For most of the first half, the Stony Brook men’s basketball team held a lead against the No. 3 Kansas Jayhawks, riding hot outside shooting to make up for a size disadvantage in the paint.

This Stony Brook men’s basketball team is built to shoot threes. But converting them was a problem in the season opener as the Seawolves fell apart against the George Mason Patriots on Tuesday, Nov. 9 in a 74-52 loss at EagleBank Arena in Fairfax.