2017-18: Injury limited him to one game, at Harvard when he scored eight points in 21 minutes... Team captain.
2016-17: Suffered an injury in a closed scrimmage with Boston University one week before the start of the season… Missed the entire season… Had been selected NBCSports.com Ivy League Preseason Player of the Year.
2015-16: First team All-Ivy selection, only the fourth sophomore in school history to earn first team All-Ivy recognition… Second team NABC District 13 selection… Finished fifth in the Ivy League in scoring (16.0 ppg.), third in assists (3.8 per game), sixth in free throw percentage (.806) and third in minutes played (32.7 per game)… 55 three-pointers tied for the ninth most in a season in school history…Three-time Ivy League Player of the Week, including the final two weeks of the season… Scored at least 20 points in a game nine times… Scored a career-high 31 points in the NCAA Tournament victory over Baylor on 9-of-18 shooting from the field and 11-of-11 shooting from the free throw line… The 31 points were the most ever by a Yale player in an NCAA Tournament game, surpassing the 27 Tony Lavelli scored vs. Illinois in 1949… Appeared as guest on the Dan Patrick Show on the morning after the NCAA win over Baylor… Hit perhaps the biggest shot of the season, a jump shot with five seconds left that forced overtime against Dartmouth, a game Yale would go on to win 76-71… Shared the team’s Dutch Arnold Most Valuable Player Award with Justin Sears… Recipient of Bill Madden Toughness Award… Declared himself eligible for the NBA Draft following the season but later withdrew.
2014-15: Recipient of the team’s John C. Cobb Outstanding Freshman Award… Third on the team with 51 assists… Missed the first game of the season with an injury but played in the next 31… Named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week after scoring 17 points on 7-of-9 shooting from the field against NJIT… Had 19 points on 9-of-11 shooting at Dartmouth.
Before Yale: NEPSAC Class A Player of the Year as a senior at The Hotchkiss School… Four-time all-league selection… Averaged 20 points, five rebounds and eight assists… Holds the single-game school record with 45 points… Helped Hotchkiss to a pair of Founders League championships… Team was Class A runner-up in his senior season… Played with Marquette guard Derrick Wilson and Virginia’s Michael Tobey at Hotchkiss.
Personal: Cousins Amber and Ashley Mason both reached the 1,000-point and 1,000-rebound mark at Longwood… Volunteered at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic… Volunteer at Little Guild of Saint Francis For the Welfare of the Animals… Father Dan was on the coaching staff at Hotchkiss… Son of Dan Mason and Jody Sieben… Has three brothers – Sandino, Yukio and Akira.
Why Yale? “Yale presents an amazing opportunity to pursue intellectual growth. The campus has a warm vibe and the people I met were welcoming and open. I also felt the coaching staff were the most genuine I had met in the recruiting process.”
