2016-17 SCHEDULE
VERMONT QUICK FACTS
O. 29
UQAM (EXH)
7 p.m.
Location
Burlington
N. 5
ST. MICHAEL’S (EXH)
7 p.m.
Founded
1791
N. 11
at Quinnipiac
1 p.m.
Enrollment
10,080
N. 14
at Providence
7 p.m.
N. 16
at Marist
7 p.m.
Conference
America East
N. 17
LYNDON STATE
1 p.m.
Nickname School Mascot
GULF COAST SHOWCASE (GCS)
School Colors
Estero, Fla. 11 a.m
Home Gym (Capacity)
N. 21
Wofford
N. 22
HOFSTRA/BRADLEY
TBA
President
N. 23
TBD GCS
TBA
Director of Athletics
N. 26
YALE
D. 1
at South Carolina
TBA
D. 7
DARTMOUTH
D. 10
UVM Catamounts Green & Gold Patrick Gymnasium (3,228) Tom Sullivan Jeff Schulman
Athletic Department Phone
802-656-3075
Athletic Department Fax
802-656-0949
7 p.m.
Athletic Ticket Office
802-656-4410
NORTHEASTERN
1 p.m.
Patrick Gymnasium Press Row
802-656-4173
D. 17
EASTERN MICHIGAN
1 p.m.
D. 21
at Butler
7 p.m.
COACHING STAFF
D. 29
at Siena
7 p.m.
J. 2
HARVARD
7 p.m.
Record at Vermont
J. 5
at Maine*
7 p.m.
America East Record
J. 8
HARTFORD*
4 p.m.
J. 11
at Binghamton*
7 p.m.
J. 13
UMBC*
J. 16 J. 19
1 p.m.
Head Coach
John Becker (Catholic ’90) 110-63 62-18
Associate Head Coach
Kyle Cieplicki (Vermont ’08)
7 p.m.
Assistant Coach
Ryan Schneider (Marist ’09)
at New Hampshire*
1 p.m.
Assistant Coach
UMASS LOWELL*
7 p.m.
Director of Operations
J. 25
at Albany*
7 p.m.
J. 28
at Stony Brook*
7 p.m.
F. 1
MAINE*
7 p.m.
Athletic Trainer Athletic Performance Coach
F. 4
at Hartford*
7 p.m.
Graduate Manager
F. 6
BINGHAMTON*
7 p.m.
Athletic Communications
F. 9
NEW HAMPSHIRE*
F. 12
at UMBC*
F. 15
at UMass Lowell*
7 p.m.
2015-16 Overall Record
F. 22
ALBANY*
7 p.m.
F. 25
STONY BROOK*
2 p.m.
2015-16 Conference Record
TBA 1 p.m.
Hamlet Tibbs (West Virginia ’07) Greg Snyder (SUNY Postdam ’05) Eugene Santos (Quinnipiac ’12) Marc Hickok (UConn ’03) Andrew Gale (Vermont ’15) Dustin Parker (Castleton ’12)
TEAM INFORMATION
Letterwinners Returning
23-14 11-5 12
Letterwinners Lost
2
M. 1
America East Quarterfinals +
TBA
Newcomers
4
M. 6
America East Semifinals +
TBA
M. 11
America East Championship +
TBA
2016-17 Captains
America East Men’s Basketball Championship
Home Games in BOLDFACE *Indicates America East Conference Game + highest seeds hosts on campus sites
Wills, Steidl, & Bell-Haynes
TEAM HISTORY First Year of Men’s Basketball All-Time Record All-Time America East Record NCAA Tournament Appearances Last NCAA Appearance
1900 1,184-1,105 (.517) 271-253 (.517) 5 2012 (W vs. Lamar; L vs. UNC)
NIT Appearances
3 (Last - 2014)
America East Titles
5 (Last - 2012)
America East Regular Season Titles
6 (Last - 2014)
2016-17 VERMONT MEN’S BASKETBALL ROSTER
# Name Class Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown/Last School 0 Ben Shungu Fr. G 6-2 200 Burlington, Vt./Rice Memorial 1 Josh Hearlihy R-Jr. F 6-8 210 Los Angeles, Calif./Northfield Mount Hermon (Tulane) 2 Trae Bell-Haynes Jr. G 6-2 175 Toronto, Ontario/Bill Crothers Secondary 3 Anthony Lamb Fr. F 6-6 227 Rochester, N.Y./Greece Athena 4 David Urso Jr. G 6-2 205 Pittsburgh, Pa./Central Catholic 5 Sam Dingba* Jr. F 6-5 205 Yaounde, Cameroon/Salisbury School (Quinnipiac) 12 Darren Payen R-Sr. F 6-8 222 Milford, Conn./Hamden Hall (Hofstra) 14 Cam Ward Jr. G 6-2 165 Marshall, Wis./Marshall 15 Kian Dalyrimple Fr. G 6-4 177 Dix Hills, N.Y./Half Hollow Hills West 20 Ernie Duncan R-So. G 6-3 190 Evansville, Ind./Evansville Harrison 21 Everett Duncan So. G 6-6 192 Evansville, Ind./Evansville Harrison 24 Dre Wills Sr. G 6-1 175 Indianapolis, Ind./Mercersburg (Pa.) Academy 25 Drew Urquhart Jr. F 6-8 230 Vancouver, British Columbia/Eastside Catholic 32 Josh Speidel Fr. F 6-7 210 Columbus Ind./Columbus North 34 Kurt Steidl Sr. G/F 6-6 190 Ridgefield, Conn./Ridgefield 35 Payton Henson R-Jr. F 6-8 215 Siloam Springs, Ark./Siloam Springs (Tulane) 44 Nate Rohrer R-Jr. F 6-7 215 Underhill, Vt./Leland (San Jose, Calif.) (West Valley Coll.) Coaching Staff Cioffi Endowed Men’s Basketball Coach: John Becker (Catholic ’90), 6th season Associate Head Coach: Kyle Cieplicki (Vermont ’08), 6th season Assistant Coach: Ryan Schneider (Marist ’09), 4th season Assistant Coach: Hamlet Tibbs (West Virginia ’07), 3rd season Basketball Operations: Greg Snyder (SUNY Potsdam ’05), 3rd season
alphabetical roster 2 15 5 20 21 1 35 3 12 44 0 32 34 25 4 14 24
Bell-Haynes, Trae Dalyrimple, Kian Dingba, Sam Duncan, Ernie Duncan, Everett Hearlihy, Josh Henson, Payton Lamb, Anthony Payen, Darren Rohrer, Nate Shungu, Ben Speidel, Josh Steidl, Kurt Urquhart, Drew Urso, David Ward, Cam Wills, Dre
G G F G G G/F F F F F G F F G G G G
by position
geographical roster
by class
United States (14) Arkansas (1) - Henson California (1) - Hearlihy Connecticut (2) - Payen, Steidl Indiana (4) - Er. Duncan, Ev. Duncan, Speidel, Wills New York (2) - Dalyrimple, Lamb Pennsylvania (1) - Urso Vermont (2) - Rohrer, Shungu Wisconsin (1) - Ward
Seniors (3) Payen, Steidl, Wills
Canada (2) British Columbia (1) - Urquhart Ontario (1) - Bell-Haynes Cameroon (1) Yaounde (1) - Dingba
Juniors (8) Bell-Haynes, Dingba*, Hearlihy, Henson, Rohrer, Urquhart, Urso, Ward Sophomores (2) Er. Duncan, Ev. Duncan Freshmen (4) Dalyrimple, Lamb, Shungu, Speidel *Will sit out season due to NCAA transfer rules
pronunciation guide Trae Bell-Haynes
Guards (8) Bell-Haynes, Dalyrimple, Duncan, Er., Duncan, Ev., Shungu, Urso, Ward, Wills
Kian Dalyrimple
Forwards (9) Dingba, Hearlihy, Henson, Lamb, Payen, Rohrer, Speidel, Steidl, Urquhart
Nate Rohrer
tray key-on DAL-rim-pull
Josh Hearlihy
HER-lah-hee
Darren Payen
PAY-en
Kurt Steidl Drew Urquhart
roar sty-dull (like idol) irk-heart
2016-17 VERMONT MEN’S BASKETBALL COACHING STAFF
JOHN BECKER | Meghan and Robert Cioffi Endowed Men’s Basketball Head Coach • • • • •
Season at Vermont: Sixth Season Alma Mater: Catholic ‘90 Record at Vermont: 110-63 2014 America East Coach of the Year 2014 Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award
• Becker guided the Catamounts to an NCAA Tournament• 110 wins is the second most in a five-year birth in 2012 after winning the America East Conference span in program history by a single coach, Championship. and the second most in first five seasons as • He is the only coach in America East history to start his an America East coach. tenure with five straight 20-win seasons. • The only mid-major coach in the country • Becker has posted an impressive 62-18 record in America East hired in 2011-12 to post five straight 20-win games. seasons. • Ranks first among active America East coaches and ninth • One of 10 active coaches with 20 wins in all-time in winning percentage (.635). his first three seasons as a Division I head • Ranks third among active America East coaches in wins (110). coach at a single school.
KYLE CIEPLICKI ‘08 | Associate Head Coach • Enters his fifth season on the Vermont men’s basketball staff. • He was promoted to associate head coach in May of 2015 after serving as an assistant coach since 2011. He started his coaching career at Vermont as the team’s director of operations for one year. • Cieplicki returned to his alma mater after spending two years as an assistant coach at Brown. • Cieplicki was the first three-year captain in the history of the Vermont men’s basketball team.
RYAN SCHNEIDER | Assistant Coach • Begins his third season with the UVM coaching staff. • Came to UVM following a season as an assistant coach at Northfield Mount Hermon where he helped the program win the 2013 Prep School National Championship for the first time in school history. • Schneider spent the 2011-12 season as an assistant coach at Brown University and was responsible for player development of the guards, wings and forwards. He also assisted in many other aspects of the program during his stint in Providence. • MAAC All-Academic Team and was an ESPN Academic All-American as a senior at Marist.
HAMLET TIBBS | Assistant Coach • 2016-17 marks his third season with the program. • Comes to UVM after five seasons coaching at The Albany Academy in Albany, N.Y. and five seasons coaching in the Albany City Rocks program. • He coached one ESPN Top 100 Player, one USA U18 player and had players invited to the Kevin Durant and LeBron James Skills Academy with the Albany City Rocks. • Tibbs is a 2007 graduate of West Virginia University and holds a master’s degree from the University of Phoenix.
2016-17 VERMONT MEN’S BASKETBALL RECRUITING CLASS
KIAN DOLYRIMPLE | #15 • Freshman • Guard • 6-4 • 177 • Dix Hills, N.Y./Half Hollow Hills West • Averaged 18.1 points per game as a senior. • Set a school record by knocking down 73 three-pointers as a senior. • Adds to an already potent Catamount arsenal from beyond the arc (UVM led America East in 3Pt FG% in 2015-16 - 38.2%). • New York Newsday All-Long Island Team selection as a senior. • Guided the Half Hollow Hills West to a Suffolk County AA semifinal appearance.
SAM DINGBA | #5 • Junior • Forward • 6-5 • 205 • Yaounde, Cameroon/Salisbury School • Transfer from Quinnipiac University after spending two years with the Bobcats. • Played in 45 career games for Quinnipiac and made 10 starts as a sophomore. • Scored a career-high six points and added seven rebounds against the Catamounts in a matchup at Patrick Gym a year ago. • Dingba will sit out the 2016-17 season due to NCAA transfer rules and have two years of eligibility remaining.
ANTHONY LAMB | #3 • Freshman • Forward • 6-6 • 227 • Rochester, N.Y./Greece Athena • Laced up for the Albany City Rocker during AAU. • One of four finalists for New York State Mr. Basketball as a senior. • Lamb was a two-time Greater Rochester Player of the Year while cementing himself as one of the best in the state as a senior. • Averaged 30 points and 17 rebounds per game during a senior season that saw his Greece Athena Trojans advance to the New York Section V Class AI Final.
BEN SHUNGU | #0 • Freshman • Guard • 6-2 • 200 • Burlington, Vt./Rice Memorial • • • •
A two-time Burlington Free Press Mr. Basketball selection. Three-time state champion at Rice Memorial High School. Averaged 21.9 points, 5.9 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 3.2 steals per game as a senior. Led the Green Knights to their sixth straight appearance in the Division I final at Patrick Gym. • First Rice grad to suit up for the Catamounts since big man Pat Bergmann did so from 2009 to 2012.
JOSH SPEIDEL | #32 • Freshman • Forward • 6-7 • 210 • Columbus, Ind./Columbus North • Speidel is removed from a February 2015 car crash that left him with a traumatic brain injury. Before the crash, Speidel was one of the top high school basketball players in the state of Indiana. • He joined the Catamounts several times last season and sat on the bench for games at Purdue and Florida while experiencing Patrick Gym for the first time in January against Stony Brook. • NCAA has granted a waiver for him to participate with UVM and not use a year of eligib.
Vermont Basketball Vermont Combined Team Statistics (as of Mar 28, 2016) All games
2015-16 Final Statistics
Overall record: 23-14 Conf: 11-5 Home: 13-3 Away: 9-10 Neutral: 1-1 ##
02 32 20 34 14 24 12 25 44 21 05 04
Player
Bell-Haynes, Trae O'Day, Ethan Duncan, Ernie Steidl, Kurt Ward, Cam Wills, Dre Payen, Darren Urquhart, Drew Rohrer, Nate Duncan, Everett Sinnickson, Dylan Urso, David Team Total.......... Opponents......
min
37 37
7401 7400
avg
Total 3-Point fg-fga fg% 3fg-fga 3fg%
36-34 994 27.6 135-286 35-34 989 28.3 168-307 33-32 926 28.1 121-276 36-36 1071 29.8 127-283 37-3 885 23.9 112-263 24-6 555 23.1 74-134 37-25 694 18.8 109-203 36-6 547 15.2 74-164 33-8 453 13.7 40-69 27-0 186 6.9 15-40 18-1 76 4.2 11-20 7-0 25 3.6 0-6
TEAM STATISTICS SCORING Points per game Scoring margin FIELD GOALS-ATT Field goal pct 3 POINT FG-ATT 3-point FG pct 3-pt FG made per game FREE THROWS-ATT Free throw pct F-Throws made per game REBOUNDS Rebounds per game Rebounding margin ASSISTS Assists per game TURNOVERS Turnovers per game Turnover margin Assist/turnover ratio STEALS Steals per game BLOCKS Blocks per game ATTENDANCE Home games-Avg/Game Neutral site-Avg/Game Score by Periods Vermont Opponents
gp-gs
VERMONT 2774 75.0 +4.4 986-2051 .481 255-666 .383 6.9 547-772 .709 14.8 1322 35.7 +2.7 495 13.4 490 13.2 -1.6 1.0 211 5.7 162 4.4 34030 16-2127 -
1st 2nd 1349 1425 1202 1409
Totals 2774 2611
.472 .547 .438 .449 .426 .552 .537 .451 .580 .375 .550 .000
.394 .000 .442 .374 .352 .250 .000 .250 .316 .333 .444 .000
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # # # & & $
143-179 66-109 53-65 80-99 63-83 38-72 39-65 46-70 13-22 6-7 0-1 0-0
Date 11/13/15 11/15/15 11/18/15 11/21/15 11/22/15 11/25/15 11/29/15 12/02/15 12/05/15 12/08/15 12/16/15 12/19/15 12/22/15 12/29/15 01/03/16 01/06/16 01/09/16 01/16/16 01/18/16 01/21/16 01/24/16 01/27/16 01/30/16 02/03/16 02/06/16 02/08/16 02/14/16 02/17/16 02/20/16 02/24/16 02/27/16 03/02/16 03/07/16 03/12/16 03/16/16 03/21/16 03/23/16
.799 .606 .815 .808 .759 .528 .600 .657 .591 .857 .000 .000
off
16 63 13 19 10 36 54 28 22 10 12 1 59 986-2051 .481 255-666 .383 547-772 .709 343 904-2125 .425 257-709 .362 546-791 .690 378 OPP 2611 70.6 904-2125 .425 257-709 .362 6.9 546-791 .690 14.8 1223 33.1 464 12.5 430 11.6 1.1 251 6.8 132 3.6 67236 19-3096 2-4210
26-66 0-1 84-190 70-187 51-145 1-4 0-0 1-4 6-19 12-36 4-9 0-5
F-Throw ft-fta ft%
Rebounds def tot
avg
pf dq
a
to blk stl
80 96 2.7 87 4 126 98 2 156 219 6.3 107 5 45 62 70 83 96 2.9 64 2 86 65 1 172 191 5.3 88 2 38 43 12 81 91 2.5 69 2 87 46 2 82 118 4.9 49 0 54 53 13 108 162 4.4 91 2 9 46 33 84 112 3.1 73 1 23 44 24 34 56 1.7 48 1 16 7 4 24 34 1.3 26 1 6 6 1 17 29 1.6 15 0 1 5 0 2 3 0.4 2 0 4 3 0 56 115 1 12 979 1322 35.7 720 20 495 490 162 845 1223 33.1 726 - 464 430 132
Opponent at Eastern Michigan at Purdue QUINNIPIAC vs Niagara vs Buffalo at Florida MARIST at Dartmouth at Yale at St. Bonaventure UCSB FISHER at Northeastern SIENA at Harvard at Maine ALBANY at Hartford UMASS-LOWELL at Binghamton UMBC at UNH STONY BROOK MAINE at UAlbany at UMass Lowell HARTFORD BINGHAMTON at UMBC NEW HAMPSHIRE at Stony Brook MAINE NEW HAMPSHIRE at Stony Brook WESTERN CAROLINA at Seattle University at Nevada
* = Conference game # = America East Playoffs & = CBI Tournament
L L W W L L W W L L W W L W W W L W L W W W L W L L W W W W W W W L W W L
41 22 27 35 22 27 10 7 12 5 2 1
pts
avg
439 402 379 404 338 187 257 195 99 48 26 0
12.2 11.5 11.5 11.2 9.1 7.8 6.9 5.4 3.0 1.8 1.4 0.0
211 2774 251 2611
75.0 70.6
Score 50-70 79-107 83-70 85-67 71-77 62-86 86-60 68-63 54-72 68-80 75-68 84-37 65-77 73-64 65-62 90-72 57-69 83-68 82-93 61-52 79-72 66-50 61-72 85-68 71-75 93-100 92-81 78-64 99-54 73-67 76-62 99-82 63-56 74-80 79-74 73-54 72-86
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