Poughkeepsie, NY – The 2025 Liberty League Champion Vassar College Women's Basketball team learned it will take on Amherst Friday in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament. Tip-off on the campus of Smith College is scheduled for 4:15 p.m. with Live Stats and Video available for those unable to attend.
Ticket Information
Tickets for First Round games will go on sale on Wednesday, March 5 at 5:00 p.m. The link to purchase tickets will be posted at smithpioneers.com.
FRIDAY - SESSION PASSES ONLY (INCLUDES BOTH GAMES)
$20 Adult / $15 Students, Seniors (65 and over), Children over 2
Doors will open at 3:15pm
SATURDAY - SINGLE GAME
$15 Adult / $10 Student, Seniors (65 and over), Children over 2
Doors will open at 5:45pm
Vassar won its second straight league title and the fifth in program history and enter Friday's matchup with the Mammoths at 21-6 overall. With Sunday's victory, Vassar has won consecutive league crowns for the first time since 2011 and 2012 and earned the program's sixth NCAA Tournament appearance.
The Brewers feature three 1,000-point scorers on the 2024-25 roster in
Julia Harvey (Delmar, NY),
Tova Gelb (Sharon, MA) and
Sierra McDermed (San Antonio, TX). Gelb leads the Brewers' offensive attack, and the Liberty League in scoring, with 18.6 points per game and is averaging a double-double with 10.7 rebounds per outing.
McDermed is second on the team and in the conference with 17.5 points per game and is tops on the team and conference with 3.6 assists per game. Harvey is third on the team and in the league in scoring with 15.8 points per game and is second in the league in three-point percentage at 33.1-percent.
Harvey averaged 21.0 points per game and went 4-for-7 from three-point range in Sunday's Liberty League Championship on the way to being named the event's Most Outstanding Player.
Vassar leads the conference in scoring with just over 69 points per game and is third in the Liberty League in scoring defense, allowing 57.5 points per game. The Brewers shoot nearly 41-percent from the field as a unit and enter the NCAA Tournament having made 165 three-point field goals. The Brewers are also efficient from the free-throw line, converting at nearly 76-percent from the charity stripe.
Amherst enters the NCAA Tournament at 19-7 overall and is coming off at 58-49 loss to Bowdoin in the Semifinal Round of the NESCAC Tournament. The Mammoths had a five-game winning streak stopped with the loss to the Polar Bears on Saturday.
Laura Mendell leads a pair of players scoring in double-figures with 13.8 points per game while shooting 42.3-percent from the field. Kori Barach checks in with 11.3 points per game for Amherst with Maya Cwalina posting 8.6 points per game and team-highs with 7.2 rebounds and just over three blocks per game.
Amherst scores just under 63 points per game as a team and allows opponents just 51.4 points per outing.
The winner of Friday's contest will take on the winner of the Smith and Cobleskill First Round game on Saturday.
