BOSTON – Stony Brook (12-9, 4-4) hit 16 threes and had two players score 20+ points en route to a 95-80 win over the Northeastern men's basketball team (6-13, 2-6) on Thursday night at the Cabot Center.
 
The Seawolves finished the night 16-of-29 from long range, led by a 5-of-9 night from Andrej Shoshkikj, who finished with 22 points. He was flanked by 31 points from Erik Pratt, including 25 in the second half as SBU shot 57% as a team.
 
The Huskies clawed back into the game with an 11-3 run late in the first half and a 12-3 run early in the second half to tie the game at 52 with 16 minutes left, but an 11-0 Seawolves run midway through the second half would put the visitors up for good.
 
A season-high five Huskies reached double figures on the night, led by 15 from Xavier Abreu on 6-of-11 overall. He was joined by William Kermoury (12 points), Luca Soroa Schaller (12), Ryan Williams (11) and JB Frankel (10) for a Northeastern squad that finished 31-of-65 from the field and 10-of-30 from deep.
 
Stony Brook came out firing, hitting nine of its first 13 shots to bolt out to a double-digit lead, thanks to 14 points from Shoshkikj in the first nine minutes of the game. The Seawolves couldn't miss from three to start, opening 7-of-9 from deep to lead by as many as 16 before finishing the half with a 47-40 edge. Shoshkikj's 14 points led an SBU squad that shot 64% from the floor and 71% from three.
 
Northeastern rebounded from a slow start to close the half on an 11-3 run to cut into the deficit, led by 11 first half points from Abreu. The Huskies shot 54% overall, highlighted by a stretch of eight straight makes over a six-minute span to mount the comeback. NU also held a 15-12 edge on the glass, including seven offensive boards that turned into 10 second chance points.
 
The Huskies continued to fight out of the break as Soroa Schaller went to work, scoring the team's first eight points of the half before a bucket from Haris Elezovic (seven points, five rebounds, four assists) leveled the game at 52 with 16:16 to play.
 
It remained a two-possession game for the next five minutes before an 11-0 Stony Brook run over 2:21 put the Seawolves back up by double digits, a margin it would maintain the rest of the way.
 
The Huskies will be back in action on Saturday when Northeastern travels to Drexel for a 2 p.m. tip on FloCollege.