Three Questions – Stony Brook

As the season approaches every team has questions. This series is going to look at three key ones.

1. How does the return of Tommy Brenton impact the offense? – The redshirt junior forward missed all of last season with a knee injury. His offensive rebounding and ability to score in the paint should result in a big improvement on offense for the Seawolves. Last season SBU finished 9^th in America East in two-point percentage, so Brenton should help there. His return will also allow Stony Brook to be one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the conference for the second season in a row.

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Bryan Dougher named to America East Preseason All-Conference Team

America East held its season opening Tip-Off Luncheon today and unveiled both the projected conference standings and the Preseason All-Conference Team. The league kept the team to just five players and Stony Brook’s Bryan Dougher was recognized amongst them.

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Lessons about Stony Brook from Europe

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.

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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.