Vermont Catamounts men's basketball

Vermont Catamounts men's basketball
Vermont Catamounts men's basketball
	2025–26 Vermont Catamounts men's basketball team
University	University of Vermont
Head coach	John Becker (15th season)
Location	Burlington, Vermont
Arena	Patrick Gym ; (capacity: 3,228)
Conference	America East
Nickname	Catamounts
Colors	Green and gold;
All-time record	1,390–1,142 (.549)
NCAA Division I tournament round of 32
	2005
NCAA Division I tournament appearances
	2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024
Conference tournament champions
	2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
Conference regular-season champions
	1947, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Uniforms

UniversityUniversity of Vermont

Head coachJohn Becker (15th season)

LocationBurlington, Vermont

ArenaPatrick Gym
(capacity: 3,228)

The Vermont Catamounts men's basketball team is the men's basketball team that represents the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. The school's team currently competes in the America East Conference and plays its home games at Patrick Gym. The team has reached the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament ten times, most recently in 2024. 13-seed UVM famously upset 4-seed Syracuse University in the first round of the 2005 tournament. The Catamounts are coached by John Becker.

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No.	Player	Pos.	Tenure	No. ret.	Ref.
Vermont Catamounts retired numbers
10	Eddie Benton	PG	1992–1996	2000	^[2]
11	T. J. Sorrentine	PG	2000–2005	2019	^[3]
22	Taylor Coppenrath	C	2001–2005	2019	^[3]
33	Kevin Roberson	C	1988–1992	1992	^[2]
45	Trevor Gaines ^{[n 1]}		1998–2002	2011	^[2]

Class	Name	Year Inducted
1909	Ray Collins	1969
1922	Fredrick Harris	1972
1925	Claire Cayward	1969
1928	Howard Prentice	1971
1928	Kiki Price	1974
1929	Seeley Estabrook	1979
1931	Walter Sargent	1978
1932	Edward Winant	1971
1933	Chester Taft	1977
1934	John Beckley	1971
1935	Enos Ramon	1974
	Whitey Palmer	1975
	Edward Saba	1976
1937	Austin Ross	1973
1938	Tommy Tomasetti	1980
1939	Elmer Nelson	1975
1941	Frank Taylor	1969
	Donald Maley	1977
	Richard Healy	1993
	Henri Beauchemin	2007
1947	Larry Killick	1969
1948	John Durkin	1991
1950	Arthur Collier	1977
1950	Edward Kotlarczyk	1979
1951	Ralph Kehoe	1973
1953	Gary Clairmont	1987
1954	Nat Campana	1975
1955	Keith Jampolis	1983
1955	Earl Steinman	2004
1956	Roland Massimino	1983
1957	Alan McLam	1981
1959	Clyde Lord	1974
1959	Bob Kuchar	1985
1960	Charlie Isles	1976
1961	Joseph Barry	1982
1963	Benny Becton	1980
	Jack Shabel	1990
	Richard Ader	2017
1965	Charles Foster	1984
1965	Ralph D'Altilia	1988
1966	Layne Higgs	1982
1966	Milt Goggans	2018
1969	David Lapointe	1981
1970	Frank Martiniuk	1980
1970	Sandy Magid	1996
1977	Warren Prehmus	1987
1982	Michael Evelti	1992
1982	Jeff Brown	1993
1989	Joe Calavita	2000
1991	Matt Johnson	2001
1992	Kevin Roberson	1993
1992	Kenny White	2002
1996	Eddie Benton	2006
1996	Erik Nelson	2009
2001	Tony Orciari	2011
2002	Trevor Gaines	2012
2005	T.J. Sorrentine	2015
2005	Taylor Coppenrath	2015
2009	Mike Trimboli	2020
2010	Marqus Blakely	2020

Year	Seed	Round	Opponent	Result
2003	#16	First Round	#1 Arizona	L 51–80
2004	#15	First Round	#2 Connecticut	L 53–70
2005	#13	First Round Second Round	#4 Syracuse #5 Michigan State	W 60–57 OT L 61–72
2010	#16	First Round	#1 Syracuse	L 56–79
2012	#16	First Four First Round	#16 Lamar #1 North Carolina	W 71–59 L 58–77
2017	#13	First Round	#4 Purdue	L 70–80
2019	#13	First Round	#4 Florida State	L 69–76
2022	#13	First Round	#4 Arkansas	L 71–75
2023	#15	First Round	#2 Marquette	L 61–78
2024	#13	First Round	#4 Duke	L 47–64

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
2007	First Round	Kansas State	L 57–59
2011	First Round	Cleveland State	L 60–63
2014	First Round	Georgia	L 56–63
2018	First Round	Middle Tennessee	L 64–91

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
2009	First Round Quarterfinals	Green Bay Oregon State	W 76–72 L 70–71 OT
2013	First Round	Santa Clara	L 67–77
2015	First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals	Hofstra Radford Louisiana–Monroe	W 85–81 W 78–71 L 65–71
2016	First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals	Western Carolina Seattle Nevada	W 79–74 W 73–54 L 72–86

Vermont Catamounts men's basketball

Retired numbers

Awards

Hall of Fame

Postseason

NCAA tournament results

NIT results

CBI results

Coaches

Season-by-season results

Records

All-time leaders

Points

Assists

Rebounds

Results against nationally ranked opponents

Media

References

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Years	Coach	Record	Pct.	Conference Titles	NCAA Tournament Appearances
1906–1908	Thomas Hayes	12–9	.571	-	-
1920–1921	P.A. Larned	10–5	.667	-	-
1921–25	Thomas Keady	56–15	.789	-	-
1925–1928	W.J. McAvoy	33–23	.589	-	-
1928–1929	Claire Cayward	7–10	.412	-	-
1929–1930	K.L. Berry	4–16	.200	-	-
1930–1931	Howard Prentice	4–13	.235	-	-
1931–1934	John H. Burke	16–27	.372	-	-
1934–1940	John P. Sabo	50–34	.595	-	-
1940–1943 1945–1965	John C. Evans	260–196	.571	1 (Yankee Conference)	-
1965–1972	Arthur Loche	69–96	.418	-	-
1972–1981	Peter Salzberg	105–128	.441	-	-
1981–1986	Bill Whitmore	45–94	.324	-	-
1986–2005	Tom Brennan	264–276	.489	3 (America East)	3 (2003, 2004, 2005)
2005–2011	Mike Lonergan	126–68	.649	1 (America East)	1 (2010)
2011–present	John Becker	329–132	.714	7 (America East)	7 (2012, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024)

Rank	Player	Career	Games	Average	Total
1	Eddie Benton	1992–1996	104	23.8	2,474
2	Taylor Coppenrath	2001–2005	114	21.4	2,442
3	T.J. Sorrentine	2000–2005	120	16.8	2,013
4	Mike Trimboli	2005–2009	126	15.9	2,008
5	Anthony Lamb	2016–2020	118	16.4	1,933
6	Marqus Blakely	2006–2010	129	14.5	1,875
7	Tony Orciari	1997–2001	109	16.0	1,743
8	Mike Evelti	1978–1982	107	15.9	1,697
9	Trae Bell-Haynes	2014–2018	139	11.7	1,629
10	Kevin Roberson	1988–1992	112	13.4	1,503

Rank	Player	Career	Games	Average	Total
1	Brian Voelkel	2010–2014	134	5.0	679
2	Mike Trimboli	2005–2009	126	5.0	624
3	Kenny White	1988–1992	114	4.9	565
4	T.J. Sorrentine	2000–2005	120	4.6	548
5	Trae Bell-Haynes	2014–2018	139	3.7	518
6	Howard Hudson	1982–1986	102	5.0	511
7	Eddie Benton	1992–1996	102	4.4	458
8	David Roach	1996–2000	106	4.1	435
9	Jeff Brown	1978–1982	105	4.1	428
10	Corey Wielgus	1977–1982	101	3.4	341

Rank	Player	Career	Games	Average	Total
1	Brian Voelkel	2010–2014	134	8.7	1,168
2	Kevin Roberson	1988–1992	112	9.4	1,054
3	Marqus Blakely	2006–2010	129	8.1	1,044
4	Benny Becton	1960–1963	66	14.9	986
5	Trevor Gaines	1998–2002	111	7.9	880
6	Taylor Coppenrath	2001–2005	114	7.4	839
7	Erik Nelson	1994–1998	103	7.7	795
8	Anthony Lamb	2016–2020	118	6.5	765
9	Milt Goggins	1963–1966	61	12.1	740
10	Mike Evelti	1978–1982	107	6.9	735

Date	Opponent
December 7, 1973	at No. 6 North Carolina State	L 42–97
December 8, 1973	at No. 13 North Carolina	L 48–103
October 29, 1973	at No. 10 Vanderbilt	L 56–91
December 21, 1976	at No. 2 Notre Dame	L 48–89
December 30, 1978	vs. No. 12 Texas A&M	L 76–104
December 28, 1979	at No. 1 Duke	L 67–92
December 3, 1988	at No. 18 Villanova	L 58–80
November 19, 1999	at No. 8 Connecticut	L 52–89
November 29, 1999	at No. 15 Ohio State	L 51–74
December 21, 2000	at No. 21 Notre Dame	L 86–96
December 19, 2002	at No. 23 North Carolina	L 54–80
March 20, 2003	vs. No. 1 Arizona %	L 51–80
March 18, 2004	vs. No. 9 Connecticut %	L 53–70
November 19, 2004	at No. 1 Kansas	L 61–68
March 18, 2005	vs. No. 11 Syracuse %	W 60–57^OT
March 20, 2005	vs. No. 13 Michigan State %	L 61–72
November 23, 2005	vs. No. 22 Nevada	L 62–77
November 13, 2006	at No. 14 Boston College	W 77–63
December 6, 2008	at No. 3 Pittsburgh	L 51–80
March 19, 2010	vs. No. 3 Syracuse %	L 56–79
December 8, 2010	vs. No. 18 Brigham Young $	L 58–86
December 7, 2011	at No. 22 Saint Louis	L 43–62
March 16, 2012	vs. No. 4 North Carolina %	L 58–77
November 13, 2012	at No. 23 Connecticut	L 49–67
November 24, 2013	at No. 6 Duke	L 90–91
November 15, 2015	at No. 23 Purdue	L 79–107
December 1, 2016	at No. 20 South Carolina	L 50–68
December 21, 2016	at No. 13 Butler	L 69–81
March 16, 2017	vs. No. 15 Purdue %	L 70–80
November 12, 2017	at No. 5 Kentucky	L 69–72
November 12, 2018	at No. 2 Kansas	L 68–84
March 21, 2019	vs. No. 10 Florida State %	L 69–76
November 19, 2019	at No. 7 Virginia	L 55–61
November 13, 2021	at No. 21 Maryland	L 57–68
March 17, 2022	vs. No. 17 Arkansas %	L 75–71
March 17, 2023	vs. No. 6 Marquette %	L 78–61

v t e Vermont Catamounts men's basketball
Venues	Patrick Gym (1963–present) Tarrant Event Center (planned)
People	Head coaches Statistical leaders
Seasons	List of seasons 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26

v t e America East Conference men's basketball
Teams	Albany Great Danes Binghamton Bearcats Bryant Bulldogs Maine Black Bears New Hampshire Wildcats NJIT Highlanders UMass Lowell River Hawks UMBC Retrievers Vermont Catamounts
Championships & awards	List of conference champions Conference tournament Player of the Year
Seasons	1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26