When the men’s all-conference basketball award-winners were announced by the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) last week, Stony Brook University graduate student Frankie Policelli (New Hartford) – the league leader with 9.2 rebounds per game and 12 double-doubles during the regular season – was not one of them.

A few days later, though, after leading the Division I Seawolves to an upset win in the second round of the CAA Championships, Policelli and former Navy and NBA star David Robinson were being mentioned in the same sentence.

When 10th-seeded Stony Brook beat No. 7 seed North Carolina A&T 76-61, it was the Seawolves’ first CAA Tournament victory, and co-captain Policelli led the way with 30 points and 16 rebounds – the first 30-point, 15-rebound tournament performance since Navy’s Robinson in 1986.

Policelli’s 13th double-double tied the third-most in program history, and he tied a career-high for three-pointers in a single game with his 6-for-9 shooting from beyond the arc. Stony Brook fell behind 14-0, but Policelli scored 10 points during a 17-3 run that tied the game, and the 6-foot-7 forward scored 20 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in the second half.

The Seawolves’ season and Policelli’s career ended Saturday night, when No. 2 seed College of Charleston (29-3) held him to five points and a team-high eight rebounds en route to a 74-52 quarterfinal round victory.

Policelli was Stony Brook’s second-leading scorer at 13.7 points per game and top rebounder at 9.4 per game. He also was among the CAA leaders in 3-pointers (64) and free throw percentage (80.2). After leaving New Hartford for Long Island Lutheran, Policelli played one Division I season at Dayton. In three seasons at Stony Brook, he scored 900 points in 83 games with the Seawolves and averaged 10.8 points and 6.4 rebounds.

Two 1,000-point scorers from the Utica-Rome area – Utica University senior Thomas Morreale (Whitesboro) and St. Lawrence University senior Trent Adamson (Ilion/Thomas R. Proctor) – ended their college basketball careers in the NCAA Division III Tournament.

Morreale scored 15 points in Utica’s 73-60 first-round win over Babson College. The Pioneers, making their first NCAA appearance in 17 seasons, then lost to No. 22 Rowan 83-72. Morreale scored six points, raising his career total to 1,161, and teammate Damien Call (Rome/RFA) had six points and six rebounds for the 23-5 Pioneers.

Adamson scored seven points, raising his career total to 1,086, in St. Lawrence’s 69-43 loss to the University of Mary Washington.

In the NJCAA’s Division II District Tournament, guard LaMarqus Merchant Jr. (Utica/Utica Academy of Science) scored 12 points and Niagara Community College improved to 29-1 overall with a 63-54 win over Sullivan County Community College.

Guard Sydney Lusher (Oneida), forward Haedyn Roberts (Holland Patent) and the Le Moyne College women’s basketball team aren’t done yet. The Dolphins (21-6) were upset in the finals of the Northeast-10 Conference Tournament, but they received an at-large bid to the NCAA Division II Championships and will play Bentley University (21-9) in Friday’s East Regionals.

Lusher, the NE-10 Rookie of the Year, is averaging 11 points and 3.6 assists and Roberts, a third-team all-conference pick, is averaging 12.4 points and 7.8 rebounds for the Dolphins, who have won 11 of their last 12 and 16 of their last 18 games.