Davidson loses to New Mexico St in the Diamondhead Classic. 69-68

Juan Bid continues to stalk the Atlantic 10.

I think URI and SBU have good non-conference resumes. As long as they don't screw up in conference play, they are in decent shape.

The rest of the league - not so good.

Some team will finish first in the League. One or two teams will have NCAA bubble records & resume's. Some team will win the A10 Championship auto bid.

Seems like 2 or more could possibly get in.

Auburn blowing out UCONN 72-39 with 10 to play.

You’re welcome, Ron Hunter.
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Flipped on Duquesne vs. Southern Illinois. Feels like there are more people on the floor than in the stands. The opposite of UD Arena.

They are playing in the Las Vegas tournament.You would think a few fans would want to go to Las Vegas.

Before any games today there were four teams that were undefeated. Now there are only three as the New Mexico St. Aggies, in a game which was just completed, took down the 10-0 Miami Hurricanes 63-54! Chris Lykes, a freshman who starts for Miami was once on UD's radar.

The 3 remaining are Villanova, TCU and Arizona State. Two of the three have tough games to start their conference schedules in their next game. TCU hosts Oklahoma and Trae Young while Arizona State opens at Arizona. Villanova is at DePaul so they may remain undefeated the longest!

There are currently no more undefeated teams in Div. 1. The remaining 3 teams all suffered their first loss today. Villanova lost to Butler 101-93. Oklahoma, behind Trae Young's 39 pts, beat TCU 90-89 and in a game just concluded Arizona defeated Arizona St. 84-78.

Auburn who defeated us by 7, defeated #23 Tennessee (in Knoxville) 94-84 I believe they are 13-1. Announcer mentioned the win in Dayton as a significant win. first win in Knoxville in 20 years

Actually, they beat us by 13, 73-60. But it was single digits with about 90 ticks left.

Indiana lost to Wisconsin by 10 last night. But actually, my post is about Wisconsin. I remember the years of watching very good Bo Ryan led teams. The team I watched last night is the worst Badger team I can remember. The game proved that even the power conferences have games that are hard to watch.

Duquesne and Rhode Island looking to be the only two 2-0 conference teams after tonight's action.

I have found a positive after the Flyers abysmal loss to UMass

Xavier lost 81 to 72 to Providence and Ed Cooley(Glad Ed finally got to play a home game)

Bonaventure is down 16 at St Joes in the second half.

It's looking like Juan Bid is working his magic and Rhody is the only team with a chance for an at large bid

Juan Bid has officially arrived. Joes beats Bona 83-78.

Rhody is the only team left in the A10 who can get an at large bid.

Everybody else is trying to win the tourney in DC. Just a horrible year by the A10

Auburn easily beats #22 Arkansas and should be in the Top 25 tomorrow.

Yeah, unfortunately I agree that the Bonnie's are likely not getting an at large bid this year, but they still have time to get things turned around. Also, VCU is not pulling their weight this year like they usually do.

This is going to be VCU's worst year since 2002-2003, they are usually much better than this.


VCU Rams RPI History

Season Record RPI Rank SOS Rank
2016-2017 26-9 0.6198 15 0.5829 15
2015-2016 24-10 0.5876 37 0.5524 59
2014-2015 26-9 0.6198 15 0.5829 15
2013-2014 26-8 0.6258 13 0.5715 27
2012-2013 26-8 0.6099 24 0.5621 41
2011-2012 28-6 0.5842 38 0.4998 154
2010-2011 23-11 0.5763 49 0.5384 85
2009-2010 22-9 0.5671 66 0.5122 136
2008-2009 24-9 0.5783 50 0.5194 118
2007-2008 24-7 0.5708 54 0.4990 161
2006-2007 27-6 0.5844 44 0.5095 126
2005-2006 19-10 0.5508 81 0.5149 122
2004-2005 19-12 0.5450 89 0.5236 105
2003-2004 23-7 0.5689 54 0.5030 143
2002-2003 18-10 0.5220 120 0.4818 199
2001-2002 20-11 0.5408 87 0.5060 131
2000-2001 15-14 0.5082 137 0.5052 128
1999-2000 14-14 0.4883 173 0.4844 178
1998-1999 15-16 0.4747 194 0.4717 201
1997-1998 9-19 0.4330 245 0.4702 206
1996-1997 14-13 0.5081 129 0.5046 125
1995-1996 24-8 0.5535 66 0.4880 165
1994-1995 14-14 0.5338 99 0.5451 56
1993-1994 14-13 0.5612 58 0.5754 18

Watching OSU up by 18 early in the second half against #1 Michigan State. It is amazing that with Rat Face no longer coaching in Columbus, the Buckeyes actually run a nice offense, move with and without the ball, score and win!

How is this possible for a first year coach
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Looks like ex-Wright State hc, Brad Brownell, Purnell's replacement at Clemson, likely saved his job this year. They are 14-1 and projected as rpi #19.

Maybe they will finally win at NC for the first time ever on January 16.

I attended the Louisiana-Lafeyette game at Clemson a few weeks back. They have a ton of experience and depth. Brownell coaches the heck out of them during the game. I always liked Brownell...first-class guy and a good X/O guy. He finally has the senior experience and talent necessary to compete in the ACC. By the way, watching a game at Clemson is much different than a UD game - they had maybe 5,000 people and most were discussing their upcoming football game.

This is Brownell's 8th season at Clemson. Only ncca tourney appearance was first year
with Purnells players. Obviously basketball not a priority at a football is king school.
Had a similar pattern at wright st (0ne ncaa first year only). Maybe this if his first breakthrough season after all these years.

Clemson is an incredible 0-58 vs. UNC, when the game is played at Chapel Hill, which is the NCAA record for the longest home winning streak against a single opponent.

I never understood why Purnell left Clemson, he had a real good thing going.



Wright State won at Horizon League preseason #1 NKU tonight. They were picked #5. They have now beaten the HL preseason top 4 teams, 3 of the 4 on the road. This might be their year.

From Wednesday night - Pipkins put up 44 and set a Mullins Center record for UMass against La Salle in a 86-79 UMass OT win. Minutemen came back from down 21.

Scott Nagy @ Wright State is an excellant coach, I was kind of suprirsed when WSU hired him away from South Dakota State. They were a really good D2 team under his helm, then he built them up thru some lean years as they transitioned to D1, once they settled in, they were regularly in postseason play. He's the kind of coach P5 schools should have been looking at to build up their program.

Why Purnell left Clemson???? Very simple...$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Yeah, google says that DePaul gave him a raise to $2.2 million a year. He was making $1.6 million per year at Clemson.

But, he only lasted 5 years at DePaul. He might still be at Clemson today.

But if he's happy in retirement he's $3M richer.

Clemson +7.5 tonight at NC. Clemson will probably be 0-59 in Chapel Hill. The game will be on ESPN Extra at 7pm.

I do not know what ESPN Extra is.

The ESPNE's are ones you have to pay extra for in addition to the fee you pay for ESPN and for the fee you pay for the ESPNU.

If there was a year for Clemson to do it, this is it. NC is very inconsistent.

Maybe felt his seating getting hot after three straight first round NCAA losses (all as the better seeded team)

Clemson down 76-68 with 3:22 left.

I added ESPN Extra to my Spectrum cable account, but a stupid "this game is blacked out in your area" message comes up. The Spectrum CSR said that there is likely a problem on ESPN's end.

Clemson falls 87-79, 0-59 in Chapel Hill now.

I was able to watch the game on the Watch ESPN app.

Spectrum cable offers 8 ESPN Extra TV channels, and apparently there is 1 ESPN Extra internet channel.

About half of the ESPN Extra TV channels were blacked out for some reason.

I watched the whole game on FXCarolinas. NC came to play. Clemson was no match for their talent. Loved when the UNC students went nuts for school being cancelled because snow was predicted for today.

The South, where it is a weather emergency when snow is predicted. The North, where it is a heat emergency when 90 degrees is predicted.

Meanwhile, down in the land of Mickey, UC struggled to score 15 1st half points, less than 50 for the game, yet still won by double digits over UCF. I didn't see any of the game, but I can only imagine it set back basketball as much as UD vs DePaul did in the NCAA tournament a decade+ ago.

I listened to a lot of the game...UCFs strategy in every game is to run the 30-sec clock down to 1 before shooting...limiting opposition possessions is their idea of 'defense' and it worked in the first half...in fact, it works well for them...just check their record and box scores. UCs radio team was humored by it and in all honesty, it was fun to listen to despite the lack of scoring.

FWIW, UCF has a 7'6" center.

I live outside Chicago and have never seen a heat emergency because of 90 degree temps. It is 90 pretty much every day in July and August, (but cooler by the lake). There has certainly never been anything cancelled because it was going to be 90. We truly get the worst of both worlds temperature wise, but it is a small price to pay for no wild fires, mudslides, hurricanes, and the abundance of fresh water.

Incorrect. Clemson's uncharacteristically poor defense and terrible 1st half sunk them.

Clemson was down 16 at half, but scored 56 points in the second half and still couldn't narrow the gap enough, even hitting 13 shots in a row as they did at one point. It was a good second half for both teams.

I wouldn't say they were no match... They play at Clemson in 2 weeks and fully expect a Clemson win in that one.

VCU lost to Richmond by 15 at home. 5-13 Richmond.

Red alert on the VCU Rams forum.

Gaels got monster win at the Kennel against the Zags 74-71.

New AP Top 10
1. Villanova
2. Virginia
3. Purdue
4. Duke
5. Kansas
6. Michigan State
7. West Virginia
8. Xavier
9. Cincinnati
10. North Carolina

RI in at #24/#23 this week.

In my opinion, they deserve to be higher. With that group of athletic and experienced players, they could compete with anyone today.

TommyGola: I agree Rhode Island will be a tough out in the tournament because of all those guards. I think Andy Katz has them ranked 12th overall; much more in line with where they should be ranked imo

Had to look for this thread. Wondered if anyone was watching Duquesne at no. 24 Rhode Island. The Dukes have a surprising 12 point lead over the Rams 33-23 with 18:00 to go.

Hurley is going to lose it at some point.

Last second 3 wins it for the Rams. They survived the challenge.

Not sure how Duquesne could have even been competitive. Virtually impossible for a 1st year coach to exceed expectations
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St. John's takes down a Top 5 team for the 2nd time in a week. Wonder how long it'll be before we see talking heads touting a team that's currently 12-13 and last in the BE for NCAA consideration because they're "gaining steam"?

If St. John's only loses 2 more games before the tournament and ends with a record of 19-15, with wins over 2 top 5 teams, they may actually make it in the NCAA tourney bc of those strength of victories.

2 things to take away from this:

1) UD needs the A-10 to be vastly improved to allow for some losses to be offset by beating top 25-50 teams in conference OR schedule tougher OOC (see early season tournament next season)

2) I don't agree with Lunardi often, but I'm completely on board with his belief that all at-large teams MUST be AT LEAST .500 in conference to be eligible for the NCAA tournament. Those under.500 teams should go to NIT

That seems reasonable.

I could see them getting in with 1 or 2 more losses, but I do not think they would get that sort of p5 preferential treatment. A 16-14 or 15-15 regular season record would cause a lot of complaints. Even a 17-13 regular season record would cause complaints.

I do not think they will pull this off, I have seen them play, I was not overly impressed, but they are not too bad, I just think that they will come up a little short, they are certainly a streaky team though.


17-13 rpi 50 sos 6

16-14 rpi 56 sos 6

15-15 rpi 67 sos 6

St John is 1-11 in conference for a reason. Barring a second coming there is no way they Dance

I haven't followed ST. Johns but I did watch the end of their win over Duke because seein Duke lose always makes me happy.

It just goes to show that the separation between teams is not great as they appear sometimes. The Flyers are 8th in the A10 at 5-6. Win those 2 games vs UMass (2 pt loss at home and an OT loss on the road) and they are 7-4 and have they are tied for 3rd with the tie breaker over the other 2 teams with the same record. That would get them a double bye at the A10 tourney. However, they are also 2 games from the bottom and having to play in DC on Wednesday.

ri Has few weaknesses.

Should be ranked 11 to 16. 14 or 15 is more fair.

Amen. RI should be 11 or 12, but the bias of the voters against the non Big6.

Says something about the quality of the Big East that the last place team can beat two potential #1 seeds
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Yer in biiiiiiiiig trouble!
 

Allegations of Georgia Tech hc Josh Pastner providing improper benefits to players.

Salacious allegations regarding Pastner's personal life.



https://www.cbssports.com/college-ba...jilted-friend/

http://www.myajc.com/blog/jeff-schul...04aOFCqvmNWqJ/:

Tech attorneys and the NCAA got involved. When it was over, neither party found any reason to hold Pastner culpable. The players received short suspensions, but there were no sanctions against the program or its coach.

http://www.realclearlife.com/sports/...exual-assault/

St. John's beat #65 Marquette a few days ago in Queens...3 game winning streak for SJU.

St John's makes it 4 straight.

Knocks off DePaul.

Wright State dropped 2 more games recently, Cleveland State and Milwaukee, so no at large NIT bid for them.

I suppose that they could not finish in 1st in the HL and also lose in the HLT, and they would get neither the NCAAT nor the NIT.

They still have a shot at the regular season championship, and #1 seed in the HLT. Trail NKU by one, have NKU next at home. Win that and they have tiebreaker, would be 2-0 against NKU. Of course they would have to win out, CSU and IUPUI at home (doable) and at ILL Chicago (tough one).

UD & Wright St aren't rivals.

Since they are no threat to UD, would Flyer fans want to see the Raiders in the NCAA tournament this year?

I could not care less one way or the other. Just have zero interest.

Well one drawback is we would have to listen to the"bring back the Gem
City Jam" nonsense again,and UD posters would be crying in their beer about the Flyers not making the Dance and WSU dancing.

I'd like to see Wright St in over any other Horizon team.

URI at the Bonnies is a great match up of strong backcourts and is going back and forth as expected. Hoping to see the Bonnies give URI its first A10 loss and snap the Ram’s 16 game winning streak.

Don't Storm the Court if you pull this out Bonaventure!!!!

I so hope the Bona fans storm the court and somehow lose a game two years in a row.

Bet they will!

This was a big game for the Bonnies and the W will help them selection Sunday.

Great game. I miss those big games.
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Agree. And, I look forward to more of them in our future.

If you are frustrated this season, remember we be Bonnie by 10. Long way to go, but our guys can play at times. We are a disaster on the road, but with experience that will come.

Thanks, I needed that.

...and VCU, Davidson, and Richmond. Amazingly, we have beaten 4 of the top 6 teams in the A-10. Let's hope Tuesday we can make it 5.

If you want more frustration, look no further than #4 Xavier at home against #3 Villanova. X could end up as a 1 seed, 2 seed at worst most likely.

VCU getting pounded by GW 52-32, 16 min left
LaSalle defats GMU 69 - 62
Auburn losing to SC 57 - 42, 13 min left
Nova over X 33-21 6 min left 1st half
MSU overcomes 22 point half time deficit and 27 point second half deficit to defeat NW 65-60
AMs Hoosiers blow 11 point lead late to Iowa but win 84-82

Villanova 95, _avier 79.

That is all. :D
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