WILLIAMSBURG — The William & Mary Tribe men’s basketball team will open its 2025-26 season on Nov. 3 at Kaplan Arena.
Ahead of the tip, head coach Brian Earl and senior guard Chase Lowe sat down with WYDaily to discuss the upcoming season.
Earl took over as head coach in 2024. The team averaged 77.7 points per game and finished the 2024-25 campaign with a 17-15 overall record, 11-7 in conference play. The Tribe fell in the quarterfinals of the CAA Tournament to the Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens by a score of 100-78.
Earl spoke about the veteran leadership that will lead his squad this season.
“It’s extra important now with the changing landscape in college athletics. Sometimes as a coach, you’ll say, ‘remember that game from last year where we should have got a couple stops,’ and you are looking around and half the team wasn’t there. A guy like Chase, or Kyle Pulliam, can say when they are on their own with their teammates, this is what he means by that. They are sort of reinforcing the messages that you have as a coach,” Earl explained.
Lowe, who is getting ready for his final season suiting up for the Tribe, also spoke about the leaders on the team.
“The system thrives off retention. We have some good leadership, good returners coming back that are very familiar with the system. We know what the coaches want, we know what they expect out of us, so I think that helps us a lot,” Lowe said.
The Tribe men were picked to finish fourth in the CAA preseason rankings, which is the highest ranking in Earl and Lowe’s time at the school.
“The program is moving in the right direction. As I said before, we have a lot of retention, we have a lot of guys coming back. We have some strong transfers coming into the program. I’m glad we were picked fourth in the CAA, but we all know the goal is to be number one and to win the whole thing,” Lowe said.
The Tribe has lost Gabe Dorsey to graduation. Dorsey was known to be one of the best three-point shooters in the nation, and the Tribe is looking for the team, as a whole, to help fill his absence.
“Gabe hit over 90, so I don’t know that we are going to have somebody in particular. It’ll probably be by committee. We’re not exactly looking for one guy to make up that difference, I think it’s going to be more of a couple of guys. Some names that you heard last year, but also a few new guys,” Earl said.
The Tribe men will face Georgian Court University, Regent University, Old Dominion University, Radford, Towson, Stony Brook University, North Carolina A&T, UNCW, Hofstra, Campbell, Elon, Northeastern and Hampton during its home slate at Kaplan Arena this season.
On the road, the Tribe will face Norfolk State, Richmond, St. John’s, Bowling Green, UTEP, Abilene Christian, Duquesne, George Washington, Charleston, Monmouth, Drexel, Elon, Hampton, Northeastern, Campbell and North Carolina A&T.
The 2026 CAA Championships will round out the season and will take place March 6-10 in Washington, D.C.
For more information on Tribe men’s basketball, visit TribeAthletics.com.
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