-winners at UNH and against Albany. 

- Lucas Woodhouse notched his second 20-plus point game of the season in the win over Albany. 

- Roland Nyama helped lift the Seawolves in the first week of America East play, scoring 12 of his 14 points in the second half at UNH and adding 15 against Albany . 

- Kameron Mitchell added a career-best five rebounds and five assists at UNH, and has started each of the last five games.

THE OPPONENT

   Maine enters the weekend at 5-13 on the season, 1-2 in America East play. The Black Bears recently snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 73-71 win over UMass Lowell at home Wednesday night. Leading scorer Wes Myers led three players in double figures with 31 points in the victory. Myers is averaging 29.7 points and 5.7 rebounds per game in league play. 

THE SERIES

   Stony Brook leads the all-time series with the Black Bears 20-14. The Seawolves have claimed 12 straight meetings with Maine. Stony Brook has never dropped a game against the Black Bears in Bangor through three prior meetings. The two teams first met on Dec. 30, 1999, when the Seawolves fell 67-55.     

LAST TIME OUT

   The Seawolves trailed until the very last play of the game, stringing together a 21-0 run in the final 5:55 of play to top Albany 72-70. Down 21 points in the final 10 minutes, the win marked the largest deficit overcome for victory in program history. 

   A three from junior Bryan Sekunda helped start the run for the Seawolves, who continued to press against Albany and it paid off when senior Lucas Woodhouse got a steal off the full-court pressure and was immediately fouled, making both free throws.

The free throws sparked 10 straight points for Woodhouse, which included another trip to the line and a pair of threes, to get Stony Brook back within four with 2:30 to play.

Sturdivant, who scored his first field goal of the day with just over six minutes remaining in the game, put back a missed three by Sekunda to make it a two-point game with 1:38 left.

   On the other end, junior Roland Nyama came up with a steal and was fouled on the play. He made both free throws to tie things up at 70 as the clock headed under a minute.

   A late turnover by Woodhouse on the ensuing possession threatened to be costly with 43 seconds left in the game, but Albany's Joe Cremo mishandled the ball on the other end and Stony Brook got another chance to win it.

   Woodhouse drove the left side and fed Sturdivant, who appeared wide open in the lane and made the uncontested layup, leaving less than a second on the clock.

CLUTCH WEEK

    Junior Tyrell Sturdivant had a clutch opening week of America East play, sinking the game-winner in each of the first two games. Sturdivant made a hook shot with 15 seconds remaining at UNH to put the Seawolves up three, and later scored an open layup with 0.6 seconds on the clock, giving Stony Brook its first lead of the day and sealing the victory over Albany. 

LARGEST COMEBACK

    The Seawolves trailed Albany by 21 points with 7:02 left to play and eventually overcame the deficit to claim victory and mark the largest comeback in program history. The comeback sits as the third largest deficit overcome under the 10-minute mark in NCAA history. Trailing by 14 points with five minutes remaining, it is the fourth largest deficit overcome in that period of time in NCAA history. 

DOWN TO THE WIRE

    Stony Brook has seen nine of its 15 games this season be decided in the final minute of play. It sits at 5-4 on the season in this situation. Most recently, the Seawolves topped Albany as Sturdivant made a wide-open layup with 0.6 seconds on the clock to give the Seawolves their first lead of the game and seal the victory. 

LEAGUE PLAY

   The Seawolves are in their 16th season of America East play, sitting at 130-116 in regular season league action and are coming off of a regular season and tournament title in 2015-16. The win at New Hampshire marked the ninth straight season Stony Brook has opened conference play with a victory, and it has gotten out to a 2-0 start for the fifth time in six years.