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Raptormania!
A Fan Site Dedicated to Bard College Basketball

"I just thank God for the opportunity."
- Jessica Stannmen
Cooper Union's heart and soul, on what it is
like to play against Michael Mandlin. 2/01

Disclaimer: Raptormania! is a satirical website. Facts and quotes in news and game stories are fictional. All separate interview stories,
however, are real.

BREAKING: BARD TO JOIN
LIBERTY LEAGUE in 2011-12:
Vassar No Longer Able to
Duck Vengeful Raptors
June 16, 2009

Bard's meteoric rise through the ranks of Division
III college sports continued Tuesday with the
announcement that the Raptors will become full
members of the prestigious Liberty League in
2011-12.
The news was greeted by a mixture of joyous
cheering from Skyline Conference members, all of
whom are now free from the yoke of Bard
dominance.
The news was not so well-received by members
of the Liberty League, whose dreams of winning
automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament will
now die in gruesome fashion every year at
Stevenson Gymnasium.
Fear ran particularly deep at Vassar College, long
the Washington Generals to Bard's Harlem
Globetrotters. An attempt to get comments from
the student body at Vassar found the campus
nearly empty. A general evacuation had taken
place ahead of the devastation that two
Bard-Vassar games per season will evoke, even
with the move more than two years away.
Raptormania! will be profiling Bard's future
vanquished opponents in the coming months, with
Statesmen, Dutchmen and Golden Knights ahead.

Chris Wood Era Ends at Bard
Winningest Coach Leaves After 7 Years
June 5, 2009

An era filled with great progress and
some of the greatest victories in Bard
basketball history ended this week
when Chris Wood left the Raptors
after seven years at the helm.
Wood, hired prior to the 2002-2003 season,
oversaw two conference moves, from the
HVMAC to the NEAC, then to the Skyline
Conference.
Under Wood, Bard won 46 games, the all-time
record for a Bard coach. The Raptors won as
many as 11 in a season, and also captured a
HVMAC conference title, the first conference
crown in Bard basketball history.
Unfortunately for Wood, a combination of
increased competition level and injuries kept Bard
from progressing in the win column. After posting
a respectable 8-17, 5-13 in-conference during
Bard's first Skyline year, 2008-09 became a
disaster, with injuries and ineligibility leaving the
Raptors shorthanded for most of the season.
Fittingly, however, Bard's winningest coach went
out on a high note, with a 75-70 victory over
Yeshiva.
While Bard's program will, with the right choice at
the helm, only get better, Wood's contributions
are what will make much of the future success
possible in men's basketball. His success stands in
contrast to immediate predecessors like Greg
Dixon, whose decision to leave Bard for Johnson
State was not wise, and Phil Roloson, who was
hired away by SUNY-New Paltz in what
Raptormania! can only assume was an early
episode of Punk'd.

Bard Turns Lights Out on Maccabees
February 22, 2009

The group that once stretched one night's worth
of oil into eight glorious days couldn't summon up
the miracle necessary to overcome Stevenson
Gym's home court advantage, as Justin White's
39 points paced Bard to a 75-70 victory over
Yeshiva in the season finale for both teams.
Adam Shear added 14 points for the Raptors,
while Yonah Greenstein had 12, including a
three-pointer with under a minute left to put Bard
ahead to stay, and two free throws to seal the
game.
Martin Leibovich had 20 points and 15 rebounds
to lead Yeshiva, a team full of mensches who
took the credo "Thou Shall Not Steal" to its
logical extreme, forcing just five Bard turnovers all
game.
Meanwhile, Bard's pressure defense allowed the
Raptors to lead at halftime, 33-29, despite
shooting just 39 percent in the first half. In the
second half, with victory floating in plain sight like
a buoyant tourist in the Dead Sea, Bard's
shooting became sweeter than Manischewitz
Concord Grape-nearly 52 percent overall, 57
percent from beyond the arc-please rise.
Clearly, the dreidel of fortune has spun Bard's
way, as the Bard victory likely portends a period
of nearly nine months without another setback.
As for the Yeshiva players, the result was the
same, regardless of the outcome- a trip home to a
phone call from Mom wondering why she hasn't
heard from them all day.

Editorial: Adam Turner Next
Logical Coach for Raptors
June 5, 2009

Rarely is a successor at any collegiate program
such a no-brainer. But for the Bard Raptors, the
future can be secured with the promotion of
all-time Bard great Adam Turner to the position of
head coach.
Turner was, during his tenure as Bard's all-time
leading scorer, a coach on the floor. But since
graduating from Bard, Turner has gone on to great
things in coaching, from his work with the
prestigious Hoop Group, to coaching at Pomona
Point Guard College, even a time at Pocono
Invitational. He's already put together an enviable
resume- even having been an assistant coach at
Bard.
Turner has other Bard-specific points in his favor,
from his intelligence, to his knowledge of Bard's
unique campus and environment, to the
overwhelming support of Bard's prominent
returning players.
With the challenges inherent in Bard's more
competitive schedule, Adam Turner could bring
Bard the remainder of the distance necessary to
turn what was once a program in name only to a
legitimate Division III basketball power.
Raptormania! urges Bard to think beyond
retreads with head coaching experience, and bring
in Adam Turner, who already made history on the
Stevenson Gym court, and is well-positioned to
do the very same thing as Bard's next head coach.