EASTON, Mass. (Nov. 8, 2026) – The Stonehill men's basketball team continues its three-game road trip heading back to New York for a Monday night contest against Columbia at 7 p.m. on ESPN+.
 
GAME / MEDIA INFORMATION
Stonehill (1-1, 0-0 NEC) vs. Columbia (1-1, 0-0 Ivy League)
Monday, November 9 | 7 p.m. | Schiller Court at Levien Gymnasium | New York, N.Y.
Lance Medow and Barry Rohrssen will have the call on ESPN+.
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Last Time Out For The Skyhawks …
Stonehill is coming off an 83-63 loss at Fordham last Thursday evening. The Skyhawks and Rams were tied, 30-30, at halftime with the Skyhawks showing their physicality and tenacity in the post outscoring the Rams, 11-6, on second chance opportunities and 16-14 in the paint. However, Fordham adjusted at the start of the second half and created separation in the early minutes to pull away. Senior Jack Medalie came off the bench to drop 12 points on the Rams, while junior Trenton Ruth followed up with 11 points. Sophomore Eli Greenberg came two assists shy of tying his career single-game high dishing out a season-best five assists.
 
History vs. Columbia
This is the first meeting between Columbia and Stonehill.
 
Scouting the Lions
Columbia enters Monday night's contest with a 1-1 mark after picking up their first win of the season against SUNY Old Westbury. The Lions tied their single-game program record with 120 points following their 120-58 victory over SUNY Old Westbury. Columbia saw 16 different players score Thursday night with six players reach double figures, including 71 points off the bench. Josh Pratt led all scorers with 14 points, while Douglas Langford came one rebound shy of double-double, tallying 13 points and nine rebounds. Mason Ritter was nearly perfect from the floor, shooting five-of-six, for 12 points as Connor Igoe and Gerard O'Keefe also netted 12 points. Trae Nunn rounded out the six in double figures with 10 points.
 
The Lions were picked sixth in the Ivy League pre-season poll with a total of 69 points. Columbia finished 2025-2026 season tied for fifth with a 16-12 overall record, which included a 5-9 mark in Ivy League play.
 
New Skyhawks
The Skyhawks welcome 11 newcomers to the Stonehill campus - including nine transfers. Eli Greenberg (Le Moyne), Anquan Boldin Jr. (Florida A&M), Jack Medalie (Saint Anselm), Amare Allen (Maine), Felipe Patino (Southern Mississippi), Ewan Steele (Idaho), Devon Arlington (Yale), Benicio Leons (Panola College), and Danny Cheng (Seminole State College). In addition, freshmen Kemar Grant and Andre Langley join the Skyhawks for the upcoming 2026-2027 season.
 
Welcome To Stonehill
The Skyhawks also welcome four new members of the coaching staff. Evan Conti, Mike Larkin, and Taurus Samuels join Stonehill as Assistant Coaches, while John McKeown joins as the Director of Basketball Operations.
 
2026-2027 Non-Conference Opponents
Stonehill's non-conference slate consists of three Jesuit institutions (Fordham, Nov. 5; Holy Cross, Dec. 5; Boston College, Dec. 22), two Ivy League schools (Columbia, Nov. 9; Dartmouth, Dec. 29) and sister-school the University of Notre Dame (Nov. 28) in addition to No. 19 Texas Tech (Nov. 14). Additionally, the Skyhawks will welcome UNH (Nov. 18) and Northeastern (Nov. 21) to Merkert Gymnasium in the month of November. Stonehill will open the month of December with trip to Providence College (Dec. 1). The Skyhawks will also travel north to Lowell, Massachusetts for a December 12 tilt against former NE-10 foe UMass Lowell before making a trip to the western part of the state to play the Flagship school UMass Amherst on December 19.
 
The Evan Conti File
Evan Conti enters his first year as an assistant coach the Queens, New York native, spent the last five seasons was an Associate Head Coach at Saint Michael's where he helped guide the Purple Knights to their third most victories with 24 in 2023-2024. Additionally that season, Saint Michael's were the NE-10 regular season champions and claimed the top seed in the East Region and hosted the NCAA Division II East Regional for the first time in program history.
 
A Return To New England: Mike Larkin
Mike Larkin returns to New England as an assistant coach after spending the last seven years as the Director of Basketball Operations for Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights saw a renaissance since Larkin's arrival in Piscataway. Rutgers reached the post-season in three consecutive seasons, which included back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2020-21 and 2021-22. Most notably during the 2020-21 season, the Scarlet Knights earned their first NCAA Tournament bid since 1991 and first Tournament win with a victory over Clemson – the program's first since 1983. Prior to his arrival in Piscataway, New Jersey, he spent seven years on the coaching staff at Saint Michael's College.
 
A Little Ivy League: Taurus Samuels
Taurus Samuels enters his first season as an assistant coach. Samuels joins the Skyhawks coaching staff after a two-year stint at his alma mater Dartmouth. One of the youngest coaches in Division I basketball, Samuels played an integral role in helping guide the Big Green through one of the program's most successful stretches in recent history, highlighted by Dartmouth's first-ever Ivy Madness appearance, its first winning season since 1999, and the most Ivy League victories in a two-year span since the 1999-2000 seasons. Following the 2024-25 campaign, Dartmouth's staff earned Ivy League Coaching Staff of the Year honors, led by Head Coach David McLaughlin.
 
Back in the NEC: John McKeown
John McKeown returns to the NEC after spending the last two seasons with the Saint Francis Red Flash. While at Saint Francis, he helped guide the Red Flash to its second NEC Tournament Title in 2024 and went otthe NCAA First Four in Dayton. McKeown's first year with Stonehill also marks are return to New England after graduating from URI where he served as the Head Student Manager as a senior.
 
NESN Linear Coverage
This season NESN has agreed to pick up eight of our home games on their networks (NESN/NESN+). They will have one game on NESN and seven on NESN+.

Date                Opponent             Channel      Time
Nov. 2, 2026   Curry                    NESN+        7 p.m.
Nov. 21, 2026 Northeastern        NESN+        5 p.m.
Dec. 5, 2026   Holy Cross           NESN+        1 p.m.
Dec. 15, 2026 Regis                   NESN           11 a.m.
Jan. 2, 2027    Wagner                 NESN+        2 p.m.
Jan. 20, 2027  Central Conn. St. NESN+        7 p.m.
Jan. 27, 2027  New Haven          NESN+        7 p.m.
Feb. 18, 2027 LIU                       NESN+        7 p.m.
 
Hall of Fame Class of 2026
David Donnelly '99 the newest member of the Stonehill Hall of Fame. A two-time All NE-10 First Team selection in 1998 and 1999, Donnelly ranks 10th amongst program leaders in all-time points with 1,502. As a junior, Donnelly guided Stonehill to one of its best seasons. With a 22-7 overall record and a 15-5 mark against NE-10 foes, the Skyhawks were the NE-10 regular season champions and made an appearance in the NCAA Division II Regional Tournament. Donnelly's induction into the Stonehill Hall of Fame makes him the 30th member of the men's basketball program in the hall of fame.
 
NEC Pre-Season Poll
The Skyhawks were picked sixth in the 2026-2027 NEC Pre-Season poll tied. Defending champion LIU was tabbed to repeat receiving seven first place votes, while Mercyhurst was selected second with two first place votes.
 
THE CHRIS KRAUS '06 FILE
Stonehill Head Men's Basketball Coach Chris Kraus enters his 14^h season at the helm of the Skyhawk men's basketball team and has had role in over a quarter of men's basketball games in the program's 78-year history. Kraus became the 14^th head coach of the Skyhawks in July of 2013 after spending three seasons as an assistant coach under David McLaughlin. As an assistant coach he helped guide the Skyhawks to 2011-12 NE-10 Championship and NCAA Division II East Regional title. The longest tenured head coach in program history, Kraus is also the first Canadian-born head coach to lead the Skyhawks and one of two Canadian head coaches in NCAA Division I (Pacific's Dave Smart is the other). On November 15, 2024 against New Orleans, Kraus participated in his 500th game associated with the College (student-athlete, assistant coach and head coach), then on November 27, 2024 against Marquette it marked his 300th game as head coach. As the program's all-time program leader in games coached surpassing Raymond Pepin (312) and David McLaughlin (288), Kraus is also one of four head coaches in program history to reach the 100-win mark. 
 
Head Coach                      Years                 Wins
David McLaughlin            2003-13               189
Chris Kraus                      2013-present       176
Raymond Pepin               1984-95                171
Tom J. Folliard                 1978-1984            101