Patriot League men's basketball tournament

Patriot League men's basketball tournament
Patriot League men's basketball tournament
Number of teams	10
Format	Single-elimination tournament
Current stadium	on-campus sites
Current location	on-campus sites
Played	1991–present
Last contest	2024
Current champion	Colgate University
Most championships	Colgate (7)
TV partner(s)	CBS Sports Network
Official website	PatriotLeague.CSTV.com Men's Basketball

The Patriot League men's basketball tournament is held at the conclusion of each regular season. The winner of the tournament is awarded an automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.

Tournament finals results

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	MVP	Venue
1991	Fordham	84–81^OT	Holy Cross	Damon Lopez, FU	Hart Center (Worcester, MA)
1992	Fordham	70–56	Bucknell	Fred Herzog, FU	Stabler Arena (Bethlehem, PA)
1993	Holy Cross	98–73	Bucknell	Rob Feaster, HC	Davis Gym (Lewisburg, PA)
1994	Navy	78–76	Colgate	TJ Hall, Navy	Alumni Hall (Annapolis, MD)
1995	Colgate	68–63	Navy	Tucker Neale, CU	Cotterell Court (Hamilton, NY)
1996	Colgate	74–65	Holy Cross	Adonal Foyle, CU	Cotterell Court (Hamilton, NY)
1997	Navy	76–75	Bucknell	Hassan Booker, Navy	Alumni Hall (Annapolis, MD)
1998	Navy	93–85	Lafayette	Skip Victor, Navy	Alumni Hall (Annapolis, MD)
1999	Lafayette	67–63	Bucknell	Brian Ehlers, LC	Kirby Sports Center (Easton, PA)
2000	Lafayette	87–61	Navy	Stefan Ciosici, LC	Kirby Sports Center (Easton, PA)
2001	Holy Cross	68–64^OT	Navy	Josh Sankes, HC	Hart Center (Worcester, MA)
2002	Holy Cross	58–54	American	Tim Szatko, HC	Bender Arena (Washington, D.C.)
2003	Holy Cross	72–64	American	Patrick Whearty, HC	Hart Center (Worcester, MA)
2004	Lehigh	59–57	American	Austen Rowland, LU	Stabler Arena (Bethlehem, PA)
2005	Bucknell	61–57	Holy Cross	Charles Lee, BU	Hart Center (Worcester, MA)
2006	Bucknell	74–59	Holy Cross	Charles Lee, BU	Sojka Pavilion (Lewisburg, PA)
2007	Holy Cross	74–66	Bucknell	Keith Simmons, HC	Hart Center (Worcester, MA)
2008	American	52–46	Colgate	Garrison Carr, AU	Bender Arena (Washington, D.C.)
2009	American	73–57	Holy Cross	Garrison Carr, AU	Bender Arena (Washington, D.C.)
2010	Lehigh	74–59	Lafayette	Zahir Carrington, LU	Stabler Arena (Bethlehem, PA)
2011	Bucknell	72–57	Lafayette	Mike Muscala, BU	Sojka Pavilion (Lewisburg, PA)
2012	Lehigh	82–77	Bucknell	CJ McCollum, LU
2013	Bucknell	64–56	Lafayette	Mike Muscala, BU
2014	American	55–36	Boston University	Darius Gardner, AU	Agganis Arena (Boston, MA)
2015	Lafayette	65–63	American	Nick Lindner, LC	Kirby Sports Center (Easton, PA)
2016	Holy Cross	59–56	Lehigh	Malachi Alexander, HC	Stabler Arena (Bethlehem, PA)
2017	Bucknell	81–65	Lehigh	Zach Thomas, BU	Sojka Pavilion (Lewisburg, PA)
2018	Bucknell	83–54	Colgate	Stephen Brown, BU	Sojka Pavilion (Lewisburg, PA)
2019	Colgate	94–80	Bucknell	Jordan Burns, CU	Cotterell Court (Hamilton, NY)
2020	Boston University	64–61	Colgate	Max Mahoney, BU
2021	Colgate	85–72	Loyola Maryland	Jordan Burns, CU
2022	Colgate	74–58	Navy	Jack Ferguson, CU
2023	Colgate	79–61	Lafayette	Tucker Richardson, CU
2024	Colgate	74–55	Lehigh	Braeden Smith, CU

Sources:^[1]^[2]

Championships by school

	Tournament		Regular season
Team	Championships	Years	Championships (Solo)	Years
Colgate	7	1995, 1996, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024	7 (3)	1994^, 1995^, 1996^, 2019^, 2020, 2022, 2023
Bucknell	6	2005, 2006, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2018	13 (9)	1992^, 1993, 1995^, 2006, 2007^, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019^
Holy Cross	6	1993, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2016	5 (3)	1994^, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007^
American	3	2008, 2009, 2014	4 (3)	2002, 2004^, 2008, 2009
Lehigh	3	2004, 2010, 2012	2 (1)	2004^, 2010
Navy	3	1994, 1997, 1998	5* (1)	1994^, 1996^, 1997, 1998^, 2000^
Lafayette	3	1999, 2000, 2015	3 (1)	1998^, 1999, 2000^
Fordham†	2	1991, 1992	3 (1)	1991, 1992^, 1994^
Boston University	1	2020	1 (1)	2014
Army	0		0 (0)
Loyola Maryland	0		0 (0)
Total	34		43 (23)

^ Regular season co-champion
*In 2021, Navy finished 12–1, the best regular season winning percentage and received the #1 seed in the league tournament. However, the Patriot League did not award Navy a regular season title due to the unbalanced schedule. Navy played only 5 of the other 9 teams in the league and played more than half of their league games against just two teams.
† Fordham departed the Patriot League in all sports (except football) in 1995.

Postseason results

NCAA tournament results
Year	W/L	Seed	PL Team	Score	Seed	Opponent	Score
1991	L	16	Fordham	64	16	St. Francis	70
1992	L	14	Fordham	58	3	Massachusetts	85
1993	L	13	Holy Cross	64	4	Arkansas	94
1994	L	16	Navy	53	1	Missouri	76
1995	L	16	Colgate	68	1	Kansas	72
1996	L	16	Colgate	59	1	Connecticut	68
1997	L	15	Navy	61	2	Utah	75
1998	L	16	Navy	52	1	North Carolina	88
1999	L	15	Lafayette	54	2	Miami (FL)	75
2000	L	15	Lafayette	42	2	Temple	73
2001	L	15	Holy Cross	68	2	Kentucky	72
2002	L	16	Holy Cross	59	1	Kansas	70
2003	L	14	Holy Cross	68	3	Marquette	72
2004	L	16	Lehigh	57	16	Florida A&M	72
2005	W	14	Bucknell	64	3	Kansas	63
2005	L	14	Bucknell	62	6	Wisconsin	71
2006	W	9	Bucknell	59	8	Arkansas	55
2006	L	9	Bucknell	56	1	Memphis	72
2007	L	13	Holy Cross	51	4	Southern Illinois	61
2008	L	15	American	57	2	Tennessee	72
2009	L	14	American	67	3	Villanova	80
2010	L	16	Lehigh	74	1	Kansas	90
2011	L	14	Bucknell	52	3	Connecticut	81
2012	W	15	Lehigh	75	2	Duke	70
2012	L	15	Lehigh	58	10	Xavier	70
2013	L	11	Bucknell	56	6	Butler	68
2014	L	15	American	35	2	Wisconsin	75
2015	L	16	Lafayette	52	1	Villanova	93
2016	W	16	Holy Cross	59	16	Southern	55
2016	L	16	Holy Cross	52	1	Oregon	91
2017	L	13	Bucknell	80	4	West Virginia	86
2018	L	14	Bucknell	78	3	Michigan St	82
2019	L	15	Colgate	70	2	Tennessee	77
2020	NCAA Tournament was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
2021	L	14	Colgate	68	3	Arkansas	85
2022	L	14	Colgate	60	3	Wisconsin	67
2023	L	15	Colgate	61	2	Texas	81

NIT results
Year	W/L	Seed	PL Team	Score	Seed	Opponent	Score
2005	W		Holy Cross	78		Notre Dame	73
2005	L		Holy Cross	60		St. Josephs	68
2012	W	8	Bucknell	65	1	Arizona	54
2012	L	8	Bucknell	67	5	Nevada	75
2014	L	7	Boston	62	2	Illinois	66
2015	L	8	Bucknell	67	1	Temple	73
2016	L	8	Bucknell	80	1	Monmouth	90

All-time Patriot League Tournament records

Records as of March 8, 2023^[update]

Team	Seasons	Games	Wins	Losses	Win %	Finals app.	Semis app.
Bucknell	33	72	45	27	.625	13	24
American	22	46	28	18	.609	7	15
Colgate	33	61	34	27	.557	10	18
Holy Cross	33	62	34	28	.548	11	16
Boston University	10	19	10	9	.526	2	5
Lafayette	33	55	25	30	.455	8	14
Lehigh	33	55	25	30	.455	5	16
Navy	32	48	19	29	.396	7	9
Loyola University Maryland	10	16	6	10	.375	1	1
Army	33	44	11	33	.250	0	10

*Fordham left the Patriot League in men's basketball after the 1994–95 season, with a cumulative tournament record of 7–3 in its 5 seasons with the league. In total Fordham made 2 finals appearances and 4 semi-finals appearances.

All-time regular season standings

Records as of February 25, 2023^[update]

Team	Games	Wins	Losses	Win %	Titles (solo)	Last	Winning seasons
Bucknell	480	315	165	.656	13 (9)	2019	24 (of 33)
Boston University	178	101	77	.567	1 (1)	2014	6 (of 10)
Colgate	482	263	219	.546	7 (3)	2023	15 (of 33)
American	339	182	157	.537	4 (3)	2009	10 (of 22)
Holy Cross	486	256	230	.527	5 (3)	2007	15 (of 33)
Navy	471	231	240	.490	5 (1)	2000**	15 (of 32)
Lehigh*	484	232	252	.479	2 (1)	2010	15 (of 33)
Lafayette	484	206	278	.426	3 (1)	2000	9 (of 33)
Loyola University Maryland	176	68	108	.386	0 (0)	n/a	0 (of 10)
Army	484	160	324	.331	0 (0)	n/a	4 (of 33)

*Adjusted for vacated wins of 2004–05 season. Lehigh finished with a league record of 7–7, but later vacated 6 wins for an adjusted record of 1–13 (per Forfeits and Vacated Games)

**In 2021, Navy finished 12–1, the best regular season winning percentage and received the #1 seed in the league tournament. However, the Patriot League did not award Navy a regular season title due to the unbalanced schedule. Navy played only 5 of the other 9 teams in the league and played more than half of their league games against just two teams.

***Fordham left the Patriot League in men's basketball after the 1994–95 season, with an cumulative record of 46–22 (0.676), 3 regular season titles (1 solo) and winning seasons in 4 of 5 played.

Regular season honors

Year	MVP	Team	CoY	Team	RoY	Team	DPoY	Team
1991	Damon Lopez	Fordham	Nick Macarchuk	Fordham	Jim Nairus	Holy Cross	Not awarded	Not awarded
1992	Patrick King	Bucknell	Jack Bruen	Colgate	Rob Feaster	Holy Cross	Not awarded	Not awarded
1993	Mike Bright	Bucknell	Charlie Woollum	Bucknell	Alex Morris	Army	Not awarded	Not awarded
1994	Tucker Neale	Colgate	Don DeVoe	Navy	Gordon Mboya	Bucknell	Not awarded	Not awarded
1995	Rob Feaster	Holy Cross	Pat Flannery	Bucknell	Adonal Foyle	Colgate	Not awarded	Not awarded
1996	Adonal Foyle	Colgate	Jack Bruen	Colgate	Stefan Ciosici	Lafayette	Not awarded	Not awarded
1997	Adonal Foyle	Colgate	Pat Flannery & Don DeVoe	Bucknell & Navy	Dan Bowen	Bucknell	Not awarded	Not awarded
1998	Stefan Ciosici	Lafayette	Fran O'Hanlon	Lafayette	Tyson Whitfield	Lafayette	Not awarded	Not awarded
1999	Brian Ehlers	Lafayette	Fran O'Hanlon	Lafayette	Pat Campolieta	Colgate	Not awarded	Not awarded
2000	Brian Ehlers	Lafayette	Don DeVoe	Navy	Tim Szatko	Holy Cross	Not awarded	Not awarded
2001	Tim Szatko	Holy Cross	Ralph Willard	Holy Cross	Mark Linebaugh	Colgate	Not awarded	Not awarded
2002	Patrick Doctor	American	Pat Harris	Army	Nate Lufkin	Holy Cross	Not awarded	Not awarded
2003	Patrick Whearty	Holy Cross	Billy Taylor	Lehigh	Kevin Bettencourt	Bucknell	Not awarded	Not awarded
2004	Austen Rowland	Lehigh	Billy Taylor	Lehigh	Andre Ingram	American	Not awarded	Not awarded
2005	Kevin Hamilton	Holy Cross	Ralph Willard	Holy Cross	Pat Doherty	Holy Cross	Abe Badmus	Bucknell
2006	Charles Lee	Bucknell	Pat Flannery	Bucknell	Derrick Mercer	American	Kevin Hamilton	Holy Cross
2007	Keith Simmons	Holy Cross	Ralph Willard	Holy Cross	Marquis Hall	Lehigh	Torey Thomas	Holy Cross
2008	Greg Sprink	Navy	Billy Lange	Navy	Rob Keefer	Lehigh	Stephen Tyree	Bucknell
2009	Derrick Mercer	American	Jeff Jones	American	RJ Evans	Holy Cross	Marcus Nelson	Army
2010	CJ McCollum	Lehigh	Fran O'Hanlon	Lafayette	CJ McCollum	Lehigh	Bryan Cohen	Bucknell
2011	Mike Muscala	Bucknell	Dave Paulsen	Bucknell	JJ Avila	Navy	Bryan Cohen	Bucknell
2012	CJ McCollum	Lehigh	Dave Paulsen	Bucknell	Justin Burrell	Holy Cross	Bryan Cohen	Bucknell
2013	Mike Muscala	Bucknell	Zach Spiker	Army	Kyle Wilson	Army	Mike Muscala	Bucknell
2014	Cameron Ayers	Bucknell	Mike Brennan	American	Tim Kempton Jr.	Lehigh	Tony Wroblicky	American
2015	Tim Kempton Jr.	Lehigh	Dave Paulsen	Bucknell	Kahron Ross	Lehigh	Luke Roh	Colgate
2016	Tim Kempton Jr.	Lehigh	Nathan Davis	Bucknell	Delante Jones	American	Will Kelly	Army
2017	Nana Foulland	Bucknell	Nathan Davis	Bucknell	Will Rayman	Colgate	Nana Foulland	Bucknell
2018	Zach Thomas	Bucknell	Matt Langel	Colgate	Alex Petrie	Lafayette	Jehyve Floyd	Holy Cross
2019	Rapolas Ivanauskas	Colgate	Matt Langel	Colgate	Tucker Richardson	Colgate	Jehyve Floyd	Holy Cross
2020	Sa'eed Nelson	American	Matt Langel	Colgate	Joe Pridgen	Holy Cross	Will Rayman	Colgate
2021	Jordan Burns	Colgate	Ed DeChellis	Navy	Johnny O'Neil	American	Josh Caldwell	Army
2022	Sukhmail Mathon	Boston University	Ed DeChellis	Navy	Kyrell Luc	Holy Cross	Josh Caldwell	Army
2023	Tucker Richardson	Colgate	Matt Langel	Colgate	Ethan Roberts	Army	Tucker Richardson	Colgate
2024	Braeden Smith	Colgate	Matt Langel	Colgate	Josh Scovens	Army	Caleb Kenney	Holy Cross

Award winners by school

†	Denotes school is no longer a member of the Patriot League

School	Player of the Year wins	Years
Bucknell	8	1992, 1993, 2006, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018
Colgate	7	1994, 1996, 1997, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024
Holy Cross	5	1995, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007
Lehigh	5	2004, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016
American	3	2002, 2009, 2020
Lafayette	3	1998, 1999, 2000
Boston University	1	2022
Fordham†	1	1991
Navy	1	2008

School	Coach of the Year wins	Years
Bucknell	9	1993, 1995, 1997*, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017
Colgate	7	1992, 1996, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024
Navy	6	1994, 1997*, 2000, 2008, 2021, 2022
Holy Cross	3	2001, 2005, 2007
Lafayette	3	1998, 1999, 2010
American	2	2009, 2014
Army	2	2002, 2013
Lehigh	2	2003, 2004
Fordham†	1	1991

*The 1997 Patriot League Coach of the Year award was shared between Pat Flannery of Bucknell and Don DeVoe of Navy.

School	Rookie of the Year wins	Years
Holy Cross	9	1991, 1992, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2012, 2020, 2022
Colgate	5	1995, 1999, 2001, 2017, 2019
Lehigh	5	2007, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2015
American	4	2004, 2006, 2016, 2021
Army	4	1993, 2013, 2023, 2024
Bucknell	3	1994, 1997, 2003
Lafayette	3	1996, 1998, 2018
Navy	1	2011

School	Defensive Player of the Year wins	Years
Bucknell	7	2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017
Holy Cross	5	2006, 2007, 2018, 2019, 2024
Army	4	2009, 2016, 2021, 2022
Colgate	3	2015, 2020, 2023
American	1	2014

Broadcasters

Television

Year	Network	Play-by-play	Analyst	Sideline
2024	CBSSN	Jason Knapp	Mo Cassara	Keiana Martin
2023				Jamie Erdahl
2022				Jenny Dell
2021
2020				Sherree Burruss
2019				Jenny Dell
2018			Pete Gillen	Cassie McKinney
2017			Mo Cassara
2016			Mo Cassara
2015			Chris Spatola
2014
2013^[3]		Bob Socci
2012^[4]		Bob Socci	Vince Curran
2011^[5]	ESPN2	Jon Sciambi	LaPhonso Ellis
2010^[6]	ESPN	Jon Sciambi	LaPhonso Ellis
2009^[7]		Dave Barnett	Tim Welsh
2008^[8]		Dave O'Brien	Bob Valvano
2007^[9]	ESPN2	Bob Wischusen	Tim McCormick
2006^[10]		Bob Wischusen	Donny Marshall
2005^[11]		Dave Revsine	Jay Williams
2004^[12]			Doug Gottlieb
2003^[13]	ESPN		Doris Burke
2001^[14]	ESPN	Dewayne Staats	Bob Wenzel

Radio

Year	Network	Play-by-play	Analyst
2024	Westwood One	Pat McCarthy	Kyle Macy
2023		John Sadak	Jon Crispin
2022		Tom McCarthy	Tim Welsh
2021		Brandon Gaudin	Kyle Macy
2020		John Sadak	Steve Lappas
2019			Debbie Antonelli
2018			Jon Crispin
2017		Ted Emrich	Jim Jackson
2016		Scott Graham	Kevin Grevey
2015			Kevin Grevey
2014			Kyle Macy
2013	Dial Global Sports	John Tautges	Kevin Grevey

References

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