Dion’s 22 Points Not Enough at Stony Brook, 64-61

Wednesday, February 1

Stony Brook, N.Y.

7 PM

University of New Hampshire

14-9, 5-4AE

Stony Brook

12-10, 7-2AE

UNH

Stony Brook

Photo by: China Wong

2/1/2017 9:52:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Senior Daniel Dion (Cedar Park, Texas) scored 22 points on a career-matching six threes as the University of New Hampshire men's basketball team (14-9, 5-4 AE) fell to Stony Brook University (12-10, 7-2 AE) at IFCU Arena.

NEXT HOME GAME
New Hampshire returns home on Monday, Feb. 6 to host Albany (7 PM) on You Can Play night. If you can play, you can play. Tickets are available HERE.

HIGHLIGHTS

Dion drilled a career-matching six threes in the game for 22 points.
Senior Jaleen Smith (Freeport, Texas) scored 13 points in his 12^th complete game this season.
Junior Tanner Leissner (Converse, Texas) scored 12 points and grabbed six rebounds.
Leissner's free-throw streak was snapped at 27 straight in this game.
UNH led in the first half 32-24 before Stony Brook scored 40 in the second half.
Lucas Woodhouse of SBU finished with 21 points, nine rebounds and nine assists.
Sophomore David Watkins (Dorchester, Mass.) scored five points, dished an assist and grabbed three board in nine minutes.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Stony Brook led 4-2 just three minutes into the game before New Hampshire held on for the rest of the opening half. UNH went on a 13-4 run to increase the lead to 15-8 just about halfway through the first half. Dion drilled three 3-pointers in the stretch and Reed and Leissner each finished in the paint. The Wildcats controlled play, eventually pushing the lead to 11 points, 30-19, with under three minutes to go. Five straight points (part of his nine first-half points) from Smith earned the big lead. With time winding down, Smith ran an isolation play from left to right finishing off the glass with the right hand at the buzzer.

Dion opened the second half UNH scoring with a layup in the paint before the Seawolves scored 14 straight points to take a 40-34 lead with 13:16 to go. Woodhouse scored six points in the span. Leissner hit a free throw to inch within one point, 44-43, with 10:06 to go before Stony Brook stretched its lead to nine just three minutes later.

The Wildcats trailed by four with 2:24 to go and Dion was fouled in the paint and hit two free throws to cut it to two points. The scoring stalled for both teams until Leissner was fouled in the paint with 35 seconds to go. He drilled the first one but missed the second one. Woodhouse went down the court and finished in the lane to push the lead back to three points with 10 seconds to go to seal it.

-POSTGAME NOTES-
UNH STARTERS (SEASON/CAREER STARTS)
Sr. G Jaleen Smith (23/95)
Sr. G Daniel Dion (23/56)
Jr. G Jordan Reed (20/20)
Jr. F Tanner Leissner (23/77)
Jr. F Iba Camara (18/56)

GROUP'S RECORD: 8-8

SERIES INFO
Stony Brook improves its all-time series lead to 18-15 and has won four of the last five games.

ATTENDANCE: 3,347

TEAM NOTES

New Hampshire hit nine threes to Stony Brook's four.
UNH got to the line 19 times in the game.
Stony Brook shot 55.6 percent in the second half (15 of 27).

INDIVIDUAL NOTES
Daniel Dion: 22 points / 6 of 11 3's / 7 of 14 shooting / 3 rebounds / 40 minutes
Jaleen Smith: 13 points / 5 rebounds / 4 assists / 1 steal / 40 minutes
Tanner Leissner: 12 points / 6 rebounds / 1 assist / 6 of 8 FTs

Lucas Woodhouse: 21 points / 9 rebounds / 9 assists / 9 of 16 shooting