He started nearly every game last season but likely comes off the bench in favor of the incoming transfers. Strickland is an on-ball defensive menace and a secondary ball-handler on the offensive end. His returning backcourt brethren include Terell Strickland and Jalen Hodge. Morse will initiate Byington’s spread pick-n-roll attack and continue to provide reliable shooting from outside the arc. Vado Morse will be the leader this season, a 3rd Team All-CAA selection last year after coming over from Mount St. His Dukes will be incredibly deep and look to be a surefire CAA favorite. Lewis is gone, but Byington returns six guys with starting experience and brings in four DI transfers who all started at their previous school. Byington was able to lift the entire program in just his first season at the helm. Of course, it helped having Matt Lewis, the CAA’s Player of the Year, but Lewis was also a stud under Rowe. He accomplished this despite the shortened offseason and some injury trouble. Yikes.īyington also improved the Dukes’ preseason KenPom rank 95 spots by season’s end, and he captured the league’s Coach of the Year Award. Yes, in Louis Rowe’s four seasons, with an 18-game schedule, he never won eight conference games. James Madison split the regular season CAA title with a sterling 8-2 record, the program’s highest conference win total since 2016. Outlook: Year one of the Mark Byington era was a rousing success.
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