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Zek looks like he wants to score. Keep that going boy. If this game gets him out of his funk, Green being out may be a blessing in disguise. I also thought Weston looked good on both ends. Catching up on the thread from last night as I missed the first half. I believe it was Jimmy Patsos doing the ...

I disagree that URI's perimeter D was significantly better last night. LaSalle could not hit open threes. Is this a result of the pack-line D strategy, and not being able to respond to the perimeter quickly enough for fear of not being able to retreat to the pack line position? Post game radio show...

One kind of odd thing about our defense - Opponents are shooting roughly 45 percent from the field and 36 percent from 3 against us. Both marks are middle of the pack when it comes to the Atlantic 10, so it's not like we're giving up a shit ton of easy lay-ups and dunks or wide open 3s. Likewise, ou...

If we're looking to add 2 or 3 players from the portal, what should we prioritize? I mean, we will be! We have two signed guys, and I would be shocked if we only had two scholarships available. Stewart would seem like a lock to leave, and from there, it's easy to imagine that there would be frank d...

I think Ford's coaching future would depend on how important it is for him to be the head coach. Like, Jim Baron found a job after URI - there's another rung after this mid-major level that Ford would be seen as a great hire for. I'm not sure if that would pay more or less than an assistant job at s...

I think Miller prioritized offense over defense with all of his incoming recruits, which isn't the worst decision. You generally want offense over defense, if you have to pick between the two. Look at last year's team vs. this year's - We had an average D last year, and a 300+ ranked offense, and we...

rjv wrote: ↑2 months ago I just want to put out there
High Point 7-0 conf 18-4 overall
Quinnipiac 8-1 conf 16-4 overall
Bradley 7-3 conf 15-6 overall

High Point and Quinnipiac changed head coaches. Bradley won 25 games last year.

We may set an NCAA record this year for least number of turnovers forced during a season. In all seriousness, if an opposing team did full court, 3 man weave drills with no defense for 40 min they'd have more than 2 turnovers. After yesterday's game, we're now 282 (out of 362) in adjusted defense b...

I think confidence is very important to the offense. But I don't think they ever "play their ass off on defense". And there lies the problem! Yeah, this is true. URI is 272 in AdjD by Kenpom, 333rd out of 362 teams in DRtg on Sports Reference. If we shoot decent in a particular game, we k...

He played 16 minutes in three games this year, and the team is 8-10, 0-5 in conference play. If he couldn't get minutes right away there, hard to imagine him staying with a power conference team. Then again, 7'1" is 7'1", so I could see just about any college team taking a shot on him, or ...

Seems like he’s leaving the SLU program for personal reasons. Hope all is ok. And in less than 24 hours his bio has been completely scrubbed from the SLU website. That’s odd and would hint at something nefarious. I don't know if nefarious is the right word, but it seems like there might have been a...

ramster wrote: ↑2 months ago Eagles HC job opens up too

I believe he's retaining his job. They fired the DC that got demoted during the season for Patricia.

Zek's current A10 stats per game through 5 games: 20.6 minutes/ 3.8 pts (15% FG, OMG)/ 3.2 rebs/ he has a total of 2 assists and 4 TO. Most of us felt he was our best player early part of the season, what happened? Somebody please wake him up. That kin tape appeared on his shoulder and he’s been of...

There is no result that will surprise me in this one. Other than winning, I just want to see Zek get going. That would be a win in my book. I agree completely with you. The variance with this team is crazy - Green brings some stability and another quality player to the lineup, but we're still like ...

I guess if you could pull that off it would be great, but as I said in my previous post it'd be risky and I'm skeptical it'd be as easy as it sounds. I would also add - This isn't something that would be in McGlade's purview anyway. She was hired to be the commissioner of the Atlantic 10, not some ...

I agree with Blue Man's comments, and I'd also add - With the transfer recruiting, the timeline is compressed, and I honestly have zero "feel" for how close we are to landing any of these prospects. Like, we've been linked to a wide range of players, from Pride to Sean Durugordon to Khalif...

PeterRamTime wrote: ↑3 months ago 13 turnovers to 1

Now up to 15 to 1, and Bonaventure is shooting 59.1 percent from the field with 15:55 left. They'd hang 100 on us if they went all out the full time, but I imagine they'll call the dogs off at some point.

Held Fordham to 44 points, 29 percent shooting, and turned them over 19 times - all good! On to the next one.

This is a seemingly bizarre story - TCU had a player with a torn ACL, but 9 players logged minutes in their last game against Texas. It doesn't seem like it would necessarily be a Covid thing, because they cancelled their next two games. https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/3932...

And now Pitt is struggling Yeah - The entire team is doing poorly in conference. Kind of odd, because their schedule wasn't some Charmin soft thing like St. Joe's this year or Fordham last year. They played WVU, Clemson, Florida, a couple others. As far as I can tell, they don't have a significant ...

Ish coming off bench now played 17 minutes scored 8 Grass ain’t always greener. Plenty of examples of guys who drop and excel - paired with just as many who go up and struggle. And now Pitt is struggling Yeah - The entire team is doing poorly in conference. Kind of odd, because their schedule wasn'...

I would suggest any evolution of the current conference will not come from the internal administration A-10 cast of folks. But rather from visionary basketball centric break away folks from the external. Meaning some current Presidents, ADs, coaches to get the conversations going, is our leadership...

We played at the #52 NET ranked team in the country, where they've won 14 home games in a row going back more than a year, without our second leading rebounder. Despite all that, we only lost by 4 while losing the rebounding battle 39-32, again without our second leading rebounder. The doom and glo...

Zek is definitely bothered the rotation change, ie Cam. Happens all the time. He needs to accept his role. Green obviously factors in too, regardless of their different positions. He’s taken a good amount of shots away from Zek. Eh, I think Zek has taken shots away from Zek because of his meh to po...

The Pawtucket Times and Woonsocket Call merged recently to form Blackstone Valley's Call & Times. The Call used to publish seven days a week but the new entity doesn't have a Sunday paper anymore, which seems weird because I thought Sunday was the most popular edition of newspapers Traditionall...

My browser say: This site can’t be reached Seems like they changed the domain name for the Pawtucket Times, and its now available here: https://www.woonsocketcall.com/sports/in-5-million-gift-from-anonymous-donor-pc-receives-early-christmas-transformative-present/article_919951c0-a190-11ee-b6af-5b7...

Green has just had a crazy great effect on the team's depth and efficiency. He's currently at 14.8 FTA per 40 minutes, which is more than double anyone else on this year's team. That would probably be Top 10 in the nation. It almost has to come back to Earth a bit, but he's great at drawing fouls an...

As Bill Parcells made famous, "The best ability is availability." It is now two years of Bilau ranging from out, to day to day, to limited minutes, to healthy. It's kind of hard to develop a rotation or chemistry with your teammates if you're yoyoing like that. It sucks, and it's unfortuna...

Because I was a doofus and forgot to do this before the St. Joe's game, I created a bit more extra work for myself, but! It is time to crown the mid-season winner. As a reminder, the winner is the person that guessed the win-loss record OOC, with the tiebreaker criteria being the same as for the ful...

Billy Lange should've been fired 1/3rd of the way into his second season? Or certainly his 3rd season? Or was it his 4th season? From afar, I kind of thought he was the new Matt McCall (UMass), in that there was a lot of emphasis on how awesome next year's recruiting class was going to be. However,...

Only way we win is if Bilau is healthy, plays more minutes than any other big and Brown doesn't see the floor. Bilau hasn't surpassed 20 minutes since 2022, and he got hurt again after / during the Charleston game. (Can't remember which.) At this point, I kind of think he's going to be relegated to...

Interesting that in 1897 Penn went 15-0 and 1894 Yale went 16-0. I never knew they played that many games back then. Part of the reason why the NCAA was started by Teddy Roosevelt and others was because of how "wild west" various sports were before 1906. You'd have things like 30-year-old...

The A-10 definitely had a better OOC this year than last, but the only team that probably earned an at-large as of now is Dayton. After that, there is a grouping of eight teams from roughly 50 to 104 NET that can maybe get up to that 30 to 45 range, if they have a gaudy conference record (like 13 o...

The A-10 definitely had a better OOC this year than last, but the only team that probably earned an at-large as of now is Dayton. After that, there is a grouping of eight teams from roughly 50 to 104 NET that can maybe get up to that 30 to 45 range, if they have a gaudy conference record (like 13 or...

Billyboy78 wrote: ↑3 months ago Green now leads the team with an average of 15 PPG. Anybody pick him?

Ha, RhodyMob05 initially had him as their pick, but I believe he changed after the exhibition, when it seemed like Green would be ineligible for the year.

Northeastern obviously isn't a great team, but it's good to get a W against anyone at this point. I suspect that the lineup out there to finish - Estevez, Montgomery, House, Green and Fuchs - is what we go with going forward, with Kortright first off the bench. Those six were the only guys to play 2...

yes, we get that. but are you saying that you would like people to start saying negative things about Always? Saying negative things is different from ridiculing. I don’t need people to say Wright isn’t a D1 player, but saying some negative things is fine for a message board. A couple people on her...

McRam wrote: ↑3 months ago Does anyone know if there was a definitive reason announced by Archie announced as to why DG did not play vs UNH ?(or apparently not even suited up

Free Dubs and Free Rory! Give me shooters on the floor! Unfortunately there are 2 ends to the floor. Archie would have to change his defense. Then again, there aren't many on the team playing it well now, so it probably wouldn't hurt to play them. I guess that’s the point - defense kind of sucks, m...

In a way we're already seeing that, Texas' backup QB Maalik Murphy entered the portal. They said for some reason they couldn't wait until Texas' season ended to enter the portal. That I don't like, if you're a playoff team you shouldn't have to worry about this. If someone decides to skip the Wasab...

Remember when people compared Bradford to Chet Holgrem? Good times. I found him kind of intriguing as a "big guy who can shoot!" type, but yeah, he clearly would have been overmatched at the A-10 level. Also, either the scouting of HS prospects or the recruiting of them, or both, was just...

adam914 wrote: ↑4 months ago Incredible recap once again!! Thanks!

It's amazing what you can accomplish in the slow work period leading up to the holidays!

The Extensive Where Are They Now? - Volume 2! "Why didn't he do that here?!?" - URI Transfers Edition - Ileri Ayo-Faleye is logging about 20 MPG for Vermont (8-3), up from 12.3 the previous year. He has started all 10 of Vermont's games, but he's 7th in MPG, 3rd among their forwards. He's...

It’s a hoot that it’s tossed around regularly here that S Thomas is a better player than Wright. Wright is a baller. Keep your eyes on this kid. To be fair to both, Thomas has been playing way, way better for Albany than he ever did here. I'm not sure if it's simply a matter of "needing" ...

If I looked correctly, there are 14 D1 games on tonight and 7 of them are against non D1 teams. It's kind of wild to me how widespread these games have become. There is pretty much zero upside to them. In most cases, you'd be better served by just organizing a really intense scrimmage with your ros...

Whatever happened to APR? Does that even exist anymore? Haven't seen/heard on any updates on that, seems like forever. It's publicly available information . We haven't had an issue with it in a while now. If you're at 930 or lower, you can be banned from postseason participation. We were at 926 in ...

It’s not the Supreme Court but just a federal district court. Plus it’s an injunction that expires in 14 days. Also RI didn’t join the suit so it’s not clear if it affects URI. If I were Archie I wouldn’t play Green until after the 27th at the earliest. Rhode Island didn't have to join the suit to ...

Bring back illegal backdoor deals, one year sit out transfers, no waivers, no 24/25/26 year old players. This is a goddamn mess and exhausting. I agree that this waiver deal is a mess and stupid. I kind of want a halfway solution - I think players shouldn't have to sit for a first time transfer (be...

AAC vs. A-10 seems pretty even to me - I'm not really sure why Wichita State would want to make that jump. The AAC has lost Houston, Cincy, UConn and SMU in recent years, but they still have Memphis, Temple and suddenly good Florida Atlantic. I'd also add that the overall NET rankings don't necessar...

You never really know what you get when you take 5 guys from the portal or whatever it was then try to get them to play as a team , maybe the players are worse than we or the coaches thought they would be ? Anyway things aren’t looking too good and it’s early in his tenure let’s see how this team i...

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