Player Profi les 2008-09 Seawolves Basketball 2008-09 STONY BROOK MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE Table of Contents TableT of Contents...... 1 22008-09 Stony Brook Basketball ...... 2-3 AAbout Stony Brook...... 4-5 LLong Island ...... 6-7 SSBU Arena Renovation...... 8-9 SStudent Athlete Devop./Strength & Con...... 10-11 AAbout the America East ...... 12 22007-08 America East Review ...... 13 22008-09 Season Preview ...... 14-15 22008-09 TV/Radio Chart ...... 16

22008-09 Seawolves 22008-09 Roster ...... 17 SSteve Pikiell, Head Coach ...... 19-21 JJay Young, Asst. Coach ...... 22 LLamar Chapman, Asst. Coach...... 23 DDan Rickard, Asst. Coach...... 24 RRicky Lucas, Dir. of Basketball Operations ...... 25 BasketballB Support Staff ...... 26 PlayerP Profi les ...... 27-49

2007-082 In Review 2007-082 Statistics ...... 51 2007-082 Player Game-by-Game ...... 52 2007-082 Top Performances ...... 53 2007-08 Season Box Scores ...... 54-58

2008-09 Opponents Seawolves Opponents...... 60-62

Stony Brook Record Book Stony Brook 1,000 Point Club ...... 64-66 Stony Brook Record Book ...... 67-71 Annual Leaders ...... 72 All-Time Coaching History ...... 73 Team Season/Playoff Records ...... 74 Stony Brook Award Winners ...... 75 Stony Brook Hall of Famers/Pros ...... 75 Stony Brook MVPs ...... 75 All-Time Game-by-Game ...... 76-78 Jersey History ...... 79 Record vs. Opponents ...... 80 All-Time Player Statistics ...... 81-84

Stony Brook University Director of Athletics, Jim Fiore ...... 86-87 Univ. President, Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny ...... 88 Stony Brook Sports Medicine ...... 89 Athletic Department Administration ...... 90 WWW. GOSEAWOLVES.ORG Staff Directory ...... 91 Athletic Communications ...... 92-93 WUSB, 90.1 FM...... 94 Visit Stony Brook’s offi cial athletics website at America East Composite Schedule ...... 95 www.GoSeawolves.org for up-to-date informa- tion on all of Stony Brook’s 20 sports, including Credits: The 2008-09 Stony Brook men’s bas- results, team rosters, coaches’ and player’s pro- ketball media guide was written and edited by fi les, schedules and statistics. Live Stats, audio Jeremy Cohen. Design and layout by Jeremy Cohen. Editorial assistance provided by the and video streaming games are also available Athletic Communications Staff; Phil Hess, Adam through the site. To watch Stony Brook basket- Gutes and Craig Schroeder. External cover ball on the web click on the All-Access link on the design by John Schaffhauser of Schaffhauser Design, Canton, Miss. Photos by Bob O'Rourk, right side of the athletics home page and follow Mike Bradley, Bob Emmerich, Sr., Rob Emmer- the instructions. ich, Jr., NYC & Company - The Convention and Visitors Bureau and Eagle Eye photography. Printed by New York Press & Graphics, Albany,

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www.goseawolves.org 11 America East Conference About America East... full-time commissioner, and embarking on a ford, 53. New Hampshire, 54. Binghamton). Since its modest beginning as a men’s building program. UMBC won its fi rst-ever America East Men’s basketball-only conference in 1979, Ameri- The North Atlantic Conference merged Basketball Championship and recorded a pro- ca East has evolved into one of the most with the Seaboard Conference (the league gram-best 24 victories. Vermont’s Marqus Blakely comprehensive NCAA Division I conferenc- in which Boston University, Hartford, Maine, became the fi rst player to win both Defensive es with a commitment to broad-based, com- New Hampshire, and Vermont, among oth- Player of the Year and Player of the Year honors petitive athletics programs, complementing ers, competed in women’s basketball) in in the same season. He also garnered All-Ameri- the academic integrity and missions of the 1989 and the NAC looked to establish con- ca honors from the Associated Press. member institutions. ference championships in several men’s and Binghamton’s Rory Quiller became the second Each of the nine institutions - University women’s sports. national champion in America East history when at Albany, Binghamton University, Boston The conference changed its name to Amer- he won the pole vault at the NCAA Indoor Track & University, University of Hartford, University ica East prior to the 1996-97 academic year Field Championship with a height of 18-0 1/2. He of Maine, University of Maryland Baltimore and moved the conference headquarters to also earned All-America recognition for the third- County (UMBC), University of New Hamp- its downtown Boston in 1997. straight year and was joined by Boston Univer- shire, Stony Brook University, and Univer- In 2005, America East hired Patrick Nero, sity’s Tahari James (triple jump) and Marisa Ryan sity of Vermont - offers a unique blend of most recently the Director of Athletics at (3,000 meters) as All-America selections during academic and athletic tradition. Maine, as the conference’s third commis- the indoor season. James claimed All-American Progressive in its approach to its more than sioner. status in the same event at the NCAA Outdoor 3,200 student-athletes, America East recog- The conference offi ce moved its headquar- Track & Field Championship, while Ryan also nizes champions in each of its 21 sports: ters to Cambridge, Mass. in July, 2007. repeated the accomplishment, this time in the men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, Athletic Success… 10,000 meters. Albany’s Luke Schoen rounded men’s and women’s cross country, fi eld America East enters its 21st year of all- out the All-Americans, placing fi fth in the pole hockey, women’s golf, men’s and women’s sports championship competition on the vault. indoor track and fi eld, men’s and women’s heels of one of the most successful seasons Stony Brook competed at the NCAA Women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s outdoor track in history as fi ve of its 10 team sport cham- Cross Country Championship for the fi rst time

2008-09 Seawolves Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves and fi eld, men’s and women’s soccer, soft- pions won at least one game in the NCAA after placing second at the NCAA Northeast Re- ball, men’s and women’s swimming and div- Championship and two other teams received gional. ing, men’s and women’s tennis, and wom- at-large tournament bids. In addition, one Academic Success… en’s volleyball. America East also conducts student-athlete won a national championship America East institutions boasted a pair of Aca- the nation’s most comprehensive academic and 20 others garnered All-America recogni- tion. demic All-Americans in 2007-08 while another 19 recognition program for student-athletes. were tabbed All-District selections. With a geographic footprint covering the Hartford defeated Syracuse in the fi rst Mid-Atlantic to Northeast regions of the round of the NCAA Women’s Basketball A total of 18 America East teams received Pub- United States, America East has a popula- Championship. It marked the second time in lic Recognition Awards by the NCAA under the tion base of more than 50 million people and three years the Hawks had won a game in Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR). The nearly 30 million television homes. America the NCAA Tournament. Vermont earned a bid APR provides a real-time snapshot of a team’s East member institutions include more than to the WNIT and defeated Dartmouth, 69-50, academic success and the academic progress of 106,000 students on the nine campuses and in a fi rst-round game at Patrick Gymnasium. student-athletes. boast nearly one million living alumni. America East is only one of four Non-Foot- More than 2,250 of America East’s 3,200 stu- League History… ball Bowl Subdivision Conferences to have received multiple postseason bids in each of dent-athletes were named to the Academic Honor To see how far America East has pro- Roll after receiving grade-point averages of 3.0 or gressed, consider the conference was es- the past four years. tablished in 1979 as the ECAC North. The Vermont and Boston University each earned better. Included in that total were 1,015 student- conference at that time consisted of 10 in- berths in the NCAA Men’s Soccer Champion- athletes who earned a 3.5 or better and were stitutions and sponsored league competition ship. It marked the fi rst time since 1996 that named to the Commissioner’s Honor Roll. only in men’s basketball, with the champion America East received multiple bids. Vermont Vermont was awarded the America East Aca- receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA downed Dartmouth in the fi rst round to give demic Cup for the fourth-straight year as its stu- Championship. America East at least one win in the NCAAs dent-athletes compiled a 3.14 grade-point aver- Men’s basketball remained the lone league in six of the last seven years. America East age, which tied for the best mark in the award’s sport until the 1988-89 academic year. At fi nished the season ninth out of 22 Division I conferences in the Ratings Percentage In- 13-year history. Overall, America East student- that time, the conference’s Board of Direc- athletes compiled a 3.02 GPA during the 2007-08 tors made a new commitment to an all-sports dex (RPI) and was one of just two leagues to association, creating the North Atlantic Con- have fi ve teams in the Top 55 of 202 schools academic year. ference by establishing an offi ce, hiring a (38. Boston University, 40. Vermont, 48. Hart-

Albany - Joined in 2001 Binghamton - Joined Boston Univ. - Charter Hartford Hawks - Joined Maine - Charter member along with Stony Brook with Stony Brook and member (1979). America East in 1985. (1979). and Binghamton. Albany in 2001.

UMBC - Newest member of the New Hampshire - Char- Stony Brook - Member Vermont - Charter member America East began fi rst season ter member (1979). since 2001. (1979). of play in 2003-04.

12 Stony Brook University AmericaPlayer East Profi Review les 2008-09 Seawolves Basketball 2007-08 America East Final Standings America East Overall School W L Pct. W L Pct. xy-UMBC 13 3 .813 24 9 .750 Hartford 10 6 .625 18 16 .529 Albany 10 6 .625 15 15 .500 Vermont 9 7 .567 16 15 .516 Binghamton 9 7 .567 14 16 .467 Boston U. 9 7 .567 14 17 .452 New Hampshire 6 10 .375 9 20 .310 Stony Brook 3 13 .188 7 23 .233 Maine 3 13 .188 7 23 .233 x- regular season champion; y- tournament champion AE First Team AE Second Team AE Third Team Brian Lillis ...... Albany Mike Gordon ...... Binghamton Lazar Trifunovic ...... Binghamton Joe Zeglinski ...... Hartford Corey Lowe ...... Boston University John Holland...... Boston University Jay Greene ...... UMBC Ray Barbosa ...... UMBC Mark Socoby...... Maine Darryl Proctor ...... UMBC Brian Hodges ...... UMBC Cavell Johnson ...... UMBC Marqus Blakely ...... Vermont Mike Trimboli ...... Vermont Tyrece Gibbs ...... New Hampshire

America East Honors AE All-Rookie All-Championship Team Player of the Year Tim Ambrose ...... Albany Ray Barbosa ...... UMBC Marqus Blakely ...... Vermont John Holland...... Boston University Jay Greene ...... UMBC Def. Player of the Year Morgan Sabia ...... Hartford Darryl Proctor ...... UMBC Marqus Blakely ...... Vermont Alvin Abreu ...... New Hampshire Jaret von Rosenberg ...... Hartford Rookie of the Year Tyrone Conley ...... New Hampshire Joe Zeglinski...... Hartford John Holland...... Boston University Coach of the Year Most Outstanding Player: Randy Monroe ...... UMBC Jay Greene ...... UMBC Conference Champions 2008-09 America East 2008...... UMBC 2007...... Albany Preseason All-Conference Team 2006...... Albany 2005...... Vermont The 2008-09 America East preseason All-Conference team was voted on by the league’s coaches and announced at America East media day on October 27th, 2008 2004...... Vermont 2003...... Vermont 2008-09 Preseason All-Conference Team 2002...... Boston University Corey Lowe* ...... Boston University 2001...... Hofstra Joe Zeglinski...... Hartford 2000...... Hofstra 1999...... Delaware Jay Greene ...... UMBC 1998...... Delaware Marqus Blakely*...... Vermont 1997...... Boston University Mike Trimboli ...... Vermont 1996...... Drexel *Unanimous selection 1995...... Drexel 1994...... Drexel 1993...... Delaware 2008-09 America East Men’s Basketball Preseason Poll 1992...... Delaware 1. Boston U. (5) 59 1991...... Northeastern 2. Vermont (4) 55 1990...... Boston University 3. Hartford 51 1989...... Siena 4. UMBC 45 1988...... Boston University 5. Binghamton 37 1987...... Northeastern 6. Albany 30 1986...... Northeastern 1985...... Northeastern 7. New Hampshire 24 1984...... Northeastern 8. Maine 13 1983...... Boston University 9. Stony Brook 10 1982...... Northeastern 1981...... Northeastern 1980...... Holy Cross www.goseawolves.org 13 Season Outlook S E A S O N O U T L O O K Pikiell continues to build Stony Brook basketball

Heading into the 2008-09 season, leading scorer the past two seasons in Stony Brook fourth-year head coach addition to being GW’s student-athlete of Steve Pikiell has the focus and enthusi- the year in 2005. asm of a coach that feels his program is The program also continued to up- on the precipice of something special, a grade itself off the court as well as the program that is on the brink of making Seawolves will benefi t from a new locker its mark on the America East conference room, fi lm room, lounge and practice fa- and the rest of Division I basketball. cility this season. Stony Brook will also Despite a 7-23 record last season, Pik- play in its former home, Pritchard Gym- iell and his coaching staff believe their nasium, this season as its old home, squad took some big steps that have put Stony Brook Arena, undergoes a $20 the 2008-09 Seawolves in position to be million renovation that will have the Sea- successful. Those steps included victo- wolves playing in a state of the art facility ries over defending conference cham- in the near future. Pritchard also under- pion Vermont, Long Island rival Hofstra, went a million dollar renovation over the the program’s fi rst postseason victory summer to ready itself as the temporary

2008-09 Seawolves Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves since 2004 and a sweep of Maine. home for Stony Brook basketball. The Seawolves bring back six major Put it all together and Seawolves contributors from that squad and add to coaches, players and fans have a lot to a highly-rated recruiting class that Pikiell look forward to as the 2008-09 season feels is the best in school history. The gets underway. class includes four players that won state championships in high school. BACKCOURT Pikiell also made two key additions to Pikiell believes his backcourt will also his coaching staff in the offseason, hiring make signifi cant strides this season as Junior Eddie Castellanos Lamar Chapman as an assistant coach the Seawolves add a talented group of lieves the sophomore swingman showed and former captain Ricky Lucas ‘08 as newcomers to a solid group of return- great improvement over the summer. Director of Basketball Operations. Chap- ers. Paul showed he could be a difference man, a seasoned recruiter, comes to The Seawolves will be led in the back- maker last season, scoring 15 points in Stony Brook from Toledo while Lucas court by the trio of senior Michael Tyree, the overtime victory over Vermont in ad- joins the staff after being the Seawolves junior Eddie Castellanos and sophomore dition to contributing 10 points in the win Chris Martin in addition to sophomore over Hofstra. JermolJ Paul who will see signifi cant time The Seawolves will also count on se- ata the three spot nior co-captain Marques Cox as a sea- Tyree returns after appearing in all soned veteran who will bring depth to the 303 games last season, ranking second guard and wing positions after playing ono the team with 36 three-pointers. The in 47 games over the past two seasons. SeawolvesS will look for some needed The walk-on earned six starts in 2005-06 outsideo shooting and scoring from Tyree as a freshman while appearing in all 28 whow shot 88.9 percent from the free- games. throwt line last season. Bolstering the Stony Brook backcourt After starting the fi nal 10 games of the this season will be four newcomers who seasons at the point, Martin will be one Pikiell expects to make a difference early ofo the players counted on to direct the on. SeawolvesS offense this season. The Freshman point guard Bryan Dougher ChristC the King product made 16 starts comes to SBU from Scotch-Plains Fan- ini all in 2007-08 and Pikiell expects him wood High School in New Jersey where tot continue to exhibit the steady play he he scored a school record 1,635 points. showeds down the stretch last season. A 2008 second team all-state selection Competing for time with Martin will be and Area Player of the Year, Dougher is juniorjuj Eddie Castellanos who led Stony a scoring point guard who Pikiell expects BrookB with 69 assists a season ago. The will compete for a starting position imme- 6-16 point guard has already made 40 diately startss in his two seasons with the Sea- Joining him are junior-college transfers wolves.w Jonathan Moore and Muhammad El- Pikiell expects Paul to compete for Amin. Moore comes from Monroe Com- Senior Michael Tyree a starting position this season and be- munity College where he hit a school

14 Stony Brook University SeasonPlayer Outlook Profi les 2008-09 Seawolves Basketball record 168 three-pointers. The two-time post for the Seawolves in addition to be- Region honoree as a senior in addition All-Region selection led the Tribunes to ing a defensive force in the middle. to being ranked one of the top 50 power a 30-4 record and the NJCAA Division II Adedeji played in 27 games as a fresh- forward prospects by ESPN.com. national championship game as a fresh- man at Dayton, making four starts. He Pikiell sees Joyner, who broke a back- man. also led UD in FG% (.525, 42-80), while board in high school, as a physical re- The 6-5 El-Amin averaged 17.9 points averaging 3.6 points and 2.6 rebounds. bounding presence who will be a low-post per game at Lansing Community College Pikiell is also excited about the addi- scorer that will be a difference maker. last season, earning All-Conference hon- tion of the two freshman, Carter and ors after leading Holt High School to a Joyner, who he believes will be able to SCHEDULE state title as a senior. contribute right away. The 2008-09 schedule will be high- The Seawolves will also be counting on The highly-rated Carter comes to lighted road contests against nationally- 6-5 freshman Tommy Brenton to make an Stony Brook from Windsor, England ranked Connecticut and Air Force, along immediate impact. where he led his Reading Rockets to with a 14-game home slate at newly reno- The versatile swingman attended Har- back-to-back titles at the European vated Pritchard Gymnasium that includes grave Military Academy last season, help- Championships [Division B] in 2006 and a match-up with Long Island rival Hofstra. ing to lead the school to a perfect 29-0 re- 2007. The Seawolves open the season on Nov. cord as the top-ranked prep school in the Carter averaged 22.8 points, 8.7 re- 14 against Maryland-Eastern Shore, re- country. Brenton averaged 20.9 points bounds and 4.5 assists per game for turning to its former home, Pritchard Gym- and 10.3 rebounds per game as a senior the Rockets last season, earning Eng- nasium, which underwent a million dollar at River Hill High School, leading renovation over the summer. SBU’s the Hawks to their fi rst ever Mary- non-conferenceno schedule is also high- land 3A State championship. lightedlig by a visit from 2008 NCAA tournamenttou particpant American which FRONTCOURT visitsvis Stony Brook just a couple weeks One of the most improved areas beforebeb the Seawolves visit Hartford, on the 2009-09 Seawolves will be ConnecticutCoC to take on the national- in the front court. Returnees Dem- ly-rankedly- Huskies. The game with etrius Young and Andrew Goba UConnUCC also marks the return of Pik- along with Dayton transfer Des- ielliei l who was a two-time captain for the mond Adedeji and freshmen Dan- HuskiesHuH under Hall of Fame coach Jim ny Carter and Dallis Joyner should Calhoun.Ca SBU will close out 2008 with provide Stony Brook with the depth a NewN Year’s Eve matchup with the Air and inside scoring it has lacked ForceFoF Academy, its fi nal game before over the past few seasons. openingopo up America East play with a An explosive leaper, Young led visitvis to Baltimore to face defending the America East with a .638 fi eld championch UMBC. The Seawolves will goal percentage in addition to playpla four of their fi rst six conference ranking third in the conference with gamesga on the road before playing fi ve 6.7 rebounds per game. ofo their next six contests at home. SBU Young was also third in the willwi take on Boston University in its fi - America East with 81 offensive nalna home game, closing the regular rebounds and led the Seawolves seasonses with back-to-back road games with four double-doubles. Pikiell againstaga Hartford and New Hampshire. expects Young to continue to be a consistent inside presence that will be the Seawolves best defender in addition to providing inside scoring and rebounding. Goba returns after missing all but four games last season due to in- Sophomore Chris Martin jury. Pikiell will look to Goba as a solid land’s U-18 National Player of the Year and experienced presence who will an- award. chor the middle of the Stony Brook de- Pikiell sees Carter as someone who fense. The Durban, South Africa native will not only provide a low-post scoring appeared in 25 games two season ago presence but also someone who will be and continued to improve his strength able to step out and score from the pe- over the summer. rimeter Also expected to shoulder much of the The 6-7, 250 pound Joyner comes time in middle will be the 6-10, 298 pound to the Seawolves from Granby High in Adedeji. Pikiell expects the Dayton trans- Norfolk, Va. where he a fi rst team All- fer to be a offensive presence in the low District selection and third-team All-

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2 4 5 10 Danny Carter Jonathan Moore Michael Tyree Bryan Dougher Fr. • C • 6-9 • 210 Jr. • G • 6-0 • 190 Sr. • G • 5-11 • 175 Fr. • G • 6-1 • 185 2008-09 Seawolves Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves

11 12 15 20 Marques Cox Eddie Castellanos Michal Zylinski Desmond Adedeji Sr. • G • 6-1 • 195 Jr. • G • 6-1 • 180 Sr. • F • 6-4 • 210 Jr. • C • 6-10 • 298

21 22 23 24 Demetrius Young Jermol Paul Dallis Joyner Tommy Brenton Sr. • F • 6-6 • 200 So. • G/F • 6-4 • 210 Fr. • F • 6-7 • 250 Fr. • G/F • 6-5 • 215

30 32 35 Steve Pikiell Chris Martin Andrew Goba Muhammad El-Amin Head Coach So. • G • 6-1 • 210 Jr. • F/C • 6-9 • 235 Jr. • G • 6-5 • 210 Fourth season

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