Year: | 2021–22 |
Team: | Vermont Catamounts |
Sport: | basketball |
Conference: | America East Conference |
Short Conf: | America East |
Record: | 28–6 |
Conf Record: | 17–1 |
Head Coach: | John Becker |
Hc Year: | 11th |
Assoc Coach: | Ryan Schneider |
Asst Coach2: | Bryson Johnson |
Asst Coach3: | Chris Santo |
Stadium: | Patrick Gym |
Champion: | America East regular season and tournament champions |
Tourney Result: | first round |
The 2021–22 Vermont Catamounts men's basketball team represented the University of Vermont in the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They played their home games at the Patrick Gym in Burlington, Vermont and were led by eleventh-year head coach John Becker. They finished the season 28–6, 17–1 in America East play, to finish as regular-season champions.[1] They defeated NJIT, Binghamton and UMBC to with the America East tournament. As a result, they received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 13 seed in the West Region where they lost in the first round to Arkansas.[2]
This was to be the team's last season at Patrick Gym, but their new arena, Tarrant Event Center, was put on indefinite hold, due to a combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and rising borrowing costs.[3]
In a season limited due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Catamounts finished the 2020–21 season 10–5, 10–4 in America East play, to tie the regular-season conference championship with UMBC.[4] They lost to Hartford in the first round of the America East tournament.[5]
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