mbb team 2020-21

Men's Basketball 2020-21 Year in Review

Wildcats make the most of pandemic-shortened season, advance to Elite Eight for first time in NCAA era

ROSTER
SCHEDULE & RESULTS
STATS
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ALUMNUS JOHNSON '10 '16 RETURNING TO MEN'S BASKETBALL STAFF
I'd rather have one championship team win than any award that I've ever won. That's what we're truly trying to build here this year. I saw how the girls won their tournament there last year, and I was so happy for them. They had a lot of people that every single day, they brought it in practice. And I think I just want to be part of that now. That's something I want to finish off before my time here is done.
Andrew Sischo, Redshirt Senior Center
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SISCHO EARNS PRESEASON ALL-AMERICAN HONORS
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WILDCAT SOCIAL SERIES: ZIV BASDEN
I think that's one thing we always try to emphasize with our guys [is] really treasure what you have, because you never know when it's going to be taken away. And I think for all of us, coaches included, myself, Ryan Grandits, my assistant, and Jeff Redband, those guys, you know, basketball was taken away from us. We have a normal routine, what we do in the spring with workouts. We move into the summer, we have camps, we're helping kids, working with kids. Then we move into the fall, we start doing individual workouts with our guys, and that routine has been all blown up. So for us to be able to get back on the court and be able to do things with our guys, that is really precious for all of us.
Head Coach Mike MacDonald
MBB 2020-21 SCHEDULE
MEN'S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE RELEASED
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DAEMEN PICKED SECOND IN ECC MEN'S BASKETBALL PRESEASON POLL
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SISCHO NAMED ECC PRESEASON PLAYER OF THE YEAR FOR THIRD TIME
The focus is just to just to come out and play hard. It's gonna be our first game, so everybody's gonna be nervous. I know it's not gonna be perfect. There's gonna be a, not a hot mess, but we're gonna try and make it a good game. I feel like we [are] prepared, but we just got to come out, just play hard. I'm never going to be nervous, but just playing hard is the key to winning.
Kyle Harris, Senior Guard
Honestly, losses don't feel like any better or anything like that. You're still very upset and it still eats at you. It was great for the kids to be able to play. It's good that they got the opportunity. It is very surreal with no fans or anything like that. At least we got to play and that was that was a good thing. And these guys, we need to play. We need to play, we need to play some games, especially before we start getting into conference.
Head Coach Mike MacDonald
I mean, now that we have those two games under our belts and we've learned from those two games, you kind of just got to use that fuel and momentum to kind of push forward into the next games. That's the first time we played a game, at least for us returning guys like me, Andrew [Sischo] and Kyle [Harris] in like 300 some days. So you know, actually going and playing a 40 minute basketball game is different from going up and down scrimmaging like we do in practice. So, I mean, I feel like we're gonna learn from those two games and build off it.
Sean Fasoyiro, Graduate Guard
This is a very special [honor], and knowing the kind of person Rob Robinson is, he's very excited that Andrew was able to break his record. Some people might be bitter. Robert Robinson is one of the nicest human beings to walk on this earth. He was so excited for Andrew. It's an incredible testament to Andrew's hard work, to his ability, and his ability to stick to it when things maybe got tough. So, he deserves every accolade that comes his way. He's done a tremendous job and I'm really happy for him and proud of him and excited to see how much further he can go.
Head Coach Mike MacDonald
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ALL GROWN UP: HEMPHILLS SHARE LIFE-LONG BOND ON HARDWOOD
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SISCHO, FASOYIRO & HARRIS EARN ALL-ECC DISTINCTION
We talked about, at this time of year, you've got to win by one. Just win by one. It doesn't matter, it doesn't have to be pretty, it doesn't have to be win by 10. You don't have to pull away or anything. Just win by one. And I think we settled down a little bit in that second half.
Head Coach Mike MacDonald
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DAEMEN MEN'S BASKETBALL AWARDED NCAA TOURNAMENT BID
It's humbling. It's awesome. I mean, you can't see the smile behind my mask. But, I'll tell you, you can go all the way back to about a year ago, Joe, when we were on the bus heading to Connecticut and got turned around in Binghamton. The NCAA tournament was taken away from guys. I still feel for those guys like Jeff Redband and Joey Wallace and Breon Harris and Jay Sarkis and Jeffrey Duah who had a chance to go and didn't get the opportunity because of the pandemic. For these guys, and for Daemen to be so great to us as an institution - to be able to help us, to give us the opportunity to play, to make it safe for our guys, to put them in good situations - I mean, it's very humbling, and it was just really cool to see Daemen up on that line.
Head Coach Mike MacDonald
mbb 2021 regional champs
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DAEMEN TO FACE TOP-SEEDED WEST TEXAS A&M IN ELITE EIGHT
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SISCHO, FASOYIRO NAMED TO NABC ALL-DISTRICT FIRST TEAM
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SISCHO NAMED TO NABC ALL-AMERICAN TEAM
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SISCHO EARNS FIRST TEAM ALL-AMERICAN HONORS FROM D2CCA
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DAEMEN RANKED NINTH IN FINAL D2SIDA POLL

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