2024–25 Le Moyne Dolphins men's basketball team
| 2024–25 Le Moyne Dolphins men's basketball | |
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| Conference | Northeast Conference |
| Record | 5–9 (0–0 NEC) |
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| Home arena | Le Moyne Events Center |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Central Connecticut | 0 | – | 0 | – | 8 | – | 4 | .667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wagner | 0 | – | 0 | – | 8 | – | 5 | .615 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stonehill* | 0 | – | 0 | – | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mercyhurst* | 0 | – | 0 | – | 6 | – | 9 | .400 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Le Moyne* | 0 | – | 0 | – | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saint Francis | 0 | – | 0 | – | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fairleigh Dickinson | 0 | – | 0 | – | 4 | – | 10 | .286 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LIU | 0 | – | 0 | – | 4 | – | 11 | .267 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago State | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 14 | .000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| * ineligible for the 2025 NCAA tournament due to transition from Division II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2025 NEC tournament winner As of December 23, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2024–25 Le Moyne Dolphins men's basketball team represents Le Moyne College during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Dolphins, led by fifth-season[a] head coach Nate Champion, play their home games on Ted Grant Court in the Le Moyne Events Center in DeWitt, New York[b] as second-year members of the Northeast Conference (NEC) and NCAA Division I. This is the 76th season of Le Moyne Dolphins men's basketball.
Previous season
[edit]The Dolphins finished the 2023–24 season 15–17, 9–7 in NEC play, tied for fourth place.[1] As the no. 4 seed in the NEC tournament,[2] they defeated Fairleigh Dickinson in the quarterfinals,[3] before falling to Merrimack in the semifinals.[4]
Offseason
[edit]Following the 2023–24 season, Le Moyne lost Luke Sutherland, Kaiyem Cleary, Mike DePersia, Nate McClure and Isaiah Salter, who graduated. Sutherland and Cleary were the team's top two scorers, Cleary led the team in rebounds, and DePersia was the starting point guard, leading the team in assists and steals.[5]
Victor Panov, a 6'7" power forward from Saint Petersburg, Russia committed to Le Moyne on November 20, 2023.[6] However, he decommitted on April 10, 2024.[7] Later that month, Panov committed to Drexel.[8]
C.J. Moore entered the transfer portal on March 18, 2024.[9] Jamel Melvin, who was injured and redshirted the previous season season, entered the transfer portal on March 26.[10] After redshirting the previous season, Mason Landdeck transferred to Seattle Pacific on April 3.[11]
On May 8, Le Moyne announced that Jakob Blakley and Isaac Nyakundi had signed letters of intent. Blakley is a 6'0" guard, who was a first team all-conference, second team all-city and second team all-state high school player, scoring more than 1,000 career points. As a senior at Walter Payton College Preparatory High School in Chicago, he averaged 28 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game. Nyakundi is from Duluth, Minnesota but attended the MacDuffie School in Granby, Massachusetts, where he was a two-year captain. As a senior, he averaged 18 points and 13 rebounds per game. As a junior, he recorded 20 double-doubles.[12]
On June 20, assistant coach Jamie Young left Le Moyne to become an assistant at Villanova.[13] On the same day, Le Moyne announced that Elijah Burns had been hired as an assistant coach. Burns was an assistant at Saint Rose during the 2023–24 season.[14]
Le Moyne announced that six transfer students were added to the team on July 23. These were guards Will Amica from Albany and Robby Carmody from Mercer, redshirt junior forward Dwayne Koroma from UT Arlington, junior forward Freds Pauls Bagatskis, also from UT Arlington, junior guard Zek Tekin from Siena and redshirt freshman forward Trevor Roe from Radford.[15]
Will Amica was at Albany for four years, appearing in 29 games. He is a graduate student with at least two years of eligibility remaining. Amica played in 19 games off the bench during the 2023–24 season.[15]
Robby Carmody began his collegiate career at Notre Dame before transferring to Mercer for the 2023–24 season. He has one year of eligibility remaining. Carmody played in 29 games with 19 starts for Mercer during the 2023–24 season, averaging 7.5 points in 17.4 minutes per contest.[15]
After starting his collegiate career playing for Iona and then Salt Lake Community College, Dwayne Koroma spent the previous season at UT Arlington. He has two seasons of eligibility remaining. Koroma played in 33 games with 14 starts during the 2023–24 campaign.[15]
Freds Pauls Bagatskis played for Latvia at the 2023 FIBA U20 European Championship Division B and averaged a team-high 17.3 points per game and led all players in the tournament with 27 three-point field goals. He has at least two years of eligibility remaining. Bagatskis started his collegiate career at Georgia Tech before transferring to UT Arlington for his sophomore year and becoming Dwayne Koroma's teammate. He played only two games during the 2023–24 season, before suffering an ankle injury in practice that ended his campaign.[15]
Zek Tekin has two seasons of eligibility remaining after playing two seasons for Siena. Tekin played in 23 games with 20 starts as a sophomore during the 2023–24 season, averaging 9.0 points, a team-high 3.0 assists, a team-high 1.1 steals and 2.1 rebounds in 23.3 minutes per game.[15]
Trevor Roe, who was a 1,000-point scorer and an All-Central New York honoree at Fayetteville–Manlius High School, returns to the Syracuse metropolitan area after spending his freshman season at Radford in 2023–24 and has four seasons of eligibility remaining. Roe's whose father, Matt, played basketball at Syracuse from 1986 to 1989. The younger Roe scored 500 points as a high school senior and earned first team all-league and first All-Central New York honors.[15]
The Dolphins also announced that Sam Donnelly, a graduate student at Le Moyne, who was a practice player with the Le Moyne women's team the previous two seasons, had been added to the roster.[15]
Departures
[edit]| Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | 2023–24 class | Hometown | Reason for departure |
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| Kaiyem Cleary | 2 | G | 6'6" | 185 | Grad student | Manchester, England | Graduated |
| Mike DePersia | 3 | G | 5'11" | 175 | Grad student | Cherry Hill, NJ | Graduated |
| Mason Landdeck | 4 | G | 6'2" | 170 | Junior (redshirted) | Cashmere, WA | Transferred to Seattle Pacific[11] |
| Nate McClure | 35 | G | 6'4" | 190 | Grad student | Houston, TX | Graduated |
| Jamel Melvin | 10 | F | 6'11" | 210 | Junior (redshirted) | Upper Marlboro, MD | Entered transferred portal[10] |
| C.J. Moore | 14 | G | 5'8" | 160 | Sophomore | Lancaster, NY | Entered transferred portal[9] |
| Isaiah Salter | 5 | G | 6'0" | 160 | Grad student | Charlotte, NC | Graduated |
| Luke Sutherland | 23 | F | 6'7" | 220 | Grad student | Syracuse, NY | Graduated |
Additions
[edit]Incoming transfers
[edit]| Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | 2024–25 class | Hometown | Previous school | Years remaining | Date committed |
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| Will Amica | 22 | G | 6'0" | 170 | Graduate | Syracuse, NY | Albany | 2 | June 10, 2024[16] |
| Freds Pauls Bagatskis | 12 | F | 6'8" | 180 | Junior | Riga, Latvia | UT Arlington | 2 | June 1, 2024[17] |
| Robby Carmody | 11 | G | 6'4" | 195 | Graduate | Mars, PA | Mercer | 1 | May 31, 2024[18] |
| Dwayne Koroma | 3 | F | 6'8" | 205 |  Junior |
Berlin, Germany | UT Arlington | 2 | June 7, 2024[19] |
| Trevor Roe | 5 | F | 6'8" | 205 | Freshman |
Syracuse, NY | Radford | 4 | June 4, 2024[20] |
| Zek Tekin | 4 | G | 6'2" | 170 | Junior | Istanbul, Türkiye | Siena | 2 | May 31, 2024[21] |
Recruiting class
[edit]| Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Hometown | High school |
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| Jakob Blakley[12][22] | 10 | G | 6'0" | 170 | Elgin, IL | Walter Payton Prep |
| Sam Donnelly[c][15] | 33 | F | 6'2" | 200 | Vernon, NY | Vernon-Verona-Sherrill |
| Isaac Nyakundi[12][23] | 13 | F | 6'9" | 220 | Duluth, MN | MacDuffie |
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Schedule and results
[edit]| Date time, TV |
Rank# | Opponent# | Result | Record | High points | High rebounds | High assists | Site (attendance) city, state | |||
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| Exhibition | |||||||||||
| October 30, 2024* 6:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
Mansfield | W 116–67 | – |
19 – Bagatskis | 10 – Nyakundi | 6 – Amica | Ted Grant Court (348) DeWitt, NY | ||||
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| November 4, 2024* 7:00 p.m., ACCNX/ESPN+ |
at Syracuse | L 82–86 | 0–1 |
18 – Bagatskis | 5 – Bagatskis | 6 – Tekin | JMA Wireless Dome (19,619) Syracuse, NY | ||||
| November 6, 2024* 7:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
Cal State Northridge | L 75–97 | 0–2 |
17 – Tekin | 8 – Tied | 4 – Tekin | Ted Grant Court (497) DeWitt, NY | ||||
| November 9, 2024* 7:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
SUNY Polytechnic | W 107–73 | 1–2 |
17 – Koroma | 6 – Tied | 6 – Tied | Ted Grant Court (507) DeWitt, NY | ||||
| November 13, 2024* 7:00 p.m., FS1 |
at No. 3 UConn | L 49–90 | 1–3 |
13 – Koroma | 5 – Koroma | 3 – Dancler | XL Center (15,664) Hartford, CT | ||||
| November 16, 2024* 4:00 p.m., YES/ESPN+ |
at St. Bonaventure | L 52–71 | 1–4 |
11 – Jones Jr. | 4 – Bagatskis | 4 – Amica | Reilly Center (4,239) St. Bonaventure, NY | ||||
| November 22, 2024* 6:00 p.m., ESPN+ |
vs. UT Martin Island U Invitational |
W 65–53 | 2–4 |
16 – Dancler | 9 – Owens | 5 – Tekin | American Bank Center (490) Corpus Christi, TX | ||||
| November 23, 2024* 4:30 p.m., ESPN+ |
at Texas A&M–Corpus Christi Island U Invitational |
L 61–82 | 2–5 |
14 – Owens | 7 – Fouts | 3 – Tied | American Bank Center (881) Corpus Christi, TX | ||||
| November 25, 2024* 7:30 p.m., ESPN+ |
at UT Rio Grande Valley | L 77–97 | 2–6 |
14 – Tied | 8 – Tied | 5 – Koroma | UTRGV Fieldhouse (1,658) Edinburg, TX | ||||
| November 29, 2024* 7:00 p.m., ESPN+ |
at Manhattan | W 81–77 | 3–6 |
18 – Owens | 9 – Owens | 8 – Tekin | Draddy Gymnasium (450) The Bronx, NY | ||||
| December 3, 2024* 7:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
Army | L 100–103 3OT | 3–7 |
19 – Tied | 15 – Koroma | 5 – Tekin | Ted Grant Court (803) DeWitt, NY | ||||
| December 7, 2024* 6:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
Binghamton | L 62–72 | 3–8 |
12 – Owens | 10 – Koroma | 5 – Tekin | Ted Grant Court (1,162) DeWitt, NY | ||||
| December 14, 2024* 2:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
SUNY Delhi | W 106–51 | 4–8 |
28 – Blakley | 8 – Fouts | 6 – Tied | Ted Grant Court (306) DeWitt, NY | ||||
| December 18, 2024* 11:00 a.m., ESPN+ |
at Dartmouth | W 80–76 | 5–8 |
20 – Dancler | 7 – Koroma | 6 – Tekin | Leede Arena (1,400) Hanover, NH | ||||
| December 22, 2024* 6:00 p.m., ACCN |
at Notre Dame | L 62–91 | 5–9 |
22 – Koroma | 8 – Koroma | 4 – Tekin | Purcell Pavilion (5,396) South Bend, IN | ||||
| December 29, 2024* 2:00 p.m., ESPN+ |
at Niagara | Gallagher Center Lewiston, NY | |||||||||
| NEC regular season | |||||||||||
| January 3, 2025 7:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
at LIU | Steinberg Wellness Center Brooklyn, NY | |||||||||
| January 10, 2025 7:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
Fairleigh Dickinson | Ted Grant Court DeWitt, NY | |||||||||
| January 12, 2025 2:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
Mercyhurst | Ted Grant Court DeWitt, NY | |||||||||
| January 18, 2025 2:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
at Chicago State | Jones Convocation Center Chicago, IL | |||||||||
| January 20, 2025 7:30 p.m., NEC Front Row |
Stonehill | Ted Grant Court DeWitt, NY | |||||||||
| January 24, 2025 7:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
Central Connecticut | Ted Grant Court DeWitt, NY | |||||||||
| January 30, 2025 7:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
at Fairleigh Dickinson | Bogota Savings Bank Center Hackensack, NJ | |||||||||
| February 1, 2025 1:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
at Wagner | Spiro Sports Center Staten Island, NY | |||||||||
| February 6, 2025 7:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
at Saint Francis | DeGol Arena Loretto, PA | |||||||||
| February 8, 2025 3:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
at Mercyhurst | Owen McCormick Court Erie, PA | |||||||||
| February 13, 2025 7:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
Wagner | Ted Grant Court DeWitt, NY | |||||||||
| February 15, 2025 2:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
Chicago State | Ted Grant Court DeWitt, NY | |||||||||
| February 20, 2025 7:00 pm, NEC Front Row |
Saint Francis | Ted Grant Court DeWitt, NY | |||||||||
| February 22, 2025 4:00 p.m., ESPN+ |
LIU | Ted Grant Court DeWitt, NY | |||||||||
| February 27, 2024 7:00 p.m., NEC Front Row |
at Central Connecticut | William H. Detrick Gymnasium New Britain, CT | |||||||||
| March 1, 2024 4:30 p.m., NEC Front Row |
at Stonehill | Merkert Gymnasium Easton, MA | |||||||||
Source:[24]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Le Moyne did not play during the 2020–21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, this is Champion's sixth year as the team's head coach but only his fifth season.
- ^ The campus, including the Le Moyne Events Center, has a Syracuse mailing address but lies within the adjacent town of DeWitt.
- ^ Graduate student who did not play college basketball as an undergraduate.
References
[edit]- ^ "2024 NEC Men's Basketball Championship". Northeast Conference. Archived from the original on August 19, 2024. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ "2024 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Field Set". Northeast Conference. March 2, 2024. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ "#NEC24 Men's Quarterfinal Recaps: Top Seeds CCSU, Merrimack & Le Moyne Prevail, Wagner Pulls Off NEC's First Upset Since 2019". Northeast Conference. March 6, 2024. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ "#NEC24 Men's Semifinal Recaps: Defending #NECMBB Champion Merrimack Set to Face Upset-Minded Wagner in Title Game on Tuesday". Northeast Conference. March 9, 2024. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ "2023-24 Men's Basketball Cumulative Statistics – Individual". Le Moyne Dolphins. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ Le Moyne College Men's Basketball [@LeMoyneMBB] (November 20, 2023). "Victor Panov" (Tweet). Los Angeles, California. Retrieved August 19, 2024 – via Twitter.
- ^ Panov, Victor [@VictorPanov13] (April 10, 2024). "After talking to my coaches and family" (Tweet). Retrieved August 19, 2024 – via Twitter.
- ^ "Victor Panov – Activity". VerbalCommits. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ a b "C.J. Moore – Activity". VerbalCommits. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ a b "Jamel Melvin – Activity". VerbalCommits. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ a b "Mason Landdeck – Activity". VerbalCommits. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ a b c Lane, Craig (May 8, 2024). "Men's Basketball Signs Two Student-Athletes for 2024–25". Le Moyne Dolphins. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ "Wildcats Add Young as Assistant Men's Basketball Coach". Villanova University Athletics. June 20, 2024. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ Singelais, Mark (June 21, 2024). "Troy's Elijah Burns Hired As Le Moyne Basketball Assistant Coach". Times Union. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i McGlynn, James (July 23, 2024). "Men's Basketball Adds Six Transfer Student-Athletes for 2024–25". Le Moyne Dolphins. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ "Will Amica – Activity". VerbalCommits. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ "Freds Pauls Bagatskis – Activity". VerbalCommits. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ "Robby Carmody – Activity". VerbalCommits. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ "Dwayne Koroma – Activity". VerbalCommits. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ "Trevor Roe – Activity". VerbalCommits. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ "Zek Tekin – Activity". VerbalCommits. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ "Jakob Blakley – Activity". VerbalCommits. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ "Isaac Nyakundi – Activity". VerbalCommits. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
- ^ "2024–25 Men's Basketball Schedule". Le Moyne Dolphins. Retrieved August 19, 2024.