Lester's Career-High 22 Points Leads 'Cats Past Stony Brook, 81-64

Saturday, February 8

Durham, N.H.

12 PM

University of New Hampshire

11-11,4-5America East

Stony Brook

16-9,7-3America East

Team	1	2	F
Stony Brook	14	50	64
New Hampshire	35	46	81

Photo by: Ben Humphreys

Lester's Career-High 22 Points Leads 'Cats Past Stony Brook, 81-64

2/8/2020 4:05:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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DURHAM, N.H. – Chris Lester (Barrington, Ill.) led four double-digit scorers with a career-high 22 points to propel the University of New Hampshire men's basketball team to Saturday afternoon's 81-64 win against Stony Brook University at Lundholm Gym.

Lester came off the bench to make 8 of 13 field goal attempts, including three 3-pointers, and also made three free throws. Nick Guadarrama (Newington, Conn.; 14 points), Josh Hopkins (Greensboro, N.C.; 13) and Sean Sutherlin (New Brighton, Minn.; 12) also scored in double digits. Sutherlin pulled down a game-high nine rebounds and Guadarrama had eight.

SBU was led by Tyler Stephenson-Moore (19 points; nine rebounds), Andrew Garcia (17 points, seven rebounds) and Makale Foreman (16 points).

UNH, which made 12 of 14 free throws in the last 6:26 of the game, improved to 8-2 at home, 11-11 overall and 4-5 in America East. Stony Brook is now 16-9, 7-3.

NEXT GAME // NEXT HOME GAME
•New Hampshire returns to action Feb. 12 (7 p.m.) at the University of Vermont.
•UNH's next home game is Feb. 20 (7 p.m.) against the University of Hartford.

TICKETS
•Single game tickets for UNH men's basketball home games start as low as $3 and can be purchased by calling (603) 862-4000, visiting the Whittemore Center box office or going online to www.unhwildcats.com.

FIRST HALF
•Both teams struggled in the opening four minutes as UNH took a 2-0 lead on Maultsby's basket in the paint at 15:50.
•Lester's 3-pointer and layup was followed by Guadarrama's layup to give the Wildcats a 9-0 lead at 12:16.
•Stephenson-Moore put Stony Brook in the scoring column with a pair of free throws at 11:42.
•Hopkins hit a 3-pointer to extend the margin to 20 points, 28-8, at 4:20.
•New Hampshire took a 35-14 lead into halftime.

SECOND HALF
•The teams traded scores to advance the score to 51-29 at 12:03.
•Foreman's 3-pointer cut the deficit to single digits, 57-48, at 7:15.
•UNH responded with a quick 8-0 run fueled by back-to-back 3's from Hopkins and Jayden Martinez (Cibolo, Texas) to push the advantage to 65-48 at 5:23.
•The Seawolves inched within 12 points, 74-62, at 2:13 but the 'Cats made 5 of 6 free throws the rest of the way to keep SBU at arm's length.

UNH NOTEBOOK
•Bill Herrion has 183 wins at UNH's helm. The program record of 185 is held by Gerry Friel.
•Marque Maultsby (Raleigh, N.C.) finished with eight points, seven rebounds and game-high five assists. He played all but 1:10 of the 40 minutes.
•Martinez had seven points and six rebounds.
•Mark Carbone (Wethersfield, Conn.) finished with five points, all from the foul line in the last five minutes.
•UNH's 19 free throws made marked a season high. The 28 attempts were also a season high.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
•There were no ties or lead changes in the game.
•This marked the fifth time this season New Hampshire topped 80 points.
•UNH built its 21-point halftime lead by holding the visitors to 4 of 28 (14.3%) shooting from the floor in the opening 20 minutes. SBU also committed 11 first-half turnovers.
•UNH tallied 15 assists on 27 field goals compared to SBU's five on 19 FGs.
•The Wildcats outscored Stony Brook 38-22 in the paint and 13-2 on the fastbreak.
•SBU committed 19 turnovers to UNH's 13.
•The Seawolves edged the 'Cats on the glass, 46-44, with 20 offensive rebounds.

SERIES NOTEBOOK
•UNH has an 18-21 lifetime record against Stony Brook and ended a four-game losing streak to the Seawolves.