BANGOR, Maine – The Stony Brook men's basketball team turned it on in the second half, easing its way to a 74-54 win over the Maine Black Bears at the Cross Insurance Center Saturday afternoon. The Seawolves are now 3-0 in America East play and 8-8 on the year. Maine now sits at 5-14 on the season 1-3 in conference.
Boals' Reaction
"At halftime our guys realized we were stagnant offensively. I thought their pace [in the first half] was a lot better than our pace. Tyrell [Sturdivant] did a really good job keeping us in the game," said head coach
Jeff Boals. "I thought we really responded in the second half, that last 20 minutes should really give us some confidence."
Highlights
- Junior Tyrell Sturdivant (Chester, Pa.) kept the Seawolves in it in the first half, putting up 12 of his 16 points as play went back and forth. Neither team led by more than five in the opening period.
- The score continued to seesaw in the opening minutes of the second half, but a three from senior Kameron Mitchell (Jacksonville, Fla.) with 13:46 on the clock broke a 42-all tie and sparked a 23-0 run for Stony Brook. Maine was unable to score again until Wes Myers put in a layup with 5:10 remaining.
- Senior Lucas Woodhouse (Greenlawn, N.Y.) was the catalyst for Stony Brook in the second half, scoring 16 of his 20 by way of four three-pointers and two trips the foul line. Redshirt freshman Akwasi Yeboah (Chigwell, England) also had a double-digit second half, putting up 10 of his 13 in the period.
- Junior Roland Nyama (Frankfurt, Germany) drew three offensive fouls in the game, two of which came during the Stony Brook's scoring spree.
Notes
- Woodhouse made it back-to-back games with 20-plus points for the first time this season.
- After dropping its first four games of the year, Stony Brook is now 8-4 since picking up its first win.
- The victory marks the 13th straight for the Seawolves in the series with Maine.
- Stony Brook limited itself to just seven turnovers in the game, marking the seventh time this season the total has been kept to single digits.
Up Next
The Seawolves remain on the road through the long weekend and will close out the trip north playing at UMass Lowell on Monday, Jan. 16 at 2 p.m.
