Thomas made a tough two-pointer with 0.4 seconds left to win 72-71. One of the announcers brought up Dion Nesmith's shot to win 66-65 hosting Stony Brook on November 21, 2014. I was away from home, and I think that was our only shot of that game that I saw.
Thomas scored 26 and contributed in multiple ways. He shot 10-21 (twos 7-13 and threes 3-8), and free throws 3-4, which are all near average. He had 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, and did not commit a foul. He played the whole game. We committed only 11 fouls, but Stony Brook attempted 18 free throws (with 13 made) because so many of them were shooting fouls. If you make a statistics of opponent's free throw attempts per your foul, Stony Brook's 18/11 = 1.64 would be very high. Plotnikov shot a great 6-9 including threes 4-5 and free throws 1-1 to score 17, and had 4 rebounds in 30 minutes. Carlos did not shoot well, but almost had a triple-double. He had 11 points, 9 rebounds, 10 assists, and 0 turnovers. He became the 23rd player and first CAA player from 2010-2011 to now to have that many points, rebounds, and assists without a turnover. Seven of the players did it this season, including Bryant's Earl Timberlake in a 104-86 win hosting Drexel on December 22. Three players did that against non-Division teams this season, including two against Bethesda in California. He shot 3-10 including threes 2-6 and free throws 3-4. Dubar scored 10. He made a two 5 seconds in, and his next and final two was with 13:56 left, meaning 25:59 later. He shot 4-10 including threes 2-7, and his only free throw attempt was missing the first of a one-and-one with 7:01 left. Fritz scored 8 by shooting 4-6, and his only free throw attempt was missing with 16 seconds left to not have a three-point play. He had half of his points in the last 8 seconds. Dubar (7), Thomas (6), and Fritz (5) joined Carlos with at least 5 rebounds. Thomas had 2 steals to be our only player with more than 1, and we did not block a shot. The bench had 0 points on 0-7 shooting, 2 rebounds (by Washington, who shot 0-4), and 1 assist (by Robinson) in 25 minutes. Sunday played 5:39, but in order for the minutes to add up to 200, he was rounded down to 5. The sum of the bench minutes to the nearest whole number was 26. I wonder how many times any team is going to have all four of those bench numbers be that low.
We led for 5:16.
Each team had four double-digit scorers. Aaron Clarke scored 18, Tyler Stephenson-Moore scored 17, Dean Noll scored 14, Keenan Fitzmorris scored 13 in 25 minutes off the bench, Jared Frey scored 5, Sabry Philip scored 2, Chris Maidoh scored 1, and Andre Snoddy scored 1. All of their players scored. Snoddy became the second player from 2010-2011 to now to have 0 or 1 point, at least 13 rebounds, at least 3 assists, and 5 fouls. The previous player to do that was Marist's Eric Truog in a 102-100 double overtime loss at Rider on January 14, 2016. Truog fouled out with 2:24 left in regulation, so he did not get any of those statistics in overtime. Clarke and Philip tied for their second most rebounds with 4. Snoddy, Frey, and Fitzmorris led them with 3 assists. Noll and Stephenson-Moore led them with 2 steals, and Snoddy had their only block, which was 5:38 into the game.
Field goal shooting was 27/63 (.429) for us, and 23-54 (.426) for them. Twos were 16-31 (.516) for us, and 11-27 (.407) for them. Threes were 11-32 (.344) for us, and 12-27 (.444) for them. Free throws were 7-11 (.636) for us, and 13-18 (.722) for them. Each team had about half of their field goal attempts be threes. We had 32 of 63 attempts (50.8 percent) be threes, and they attempted 27 of both, while shooting threes better than twos. Rebounds were tied at 36, we had more assists 17 to 15, fewer fouls 11 to 16, and fewer turnovers 7 to 8. Stony Brook had only 5 offensive rebounds and 2 second chance points. We were able to make 11 threes and have more points in the paint 20 to 6.
Here are Analytics. In efficiency, Thomas and Carlos tied with 23, Plotnikov had 18, and Fitzmorris led Stony Brook with 16. In game score, Thomas led with 18.8, Carlos had 15.1, Plotnikov had 12.8, and Fitzmorris led Stony Brook with 12.6. In net points (which is negative for all players combined), Carlos's 4.6, Fitzmorris's 0.9, and Thomas's 0.4 were the only positive numbers on either team. It must be rare for only three players to have positive net points. I am also surprised that in a game decided by 1, the winning team had the top three in efficiency and the top three in game score.
Thomas tied Towson's Dylan Williamson for the most points by a CAA player today. Williamson scored 23 in the second half. Seeing "D. Williamson" makes me think of Drew Williamson, who had 555 assists for Old Dominion. He played from 2003 to 2007, which were the same seasons as Loren Stokes and Carlos Rivera. We have three players with over 555 assists, and our most assists by a player after Claxton is 548 by Buie.
I wonder if we will be the only team this season to have a game scoring in the first 5 seconds and making the winning shot 0.4 seconds or fewer left.
https://gohofstra.com/sports/mens-baske ... core/12794 is the box score. The attendance was 2,062.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKa4ke0J7g8 is highlights.
We did not write a recap yet.
https://stonybrookathletics.com/news/20 ... fstra.aspx is titled "Men's Basketball Falls After Last-Second Shot at Hofstra." Dean Noll's 4 threes were a career-high. Coach Geno Ford said "Stomach-punch loss. We outplayed them the whole game and then made some tough plays down the stretch. Give Thomas credit, it was a heck of a shot he hit."
If you like comebacks and exciting ends, we would be among the leaders in the last few weeks. Our last eight games were decided by single-digits, and the combined margin was 37, which is 4.625 per game. I wonder what our record is for consecutive games decided by single-digits.