The 2018–19 Vermont Catamounts men's basketball team represented the

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in the

2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 6, 2018. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic and the season concluded with the Final Four at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 8, 2019. Pract ...

. They played their home games at the Patrick Gym in

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and were led by 8th-year head coach John Becker. They finished the season 27–7, 14–2 in America East play to win the regular season championship. They defeated

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, and UMBC to be champions of the America East tournament. They earned the America East's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament where they lost in the first round to

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Previous season

The Catamounts finished the 2017–18 season 27–8, 15–1 in the America East Conference play to finish in first place. In the America East tournament, they defeated

and Stony Brook to advance to the championship game, where they lost to UMBC. As a regular season conference champion who failed to win their conference tournament, the Catamounts received an automatic bid to the

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, where they lost to

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in the first round.

Roster

Schedule and results

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References

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