Player Profi les Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves 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 BBasketball Support Staff .................................. 26 PPlayer Profi les ............................................ 27-49 2007-082 In Review 22007-08 Statistics ............................................ 51 22007-08 Player Game-by-Game ..................... 52 22007-08 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. 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Printed by New York Press & Graphics, Albany, www.goseawolves.org 1 Player Profi les 2008-09 Seawolves Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves 2 Stony Brook University Player Profi les Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves www.goseawolves.org 3 Player Profi les 2008-09 Seawolves Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves 4 Stony Brook University Player Profi les Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves www.goseawolves.org 5 Player Profi les 2008-09 Seawolves Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves 6 Stony Brook University Player Profi les Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves www.goseawolves.org 7 Player Profi les 2008-09 Seawolves Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves 8 Stony Brook University Player Profi les Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves www.goseawolves.org 9 Player Profi les 2008-09 Seawolves Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves 10 Stony Brook University Player Profi les Basketball 2008-09 Seawolves 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