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Hoopla: Seven former Seawolves playing basketball overseas this year

Brenton has been playing in Japan for the Link Tochigi Brex. Photo by Kenneth Ho
Brenton has been playing in Japan for the Link Tochigi Brex. Photo by Kenneth Ho

 

Dougher is playing in Australia for Ringwood. Photo by Kenneth Ho
Dougher is playing in Australia for Ringwood. Photo by Kenneth Ho

Bryan Dougher

Bryan Dougher left Stony Brook as its leading scorer with 1609 points, and now finds himself playing in Australia. He is part of the Ringwood Hawks’ starting five, as the starting point guard.

In 23 games he averaged 20.8 points per game, 5.2 rebounds per game and 3.1 assists per game. Dougher also averaged 1.5 steals per game for Ringwood. He had a field goal percentage of 36.1 percent, shot 36.3 percent from three-point range and shot 78.7 percent from the free throw line.

He finished as a finalist in the Australian Big V division.

He is playing alongside another American, Sam Belt, formerly of the University of Central Oklahoma. Also on the team are three native Australians: Willie Weimer, Shaun Clarke and Mark Whitehead.

Dougher and the Hawks finished in fourth place in the Big V division, with a 13-5 record. Dougher is also Stony Brook’s all-time leader in three-pointers with 337.

Dallis Joyner

Dallis Joyner finished his Stony Brook career as the eighth leading scorer with 903 points and second-best rebounder with 731. He spent the 2012-13 season as a starter with Maccabi Kiryat Bialik in the Israeli-National League. In 31 games he averaged 16.2 points per game, nine rebounds per game and 2.6 assists per game. Joyner also had a field goal percentage of 63.4 percent, a three-point percentage of 22.2 percent and a free throw percentage of 55 percent.

Joyner has moved onto the Slovakia-Extraliga, where he is a starter on the MBK Rieker Komarno team. In four games so far, Joyner has 50 points in 89 minutes. He is shooting 20-36 from the field, which is good for 55.6 percent.

Since leaving Stony Brook after the 2012 season, he signed with Kouvot Kouvola in Finland, but left the team soon after.

Al Rapier

Al Rapier played two seasons at Stony Brook after transferring from Mineral Area College in Chicago, Ill. He averaged 7.9 points and five rebounds per game during his senior season with the Seawolves.

Rapier spent the 2012-13 season with Sampaense Basket in the Portugal LPB, where he played in 18 games. He averaged 17.1 points per game, 7.1 rebounds per game and 1.9 assists per game. He shot 54.1 percent from the field and 53.8 percent from the free throw line.

This season, Rapier has moved to Marin PeixeGalego of the Spain-LEB Silver, where he is in the starting five. Through four games, Rapier has averaged 8.5 points per game and is shooting 53.8 percent from the field.

Danny Carter

Danny Carter is in his second season with the Reading Rockets after graduating from Stony Brook after the 2012 season. As a starter last season, Carter averaged eight points per game, 4.4 rebounds per game and 1.9 assists per game in 10 games. He shot 45.7 percent from the field and 14.3 percent from three-point range. His free throw percentage was 68.4 percent. His team won the British EBL Division One Regular Season Championship.

Carter also played for the Rockets from 2005 to 2008 before attending Stony Brook. During his previous time with Reading, Carter was a two-time British EBL Division One Regular Season Runner-Up in 2006 and 2008. He won the British EBL Division One Championship in 2006 as well.

In addition, Carter was a British EBL Division One Finalist in 2008 as a starter on the Rockets.

Desmond Adedeji

Like Carter, Desmond Adedeji is in his second season away from Stony Brook. In 2011, he joined Valga Korvpallikool in Estonia-KML as a starter. There, he averaged 7.8 points per game through four games, before moving to Faith US de Rabat in the Morocco-D1. He played for Team Germany A2 in the Blacktop Showcase and UNLV in the Worldwide SM Invitational in 2012.

Tommy Brenton

Tommy Brenton graduated from SBU just last season as the program’s all-time leader in rebounds and steals and Stony Brook’s Division I leader in assists. He was named the 2013 Lefty Driesell National Defensive Player of the Year, becoming the first Seawolf to win the national award. He also won the America East Player of the Year and America East Defensive Player of the Year, becoming just the second player to do so.

Brenton is now playing in Japan, where he is a starter on the Link Tochigi Brex. In five games so far, Brenton is averaging 5.6 points and shooting 43.3 percent from the field. He also has 10 steals this season for Link Tochigi Brex, who are in third place.

Taylor Burner

Taylor Burner also is in her first season away from Stony Brook, as she signed a contact to play in Israel with Hap.Petah Tikva. She played her first game on Monday, Oct. 28 and scored a point in six minutes of play during Tikva’s loss.

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