Note, they seemed to tweak the format of the schedule so that your results now show whatever rank your opponent had at the time of the game, instead of at the end of the season. But they didn't put this in until around about May 21, so games before then show the opponent's finishing top 25 rank, if any.

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Awards

Baker - national and conference rookie of the year

Davis - All-American and conference first team

Santana - Conference second team

Carreras - Conference third team

Holley - Conference third team

Unfortunately this season will always be remembered for the great do-over, affecting sweet sixteen and elite eight games in the NT as well as PIT games. I already said my peace on that elsewhere and see no need to rehash it. For the record, in the affected games we originally defeated CMS 64-60 in the sweet sixteen, and lost to Marietta 60-58 in the elite eight.

As a minor side note to that, player stats were never corrected. That's why most of my players show 34 games played despite our record of 27-5.

Getting past that, I never expected to contend with this team, which featured seven underclassmen and one senior. All things being equal, we're going to pretty hard to beat next year. In particular it's hard to see who will be able to out-rebound us.

What's not equal, of course, is that we're going to the new sim engine in Knight next year. I think Vassar is well prepared for the changes I foresaw, but one thing I did not foresee was the increase in fouls. They have somewhat reduced fouls already, but there are still far more than there have been. Since we are not great at foul shooting, this could be a problem.

Recent thoughts below; won NCOY this season, but it feels hollow with another elite eight loss (my eleventh at Vassar, or twelfth if counting the great do-over referenced two posts up).

7/11 2:19 PM	point_piper		Well, I can only wish we had added the more important team award. I have to keep checking the Vassar history page to confirm we actually won in the elite eight before. The (Knight) world was a different place back in '20-'21, as a fresh-faced kid ...
7/11 2:19 PM	point_piper		...named tom_cecil took over at St. John Fisher, eventually to surpass dett1973 as the school's greatest coach, and the D3 axis did not yet tilt so sharply towards the west coast and the mighty SCIAC. Medaille alums could only imagine a coach who ...
7/11 2:19 PM	point_piper		...would stay more than two seasons and win postseason games, and mbalding's long line of Moravian squads were the D3 gold standard. Yes, I remember it well.

7/11 2:28 PM	point_piper		Add: Becker and Howard Payne were recent champions, and more was to come.

All-time elite eight record now for Vassar now 3-14.  We made one final four since that post but were routed by cagefan's UChicago team.

Overall               Conference Tourney    National Tourney

	School	W	L	W%	W	W%	Champ	Bids	W	W%	Champ
1.	Upper Iowa	1386	412	.771	138	.841	32	51	65	.565	1
2.	Oberlin	1370	377	.784	111	.766	24	35	23	.397	0
3.	Chicago	1364	444	.754	128	.815	29	50	87	.640	1
4.	Vassar	1360	443	.754	132	.841	33	44	89	.674	1
5.	Tufts	1347	417	.764	129	.832	32	39	58	.604	1
6.	Becker	1345	458	.746	134	.859	36	46	95	.693	4
7.	La Verne	1302	488	.727	79	.637	13	46	101	.721	7
8.	St. John Fisher	1288	476	.730	107	.699	12	43	38	.469	0
9.	DePauw	1262	515	.710	126	.788	24	43	48	.527	0
10.	Howard Payne	1255	522	.706	96	.701	17	44	62	.596	2

Vassar is fourth in wins in Knight D3, but we can't match the national title totals of long-time rivals Becker and Howard Payne.  LaVerne posted seven in an eleven-season span coached by uglyskunk (5) and dukenilnil (2).

Other multiple winners:  Moravian (5, mbalding), UC Santa Cruz (4, kmasonbx), Pomona-Pitzer (3, theeyetest), Lawrence (3, littlegiant0, gbous314, quarterastro), CA Lutheran (2, rusticity), Carthage (2, jetwildcat), Penn State Berks (2, koorr) and VA Wesleyan (2, jcraig1227 and cem6989).

Something interesting: quarterastro has only coached two teams in Knight in two seasons and won national championships with both teams (Lawrence and Eastern).