Stony Brook Athletics is saluting its Rita & Kurt Eppenstein Stony Brook Athletics Hall of Fame inductees with feature stories on Fridays through the end of the year. Here's the sixth installment, featuring men's basketball standout Bryan Dougher '12.
STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Bryan Dougher '12 ranks second in career scoring in Stony Brook men's basketball's Division I history. He also owns the program record with 337 career three-pointers.
And Dougher, who arrives at Island Federal Arena on Friday as an assistant coach with the Fairfield men's basketball team for a 4 p.m. tipoff against the Seawolves, is a member of the Class of 2020 of the Rita & Kurt Eppenstein Athletics Hall of Fame.
It will mark Dougher's second time as an opposing coach at Stony Brook. He also visited while on the Rutgers staff in 2017.
A four-year starting point guard, Dougher was a member of the America East All-Rookie Team in 2008-09. He then was a three-time All-America East selection, including first team as a senior in '11-12 after leading the Seawolves in scoring at 13.2 points per game and leading the conference in three-pointers made with 89.
He tallied 1,609 points during his Stony Brook career, tops in the Division I era when he graduated and now only trailing Jameel Warney (2,132).
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Dougher went on to play professionally with the Ringwood Hawks in the Australian Basketball Association for two seasons.
He is being enshrined in the Hall of Fame
in the same induction class as teammate Tommy Brenton '13.
"Bryan was a major part of the development of the men's basketball program at the Division I level at Stony Brook," said Stony Brook alum and current Rutgers assistant coach Steve Hayn, who worked alongside Dougher with the Scarlet Knights from 2016 through 2018. "His individual statistics are clearly outstanding and place him in position as one of the best Seawolves to have played. I had an opportunity to watch Bryan play several times and have been able to get to know Bryan through working with him. Bryan is a terrific representative of Stony Brook Athletics and the men's basketball program. He is Hall of Fame person and representative of Stony Brook Athletics."
Hayn as well as Stony Brook director for external relations Vincent Accardi nominated Dougher for induction.
"Before Jameel Warney broke numerous Stony Brook men's basketball records and led the Seawolves to their first America East championship, a young man also from New Jersey committed to play at Stony Brook and was a key recruit that began the program's climb to the top of America East," Accardi said. "Bryan was a four-year starter at point guard and still is one of the all-time best players in program history as well as a fan favorite."
Said Dougher: "I was extremely honored to receive the call that I was being inducted into the Rita and Kurt Eppenstein Athletics Hall of Fame. It means even more being inducted alongside my former teammate and one of my closest friends, Tommy Brenton. I spent six seasons as part of the program as a player and coach, and I know firsthand the blood, sweat and tears that has gone into building Stony Brook into one of the most successful athletic programs in the region over the last decade.
"What makes Stony Brook such a special place are the people I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by. From teammates to coaches to managers to administration and everyone in between, the support I was given as a student-athlete at Stony Brook was unmatched. I was able to form special bonds with lifelong friends, and for that I am forever grateful to be a Seawolf."
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