BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Stony Brook men's basketball team was unable to get by Vermont in the final game of the regular season Saturday afternoon, falling 66-51 at Patrick Gymnasium. The Seawolves sit at 17-12 on the year and finish 12-4 in conference play. Vermont is now 26-5 overall and 16-0 in America East play.
 
Boals' Reaction
"We got out to a slow start. I thought we got good looks initially, but we missed some easily layups and some free throws and turned the ball over a few times. When you are playing a really good team, you can't do that," said head coach Jeff Boals. "We were fortunate to get back within eight at the half, we really battled back, but they turned it on again in the second half and we were battling uphill from there."
 
Highlights

• Vermont got out to a 6-0 start to the game. Junior Junior Saintel (Mays Landing, N.J.) was able to get the Seawolves on the board just over four minutes into the game with a pair of free throws.
• Following the under-12 media timeout, junior UC Iroegbu (Sacramento, Calif.) hit back-to-back threes to give Stony Brook its first lead of the game, up 19-17.
• The Catamounts went on to score 18 straight points to go up double figures in the first half. Saintel and junior Roland Nyama (Frankfurt, Germany) put together an 8-0 run for the Seawolves to close out the opening period and get them back within eight at the break.
• Vermont picked up right where it left off to open the second half, scoring seven straight points in the first five minutes. A dunk by Nyama nearly five minutes into the new half broke up streak but did not slow the Catamounts' production.
• The Seawolves were unable to get anything going in the second half as Vermont continued to extend its lead, going up by as many as 20 in the game.

Up Next
Stony Brook returns home to host an America East quarterfinal game, taking on seventh-seeded Binghamton on Wednesday, March 1 at 7 p.m.