- W&M travels to St. John's for the first time since 2011 on Saturday. In the last meeting, the Tribe led 33-26 at the half, but the Red Storm scored 28 points off turnovers to rally back for a 74-59 win.
- Saturday will be the Tribe's first game against an
Associated Press Top-25 opponent since 2023 (No. 18 Charleston on Jan. 16) and its first nonconference game since going to No. 16 Virginia on Dec. 22, 2020. W&M owns seven wins all-time vs. the
AP Top 25 with the last one coming over No. 2 North Carolina in Williamsburg on Dec. 7, 1977. W&M has never beaten an
AP Top 25 team on the road.
- The Tribe has a balanced attack with three players averaging in double figures and nine different players averaging at least six points per game. In total, the Tribe's rotation of 10 players averages 10 or more minutes per game. At least four players have scored in double figures in each of the Tribe's three games. In total, eight different players have scored 10 or more points in a game this season.
- Bench scoring has been a staple for head coach
Brian Earl's teams. Through three games, the Tribe is scoring 48.7% (135-of-277) of its points off the bench. W&M is averaging 45 points per game off the bench, which ranks 16th nationally, as of Nov. 13. Last season, the Tribe ranked eighth nationally in bench scoring (31.9) after Earl's final Cornell team led the country in 2023-24 (36.0).
- In each of the Tribe's first three games, its leading scorer has come off the bench. Sophomore
Ryan Jackson, Jr. (vs. Georgian Court) and graduate student
Jhei-R Jones (at Norfolk State) totaled 15 points off the bench in the first two games, while junior
Reese Miller scored a game-high 18 points at Richmond.
- W&M is once again among the fastest-paced teams in the country. According to KenPom.com (as of Nov. 12), the Tribe leads the country in fastest average length of possession on offense (12.3 seconds) after ranking third last season (14.9). W&M is sixth in adjusted tempo (76.0 possessions per 40 minutes) this season after ranking 18th (71.5) in 2024-25. In each of the last five seasons,
Brian Earl-coached teams have ranked top 5 nationally in average possession length and top 25 in adjusted tempo.
- The Green and Gold has gotten to the free throw line at a significant rate to start the season. The Tribe ranks 25th nationally in free throws attempted per game (31.0) and 29th in free throws made (22.7). Both numbers lead the CAA. According to KenPom, the Tribe is 18th in the country in FT rate (56.0).
- The Tribe has also been one of the best teams in the country in terms of sharing the basketball under Earl. W&M is averaging 20 assists per game this season, which leads the CAA and ranks 30th in the country. The Tribe is 29th nationally in assist rate, assisting on 67.3% of its made field goals. A season ago, W&M was 10th nationally in assist rate (62%) and 25th nationally at 16.5 assists per game.
Brian Earl-coached teams have ranked in the top 33 nationally in assist rate each of the last five years.
- W&M trailed Norfolk State by as much as 12 with 9:44 remaining and by nine, 74-65, with five minutes left before rallying for a win on Nov. 8. W&M used a 10-0 run to take the lead, but more importantly held the Spartans without a field goal for the final five minutes. The 12-point comeback was W&M's second double-digit comeback under head coach
Brian Earl and is the largest for the Tribe on the road since it overcame at 19-point first-half deficit in an 85-84 win at George Washington in 2020.
- The Tribe was picked fourth in the preseason CAA poll by vote of the league head coaches in early October. It marks the highest W&M has been selected in the preseason since it was also fourth in 2018-19. The 2025 CAA regular season champion Towson was the preseason favorite to win the league just ahead of reigning CAA Tournament Champion UNCW and Charleston.
- Senior
Chase Lowe, a two-year starter, was one of five players named to the Preseason All-CAA Second Team, while junior
Kyle Pulliam was one of seven selected to the honorable mention list. Lowe ranks sixth in the CAA this season in assists per game (4.7), while Pulliam is the Tribe's leading scorer at 13.7 points per game, which is 20th in the league.
- 2025 W&M alums
Gabe Dorsey (Slovakia),
Caleb Dorsey (Slovakia), and
Matteus Case (Portugal) signed professional contracts in Europe. In total, 10 former Tribe standouts are playing professionally overseas, including Miguel Ayesa (Spain), David Cohn (Germany), Nathan Knight (South Korea), Anders Nelson (Romania), Terry Tarpey (France), Marcus Thornton (Romania), and Andy Van Vliet (Germany).
- W&M alum Daniel Dixon '17 was named the head coach of the Oklahoma City Blue, the NBA G-League affiliate of the Oklahoma City Thunder in August. Dixon, who was an All-CAA First Team selection in 2017, won an NBA Championship as an assistant coach with the OKC Thunder last season. In 2024, he won an NBA G-League Championship as an assistant with the Blue.
