Civello to Dartmouth is a great landing spot but I'm much less excited about his fit at that level at an Ivy League program that has much more limited offseason hours as a team where he would really be able to work on his body in the weight room. Can't knock the decision obviously but would've loved to see him at a Patriot program or similar level that is not limited outside of the season in development

Ironically enough if his grades are half decent that sounds like a Babson player to me. To this point, Trinity and Conn have been the only players to take transfers in the past few years unless I am forgetting some key ones. Amherst took Adnan, but can't remember any notable others in the portal era

I will push back on Robinson being clearly about everyone else just because he's only 6'2 and did a TON of his scoring at the free throw line. He is definitely a D1 guy and the second year is helpful but I don't think he is like clearly ahead of Overway or Glogovac. Same with Cleveland as a non shooter to be honest.

A great offseason project that maybe we should dig into would be to look back on which D3 to D1 transfers had the best success and see if there is any sort of predictor of success.

Kye Robinson -> portal

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CNU hung tough for most of the game and just didn't have enough in the tank for the last few minutes. Emory is too good of a team to mount a comeback.

We will be back.

I would think (before seeing final rosters) CNU would be preseason top 3.

Could be. CNU loses one senior. UMW has zero seniors. There's always the transfer portal issue, but I'm not too worried about that. I'm not sure about the other top teams. Maybe I will do some research in the off season.

Kye Robinson has entered the transfer portal

Back of napkin power rankings - assuming for now that everyone in the portal leaves, although I guess that's only Civiello and Watson.

1. Wesleyan
2. Tufts
3. Trinity
4. Bates
5. Amherst
6. Williams
7. Conn
8. Colby
9. Bowdoin
10. Middlebury
11. Hamilton

Never checked his social media accounts out before but Colby is listed in his Instagram bio and not his Twitter

I think knowledge of the NIL landscape and connections to agents/all things portal related is a big thing that has exacerbated the D1 and D3 gap. No one in D3 really needs to worry about those things at all, there are some relationships to donors but the fundraising piece is minimal. It really isn't about X's and O's anymore

Quote from: lumbercat on March 30, 2026, 04:52:54 PMStrahorn's successor does not seem like a big time hire but time will tell on that also.

I have bad news

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 26, 2026, 10:08:24 AMThe one thing Dartmouth might consider a downside is that it's unlikely he'd stay there long term, but maybe they're in a position where that doesn't matter as much to them as getting somebody good in there for the right now.

Dartmouth hasn't had a winning record since they went 13-12 in 1999. That is the least of their concerns

Linton's 5 years at Army are better than Kosmalski's 1 at Campbell but Kosmalski's job at Swarthmore is leagues better than what Linton has done at Tufts. The jump he made to Campbell is just so that he can get hired as a current D1 assistant which looks better on a press release than current D3 head coach. Pretty silly but is what it is and has been the theme for quite a few years - Loeffler, Crispin, Klatsky eventually, etc

Anybody other than McLaughlin for Colby, from an optics standpoint, is a really bad look. Once/if they win all will be forgiven like it always is, but on paper the whole thing is just really ugly.

And I'm not really sure McLaughlin is some slam dunk game changer either. He did a lot of really nice things in a really hard league at Stonehill 15 years ago. Dartmouth is a hard job but the Ivy really weakened during his tenure there and they never really made anything happen. I don't think he would just come in and start coaching laps around Cosgrove, Reilly, Linton, etc

Landry Kosmalski seems to me like he would be the best choice at Dartmouth without a doubt. Swarthmore was in the same position as a program as they are when he took over. Linton is great but I don't see how recruiting and coaching to Tufts is similar to Dartmouth. You need to be able to take the 7th most talented team and come in 4th a few years before you can start attracting better players. Linton didn't do much of that at Nichols and Tufts. And before anyone asks, I would say the same thing about App. Despite the academic ties, they are completely different jobs

Of course it didn't come down to one play but it was a 7 point game with 4 minutes left. So it's natural that the analysis starts from there. I agree that the shot selection was poor but the reality is that they really did not have anyone who could create off of the dribble and get into the paint nearly the entire season. Honestly, Jared Berry was their most capable on ball creator he is just not a very good decision maker. Lazarre is an undersized boom or bust jump shooter. I feel like a little silly for being so pro Vetter when he really couldn't drive by anyone all season and it all reared its head tonight at once, just really unfortunate. They did not play a good offensive game for weeks so to say they lost tonight because of shot selection feels a little hollow to me. If they grabbed one rebound they are playing Emory and maybe they could've had two weeks to do something about the offense.

They deserve a ton of credit for making it as far as they did despite these shortcomings. It honestly feels like they made it to the Final Four and won the NESCAC off of sheer force of will more than anything basketball related besides a really good defense

There will be no repeat as Trinity loses an absolute heartbreaker against Mary Washington. They led by 16 at half, and 7 at the under 4 timeout but never made another FG.

Unfortunately all of the little things that we had worried about for the Bants popped up all at once. Berry made some terrific plays off of the bench in place of Ayles but had a few costly turnovers down the stretch as well. Cosgrove had McDonald in for Davis late and he couldn't come down with a defensive rebound that Davis certainly would have grabbed that turned into the eventual game winning 3. Trinity shot 7-29 from 3 and 1-13 in the second half. Vetter and Okorougo just weren't dynamic enough as scorers to overcome the shortcomings of their personnel.

An unbelievable run for Trinity the last 3 years and an all time senior class that deserves to be celebrated and will in due time I am sure but that was a heartbreaker