Junior guard Jose Juan Barea scored 30 points, but it was a key assist that was instrumental in giving Northeastern a 75-69 win over Stony Brook in its first America East game of the season Tuesday night at the SBU Sports Complex.
With the Huskies (4-4, 1-0 America East) clinging to a 66-65 lead with just over a minute left, Barea zipped a pass to freshman Shawn James on the baseline, and he jammed it home to put NU up three. James scored just four points, but had a career-high 13 rebounds and six blocks, one shy of his school record.
Hardy then missed a three, and Barea got the rebound. He made both free throws to ice the game.
The Huskies led 13-7 on two free throws by sophomore Bobby Kelly, but Stony Brook ran off 11 of the next 13 points to assume an 18-15 advantage.
After Antwan Hardy's three put the Seawolves up 21-17, NU closed the half on a 15-6 run to take a 32-27 lead into the locker room. That stretch included nine points by Barea and a reverse layup by junior transfer Jeff Farmer, his first basket in a Husky uniform.
Stony Brook (4-4, 0-1) stormed out of the break, out-scoring Northeastern 12-2 in first 3:31 to go ahead 39-34 and prompt head coach Ron Everhart to take a timeout. Hardy had seven in that span.
Kelly's straightaway three coming out of the timeout pulled the Huskies within two, but Stony Brook extended its lead to eight on a Jairus McCollum bucket.
With the Seawolves leading 47-39, Northeastern ripped off 12 straight points -- the last eight by Barnes -- to jump in front, 51-47. Barnes sandwiched two three-pointers around a pair of free throws.
A Mike Popoko three stopped the run, but the Huskies scored seven consecutive points to take their largest lead of the game, at 58-50, with just under nine minutes left.
The Seawolves hung tough and eventually tied it at 60-60 on Cori Spencer's layup with 4:04 to play.
Barea's difficult layup put NU up 64-60 with 2:49 left, but Bobby Santiago made a three to cut it to one. Barnes then followed his own miss and put in a layup to increase the bulge to 66-63. Barnes finished with 16 points, 14 of those in the second half.
Two Hardy foul shots made it a 66-65 game, but Barea took over from there.
Northeastern travels to Worcester, Mass., to take on Holy Cross Monday, Dec. 27 at 7 p.m.
Official Basketball Box Score
Northeastern vs Stony Brook
12/21/04 7:00 pm at Stony Brook, N.Y. (SBU Sports Complex)
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VISITORS: Northeastern
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
14 Davis, Bennet....... f 3-5 0-1 0-0 1 3 4 3 6 0 1 0 0 12
33 Cole, Janon......... f 3-4 0-0 0-0 1 6 7 2 6 0 0 0 2 22
03 Barnes, Marcus...... g 5-14 3-9 3-4 0 2 2 2 16 3 1 0 1 36
05 Barea, Jose Juan.... g 10-18 0-4 10-12 0 2 2 3 30 3 5 0 1 35
22 Kelly, Bobby........ g 2-5 1-3 2-2 1 1 2 2 7 1 2 0 0 30
11 Martinez, Adrian.... 1-5 0-2 0-0 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 13
15 Farmer, Jeff........ 1-3 0-2 0-0 1 1 2 0 2 2 1 0 0 8
21 James, Shawn........ 2-5 0-0 0-0 1 12 13 3 4 0 1 6 1 28
50 Washington, Mark.... 1-4 0-0 0-0 2 2 4 2 2 1 0 0 0 16
TEAM................ 2 1 3
Totals.............. 28-63 4-21 15-18 10 30 40 19 75 10 13 6 5 200
TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 14-32 43.8% 2nd Half: 14-31 45.2% Game: 44.4% DEADB
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 0-9 0.0% 2nd Half: 4-12 33.3% Game: 19.0% REBS
F Throw % 1st Half: 4-4 100 % 2nd Half: 11-14 78.6% Game: 83.3% 1
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HOME TEAM: Stony Brook
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
13 Orfini, Mike........ f 0-2 0-0 0-1 5 4 9 3 0 2 1 0 1 25
33 Popoko, Mike........ f 5-13 2-4 2-6 2 4 6 2 14 5 2 0 0 29
34 Spencer, Cori....... c 6-9 0-0 3-4 2 4 6 3 15 3 3 2 1 34
01 Hardy, Antwan....... g 5-13 2-7 2-2 0 5 5 2 14 2 2 0 0 29
21 Santiago, Bobby..... g 4-12 3-6 0-0 1 3 4 1 11 5 3 0 0 37
05 Feist, Hendrik...... 1-3 1-3 0-0 0 2 2 1 3 0 1 0 0 7
30 McCollum, Jairus.... 2-6 0-0 0-0 1 2 3 1 4 1 1 1 0 15
40 Colin, Wilky........ 0-2 0-2 1-2 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 7
44 Kobryn, JonPaul..... 3-6 0-0 1-2 2 1 3 1 7 3 1 1 0 17
TEAM................ 3 1 4
Totals.............. 26-66 8-22 9-17 17 26 43 15 69 21 14 4 3 200
TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 10-37 27.0% 2nd Half: 16-29 55.2% Game: 39.4% DEADB
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 3-12 25.0% 2nd Half: 5-10 50.0% Game: 36.4% REBS
F Throw % 1st Half: 4-9 44.4% 2nd Half: 5-8 62.5% Game: 52.9% 2
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Officials: Jack Sweeney, Paul Faia, Jeff Bryant
Technical fouls: Northeastern-None. Stony Brook-None.
Attendance:
Score by Periods 1st 2nd Total
Northeastern.................. 32 43 - 75
Stony Brook................... 27 42 - 69
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Points in the paint-NU 32,SBU 28. Points off turnovers-NU 14,SBU 14.
2nd chance points-NU 8,SBU 8. Fast break points-NU 4,SBU 2.
Bench points-NU 10,SBU 15. Score tied-7 times. Lead changed-6 times.
Last FG-NU 2nd-00:06, SBU 2nd-00:02.
