The College of Staten Island Men’s Basketball Team begins the 2024-2025 season with the Tournament of Heroes on Saturday evening at The Tank with a pair of tough games against highly regarded competition. However, the Dolphins are also entering the season among the region’s regionally acclaimed programs coming off a season where the team cracked the East Region Top 10 for the first time in program history.
A very successful 2023-2024 regular season ended with the team earning the No. 2 seed in the East Coast Conference and a first-round bye in the playoffs. However, the Dolphins fell to the Daemen University Wildcats in the ECC Championship Semifinal round. In the recently released ECC Preseason Coaches Poll for the upcoming season, the Dolphins were chosen to finish 3rd in the conference behind Daemen and St. Thomas Aquinas College. Last season, the Dolphins were 2-1 against the Wildcats including the postseason, and CSI lost both meetings with the Spartans.
The Dolphins will enter the 2024-2025 campaign led by the ECC Preseason Player of the Year in Messiah Mallory. They will also return many of their key players alongside the addition of several more new faces to the roster. Head Coach T.J. Tibbs is also back for his seventh season coming off an ECC Coach of the Year honor from the conference last season. Following a season where the team went 19-10 overall and 13-3 in conference play, the Dolphins tip off 2024-2025 with their sights set on their first-ever Division II postseason victory and an appearance in the ECC Championship.
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– Story courtesy of CSI Athletics
