Stony Brook Seawolves men's basketball
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| University | Stony Brook University | ||
| Conference | America East | ||
| Location | Stony Brook, NY | ||
| Head coach | Jeff Boals (1st year) | ||
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Island Federal Credit Union Arena (Capacity: 4,160) |
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| Nickname | Seawolves | ||
| Student section | The Red Zone | ||
| Colors | Red, Blue, and Gray |
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| NCAA Tournament appearances | |||
| 2016 | |||
| Conference tournament champions | |||
| 2016 | |||
| Conference regular season champions | |||
| 2010, 2012, 2013, 2016 | |||
The Stony Brook Seawolves men’s basketball team is the college basketball program representing Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York. The Seawolves currently participate as part of the NCAA Division I basketball, and compete on the America East Conference. The Seawolves currently play their home games in the Island Federal Credit Union Arena.
The team had their most successful year in the 2015–16, winning the America East regular season and tournament title to earn a bid to their first NCAA Tournament. The school hired long time Ohio State assistant Jeff Boals as head coach after Steve Pikiell left to become the head coach at Rutgers University.
The Seawolves joined Division I play in 1999–2000 season. They have an all time win-loss record of 256–264 (.492) in Division I play following the 2015–16 season.
Stony Brook University first fielded a basketball program in the 1960–61 basketball season initially playing their home games at the local Walt Whitman High School (1960–1962) while located at Oyster Bay (at that time State University College on Long Island). The campus relocated to its present site in 1962 and temporarily played their home games at Port Jefferson High School (1962–64) until the construction of the Pritchard Gymnasium in the late 1960s. Since the 1960s the Stony Brook Patriots played at the Division III level and participated several different conferences, also spending many years of its development as an independent program. While first struggling in its initial years with Dan Farrell (1960–64), Stony Brook later enjoyed some success in the Knickerbocker Conference with coach Herbie Brown (Larry Brown's brother). He was head basketball coach at SUNY Stony Brook in 1964–69, earning Coach of the Year honors following the 1969 season. That team's P. A. announcer, Paul (the Bean) Kornreich, was once compared in the local press with the Philadelphia 76ers announcer Dave Zinkoff. Coaches Ron Bash, Dick Kendall, and Joe Castigle helped develop the program in the late 1970s and 1980s and by the early 1990s Stony Brook participated in the New York metropolitan-based Skyline Conference.
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