GAME 29: STONY BROOK SEAWOLVES at VERMONT CATAMOUNTS
LOCATION	Patrick Gymnasium  |  Burlington, Vt.
DATE  | TIME	Saturday, Feb. 25  |  2 p.m.
COVERAGE	Live Stats  |  Watch Live
GAME NOTES	Stony Brook  |  Vermont

STONY BROOK, N.Y. -- The Stony Brook men's basketball team will travel to Vermont to wrap up the regular season on Saturday afternoon. The Seawolves look to bounce back before beginning America East Tournament play, while Vermont aims to finish the regular season without a loss in league play. 

NOTEWORTHY

- Roland Nyama neared back-to-back double-doubles with nine points and nine rebounds against Binghamton. He is averaging 17.0 points and 5.7 rebounds over the last five games. 

- Lucas Woodhouse led the way for Stony Brook at Hartford with 15 points, 13 coming in the second half. He has scored in double figures in 12 of the last 14 games. 

- Tyrell Sturdivant is averaging 11.5 points and 5.3 rebounds per game in league play. 

- Akwasi Yeboah led the Seawolves in scoring in the win over Binghamton, tallying 19 points. He went 3-for-3 from beyond the arc. 

- Byran Sekunda notched his fifth double-digit scoring game of the season with 14 off a bench that outscored Hartford 34-2. 

-Jakub Petras gave the Seawolves a big lift of the bench, scoring a career-high nine points in the wins over UMass Lowell and Maine, adding at least four rebounds in each outing. 

- The Seawolves tallied a season-high seven dunks in the win over UMass Lowell. UC Iroegbu, Jakub Petras and Tyrell Sturdivant all got up for their first dunks of the season. 

- Stony Brook has limited itself to single-digit turnovers 11 times this season, committing 10 or fewer on 19 occasions, sitting at 22nd in the nation in turnover margin.

- Stony Brook has seen 12 of its 28 games so far this season be decided in the final minute of play. 

THE OPPONENT

   Vermont enters the regular season finale with a perfect 15-0 record in conference play, capturing its sixth regular season America East title with a 62-50 win over Albany Wednesday night. Sitting at 25-5 on the year, the Catamounts' last loss came at then-No. 13 Butler on Dec. 21, 2016. Payton Henson, Trae Bell-Haynes and Anthony Lamb all pace Vermont in scoring with just over 11 points per game. The Catamounts rank ninth in the nation, shooting 49.4-percent from the field on the year. Vermont is outscoring its opponents by 10.4 ppg, and out-rebounding opponents by 4.2 boards per game, good for 30th and 50th in the country, respectively. 

THE SERIES

   The Catamounts lead the all-time series against Stony Brook, 25-11. After taking the first meeting, 91-60, in January, 2002, Vermont went on to win the first nine games of the series. Stony Brook has turned it around as of late, claiming three of the last five meetings. Vermont took the first meeting this season, topping the Seawolves 71-64 in New York. Senior Lucas Woodhouse led the way with 22 points. 

   The two teams each earned a road win last season before Stony Brook topped the Catamounts, 80-74, at Island Federal Credit Union Arena in the America East Tournament championship. The two teams have met eight times in the post season. 

LAST TIME OUT

 The Seawolves ended their six-game win streak as they stumbled at UMBC, 65-52. UMBC got things going right away, jumping out to a 9-0 lead in the first four minutes of play.

Junior Roland Nyama finally got the Seawolves on the board and scored the team's first seven points. He hit double figures with just inside nine minutes remaining in the first half when he drained his second three of the night.

   The Retrievers used a 10-2 run to up the difference to double figures and continued a steady push to take a 15-point lead into the break. After both teams had a slow start to the second half, UMBC head coach Ryan Odom was issued two technical fouls and as a result, ejected from the game.

   Nyama went to the line and made all four free throws to make it a five-point game and junior Tyrell Sturdivant scored a layup less than a minute later to get the Seawolves back within a possession at 47-44.

   Stony Brook hung around, but the Retrievers strung together a 9-0 run to go back up double figures with 4:04 left to play and never looked back.

HIGH PERFORMANCE WEEK

    Junior Roland Nyama has been hot for the Seawolves as of late. After a strong second half to help Stony Brook top Albany on the road, he responded in the quick turnaround with a then-season best 19 points to lead the Seawolves past UMass Lowell just two days later. He closed out the week as the catalyst for Stony Brook against Maine, scoring 16 of his career-best 26 points in the first half and sealed the victory, making a free throw with 0.5 left on the clock to put the Seawolves up one. Nyama was named America East Player of the Week for the first time in his career for his outstanding play. 

TWENTY-PLUS

    Senior Lucas Woodhouse has been a leader for the Seawolves all season, especially on the offensive end. He strung together four-straight 20-plus point games against the top five teams in the America East. Woodhouse has surpassed the 20-point mark seven times this season. 

FROM THE CHARITY STRIPE

    Woodhouse is tied for 13th in the nation and leads the league from the free throw line, shooting 90-percent from the line on the year. Woodhouse made 30 consecutive free throws to begin conference play.

  Earlier in the year against Northeastern, Woodhouse went 8-for-8 in the final 1:38 of the win before setting a new career best the next game with 12 makes on 12 attempts against Lehigh.

HELPING HAND

    Woodhouse currently leads the America East and is 38th in the nation with 5.4 assists per game. Woodhouse also sits at 23rd in the country in assist-turnover ratio (2.83) while the team ranks 57th (1.26). Against Vermont, Woodhouse dished out five assists and did not commit a turnover. This marked the fourth time this season he did not have a turnover while tallying at least four assists.