EASTON, Mass. (Dec. 16, 2025) – The Stonehill males’s basketball crew (3-8, 0-0 NEC) seems to be to increase its successful streak to 2 video games after they journey to the College of New Hampshire (3-7, 0-0 America East) on Wednesday night for a 6 p.m. tip off.
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HISTORY vs. NEW HAMPSHIRE
The collection is tied 1-1 with Stonehill successful the final assembly between these two groups. The Skyhawks defeated the Wildcats final season, 90-83, at Merkert Gymnasium. Louie Semona led 5 Skyhawks in double figures with 22 factors, whereas Chas Stinson shot 60% from the ground to web 16 factors to guide all starters, whereas additionally shelling out 5 assists. Ethan Meuser added 10 factors whereas coming two rebounds shy of a double-double flattening eight rebounds.
SCOUTING THE WILDCATS
The Wildcats are coming off a six-point victory, 88-82, over Boston College in Durham, New Hampshire. At 3-7 on the season, it was the Wildcats first win in opposition to a Division I opponent. Their earlier two wins got here in opposition to Curry School (Nov. 6) and Emmanuel School (Nov. 12). In opposition to Boston College, Belal EL Shakery registered his double-double of the season, tallying 18 factors and 14 rebounds. Kijan Robinson led all scorers with 21 factors, whereas Jack Graham added 13. R.J. Kennedy rounded out the Wildcats in double digits netting 12 factors off the bench in 29 minutes.
LAST TIME OUT FOR THE SKYHAWKS
The Skyhawks are coming off a 101-60 win over Northern Vermont-Johnson at residence on Friday, December 12. Junior middle Ridvan Tutic registered his first double-double of the season as he tied his profession single-game excessive with 11 rebounds, whereas netting 13 factors off the bench. Sophomore Trenton Ruth got here off the bench for the Skyhawks to register a profession single-game excessive 13 factors with 5 rebounds and shelling out six assists.
RETURNING TO NEW HAMPSHIRE
Senior guard Rex Sunderland spent the primary three years of his collegiate profession at New Hampshire. Sunderland appeared in 58 video games and began 20 for the Wildcats, tallying 180 factors and shelling out 75 assists. The Utah native had a profession yr in 2023-24 the place he helped information the Wildcats to the America East semifinals and a 16-15 general report, registering 100 factors, 58 rebounds, 39 assists and 35 steals.
FROM DOWNTOWN
A two-time NEC Prime Performer, sophomore Hermann Koffi leads the NEC in complete three-point area targets with 32 on the season. In opposition to DePaul, Koffi got here one three-point jumper shy of tying the WinTrust Enviornment report, registering seven.
Made 3-Level Discipline Targets at WinTrust Enviornment
8 David Joplin (Marquette) 1/28/23
Kaiden Rice (Georgetown) 2/9/22
Max Strus (DePaul) vs. Georgetown 3/6/19
Max Strus (DePaul) vs. UIC 12/14/18
David Coit (NIU) 11/25/23
7 Hermann Koffi (Stonehill) 11/7/25
LJ Figureroa (St. John’s) 1/25/20
Scottie Lindsey (Northwestern) 12/16/17
Quincy Olivari (Xavier) 2/3/24
TRIPLE THREAT
Graduate scholar Raymond Espinal-Guzman almost turned the second participant in Division I to report a triple double. In opposition to DePaul, the Rhode Island native registered 10 rebounds, whereas netting 9 factors and shelling out seven assists.
DEFENSIVE MINDED
As a crew, Stonehill leads the NEC in complete rebounds (435), averaging 39.5 per recreation. Graduate scholar Raymond Espinal-Guzman is second amongst NEC leaders, flattening 85 and presently has one-double-double on the season (at Fairfield, 11/14/25 – 19 factors, 12 rebounds. Moreover, Espinal-Guzman is fourth amongst convention leaders in blocks, with 14 on the season, simply forward of teammate senior guard Chas Stinson (13), who’s sixth. Junior middle Ridvan Tutic registered his first double-double of the season in opposition to Northern Vermont-Johnson tallying 13 factors with 11 rebounds
SERVING OTHERS
Senior guard Rex Sunderland finds himself fourth amongst NEC leaders in assists, shelling out 37 on the season. In opposition to Fairfield (11/24/25), Sunderland got here two assists shy of tying his profession single-game excessive shelling out six assists in opposition to the Stags. He presently has 5 video games the place he has recorded four-plus assists, most just lately serving out 4 assists in back-to-back video games in opposition to Bryant and Northern Vermont-Johnson.
25-POINT COMEBACK
Within the first half in opposition to DePaul on November 7, Stonehill discovered themselves trailing by 25, 30-5, nevertheless the Skyhawks went on a 14-0 run to tug inside 11 factors. Halfway by the second half, sophomore Hermann Koffi drained his seventh three-pointer of the sport to tie the competition a 49. A couple of minutes later they took their first lead of the sport, 50-49, when senior Chas Stinson went 1-for-2 from the charity stripe.
PICKED THIRD IN NEC PRE-SEASON POLL
The Stonehill males’s basketball crew was picked third within the 2025-2026 Males’s Basketball Pre-Season Coaches Ballot launched Monday, October 27. The Skyhawks completed behind LIU, who was a unanimous choice for first place, and Central Connecticut State, who was picked second.
2025-2026 NEC Pre-Season Coaches Ballot
1. LIU
2. Central Connecticut State
3. STONEHILL
4. Mercyhurst
5. FDU
6. Chicago State
7. Saint Francis
8. Wagner
9. Le Moyne
10. New Haven
KOFFI EARNS ALL-NEC PRE-SEASON HONORS
Sophomore Hermann Koffi was chosen to the NEC Pre-Season All-Convention crew. Koffi returns to for his sophomore season after incomes All-NEC Second Staff honors and All-Rookie Staff recognition final yr. Showing in all 32 video games whereas beginning 27 in 2024-2025, Koffi averaged 9.4 factors per recreation and shot 74.2% from the free throw line.
2025-2026 NEC PRE-SEASON ALL-NEC TEAM
Bernie Blunt, Gr. | G | Mercyhurst
Malachi Davis, Sr. | C | LIU
Jamal Fuller, Gr. | G/F | LIU
Hermann Koffi, So. | G | Stonehill
Darin Smith Jr., So. | F | Central Connecticut State
PRIME PERFORMERS
Sophomore Hermann Koffi acquired the NEC Prime Performer accolades on Nov. 10 after dropping a profession single-game finest 27 factors on DePaul. He secured his second Prime Performer accolades every week in a while Nov. 17, then picked up his third after a 19-point night time in opposition to Northern Vermont-Johnson (Dec. 12). Junior guard Davante Hackett has three Prime Performer accolades on the season, receiving the honors in back-to-back-to-back weeks (Nov. 24, Dec. 1 and Dec. 8).
NEC Honors
Hermann Koffi (Nov. 10) Prime Performer
Hermann Koffi (Nov. 17) Prime Performer
Hermann Koffi (Dec. 15) Prime Performer
Davante Hackett (Nov. 24) Prime Performer
Davante Hackett (Dec. 1) Prime Performer
Davante Hackett (Dec. 8) Prime Performer
NEW FACES, NEW PLACES
The Skyhawks welcome 9 newcomers to the Stonehill campus – together with eight transfers: Will Batchelder (Sr., Holy Cross), Raymond Espinal-Guzman (Gr., Sacred Coronary heart), Davante Hackett (Jr., Brock College), Anthony Holden (Gr., Maryville), Cory Lovell (Jr. Hercum School), Trenton Ruth (So., Coffeyville C.C.), Rex Sunderland (Sr., New Hampshire) and Ridvan Tutic (Jr., Maine).
Moreover, the Skyhawks welcomed two new coaches to the teaching employees: assistant coaches Tom Bonacum and Josh Einhorn. Bonacum joins the Skyhawks after spending the previous 5 seasons with former Iona and FDU Head Coach Tobin Anderson. Bonacum helped information the Gaels to back-to-back MAAC Championship recreation appearances. Einhorn joins Stonehill after a yr underneath legendary Brandeis Head Coach Jean Bain serving to to result in the Judges attain twenty eighth in Division III rankings.
HONORING A LEGEND
This season the Stonehill males’s basketball crew will probably be sporting patches on their taking pictures shirts in reminiscence of Mike Allocco ’73, who handed away in early September. Allocco was a legend on the basketball courtroom throughout his taking part in days throughout his play days as this system’s first All-American and program’s all-time main scorer with 2,399 factors. A 3-time All-American, Allocco went on to be drafted by the Capital Bullets, now the Washington Wizards, and was inducted into the Stonehill School Corridor of Fame in 1989.
SENIOR REFLECTION – CHARLIE DIAMANTIS
In a brand new web site function by the Stonehill athletic division this yr, senior guard Charlie Diamantis mirrored on his 4 years at Stonehill and the way it formed him as a student-athlete and particular person. To learn his written senior reflection go to: Written Senior Reflection – Charlie Diamantis, Males’s Basketball
STINSON RETURNS
Senior Chas Stinson returns for his senior season. The one participant to look and begin in all 32 video games final season, Stinson led the Skyhawks selecting the pocket of opponents, a season-best 54 instances and was fourth amongst NEC leaders in steals. Stinson completed fourth on the crew with 264 factors and second in rebounds with 159.
MEUSER MINUTES
Showing and beginning in 31 video games, senior Ethan Meuser led the Skyhawks with 27 blocks in 2024-2025 and was fifth amongst NEC leaders. As well as, Meuser was second amongst crew leaders in three-point proportion, flattening 46-116 (.397).
HERRION’S RETURN
Invoice Herrion returns for his second season on Coach Kraus’ employees. Herrion most just lately coached on the College of New Hampshire up till 2023 after 18 years on the helm of the Wildcats program. Herrion started an 18-year run as the pinnacle coach of New Hampshire in 2005 after a brief stint because the affiliate head coach on the College of Arkansas. In his time at UNH, he collected a 227-303 (.428) report, the winningest coach in Wildcat historical past. His 394 wins between his head teaching stints at UNH and at Drexel stands because the all-time mark in America East historical past.
FOREVER A SKYHAWK!
Stonehill’s largest win over a Division I opponent in program historical past on November 15, 2024 in opposition to New Orleans, 80-54, marked the five hundredth recreation Stonehill head coach Chris Kraus ’06 had a job with this system together with his time as a student-athlete (114) from 2002-06, assistant coach (90) between 2010-13, and head coach (323) since 2013. Kraus has now had a job together with his alma mater in over 1 / 4 of the boys’s basketball video games in this system’s 77-year historical past.
NORTH OF THE BORDER
Head Coach Chris Kraus (Toronto, Ontario) went north of the border this season, recruiting two newcomers from his residence nation of Canada. Junior Davante Hackett (Brampton, Ontario) and sophomore Hermann Koffi (Quebec Metropolis, Quebec) grew up in Canada, identical to their head coach. Coach Kraus is one among two Canadian-born coaches on the Division I degree as Pacific’s latest head coach, Dave Sensible, joins Kraus within the states. Kraus can be the second-winningest Canadian-born head coach in NCAA historical past as his 165 wins path solely the late Pete Newell who tallied a report of 234-123 between teaching stints on the College of San Francisco, Michigan State, and California from 1946-1960. Newell, a local of Vancouver, was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame in 1979 and the School Basketball Corridor of Fame in 2006 earlier than passing away in 2008.
INTERNATIONAL
Along with a pair of gamers hailing from Canada, the 2025-2026 squad consists of 5 gamers who name residence outdoors of america. Canada: Davante Hackett (Jr., Brampton, Ontario), Hermann Koffi (So., Quebec Metropolis, Quebec); Serbia: Ridvan Tutic (Jr. Novi Pazar); Finland: Eino Montin (Jr., Oulu); New Zealand: Cory Lovell (Jr., Wellington).
THE CHRIS KRAUS ’06 FILE
Stonehill Head Males’s Basketball Coach Chris Kraus enters his 13th season on the helm of the Skyhawk males’s basketball crew and has had function in over 1 / 4 of males’s basketball video games in this system’s 77-year historical past. Kraus turned the 14th head coach of the Skyhawks in July of 2013 after spending three seasons as an assistant coach underneath David McLaughlin. As an assistant coach he helped information the Skyhawks to 2011-12 NE-10 Championship and NCAA Division II East Regional title. A 2006 alumni of Stonehill, Kraus is one among 51 head coaches teaching their alma mater in NCAA Division I in 2025-2026. The longest tenured head coach in program historical past, Kraus can be the primary Canadian-born head coach to guide the Skyhawks and one among two Canadian head coaches in NCAA Division I (Pacific’s Dave Sensible is the opposite). On November 15, 2024 in opposition to New Orleans, Kraus participated in his five hundredth recreation related to the School (student-athlete, assistant coach and head coach), then on November 27, 2024 in opposition to Marquette it marked his three hundredth recreation as head coach. As this system’s all-time program chief in video games coached surpassing Raymond Pepin (312) and David McLaughlin (288), Kraus can be on of 4 head coaches in program historical past to succeed in the 100-win mark.
Head Coach Years Wins
David McLaughlin 2003-13 189
Raymond Pepin 1984-95 171
Chris Kraus 2013-present 166
Tom J. Folliard 1 978-1984 101
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