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Saturday, January 3, 2009

MEN'S BASKETBALL UPSETS UMBC 69-61 ON ROAD, IN AMERICA EAST OPENER...SEAWOLVES NOW 8-5


Seawolves win third straight game.

Baltimore, Md. - Junior Muhammad El-Amin (Lansing, Mich.) scored 19 points, including the go-ahead three-pointer with 3:40 remaining, to lead the Stony Brook University men's basketball team to a 69-61 victory over defending conference champion Maryland-Baltimore County on Saturday night at the RAC Arena. Stony Brook improves to 8-5 overall and 1-0 in the America East while UMBC falls to 6-7 and 0-1.
"We played with great energy tonight and were able to make enough plays down the stretch to get a win against a terrific UMBC team," Stony Brook head coach Steve Pikiell said.
The America East Player of the Game, El-Amin knocked down a three with the score knotted at 54 to start an 8-0 run that sealed the Seawolves third straight victory. El-Amin shot 8-for-14 from the field for the game for the Seawolves, who shot a season-high 56.5 percent from the field.
Freshman Bryan Dougher (Scotch Plains, N.J.) added 19 points for Stony Brook, including a terrific 5-for-6 from three-point range. Darryl Proctor posted a double-double (26 points, 10 rebounds) for UMBC, who dropped its second straight game.
Stony Brook took control at the start, going on a 17-2 run after Matt Spadafora scored the first basket of the game. El-Amin scored three hoops in the run and also fed freshman Tommy Brenton (Columbia, Md.) for a thunderous fast-break dunk that forced UMBC to take its second timeout of the first seven minutes. Brenton finished with four points in addition to grabbing a team-high seven rebounds.
The Seawolves lead would grow to as much as 14, at 20-6, on a three from Dougher before the Retrievers went on an 8-2 run to cut the Seawolves lead to eight with 7:05 left in the half. El-Amin pushed the SBU advantage back to double-digits with a long three from the right side and Dougher followed with his third three of the half to push the SBU lead back to 14 with just over four minutes remaining in the period.

UMBC scored six of the final nine points of the half to send the Seawolves into the break up 31-20. El-Amin scored 13 first half points for the Seawolves, while Dougher added 11. Proctor scored a team-high eight points in the first half for the Retrievers, who shot just 30 percent (9-for-30) from the field in the opening 20 minutes.
The Retrievers came out of the break hot, scoring 11 of the half's first 13 points to cut the Seawolves lead to two with 16:54 remaining in the game. Junior Desmond Adedeji (Landover Hills, Md.) stemmed the tide though, sandwiching back-to-to-back hoops around two Proctor free throws to put SBU up four. UMBC would close to within two on a Fry jumper but sophomore Chris Martin (Springfield Gardens, N.Y.) answered with a twisting shot in the lane and El-Amin followed with a three-point play to put the Seawolves up 42-35 with 13:35 remaining.
Stony Brook's lead would grow to as much as 11 after back-to-back Dougher three-pointers but the Retrievers stormed back with a 13-2 run to tie the game at 52 with just over six minutes remaining. Adedeji ended the run with a jump hook in the lane but Proctor answered with a jumper on the other end to tie it at 54.
The Seawolves return to action on Monday, Jan. 5, traveling to take on Binghamton in a game that will be on WUSB and televised live on MSG+. Game time is set for 7 p.m.