St. Francis Brooklyn schedule/results
St. Francis Brooklyn season stats
Game facts
St. Francis Brooklyn (0-0) at NC State (1-0)
Game time: Sunday, Nov. 13, 2 p.m. — PNC Arena in Raleigh
Television: ACC Network extra
Probable starters
NC State
PG — 4 Dennis Smith Jr. (6-3, 195, Fr., 11.0 ppg, 1.0 rpg, 5.0 apg, 1.0 spg)
SG — 3 Terry Henderson (6-5, 190, R-Sr., 23.0 ppg, 7.0 rpg, 2.0 rpg, 1.0 bpg)
SF — 24 Maverick Rowan (6-7, 220, Soph., 17.0 ppg, 9.0 rpg, 1.0 apg)
F — 2 Torin Dorn (6-5, 208, R-Soph., 12.0 ppg, 11.0 rpg, 3.0 apg, 1.0 spg)
C — 0 Abdul-Malik Abu (6-8, 240, Jr., 15.0 ppg, 11.0 rpg, 2.0 apg, 6.0 bpg)
St. Francis Brooklyn
PG — 2 Yunus Hopkinson (5-10, 180, Sr., 12.2 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 2.9 apg last year)
PG — 10 Glenn Sanabria (5-11, 180, R-Soph., 8.5 ppg, 1.2 rpg, 3.2 apg, 1.2 spg, in six games)
SF — 13 Keon Williams (6-4, 185, Soph., 2.8 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 0.4 apg)
PF — 5 Robert Montgomery (6-6, 225, Fr.)
C — 11 Joshua Nurse (6-9, 210, Soph., 0.3 ppg, 0.9 rpg, 0.1 bpg)
St. Francis Brooklyn
Location: Brooklyn Heights, N.Y.
Nickname: Terriers
2015-16 record: 15-17 overall, 11-7 Northeast
2016 postseason: None
Coach: Glenn Braica 98-91 overall and at St. Francis Brooklyn (sixth year)
Notes
St. Francis Brooklyn overview: St. Francis Brooklyn is hoping to carve out its own niche in the Northeast Conference.
The N.Y. version is sometimes confused with St. Francis (Pa.), which is in the same league and has produced enough successful pro players to get on the basketball map. Blue Ribbon Basketball Yearbook has St. Francis Brooklyn projected to finish eighth in the 10-team league, and the league coaches had the Terriers eighth.
The strength of the team is at point guard with senior Yunus Hopkinson and redshirt sophomore Glenn Sanabria, who are 5-foot-10 and 5-11 respectively. The Terriers lost six of their top nine scorers from a year ago, and open the season at NC State, at Virginia and at Providence. Sophomore center Cori Johnson is out for the year with a knee injury, and sophomore guard Dagur Jonsson returned to his home of Iceland in October.
Backcourt: Sanabria was being counted upon to have a good year last year, but got injured six games into the campaign. Hopkinson then took advantage and became the second-leading scorer. The two point guards will play together this season.
The 5-10, 180-pound Hopkinson had done little his first two years, averaging 2.6 points in 10.6 minutes per game in 2014-2015. He jumped up to averaging 12.2 points and 2.9 assists per game. He had 206 of his 345 field-goal attempts from beyond the arc, and he made 36.4 percent of them. His accuracy suffered with the rest of his shot selection, and he shot 34.2 percent from the field.
Hopkinson finished last year with a flurry, scoring at least 12 points in 10 of his last 11 games. He tallied a season-high 27 on seven three-pointers against Central Connecticut State in a 74-67 win Feb. 11. That was one of six contests where he reached at least 20 points, and he drained at least four three-pointers in nine games.
The 5-11, 180-pound Sanabria had averaged 6.0 points and 2.1 assists per game his freshman year, while shooting an impressive 44.9 percent from three-point land. He handled the point guard duties against Boston College, Saint Louis and Louisville before he got hurt against Hartford on Nov. 29. He struggled from the field against those three opponents, shooting a combined 9 of 31 for 27 points. Sanabria reached at least 10 points in seven games his freshman year, scoring 15 points on two occasions.
Junior wing Gunnar Olafsson of Reykjavik, Iceland, started 26 games last year, but had modest production. The 6-3, 195-pounder averaged 3.7 points and 2.0 rebounds per game, and shot 29.7 percent from three-point land. He had a career-high 14 points and shot 4 of 9 on three-pointers in a 92-86 overtime loss to NJIT on Dec. 10, 2015.
Freshmen guards Rasheem Dunn and Gianni Ford are both prep products from Brooklyn, and will get a chance to make an instant impact.
Frontcourt: St. Francis Brooklyn doesn’t return much experience in the frontcourt, and will be relying on four recruits to provide a boost.
Sophomore small forward Keon Williams suffered a hand injury Feb. 6, and missed four games. He wasn’t the same following his return — a combined 1 of 7 from the field during last three games.
Williams averaged 2.8 points and 2.4 rebounds in 17.6 minutes per game, but took on a larger role in conference action before getting hurt. He averaged 29.5 minutes per game during an eight-game stretch before his injury. He had 10 points and eight rebounds — both career highs — in a 85-71 win vs. Fairleigh Dickinson on Feb. 6.
Junior Jagos Lasic of Serbia, who is 6-8 and 200 pounds, and 6-9, 210-pound sophomore Joshua Nurse both return, but received scant playing time last year. The injury to Johnson will likely mean Nurse will start at center this season. He played 71 minutes in 15 games last year.
Freshman power forward Robert Montgomery is also expected to carve out a starting role this season. The 6-6, 225-pounder was a post-graduate player at Takoma Academy in Maryland last year.
Junior college transfer Darrelle Porter Jr. has a familiar name to old Big East fans. His father played with current Arizona coach Sean Miller and future NBA players Jerome Lane and Charles Smith at Pittsburgh. The younger Porter is a 6-5 and 175-pound small forward averaged 11.5 points per game at Polk Community College in Lakeland, Fla.
Sophomore power forward Jahmeel Bodrick will provide some beef inside at 6-6 and 245 pounds. He was academically ineligible last year.
