STONY BROOK at YALE
Wed., Nov. 29 – 7 p.m.
John J. Lee Amphitheater
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YALE at VERMONT
Sat., Dec. 2 – 7 p.m.
Burlington, Vt.
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Game Notes
 
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – It's a busy week for the Yale men's basketball team, who play only their second home game of the season on Wednesday, hosting Stony Brook in a 7 p.m. tip, before heading to Northern New England on Saturday to face America East preseason favorite Vermont, also a 7 p.m. tip. Both games will be streamed on ESPN+.
 
FOOD DRIVE
 
Yale Athletics is hosting a food drive at men's and women's home games through Dec. 9. All food donated will be given to Loaves & Fishes in New Haven.
 
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
 
• The final of six straight games away from home for the Bulldogs was last Sunday, a hard-fought 76-72 loss at Rhode Island. The game was tied at 70 with 3:30 left, but the Rams outscored Yale 6-2 the rest of the way. Danny Wolf (19 points) and Bez Mbeng (18 points) paced the Bulldogs offense.
 
• Wolf, the most outstanding player of the Atlantic Slam Tournament in Canada on Nov. 17-19, is averaging 18.8 points and 8.3 rebounds over the last four games while shooting 59.6 percent (31 of 52) from the field and 58.3 percent (7 of 12) from three-point range.
 
• Mbeng is 10th in the Ivy League in scoring (14.1 ppg.), 11th in rebounding (5.7), seventh in assists (3.0) and fourth in steals (13).
 
• August Mahoney and John Poulakidas have both been very accurate from three-point range. Mahoney is shooting 48.4 percent from deep, while Poulakidas is at 46.9 percent. Both have made 15 treys on the season, which have them tied for ninth in the league.
 
• Four Bulldogs are averaging double figures in scoring – Mbeng (14.1 ppg.), Wolf (13.1 ppg.), Poulakidas (12.0 ppg.) and Matt Knowling (11.0 ppg.). Knowling missed the URI game due to injury.
 
• Following the trip to Vermont, the Bulldogs will have a nearly three-week stretch where they won't leave the New Haven area. Yale hosts Fairfield on Dec. 6, Colby Sawyer on Dec. 8 and visits nearby Quinnipiac on Dec. 11 before taking a trip to Kansas on Dec. 22.
 
• Since the start of the 2014-15 season, Yale has posted an 82-16 (.837) record at Lee Amphitheater.
 
• The Bulldogs are coming off a highly successful 2022-23 season that saw them win 21 games, share the Ivy League title with Princeton and advance to the postseason National Invitation Tournament.
 
• Yale is the Ivy League favorite. The Bulldogs were selected first in the league's official preseason media poll, released in October. Yale, which had 124 points, received 14 of the 16 first-place votes. The other two first-place votes went to Princeton, which had 110 points and is projected to finish second. Cornell (80 points) is third followed by Brown (77), Penn (68), Harvard (66), Dartmouth (28) and Columbia (23).
 
• The Bulldogs are in the midst of the most successful era in the long history of the program. Over the last eight seasons, Yale has posted an 84-28 (.750) Ivy League record, won five Ivy championships, two Ivy League Tournament titles and earned three NCAA Tournament berths, including notching the first NCAA victory in school history – over Baylor in 2016. Yale also was set to appear in the NCAA Tournament in 2020 but it was canceled due to the pandemic.
 
HISTORY LESSONS
 
Yale and Stony Brook are meeting for the fifth time and the second straight season. Last year on Long Island, the Bulldogs held off the pesky Seawolves to post a 77-72 victory. John Poulakidas and Matt Knowling each scored 11 points. In the last meeting at Lee Amphitheater, Stony Brook knocked off the Bulldogs 85-81. Yale leads the all-time series 3-1. The first meeting was in 2001, an 82-62 Bulldog victory at the Red Auerbach Classic in Washington, D.C.
 
Yale's yearly matchup with Vermont has developed into one of the highlights of the Bulldogs' schedule. The two teams played in every season between 2007-08 and 2019-20, missed 2020-21 due to the pandemic and then resumed in 2021-22. The Catamounts lead the all-time series 18-15. Last year in New Haven, the Bulldogs trailed 30-27 at halftime and then proceeded to outscore UVM 46-14 in the second half to win 73-44. Vermont won the last meeting in Burlington, 61-53 in 2021-22.
 
SCOUTING STONY BROOK
 
The Seawolves (2-3) haven't played since a 55-48 win over Rider on Nov. 20. All five of Stony Brook's probable starters are graduate students, including Aaron Clarke, who leads the team in scoring at 11.0 ppg. Dean Noll (10.6 ppg.) also averages double figures in scoring. The Seawolves' three losses have come to St. John's, Duquesne and Nebraska. Following Wednesday's game, Stony Brook plays its next four at home. The Seawolves were picked ninth in the CAA preseason poll.
 
SCOUTING VERMONT
 
Yale is the second of back-to-back Ivy League opponents for the Catamounts, who host Dartmouth on Wednesday night. UVM (5-2) has victories over the College of Charleston and Saint Louis on its resume, both coming at the Myrtle Beach Invitational. Matt Veretto (14.7 ppg.) leads the team in scoring. He is shooting 52.2 percent from the field and 43.2 percent from three-point range. Vermont has attempted a three pointer on 47.3% of its field goal attempts against D-I opponents, which is the 20th highest rate in the country. The Catamounts, who reached the NCAA Tournament a year ago, are the preseason favorite in America East.