Box Score STONY BROOK, N.Y. – The University of Hartford men's basketball team buried eight second-half three-pointers, but it was not enough to hold off Stony Brook as it suffered a 56-52 loss at Pritchard Gymnasium Saturday afternoon. Junior Corban Wroe paced all scorers with 13 points on 4-of-5 shooting as Hartford drops to 10-14 overall and 4-5 in league play.

Extending its home win-streak to 23 games, the third longest in the nation, Stony Brook improves to 16-7 on the season with an 8-1 record in the America East. Anthony Jackson and Dave Coley led the Seawolves with 12 points each while Jameel Warney added 11, scoring seven of those points in the final four minutes to put his team in front for good.

Both teams exchanged blows throughout the afternoon as the game featured 12 lead changes and five ties. Leading for the majority of the first half without top-scorer Mark Nwakamma, Hartford trailed by one at the half as Jackson went coast-to-coast for a layup before the buzzer to provide Stony Brook with the 25-24 edge.

Out of the break, Stony Brook opened the half with a 7-0 run to quickly go up eight. Hartford bettered that run, though, putting up 14-straight points to gain a six point lead (38-32) with 11:49 to go. Heating up from long range during that stretch, the Hawks knocked down four consecutive threes, receiving back-to-back triples from sophomore Evan Cooper. Rookie Justin Graham and junior Yolonzo Moore II kept the rally going, contributing treys of their own to put their team back in front, while Wroe capped the nearly five-minute run with a pair of free throws.

Eric McAlister stopped the bleeding for Stony Brook with a crowd-wakening dunk, but sophomore Taylor Dyson, who joined Wroe in double figures with 12 points, gave Hartford its largest lead of the game (7) by knocking down his third three with 10:34 to go.

Stony Brook countered, rallying for an 11-2 spurt to reclaim a two-point advantage at 45-43, but Wroe, who was fresh off a career-high 14-point outing against Vermont, drained his second three of the afternoon to put his team back in front at 46-45. From there, the lead changed hands four more times before the final horn sounded.

With 4:04 remaining, Warney made a layup and got fouled to provide the Seawolves with the 48-46 margin before Wroe struck again from long range and grabbed his team a 50-49 lead with 2:42 to go.

On the next possession, Coley cleaned up the glass on a Warney miss, drawing the foul on the put-back. With the three-point play, he put the lead back in the hands of Stony Brook for good at 51-49. After a Hartford miss, Warney pushed that advantage to six with back-to-back layups with one minute to go.

Ten seconds later, Hartford would quickly cut that deficit in half (55-52), making it a one-possession game thanks to its 12th three of the game from junior Wes Cole. On the other end, Anthony Jackson front rimmed a layup, and Wroe, who was 3-for-3 from three, pulled the trigger from the corner but came up short with 26 seconds on the clock.

The Hawks had one more chance at tying up the game as Ahmad Walker missed the front end of a one-and-one with 25 seconds to go. Out of a Hartford timeout, Nate Sikma's three-point attempt with five seconds to play fell short and Jackson sealed the victory with a free throw with 1.5 seconds left.

Jamie Schneck put together a solid stat line for the Hawks, scoring two points while adding four rebounds, an assist, two blocks and a pair of steals. Wroe and Moore each handed out four assists Hartford, which had just five shots come from inside the arc, shot just 37.8 percent overall (17-of-45). Stony Brook went 50.0 percent (23-of-46), but made just 2-of-9 shots from three-point land.

Hartford looks to end a three-game skid next Saturday when it returns to the Chase Family Arena to host the UAlbany Great Danes. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.