Stony Brook University has extended the contract of head men’s basketball coach Steve Pikiell, the architect of a Seawolves basketball renaissance, Director of Athletics Jim Fiore announced Thursday. Pikiell’s contract now runs through the end of the 2017-18 season.

Pikiell recently completed his eighth season at the helm of the Seawolves, guiding the program to its best season ever as a Div. I program. Despite having to replace four graduating seniors that all went on to play professionally overseas, the team won a record 25 games, captured the America East regular season championship for the third time in the last four years and secured its first-ever national postseason tournament victory, a 71-58 win over Massachusetts in the first round of the NIT. Stony Brook is one of only 11 teams in the country to win its conference regular season championship in at least three of the last four seasons. The program’s NCAA RPI of 77 is the highest in team history.

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