Rey I believe had concussion issues, which is too bad, the kid could shoot the ball.

Quote from: nescac1 on October 19, 2026, 01:44:31 PMAbout half the NESCAC teams have rosters up.  A few notes:

https://bantamsports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster?sort=class - two of the FYs from Trinity's highly touted incoming class ended up not joining the team, the big guy who was previously reported as ending up at URI, and Prosper Sonkoua, a wing from New Jersey.  They still have five highly regarded FYs in a loaded class, several of whom should make an immediate impact. 

https://camelathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster - Conn College as expected loses a ton of guys.  They do bring in Max Portnoy and Jon Nalty, both of whom started last year for Begly and should at least help with depth issues.  Still, it's certainly looking like a few years of rebuilding ahead for Conn given all they lost in the off-season.

https://colbyathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster - while Colby did suffer a huge loss to the portal, and of course has a coaching transition, they do return most of their roster, bring in a solid FY class, and also bring in three transfers to help right away ... Miller, Johnson, and Catchings.  Colby still has plenty of solid talent and looks very deep, and should remain a fairly strong, middle-of-the-pack NESCAC team, despite all the transition. 

Tufts and Williams both have rosters posted as well, but with no real surprises for either. 

On a non-roster note, Williams started a page for its forthcoming half-billion dollar athletic complex:

https://www.williams.edu/athletics-recreation-complex/about/

It's over four years away from completion, but in a few years they can at least start pointing recruits to it being on the horizon.  It will include an entirely new basketball arena.  It looks absolutely massive on the map, and will be in an ideal location at the base of Spring Street, right across from the still new-ish football complex and also near the Williams Inn and across from an existing huge parking lot.  Once this is done, Williams will go from among the very worst indoor athletic facilities in the conference to perhaps the best (or maybe second-best after Colby, but certainly top two), which hopefully makes a big difference for winter sports in particular.  I hope the hoops arena is built with the fan experience in mind, ideally with four sides of spectator seats packed in close around the court to create a real home court advantage. This really should have been built a decade ago, but better later than never!   

Prosper at Trinity has a leg injury and told likely out for season. He is still enrolled. He will be missed, IMO most physically ready to play and could have played multiple positions.
First major (lost season) injury for Trinity in 5 years, been lucky that way, but they do have a very good strength conditioning and training staff.

Going to be interesting to see how the 2 D1 progress during the season.

Happy for Lee he will do well at Carnegie and get another great degree!

Agree that no NESCAC team is probably a top 10 team to start the season (doesn't mean 1-3 won't be voted in top 10 to start the season), just too many main players missing from Tufts, Wesleyan and Trinity. I do think a NESCAC team or multiple will be serious top 10 teams by early January.
Wesleyan, Tuft, Trinity, and Bates would be my top 4. With Bates, Pouye has to stay healthy and play more consistently and to his potential. Include Amherst as well, but they lost a couple of players that were very key to their success, need to see them duplicate what they did last year. Then not in any order Williams, Middlebury, Colby. Bottom 3, Bowdoin, Hamilton & Conn not in any order either.

Quote from: hoya73 on October 09, 2026, 08:33:01 PMBeen lurking for a year after a decade in another room. It's October and time to get ready.  Which teams take a fall and which ones rise?  The league is so different this year.

Million dollar question, going to be interesting to see, so many changes this year.

Oops, he now has a better shot.

It is so wide open as nescac1 has stated, that Medley has a shot. One downside for him and any other underclass players is I think the coaches want seniors for the big awards, so that could hurt him.
Going to be interesting to see how Tufts plays, like Trinity 2 years ago and Wesleyan last year, I think they can make a deep run with the talent they have, just like Trinity did losing 3 key final 4 players 2 years ago and Wesleyan losing 2 key final 4 players past year.
As you say fun time of year!

Trinity schedule has come out.
Of their 14 non-conference games, 4/5 are against teams that made the NCAA last year. Babson, St Joes Maine, Yeshiva, Western Conn State, Westfield State depending if they meet up in a tournament at Trinity.
3 against above average St Joes CT, Western New England, Hartford (because of the coach)
3/4 definite cupcakes, Mass College of Liberal Arts, Gordon, Baruch, CCNY (will depend on Westfield/ccny game)
3 could be decent/average teams Eastern Conn, Oswego State, Worcester State.

I would say an average out of conference schedule (like the past 3 years), Babson and W Conn State on the road, other top teams they play at home.

Wish Trinity would play a tougher schedule, get out of N.E. like other NESCAC teams do.

Previous class lost 1 game before Xmas in 4 years (53-3, overall non conference, 2 losses their freshman year), present senior class hasn't lost a game before Xmas (41-1 overall non conference). Not counting NCAA games. Impressive but again average out of conference schedule.

Quote from: NYHoopsGuru on September 10, 2026, 11:45:08 PMGiven how weak this NESCAC senior class is and the potential keys to the offense, is Jared Berry a realistic POTY candidate?

- Guru

I think he should be, especially since the biggest barometer seems to be scoring. Trinity in its starting lineup will have 1 proven scorer and that is Berry. Ayles, Norris and Davis could all step up and will need to do so, but Berry could average close to or more than 20 points per game. Now most teams will know this and that could hurt Berry as he may be doubled team and his height could hurt him. But he plays much bigger than his height and has no fear against bigs. He also moves without the ball very well and takes it to the basket as well as anyone in the league, so he could get mores chances at the line. And unlike this year he won't lose votes to a teammate. He is going to play 10+ more minutes per game than he has ever played and probably is going to get more shots per game than anyone on a trinity team has taken in the past 4 years.
I think Pouye is the favorite, if he stays healthy he can just dominate/affect the game in many ways.

Alex is a tremendous person, anyone that has met him will tell you that. As Spring said Alex and others hurt very much by Covid and Alex with injuries. The game I remember most was his senior year at Williams, championship game against Trinity. Alex had 18 points (I think his career high at Williams) 6-8 from three and was the player that kept Williams in the game in the 2nd half.

Quote from: NYHoopsGuru on August 19, 2026, 03:51:18 PMD3BBall-

Correct, his 6'10 listing is definitely overstated, but that's not to say he doesn't play well above the rim. For example, Davis is listed at 6'6, but really more like 6'5. A great example of someone who is not as tall as listed but still plays above the rim. Though Dash's outside shooting isn't that of Norris, his offensive game is already far more developed than Davis. Needless to say, that trio of bigs would give NESCAC frontcourts some real problems from many different angles. I don't believe Holmes and Freisthler will be much of a threat regardless, simply because they are too slow or not skilled enough. 

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Being 6'8, or whatever he is, there is such a thing as being a late bloomer (especially in the low D1 / high D3 world). Over the course of the summer, Dash has played alongside many division 1 level players (including big men) and out played them. He has played in NYvsNY (NYC tournament full of high major D1 players) and even won game MVP. Many of the other NESCAC rookies from the area didn't even get invited, and even less so would they win player of the game. Regardless, this is all hypothetical, so we will see how this all plays out.

-Guru

Either Holmes or Freisthler are going to play, maybe both now that Mabilon is not coming in. They don't have any other bigs, and with the exception of Sonkoua, not sure any of the new players can defend at the 5. And remember T Davis barely played as a freshman, so there is just no guarantee. And IMO Freisthler is a better outside shooter than Norris, with Norris the more athletic, stronger and better defensive player. Holmes reminds me a lot of T Davis, maybe not on the same talent level, either of these 2 would have played meaningful minutes on most of the NESCAC teams last year.

I agree with Spring, we all have a tendency to over value players. 2 years ago, some thought Will Davis was going to play as a freshman, he barely played meaningful minutes and left the team after thanksgiving. He now plays at D2 AIC and played ok this year. That being said Trinity won the NCAA without him and losing another big at the same time. So not sure it would have been automatic that Mabilon cracked the lineup this upcoming year, and if he did, agree with Spring, most likely a 10–15-minute player a game.

Quote from: nescac1 on August 19, 2026, 04:38:27 PMFor all the talk of who isn't showing up to Trinity, I'm more curious about who is ... of the five well-regarded wings Trinity is bringing in, who is expected to make the biggest impact?  What other NESCAC FYs are worth keep in an eye on? 

My guess is that it is pretty wide open. First Cosgrove doesn't usually play a lot of freshmen. He played 4 four years ago. Vetter, Okorougo and McDonald all played a lot, Lazarre played some but there were just too many guards in front of him. The year before 21-22 season he played Dorion and McEachern with Dorion a starter. While Dorion was considered a freshman, he lost a year between his senior year of high and the 21-22 season, if no Covid he would have been a sophomore. 3 Years ago, only Berry played, Davis (who some thought would be in running for ROY) played very little meaningful minutes, although he was fantastic against Calvin in the elite game, but he played in that game because Okpoebo was injured. 2 years ago, Ayles was the only freshman to play, this past year no freshman played.
Trinity has 4 players that will be sophomores or juniors in Closeil, Holmes, Steward and Freisthler that have a shot at 1 of those 5 positions available. 0f the 7 freshmen/transfer coming in, I would say that Spinoso, Brown, Sonkoua, O'Leary and Jones have the best chance to play a lot, Introzzi and Echevarria may have to wait a year.
But as someone said, my guess is that not all stick around. In the last 3-5 years, 7-8 players have left the team or transferred, just like many teams.
Cosgrove will play more than 10 during the non-conference and see who he thinks can play in the conference games. My picks on the freshmen/transfer are Sonkoua, Spinos and Brown will play along with either Holmes or Freisthler in 4 of the open spots, with 1 other spot up for grabs. And by conference play I think there is a chance that a freshman starts which hasn't happened in a while, Okorougo and McDonald are the last freshmen to start any games for Cosgrove, but this year it could happen again.

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Quote from: NYHoopsGuru on August 18, 2026, 09:41:04 PM

Quote from: D3BBALL on August 18, 2026, 05:25:51 PMIncoming freshman from Canterbury that was going to Trinity now going to URI. Losing a 6 10 athletic big never good,  but more of a hurt down the road than this year.

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In what is supposed to be a stacked Trinity freshman class touted to replace the legendary '26 class, I thought Dash Mabilon had the most potential and was certainly going to be my preseason pick for ROY and even possibly an all conference team. Clearly Coach Archie Miller and staff at Rhode Island see a lot of potential taking a freshman this late in the offseason, after a whole summer of practices. That conversation with Coach Cosgrove could not have been an easy one, but only time will tell if the bantams will be able to make up for this loss and continue the winning pedigree that we are all so used to by now.

-Guru

Everyone was courting him, he most definitely would have made an instant impact in my opinion. UAA, NESCACs, several Liberty League teams and plenty of d1's were after him. He's not actually 6'10", but he's still all of 6'8". He has lots of range though and is very good beyond the arc. I wasn't surprised he chose Trinity given that he'd probably get immediate playing time with his skill set being unicorn like for d3.  Probably going to see fewer and fewer of these players go d3 now (if they don't have the academics for schools like Tufts/Williams/Amherst). 

He could quite have been the roy or a big part of the team or maybe a part time player or just garbage time, we will never know. But at 6'8 or bigger means he was going to play the 4 or 5 imo, and they have Davis and Norris and then they have Holmes and Freisthler, who I believe both would have played last year for pretty much every other NESCAC team except tufts, maybe not a ton of minutes but played some meaningful minutes. I have not watched him a lot and just not sure he can play the 3, sounds like you have seen him shoot beyond the arc. I have heard mixed thoughts on his 3 point shooting and even his high lights from this past season has limited 3 point shots. And with Coz he better had wanted to play defense and play it hard. It's surprising that he didn't choose a D1 team earlier. Might just be a sleeper who ends being a steal for uri. Trinity's biggest need this year are wings that can score, that being said maybe he would ended up starting for them.

Incoming freshman from Canterbury that was going to Trinity now going to URI. Losing a 6 10 athletic big never good,  but more of a hurt down the road than this year.

I agree, not sure either transfer into Colby is going to make a huge difference. They both seem to be adding some depth.
Will be very interesting to see how this conference handles transfers going forward. Conn tried it for a couple years, didn't really help. Trinity has brought one in every year the last three years. Two years ago Paul Jordan played with the second unit as a junior, but wasn't in the top 10 as a senior. That move seems baffling to me as that second unit really needed another scorer this past year. The transfer from Rutgers last year barely played even before he got injured. He has a lot of potential. This year they bring the transfer in from D2, but it's not like he lit it up on that team. So far hasn't been a huge help for Trinity, and yes they had a ton of talent already.
Has there been many transfers in the league the last 3 to 5 years that have been a dominating player?
I think at the D3 level it's tougher to make it work like NYU has the last few years. Babson has brought in a number of transfers the last two or three years don't think it really helped them. This past year the team was mostly just recruits and they came 10 minutes away from beating Trinity in the second round.
Even at the D1 level, it looks great when teams are elite and playing well with transfers, but there are so many more teams that bring in transfers and the teams are not great. University of Chicago had a great run this year but they had to bring in two elite D3 players to get there. That's not easy to do every year.
To think you can bring in two or three transfers and are going to be an elite team just don't see it happening that often. In the end just look at Wesleyan, Tufts and Trinity the last three years.