Understandably, UAlbany coach Will Brown was very disappointed with hie team's performance on Friday night.

In fact, so much so that he didn't allow any of his players to speak to the media following the game.

Here's what Brown said initially.

“I’m as disappointed and embarrassed as I’ve been since the Harvard game here a couple of years ago,” Brown said.

I had to do some digging, but that comment referred to a 61-48 home loss on Dec. 17, 2005. That UAlbany team went on to make the program's first trip to the NCAA Tournament.

Stony Brook is much improved, but still a team that the Great Danes should have been able to handle, at least looking at the records.

Here's what Stony Brook coach Steve Pikiell had to say.

“We play hard on defense, we take pride in that,” Pikiell said. “I think our young kids have bought into that and we made enough plays down the stretch to win the game.”

The Great Danes didn't get enough out of Tim Ambrose, Anthony Raffa and Will Harris, who three games ago, UAlbany fans were ready to proclaim as the top trio in all of college basketball.

“We’re not going to win a whole lot of games with Timmy playing 15 minutes because of foul trouble,” Brown said. “Will was just out there trying to give us minutes. He had an IV before the game and was a question mark going in with the flu and Raffa struggled as well.”

Brown said he wouldn't take it lightly on his team on Saturday, even with a game against defending conference champion UMBC coming on Sunday.

"I'm not even concerned with us being fresh or read for Sunday's game," Brown said. "(Saturday) we'll go over the UMBC scout, watch some film, which will take about 30 minutes and then we'll probably go a good 2 1/2 to 3 hours and we'll see if it does any good heading into Sunday."

As a bonus, we got a scouting report on UMBC, UAlbany's next opponent, from Pikiell after the game.

"They're good," Pikiell said. "They're an experienced team. We tried to run a lot of players at them, they don't play a lot of guys, so we tried to kind of wear them down a little bit, but I don't have any magic potion, you just have to get your guys up to play against a good, seasoned basketball team."

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Can you jinx something purely by thinking about it?

I was getting ready to write in this space about how both local teams (Siena and UAlbany) haven't lost at home.

Coming into this game, Siena was 8-0 at home, while UAlbany was 6-0...errr now 6-1.

What can you do?

I guess not think about things before you write them.

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Siena players Kenny Hasbrouck, Alex Franklin and Erik Harris all had first row seats for the game.

If my memory serves me correctly, Hasbrouck has been to two of the last three UAlbany home games.