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PRESS CONFERENCE - DELAWARE | PRESS CONFERENCE – STONY BROOK
WASHINGTON D.C. – With five players in double figures, No. 12 Delaware (13-19) advanced in the 2025 Jersey Mike’s CAA Men’s Basketball Championship after earning an 80-76 victory over 13th-seeded Stony Brook (8-24). The Blue Hens will take on No. 5 Campbell (15-16, 10-8) at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Hens’ senior guard Erik Timko registered a team-best 19 points with four treys to go with five boards and three assists. Niels Lane and reigning CAA Rookie of the Year Izaiah Pasha added 16 and 15 points apiece. Cavan Reilly chipped in 13 points and John Camden rounded out those with double-digit scoring with 11 points of his own.
Both teams shot over 50 percent in the matchup as Delaware registered a 55.8 percent clip from the floor, while Stony Brook knocked down 50.9 percent of its shots.
Delaware surged out of the gate with six straight points before a Timko trey put the Blue Hens ahead, 9-3, at the 16:59 mark. Stony Brook worked its deficit back down to two behind back-to-back buckets from
CJ Luster, only to erase the early deficit on a trey from
Leon Nahar and knot the game at 16 with 11:40 remaining in the opening stanza.
The Blue Hens started to capitalize on its 3-point shooting over the final 10 minutes. Four of the team’s next six makes came from distance, including consecutive treys from Camden and Timko to take a double-digit lead, 36-26, with 4:28 to play.
Timko hit his fourth trey of the first half with a minute to go, only to see Pasha beat the halftime horn with a finish at the rim to take a 50-34 lead into the break. For the second straight season, Delaware notched a 50-point effort in the first half of a CAA Tournament game, having scored 51 in last year’s second-round 80-50 win against Hampton.
Stony Brook quickly worked its deficit back into single digits over the first 4:34 of the second stanza. After a 10-2 run capped off by a three-point play from
Collin O’Connor, Luster hit his second triple and the Seawolves rattled off six unanswered points to pull within eight, 59-51, with 13:23 to play in regulation.
Luster continued to will 13th-seeded Stony Brook back into the contest, scoring eight points, including five from the charity stripe, on the team’s 11-2 run to make it a one-point game, 65-64, at 8:37.
Andre Snoddy knotted the game at 70 with a pair of free throws.
The Blue Hens drained five straight shots at the charity stripe to take a 75-70 lead before holding on for the four-point win.
Stony Brook’s Luster put forth a 31-point effort and hit seven 3-pointers while pulling down four boards. Snoddy finished with 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting from the floor.
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