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The Game
Stonehill returns to Paula Sullivan Court where it will play five of its last seven games in its inaugural NCAA Division I season as it hosts St. Francis College of Brooklyn for a Northeast Conference matchup and its Diversity and Inclusion Awareness Game as part of the Stonehill Athletics Task Force to Address Racial Injustice's celebration of Black History Month at Merkert Gymnasium this afternoon. The Skyhawks have dropped two straight and seven of eight after a tough 71-70 overtime setback at Saint Francis (Pa.) University on Thursday night. The Terriers have won four of six after Thursday's 70-61 win at Central Connecticut State.  

Diversity and Inclusion Awareness
The Stonehill women's basketball program is proud to join with over 150 men's and women's college basketball programs participated in Equity & Inclusion Games during the month of February to raise awareness for issues in equality in their communities. Stonehill's coaches will wear all black on the sidelines to represent unity and an equal sign lapel pin for equality. Equality & Inclusion Games is a national campaign throughout college basketball to keep the fight for equality in the national spotlight. Schools are highlighting racial equality, LGBTQ rights, gender equality and economic equality to name a few. The Rising Coaches DEI Alliance is a non-profit made up of a dozen different social justice and minority coaching organizations. Member organizations include: Asian Coaches Association, Black Coaches Association, Black Coaches United, Be Ready, Coaches For Action, Coaches For Change, embRACEus, Equality Coaching Alliance, Latino Association of Basketball Coaches, Jewish Coaches Association, Minority Coaches Association, Rising Coaches, Women of  Color Coaches Network.

Black History Month Tip-Off
Stonehill College's Athletics Task Force to Address Racial Injustice is proud to sponsor the first men's and women's basketball games of February as a celebration of Black History Month. The Skyhawks will be wearing special commemorative One Hill warmup shirts in recognition of Equality and the Task Force, along with both basketball programs have produced video packages expressing what Black History Month means to them and how athletics can help to promote a diversity an inclusion.

Media Information
This afternoon's game will be broadcast live via SkyhawksVision on NEC Front Row. Charlie Bergeron (PBP) and Brian Buckley (analyst) have the call of the action for the 24th-straight year. The broadcast can be accessed via stonehillskyhawks.com through its NEC Front Row portal (necfrontrow.com/schools/SC) or through Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku via the NEC On the Run App. Campus radio coverage by WSHL 91.3 FM also available with Chris Cassidy and Christopher Robbins on the call.

Last Time Out
Saint Francis erased a seven-point deficit with less than five minutes to play to force overtime, before securing a 71-70 victory over Stonehill in Northeast Conference action at DeGol Arena. Junior Aaliyah Moore was one of two from Saint Francis with 18 points, adding a game-high 13 rebounds for a double-double as she finished shooting 7-for-13 from the floor, while adding three assists and two blocked shots. Freshman Semaya Turner also scored 18 points on 6-of-10 shooting off the bench, including 2-for-4 from three, with seven rebounds, three assists and a steal. Fifth-year Emily Bramanti (Chelmsford, Mass.) once again led the way for Stonehill with 22 points on 6-of-15 shooting, converting all seven free-throws, for her third-straight 20-point outing, with three rebounds and three assists as she played all but 31-seconds in the contest. Classmate Sophie Glidden (Scarborough, Maine) posted her second-straight double-double (third overall) with ten points and a season-high matching 12 rebounds (four offensive) with four assists. Saint Francis trailed by at least seven points in every quarter, while never leading by more than a possession at any point themselves, in securing its second-straight win.

Against the Terriers
This afternoon marks the first meeting all-time between St. Francis Brooklyn and Stonehill. The Terriers are the final Northeast Conference program the Skyhawks will face for the first time in their inaugural NCAA Division I season.

We Can See for Miles and Miles
Stonehill wrapped up a five game stretch over the last 17 days on Thursday at Saint Francis (Pa.) that has seen the Skyhawks travel 2,222 miles round trip and spend an estimted 39-hours, 26-minutes on the road in trips to Fairleigh Dickinson in Teaneck, N.J., Wagner on Staten Island, Sacred Heart in Fairfield, Conn., before capping the stretch with an 8-hour, 500-mile trip one way to Saint Francis for Thursday night's game that wrapped up in overtime 40 hours before the scheduled tip of today's game.

Prime Performer
Fifth-year Emily Bramanti (Chelmsford, Mass.) earned Northeast Conference Prime Performer status for a team-leading eighth time this season on Monday. She led all scorers at Sacred Heart on Saturday in Stonehill's lone game of the week, with 25 points, including 14 in the second half to fuel a Skyhawks comeback effort from a 14-point third quarter deficit, on 7-of-14 shooting, including 5-for-11 from three-point distance, with two rebounds, two assists and a steal. Bramanti, who has collected all eight of her Prime Performer selection, as well as a pair of NEC Player of the Week honors, over the last nine weeks, is one of four Skyhawks to be named an NEC Prime Performer in Stonehill's first season in the Conference. She has been joined by postgrad Maddie Loder (Independence, Minn.), fifth-year Sophie Glidden (Scarborough, Maine) and senior Mia Kelly (South Hadley, Mass.) in earning the recognition with two selections apiece.

NEC Prime performers:
Nov. 14: Maddie Loder
Nov. 28: Sophie Glidden
Dec. 5: Emily Bramanti & Mia Kelly
Dec. 12: Emily Bramanti
Dec. 19: Emily Bramanti
Dec. 26: Emily Bramanti & Mia Kelly
Jan. 3: Emily Bramanti & Sophie Glidden
Jan. 9: Emily Bramanti
Jan. 18: Maddie Loder
Jan. 23: Emily Bramanti
Jan. 30: Emily Bramanti

Counting Down
Stonehill fifth-year Emily Bramanti (Chelmsford, Mass.) enters this afternoon's game having scored 997 points in 101 career games played as she aims to become the program's 34th 1,000-point scorer. She looks to become Stonehill's first 1,000-point scorer since former teammate and All-American Kayla Raymond '22 reached the milestone against Saint Anselm at Merkert Gym on February 5, 2022.

Top Ten Treys
Fifth-year Emily Bramanti (Chelmsford, Mass.) moved into a tie for tenth place all-time at Stonehill with 145 career three-point field goals after connecting on three at Saint Francis on Thursday night. She moved into a tie with Kelly Martin, '18 (145) for tenth all-time and enters today's game four three-pointers from Mary Louise Dixon, '14 for ninth all-time.Amy Pelletier, '15 buried a school-record 267 three-pointers over her four-year career at Stonehill.

In Transition
Stonehill announced it had accepted an invitation to join the Northeast Conference and commence a four-year transition to full NCAA Division I membership on April 5. The Skyhawks started their four-year transition on July 1 and will earn full NCAA Division I membership in 2026-27. At the June NEC meetings, the Conference presidents announced a shift in the waiting period for automatic qualifier sports from competing for NEC postseason championships from four to two years, making Stonehill eligible to compete in the NEC postseason starting in 2024-25.

Getting Social
Fans and media members of Stonehill athletics have multiple social media outlets to get updates on all 21 varsity programs. The department's Facebook page is www.facebook.com/stonehillskyhawks, and you can also follow @GoStonehill on Twitter and @stonehillskyhawks via Instagram!  Stonehill women's basketball is also on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/StonehillCollegeWomensBasketball, Twitter and Instagram by following @stonehillwbb. You can even follow head coach Trisha Brown on Twitter via @CoachTB_SC.

Up Next
Stonehill returns to action here at Merkert Gym on Thursday when it hosts former Northeast-10 foe Merrimack College for an NEC matchup that will be broadcast on ESPN+ through the Conference digital television package at 6 p.m.