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The conference stood ninth in RPI. Utica lost in the PIT opener; Union lost in the NT opener; and St. John Fisher reached the NT sweet sixteen, upsetting a 2 seed in the second round.

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Well, I just realized I forgot to post the new roster at the beginning of the season. This seems less necessary since whatif started posting improvements on the team pages, but it's something I got used to doing long ago. And this time I just spaced it.

Well blah, blah, blah. Here it is after two exhibition and four regular season (3-1) games. I am very enthusiastic about the new guys. Green will get decent minutes this year and Batson is redshirting.

After a rocky start, it turned into a good season for Vassar. We went 5-5 in non-conference, which had us stumbling around in the high-100's RPI range with a conference slate crammed with sims still ahead of us. But our non-conf foes played well in their own conferences, improving our SOS, and meanwhile we managed to run the table in the Empire 8.

So we entered our CT on the bubble for the NT, standing 21-5 with our RPI around 40. We made the bid a non-issue by taking the CT, Vassar's first since season 7.

With a 6th seed in our region, we defeated 11th-seeded Lynchburg 109-71 and then 3rd seed Millsaps 76-66; in the latter game, we saw a 22-point lead dwindle to one with 2:28 to play. But we finished the game on a 15-6 run to take it.

We were then thoroughly outplayed by Becker from the NAC in the sweet sixteen in a 55-34 loss. I was very impressed by coach carlbuzz's ability to vary his strategy based on the opposition, and he certainly out-strategized us.

So our season ended there. For a team with no seniors, Vassar did pretty well and finished ranked (11th) for the first time in school history. I'm looking forward to next season (more to come), but in the meantime here comes some season 15 business.

Roster at season's end

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Re the stats, I should add that I started out using Soto almost as I had used Marquez the previous season, which is to say nearly all the time. It was not quite the same, but Soto was still averaging about 30 points after 8-10 games.

But he also missed more shots: Soto is just not quite what Marquez was. So I had to adapt, and it's probably for the best. RS frosh Smith was our best player over the second half, earning national and conference freshman of the year honors. Soto and Whitehurst performed solidly and Calvillo developed as a decent post presence. I'm also very optimistic about Phillip Batson, who red shirted and will debut next year.

Next are schedule and results.