I love Vetter but I do not think he is a slam dunk D1 player. He doesn't handle it enough to be a full time 1 against scholarship athletes and he isn't big enough to play the 2 full time. Doesn't jump terribly high or run very fast.

Also, if you are entering the portal in the last week it's open you are:

A. Definitely not 100% committed to leaving Trinity


B. Severely limiting your options compared to what they would've been if you went in a month earlier before a lot of teams rebuilt their rosters and there were way more spots.

With that being said, if Vetter leaves that would be massive. Probably takes them from preseason #1 to like, late teens early 20s

Henry Vetter.

With all due respect to the members of the staff that interact on this website, because they're great, but the D3hoops.com All-American list omitting BOTH Henry Vetter and Hank Morgan while somehow including Jarrel Okorougo is one of the most bizarre postseason awards editions I've ever seen.

And yes, I am aware that as I write this, Okorougo has been the best player on the floor in the national championship game.


EDIT: Morgan on second team, guess I can't read.

Won't be in front of the computer tonight for the full 40 minutes I fear but I have ESPN+ so planning on watching on demand. For me the keys are Davis/McDonald limiting How and winning on the glass and at the risk of being too obvious, the 4 guards making shots

By the way, and I know they did this the last few years, but the Thursday/Saturday set up is so much better for this weekend. Makes tomorrow feel way bigger and more important

They obviously have a bunch of great pieces but to me the last two years have been defined by finally having a coherent offensive gameplan and vision, and the players that can execute them. The 10 man rotation is really nice but they have had Drew Lazarres and Dana Smiths and Jarrel Okorougos before - this is maybe unfair to them but Porydzy, Donovan, Donald Jorden, etc, all very good players that have similar traits. Ajayi and Ogundeko before that were more offensively skilled versions of their front court players too. They've never had a Vetter before, with his skillset but more importantly his demeanor and attitude and leadership as a backcourt player.

Is the consensus among players/coaches that Callahan-Gold was the biggest piece to last year's team? Because to my untrained eye it seems very clear that most of their success over the last two years can/should be attributed to Henry Vetter

Not that it really matters but last week would've been the time to take that victory lap - barring a really special season by someone in the GNAC or MASCAC (not impossible), the Region 1 POY is almost definitely going to be the NESCAC POY every year now that the NEWMAC, LEC, and CNE are in Region 2. No one in the NESCAC that isn't player of the year is going to win it and most non conference coaches will probably default to the same line of thinking that Ryan just applied for Okorougo.

Am I wrong to be a little surprised by all the Okorougo love in the past few weeks? The stats are definitely good and I know he won DPOY (never been an area across the league I am good at analyzing) but I guess when I watch I don't see a top 5-10 player in the region.

For example, Dana Smith seemed much more impactful to me on last year's Trinity team and he didn't get any all region nod. Maybe Callahan-Gold was taking a lot of the love and someone on Trinity besides Vetter needed some.

List of schools to win back to back NESCAC Championships and go to back to back Final Fours

1. Trinity 2024 + 2025
2. Amherst 2013 + 2014
3. Williams 2003 + 2004

Pretty good company to join. Both of the prior runs included national championships

Trinity-Wesleyan next week for a spot in the National Championship. UAA-NESCAC, spicy! Congrats to both, Trinity keeps rolling and Wesleyan's offense has looked pretty bad for about a month but they found a way again this time in OT. The national semifinal will be an absolute war

Hard to believe but Jamie Cosgrove is now the NESCAC active leader in Elite 8 appearances with 3. App with 2 and Reilly a few minutes away from joining the list.

Trinity is playing the best basketball of anyone left in the tournament in my opinion

7-0 run for Catholic as I typed this out

Roanoke leads Catholic by 9 at the under 4. Catholic is without its best player due to illness but otherwise this game was expected to be a toss up, so wouldn't really favor Trinity either way hypothetically. In Middletown, the Mary Washington Cinderella story is still alive and well, they lead Emory by 3 with 17 minutes left.

As an aside, Redlands is crushing Hampden-Sydney.

Wesleyan is on spring break and didn't fill it up last week so it probably will be but I don't think it's a guarantee