Assistant coach Lamar Chapman | Assistant coach Bryan Weber | |
2016–17 record 17–12 (12–4 America East) | ||
The 2016–17 Stony Brook Seawolves men's basketball team represents Stony Brook University in the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Seawolves are led by first-year head coach Jeff Boals and play their home games at Island Federal Credit Union Arena in Stony Brook, New York. They are members of the America East Conference.
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They finished the regular season 17–12, 12–4 in America East play to finish in second place. They received the No. 2 seed in the America East Tournament.
Previous season
The Seawolves finished the 2015–16 season 26–7, 14–2 in America East play to win the regular season championship. They defeated UMBC, Hartford, and Vermont to win the America East Tournament. As a result, they earned the conference's automatic bid go the NCAA Tournament, the first in school history. As a No. 13 seed, the Seawolves fell to Kentucky in the First Round.
On March 20, 2016, it was announced that head coach Steve Pikiell would leave the school to accept the job as the new head coach for Rutgers. He finished at Stony Brook with an eleven-year record of 192–157. On April 8, the school announced they had hired Jeff Boals as head coach.
Preseason
Stony Brook was picked to finish seventh in the preseason America East poll.