The men's basketball team's 2011-12 season was not for the fainthearted. As agonizing as some stints of the season may have been, the Bombers capitalized their campaign by winning the Empire 8 Conference Tournament for the first time in the program's history.

Last season, he was donning scarlet, gray and black on the court and playing against top Division I basketball teams like Syracuse University and Villanova University in the Big East Conference. But this season, sophomore forward Frank Mitchell is wearing blue and gold.