UNCASVILLE, Conn. – The Stony Brook men's basketball team outscored Norfolk State 21-10 in the final 8:05 of the game and pulled out a 72-65 victory over the Spartans to close its four-game Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Tip Off Tournament schedule at 3-1.
 
Powered by junior F Akwasi Yeboah's (Chigwell, England) 18 points and 11 rebounds, four different Seawolves scored in double figures as Stony Brook ended the second half on a 21-10 run. 
 
Down 55-51, senior G Jaron Cornish (Abaco, Bahamas) scored seven of his 15 in the final eight minutes to help the Seawolves earn their third win of the year.
 
BOALS' REACTION
"I think the biggest thing was responding after the loss last night. We use the equation E+R=O. The event happened, we lost the game. We did not play like we wanted to and we responded well. We were down and kept chipping away. We went offense-defense and made some big stops and hit enough free throws to have a big enough cushion."

HIGHLIGHTS

• Neither team had a lead more than five in the first 10 minutes of the night, with an 8-2 spurt pushing the Stony Brook lead to 14-9 at the 13:37 mark of the half. Yeboah put in back to back threes and Cornish finished a layup to record the eight points.
• Norfolk State pushed the lead to 31-24 on the back of a 10-0 run over a span of 1:59, but Stony Brook would respond.
• Eight in a row for the Seawolves would give them the 32-31 advantage and they would take the lead into the locker room at 41-38.
• Coming out in the second half, Norfolk State went up four at 47-43 just over 4:30 into the half.
• Stony Brook, as they had all night long, responded with six in a row to make it 49-47 in favor of the Seawolves. 
• Norfolk State answered that with an 8-2 run of its own before the Seawolves rallied ahead for good with a Cornish three with 2:10 left.
   

NOTES

• Along with Yeboah and Cornish, sophomores Elijah Olaniyi (Newark, N.J.) and Andrew Garcia (Harlem, N.Y.) finished in double figures with 14 and 11 points, respectively.
• This was the second game in the last three that the Seawolves have had four double-digit scorers.
• In a back and forth affair, the 40-minute game had 10 lead changes and the largest lead came at the end when Olaniyi hit a pair of free throws to put the score at its final mark of 72-65.
• Led by Yeboah's 11, the Seawolves outrebounded Norfolk State 38-23 and have now outrebounded all four of their opponents this season. 
• 18 points and 11 rebounds for Yeboah equated to his eighth career double-double and his second in his last three games.
• Freshman G Miles Latimer (Fairfax, Va.) added a pair of triples, en route to an eight-point, five-rebound night.
• The Seawolves finished the day shooting 46.8 percent from the field, their most efficient shooting night of the season.
• Norfolk State's 27 second-half points are the lowest by an opposing team this year.

UP NEXT
The Seawolves open their 2018-19 home schedule on Wednesday night, hosting Molloy at 6 p.m. at Island Federal Credit Union Arena. 
 
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