Stony Brook finished up its three-city European tour today with a 74-61 victory over Charenton in Paris. The Seawolves went 4-1 on the trip with their only loss being a 79-75 defeat to Midnight Madness in London. While there aren’t official box scores available from the games, there are written reports on SBU’s athletics site. I’ve compiled the stats found in those to pull out a four trends to watch.
Category: Stony Brook
Stony Brook successfully navigates the scheduling maze
Creating a non-conference schedule at an America East school like Stony Brook can be a trying experience. It’s tough to convince schools to come play you, especially if they think you’ll be decent. Most of the time the negotiations seem to focus on how many games your conference opponent can get avoid making the return trip.
That’s why the Seawolves’ non-conference schedule is a pretty impressive feat. While no BCS conference school will come to Pritchard Gym this season, a good number of decent mid-major teams from around the area will. Those are balanced out by some strong road and neutral non-conference games as well.
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Jon Rothstein looks at Stony Brook
I’ll be writing previews of every school as we get closer to the regular season, but Jon Rothstein has beaten everybody with his preview of the rising Stony Brook program. It’s good background, though the comparison of Bryan Dougher to Jerry McNamara is a bit generous. Rothstein dances around the point, but the offense will have to improve from last season’s 96.8 points per 100 possessions in conference (7th in America East) in order to make some real noise next season.
Around the web with America East
Wanted to note two links real quick. One is my Summer Update of the America East Conference that has been posted at Rush the Court. It’s my first foray into the conference besides the work here, but I’m excited to learn more about it and actively cover it this fall. The second is Stony Brook getting a shout out from ESPN for the work that Jim Fiore is doing. (More on that in the NY Post too.) Exciting times for the Seawolves for sure.
Wishful thinking thanks to Schedulematic
Noted basketball stats maven Ken Pomeroy tried to solve the NCAA’s poor first week of the season by scheduling interesting, local match ups using a system he created and dubbed Schedulematic. Some of the results are really feasible, but when there’s a top mid-major team in a local area the results get a bit harder to fathom.
Coaching Resumes on KenPom
Have you always wondered what makes a coach tick? How his scheme translates into tempo-free numbers? Well, now you can figure it out with one click of the mouse. Ken Pomeroy’s coaching resumes are the hot new thing in tempo-free college basketball.
Click on a profile and learn a lot about a coach. (Well at least the past 10 seasons of their career when they were a head coach.) Observations about each school’s head men coming up.
Maybe a 16 over 1 in the Fashion Brackets?
It’s April and the NCAA Tournament is over. Thus everyone is scrambling to put together some ridiculous bracket so that they can grab the attention of fans still craving simple one-and-done eliminations.
At CollegeInsider.com they’re capitalizing on it by putting out the Runway to the Fashion 4 bracket. It’s even got a blog where Virginia Tech’s Seth Greenberg can be found spouting some insider knowledge. (At least his team made this bracket!)
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