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Game 11: v Central Michigan, 12/13 12pm
By: Checkmate Date: December 11, 2025, 11:28 am
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CENTRAL MICHIGAN (3-6)
Last Game: Saint Louis 107, Central Michigan 65 on 12/7/25
Last Game vs SBU: Stony Brook 73, Central Michigan 72 on
11/7/24; SBU 30-17 run to end game; O'Connor with the
game-winner!
Checkmate Guess the Line: Stony Brook -6.5
NET Ranking: Stony Brook 161, Central Michigan 320
KenPom Rating: Stony Brook 205, Central Michigan 313
KenPom Prediction: Stony Brook 77, Central Michigan 68
Watch: SNY or
HTML https://go.flosports.tv/partner/caa
Listen: www.wusb.fm (I think)
Notables
7-0/230 sr C Nathan Claerbaut 11.6 ppg, 7.1 rpg, .568 FG%
6-1/195 sr G Tamario Adley 10.6 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 3.7 apg, .400 3-pt
FG%
6-2/195 so G Phat Phat Brooks 9.4 ppg, 3.2 apg, .775 FT%
6-5/205 sr G Logan Mcintire 8.6 ppg
6-4/215 so G Jaxson Whitaker 7.7 ppg, .419 3-pt FG%
At the beginning of the year, we'd certainly have been smitten
with 10-3, 9-4 or 8-5. And here we are in a great position to
most certainly exceed expectations.
I know the MAC won't soon be mistaken for the ACC, but for a MAC
team to come into our gym feels like a feather in our cap, even
a bad MAC team. We see a lot of same squads come through here,
and it's nice to have something different.
With this one, we have a chance to match our win total from last
year in mid-December, and to run our home win streak to eight,
which would be our longest since we ripped off 15 straight over
two seasons in the mid-2010s. Attendance was, from my
perspective, probably the lowest since that period on Tuesday
against Columbia – a meager 1,196. I'd love it if this success
somehow got more people out to the game, but I'm skeptical of
that. Let's keep it rolling anyway.
Besides the uniforms, CMU looks literally nothing like what we
saw last year. They let Tony Barbee go after four underwhelming
years, and everybody ran for the hills – 14 guys in the portal,
100% of their every-single-stat gone. They brought in Andy
Bronkema, who won a national title at Division II Ferris State,
and he pieced together quite the motley crew, from places like
Wayne State, IU-South Bend, Kentucky Wesleyan and, of course,
his prior stop. He did also bring in Brooks, a highly acclaimed
recruit from Michigan who was Mr. Basketball in the state but
never played meaningful minutes in Ann Arbor. The move did allow
him to play with his brother, Jorden, who's a redshirt junior
with the Chippewas.
These D-II guys seem like good supporting cast members, but that
Claerbut is their leading scorer is an indictment on the roster.
He averaged less than 10 points a night at the D-II level, and
is now tops on the scoreboard for CMU. Adley's somebody who can
put up a big number – he had 22 in a nice season-opening win
over App State, and a team-high 19 in this past weekend's
shellacking at the hands of Saint Louis. I expected more out of
Brooks. He has a really stilted shooting motion, which makes me
think he got by on speed and athleticism in high school but,
especially with a lack of size, it didn't hold up against better
competition in college. He's 0 for 10 from three this year. I
was looking at a short transfer portal video of him on YouTube,
and the last "highlight" was a free throw that he banked. Yikes.
I'm curious about this kid Will Ashford, who got his first start
against SLU and stood out a bit as a versatile wing. I thought
he was all right.
Pratt has put us in a situation where the first question you
have to ask is "who could possibly guard him?" That's a valid
question here. This is a high major talent with more in his bag
than Santa. CMU played SLU without one of their more experienced
guys – Rodney Johnson – who was good for Tennessee Tech before
transferring in. If he's out again, that's a loss.
Elsewhere in our backcourt, It's good to see TO is back getting
a full complement of minutes. Love him off the bench as someone
who can score in a few ways too. Altogether, we're on pace to
average more assists per game since, you guessed it, the 2015-16
season. We'll see if we stay on that pace. The D-III games can
skew that. But the offense is undeniably more fluid than it has
been, which has been so so nice to see.
Noon start. Holiday season. Great time to bring the whole family
to the game. Hope to see it.
#Post#: 46300--------------------------------------------------
Re: Game 11: v Central Michigan, 12/13 12pm
By: Chairman of the Board Date: December 11, 2025, 3:10 pm
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ill say it- we dont feel like a 7-3 team. i suppose it's
because we played Farm State and SJ-LI.
#Post#: 46301--------------------------------------------------
Re: Game 11: v Central Michigan, 12/13 12pm
By: Moveitfred Date: December 11, 2025, 6:39 pm
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Pratt gets his points in rather quiet, sneaky ways frequently,
and I've had this feeling he's missed a few easy ones and also
perhaps not taken shots when he should have. Just get a sense we
have yet to see a really "On" offensive game from him, and if we
do I bet he puts up a big number.
Will Claerbaut be enough of a 7-ft concern that Kojenets gets
some more PT?
I hope that whoever might be in charge of this will really
push/promote/give away tickets in the community with a focus on
kids. Could potentially get a crowd of young ones for this
day/time.
#Post#: 46302--------------------------------------------------
Re: Game 11: v Central Michigan, 12/13 12pm
By: Chairman of the Board Date: December 12, 2025, 12:01 pm
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maybe we are too concerned with december games. isnt the trick
just to get hot in march? like we did a few years ago.
#Post#: 46303--------------------------------------------------
Re: Game 11: v Central Michigan, 12/13 12pm
By: ecasadoSBU Date: December 12, 2025, 2:40 pm
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[quote author=Chairman of the Board
link=topic=1206.msg46302#msg46302 date=1765562496]
maybe we are too concerned with december games. isnt the trick
just to get hot in march? like we did a few years ago.
[/quote]
its good for the team and good for the league to win these
games.
But yeah. you are right. at the end of the day you need to get
hot during the CAA tournament
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Re: Game 11: v Central Michigan, 12/13 12pm
By: Checkmate Date: December 13, 2025, 11:13 am
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About as good of a first four minutes as we can play. 11-point
lead already and a 7-0 advantage on the glass.
#Post#: 46306--------------------------------------------------
Re: Game 11: v Central Michigan, 12/13 12pm
By: Accelerator Date: December 13, 2025, 11:27 am
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I know Central Michigan isn't having a great year and they're
not even a super big brand, but it does feel different to
actually be hosting a MAC school.
32-16 at the 8 min media timeout. Liking it.
41-16! I love how much diversity in scoring there's been.
#Post#: 46307--------------------------------------------------
Re: Game 11: v Central Michigan, 12/13 12pm
By: ecasadoSBU Date: December 13, 2025, 12:40 pm
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What a rout baby. I don't care whether CMU is good or not. I
just like a good ole beating against a Division I opponent.
LFG SEAWOLVES!
Like I said... Let's finish OOC 3-0 please!
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Re: Game 11: v Central Michigan, 12/13 12pm
By: ecasadoSBU Date: December 13, 2025, 12:42 pm
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Also. I finally got IPTV this year (never really had Cable TV)
so it feels great to be able to watch my wolves on SNY from
afar.
I wish I lived a bit closer to the Brook. We need a serious
attendance bump
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Re: Game 11: v Central Michigan, 12/13 12pm
By: Checkmate Date: December 13, 2025, 1:44 pm
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Fade the Chippewas. Woof.
I mean, 45-18 on the glass. It's not our biggest margin ever –
we were +31 against USMMA in November 2015. But when was the
last time we were +27 in boards against a Division I opponent?
The answer: Bernstein has to get on this one or else we may
never know. It's been at least 10 years.
I did find when the last time was we shot 57 percent or higher
against a Division I team – February 15, 2024 against Hampton,
when we hit better than 64 percent of our shots.
We're just watching a different brand of basketball. I was
saying to some friends that it hasn't ever been this fluid in
the time I've been watching, which isn't as long as some of you
but still. Or maybe I'm forgetting some periods of time (which
would not be surprising whatsoever) ... but I do think that, so
often under Pikiell and Geno, it was dribble dribble dribble, no
movement, no layups or dunks off cuts, contested shots
everywhere, haphazard shot selection, nothing easy. We'd see
other teams do it, but it was never us. Now we're seeing it. It
helps to have a glut of shooters – I'd say we have seven or
eight guys who you're totally fine with shooting an open three.
That spaces the floor and opens up driving lanes, and we have
guys who can put it on the floor.
Really nice minutes from Kojenets today, and obviously a supreme
outing from Shoshkikj. One of the best things was Rob Brown's
day. I thought he looked great. All quality shots and he knocked
down 5 of 7. We're going to need him. Keep shooting it.
It's great to see the end of the bench get in. They're working
hard too. It's some situation we're in where Simmon can
absolutely save us against Bethune Cookman and then he's a
mop-up guy not long after. What a luxury to have that weapon
available if need be.
The negative: Obviously the 20 turnovers. No bueno.
Still, this year we're tied for the second best record after 11
games in school history, trailing Boals' 9-2 team in 2018-19,
and tying Pikiell's 2012-23 team at 8-3. We'll enter our next
game with the program's highest KenPom since the CAA tournament
run in 2024, and as for sustained KenPom in the regular season,
you'd have to go back to the 2019-20 season when we maxed out at
119. Pretty awesome.
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