Game 13: Stony Brook (10-2, 0-0 America East) vs. Hofstra (8-3, 0-0 Colonial)
LOCATION	Island Federal Arena | Stony Brook, N.Y.
DATE | TIME	Wednesday, December 19 | 7 p.m.
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STONY BROOK, N.Y. – The latest edition of the Battle of Long Island commences Wednesday at Island Federal Arena, when the Stony Brook men's basketball team plays host to Hofstra in the last home game of the 2018 calendar year.
 
The Seawolves are coming off a 74-68 victory over Delaware on Sunday afternoon in which the home team scored the final seven points of the game, with five of them coming from freshman Miles Latimer (Fairfax, Va.). Redshirt-junior Akwasi Yeboah (Chigwell, England) led all scorers with 25 points, including 16 in the first half.
 
THE OPPONENT
Hofstra is coming off a nine-day break, most recently defeating Manhattan 80-50 on December 10 in Riverdale, N.Y. The Pride enter Wednesday night on a five-game winning streak after this win that contained four scorers in double figures, led by Tareq Coburn scoring 22 points and grabbing 10 boards.
 
Justin Wright-Foreman enters the night averaging 25.7 points per game, which leads the team. Eli Pemberton is the other Pride in double figures, averaging 15.3 points per game. Hofstra enters the game second in the country, shooting 81 percent from the free throw line as a team. Wright-Foreman is the country's fourth-leading scorer.
 
THE SERIES
Hofstra has taken 10 of the 14 meetings with the Seawolves, including three of the last four since the series was renewed in 2014. The Pride won last year's meeting 84-81, with senior Jaron Cornish (Abaco, Bahamas)leading the Seawolves with 22 points. Sophomore Elijah Olaniyi (Newark, N.J.) added 16 points and six rebounds on the night.

RECORD START
Stony Brook won its 10th non-conference game on Sunday afternoon, breaking the D1 record for most wins before conference play. The Seawolves last won 10 non-conference games in 1992-93 and will have three more opportunities to tack onto that total before league play begins in the 2019 calendar year.
 
NO-TCHERE
Sophomore Jeff Otchere (Bronx, N.Y.)recorded four blocks in Sunday's win, including the sealer with 45 seconds left that kept Stony Brook in the lead against the Blue Hens. The rim protector for the Seawolves has now totaled 25 on the season in 12 games, which is the most in the conference. He is averaging 2.1 rejections per game, which is tied for the league leada with Binghamton's Caleb Stewart and Vermont's Anthony Lamb.
 
MILES AHEAD
In his first season with the Seawolves, freshman Miles Latimer (Fairfax, Va.)is already proving to be an integral part of the offense. On Wednesday night, he poured in a career-high 18 points and followed that up with a game-winning three on Sunday afternoon. He has scored in double figures in five consecutive games, the second-longest active streak on the team, and in eight court appearances overall, also second on the squad.
 
CARDIAC SEAWOLVES
Of Stony Brook's 10 wins this season, only one has come by more than 10 points, a 97-61 win over Molloy the night before Thanksgiving. Along with that, Stony Brook has completed a pair of second-half comebacks in which they were down by double figures, including a 12-point rally against LIU on Wednesday night. They also scored the last seven points in Sunday's win in which they erased a deficit against Delaware with 1:24 left.
 
1K-WAS
Redshirt-junior Akwasi Yeboah (Chigwell, England)became the ninth player in Stony Brook's Division I history to reach the 1,000 point plateau, hitting a game-winning three with under a minute left to help him eclipse the milestone against LIU Brooklyn.

He has scored in double figures in 50 of his 75 career appearances and 16 consecutive games dating back to last season. The England native has also scored 20 points in each of his last four games, averaging 24.3 per game in that span.
 
CORNISH TAKES OVER              
Senior guard Jaron Cornish (Abaco, Bahamas)took over in the second half again on Sunday afternoon, scoring 10 of his 12 in the final 20 minutes of the win over Delaware. He finished a go-ahead layup to give Stony Brook a 67-65 lead, then assisted on the sealing layup to Andrew Garcia that put the Seawolves up four.

In Norfolk, he scored 14 of his 22 points in the second half of the Seawolves' 79-73 win at Norfolk State on Saturday. Eight of the 14 came in the final 4:17, as Stony Brook fended off a Norfolk State charge that cut the Seawolves' lead from 18 all the way to three.

UP NEXT
Stony Brook heads to Hamden, Conn. for a date with Quinnipiac on Saturday in those two's second matchup of the season. The Seawolves defeated the Bobcats on December 1 at Island Federal Arena.