Vermont Basketball: In Depth Look at Junior Forward Anthony Lamb
By Bryan Mauro
Vermont Basketball has dominated the America East the past couple of years. Junior forward Anthony Lamb has played a big role in the Catamounts’ success.
The America East Conference is at the forefront of all our memories. This conference was responsible for the largest upset in NCAA tournament history. As the UMBC Retrievers upset overall number 1 seed Virginia in a whitewashing. The smaller schools who are part of this conference have always played an exciting brand of basketball.
UMBC was good for one more upset in their path of destruction to the big dance. In the game’s leading up to the dance, the Maryland Baltimore Country Retrievers upset regular season America East champions the Vermont Catamounts.
The Catamounts have most of that roster returning, including their best player Anthony Lamb. Lamb missed most of the conference season last year with a foot injury. The injury was healed enough to ensure that Lamb, was active for the conference title game. At that time, he was still playing with his restricted minutes off the bench. If Vermont had their full allotment of starters all at a full go would the game have turned out different?
The junior forward is back completely healthy this offseason and is looking for a return to the NCAA tournament. Since 2002 the Catamounts have won the America East regular-season conference 8 times. While the usually dominant Vermont basketball team heads into this season, Head Coach John Becker and his super forward should make that 9. The Vermont roster is the most talented Roster in the entire America East conference.
Vermont and the conference have not typically been your run of the mill mid-major when it comes to playing the power 5 teams. Albany, Vermont, and UMBC have all either beaten top name schools or taken many of them to the wire in out of conference games. Sans the Catamounts it looks to be a rebuilding year for most of the conference.