The Dolphins, led by fifth-season[a] head coach Nate Champion, play their home games on Ted Grant Court in the Le Moyne Events Center in DeWitt, New York[b] as second-year members of the Northeast Conference (NEC) and NCAA Division I.
[5] Following the 2023–24 season, Le Moyne lost Luke Sutherland, Kaiyem Cleary, Mike DePersia, Nate McClure and Isaiah Salter, who graduated.
As a senior at Walter Payton College Preparatory High School in Chicago, he averaged 28 points, 4.5 rebounds and four assists per game.
[16] After starting his collegiate career playing for Iona and then Salt Lake Community College, Dwayne Koroma spent the previous season at UT Arlington.
[16] Freds Pauls Bagatskis played for Latvia at the 2023 FIBA U20 European Championship Division B and averaged a team-high 17.3 points per game and led all players in the tournament with 27 three-point field goals.
Bagatskis started his collegiate career at Georgia Tech before transferring to UT Arlington for his sophomore year and becoming Dwayne Koroma's teammate.
The younger Roe scored 500 points as a high school senior and earned first team all-league and first All-Central New York honors.
However, Le Moyne responded with a 6–2 spurt, getting three points each from Will Amica on a triple and Freds Pauls Bagatskis on three free throws.
Trent Mosquera's three-pointer cut the Syracuse lead to two points with 1:02 left, and another triple from Bagatskis made it 83–82 with 22 seconds on the clock.
[38][39] The Dolphins participated in the Island U Invitational, a showcase event hosted by Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, and met UT Martin on November 22.
[42][43] Le Moyne shot 60.4% from the floor, a new program record for the Division I era, and held off a late charge in an 81–77 win at Manhattan on November 29.
After the Jaspers cut the Dolphins' 16-point lead down to two, AJ Dancler hit a step-back triple with 1:12 to play to stall the rally.
Dwayne Koroma scored 17 points on 8-for-9 shooting from the floor and added five rebounds and five assists, despite being limited to 22 minutes by foul trouble.
The Black Knights had a 14-point lead with less than five minutes to play, but Le Moyne stormed back and tied the game on Dwayne Koroma's layup with four seconds left.
Ryan Curry's three-pointer with 6.9 seconds remaining in triple overtime broke a tie and gave Army a 103–100 lead.
[48] Jakob Blakley was named NEC Rookie of the Week after hitting eight three-pointers and scoring 28 points in the Dolphins' 106–51 win over SUNY Delhi on December 14.
Robby Carmody's three-pointer gave Le Moyne a 69–66 lead, and Nate Fouts followed with a pair of free throws to put the Dolphins ahead by five points with 1:41 to play.
Dancler answered a Big Green basket with a triple to extend the lead to six points, but Dartmouth hit another three-pointer with 33 seconds to play.
While making his remarks, Krause said that he hoped Notre Dame and Le Moyne could schedule a basketball game in the not too distant future.
Dwayne Koroma scored a career-high 22 points to lead the Dolphins and added eight rebounds, two assists, two steals and a blocked shot.
Leading by a point in the second half, the Sharks went on a 24–6 run over a span of 9:14 to break the game open and cruised to a 78–62 victory.
Le Moyne responded with the first of a series of bursts the teams traded during the second half, this one a 23–7 extended run to move ahead, 45–39 with 13:14 to play.
After each team scored two more points, Le Moyne forced a shot-clock violation with 3.9 seconds to play, but the Dolphins could not get a shot off before the buzzer.
AJ Dancler scored 14 points, grabbed seven rebounds and dished four assists for the Dolphins, who improved to 6–12 overall and 1–2 in NEC play.
[70][71][72] Le Moyne surrendered a 20–0 run over five minutes in their January 20 home game versus Stonehill and saw their 64–45 evaporate and become a one-point deficit with 1:55 to play.
After the shellshocked Dolphins reclaimed the lead, Hermann Koffi hit a triple with nine seconds left to put the Skyhawks in front, 72–71.
[71] AJ Dancler was named an NEC Prime Performer for his 18 points, three rebounds, seven assists and two steals on 3-for-7 shooting from three-point range in the Dolphins' 93–70 home loss to Central Connecticut on January 24.
However, Le Moyne managed only a pair of free throws on their next three possessions, while Mercyhurst hit four foul shots and a layup on their next three trips and held on for an 82–78 victory.
The radio feed with Granozio and Familo on the call will be heard on Dolphins home games that stream on NEC Front Row.
[96] Television or streaming coverage of non-conference road and neutral-site games was available on the media outlets with which the host team had made arrangements.