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To be fair the first 3 minutes after halftime were the best basketball we played all night. Not sure what was said but we made significant changes, upped the effort, defended Brown beyond the 3 point line, and went to the basket offensively. Immediately tied the game up and forced Brown to call tim...

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Rhody15 wrote: ↑4 years ago They came outta the locker room in the second half walking, barely moving, heads down, looking totally disinterested.

Knew it was over from there.

They played hard for about the first 5-ish minutes of the second half. Then went back to doing what they did for basically the rest of the game.

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Joes 2.0 Fordham 3.0 Those teams had enough good wins to overcome those games. This team doesn’t. They've played 5 games vs Top 100 teams so far this season. Currently 2-3. They play 9 more in A-10 play. Tall task though... they need to stack wins in those games while avoiding any more bad losses.

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I officially hate this thread starting on Jan 2nd. URI only has 20+ games left before Selection Sunday. Where do they stand 🤮 I usually do my best to not really read until near the end of conference play, although I will admit that knowing where teams stand, roughly, as we head into conference play...

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Figured I'd start a thread for this, both for URI (since that's the goal) and the A-10/NCAA in general. Rhode Island doesn't have the resume to appear in any brackets yet, but they did land in an NIT Bracketology posted today. It has them as a 6 seed facing 3 seed Oregon State with a potential secon...

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And there it is.

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If Cooley was as good of a coach as he thinks he is he’d probably have more than one NCAA Tournament win...

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I hope they both lose.

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The big question, based on the pic in the tweet above, is: Does Ed Cooley get dressed in the dark?

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Damn, that’s rough https://twitter.com/mid_madness/status/1211849179825356800?s=21 How’s that possible? Davidson had 27 fouls, Vanderbilt attempted 37 free throws is how that’s possible, I think Still an incredible bit of info Vandy was up by 24 in the second half and only won by 5, so they had eno...

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I am less worried about the Cyril situation - it didn’t cost them anything and it wasn’t a prolonged benching. At the time I made the original comments, I didn’t know either of those things. In the end, I don’t have a problem with how it was handled. Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but Stev...

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For what it's worth, KenPom predicts Rhody to be favored in every game for the rest of the season except four:

at VCU
at Dayton
at Davidson
vs Dayton

He also has at St. Bonaventure, at George Mason, and vs VCU as essentially coin flips (but URI slightly favored in all three).

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The fact that Duquesne dropped almost 50 spots due to one loss shows that there's not a large enough sample size to put much stock into NET right now. Same with most of the other metrics. Doesn't stop me from stalking them like crazy, though.

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I know we can't really talk when it comes to coach tantrums but Stansbury repeatedly refused to leave the court, have no idea why the refs put up with it. Yeah, I thought this was pretty egregious... he was FULLY on the court for most of the game. I was hoping that whoever was bringing the ball up ...

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Nice win by LIU over a good Delaware team.

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There was no mention -- good, bad, or otherwise -- of Tate on Cox's coaches show last night. My guess (and it's purely a guess) is that he'll be out for the WKU game as well.

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LSU is getting clocked by ETSU. Not great.

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URI’s win over PC is already a Quad 4 win. But if there was a Quad 5 PC looks like they’d be able to find it right now.

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thanks for the update DC ! if the kids grades are good, then the ncaa should throw him a bone already Yeah, and the way they work, maybe they will by the end of February. Aren't academics pretty cut and dry though? Either you qualified or you didn't? Or is there a judgement call to be made? You wou...

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PC has outright lost FIVE games.

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One of the criterion for the 5th column is that the A-10 is not a mid-major.

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Folks, I'm starting to think Fordham might not be good.

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SLU is officially dead last in the country in FT percentage.

The good news is they're now a KenPom Top 100 team, giving the A-10 SEVEN schools in the KenPom Top 100.

18 Dayton
40 VCU
61 Duquesne
66 Richmond
73 Davidson
81 Rhode Island
99 Saint Louis

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Rhode Island (FCS): In addition to offensive coordinator Will Fleming (see below), sources tell FootballScoop the following coaches will not return: Pete Rekstis (defensive coordinator), Josh Lott (defensive line) and Jim Miceli (running backs). Sources tell FootballScoop head coach Jim Fleming doe...

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bigappleram wrote: ↑4 years ago He's a dude. He's strong, physical and athletic. If he has even the shooting touch of Cyril he will be a help. We need more dudes.

Yup. The front court is lacking toughness when Cyril goes to the bench. Walker should help with that.

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Davidson definitely scares me more than Duquesne right now. Dukes will play 0 Top 100 teams and 0 true road games in their non-conference, so jury is very much still out on them.

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This is just a fan account so take that into consideration, but sharing.

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One of PC's top Twitter fan accounts has had the same anti-URI tweet pinned to the top of their page for THIRTEEN straight months. Weird that I've never seen them pin an anti-Villanova tweet...

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PC is just a broken team. Pipkins sucking is hurting them tremendously. On that note, got to love a comment from a couple of Friar fans on their board after the game. Said that Cooley got Pipkins because he was beating them when he was at UMass. But now that they've got him, he's STILL beating them...

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ATPTourFan wrote: ↑4 years ago

Check the home court advantage per KenPom.

Shhh, no one tell Ed.

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adam914 wrote: ↑4 years ago Pipkins 0-4 with 0 points, 2 assists and 3 turnovers. Thanks for stopping by kid.

I wanna petition for another year of eligibility for him.

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RhodyKyle wrote: ↑4 years ago Who took the free money??

Rhody ML and the under parlay was nice.

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Top 100 recruit de-commits from Georgetown.

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steviep123 wrote: ↑4 years ago I was 8 years old at the time, so wasn't really aware of the significance of the game and what the RI gov't did, taking out an ad in the projo wishing a private institution good luck against the flagship STATE UNIVERSITY.

My dad still fumes about that ad to this day.

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Sounds like Akinjo picked the worst time to transfer as it's causing him to be lumped in with this mess.

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TruePoint wrote: ↑4 years ago I’m so not dazzled by these scrub teams padding their records against scrub competition.

Liberty Liberty Liberty. Liberty.

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The only people surprised by Pipkins play so far are people that didn't watch him at UMass.

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KenPom may have PC ranked 60th, but he also projects them to finish below .500 on the season (15-16).

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Yep, eight of URI's 18 A-10 games will be against the KenPom Top 100 right now (VCU x2, Davidson x2, Dayton x2, Duquesne, Richmond). Add in SLU and Mason and 10/18 against the Top 150.

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Hasahn French with 21 pts and 24 rebounds in a win over Belmont! Named A-10 Player of the Week this week. Well that’s what I get for stalking Twitter to see if Fatts was gonna win A-10 POW. Didn’t realize it was gonna be a shared honor! https://twitter.com/studurando/status/1199057663591624705?s=21

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PeterRamTime wrote: ↑4 years ago Hasahn French with 21 pts and 24 rebounds in a win over Belmont!

Named A-10 Player of the Week this week.

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It has become a long standing Rhody fan tradition to always assume that the one or two (or in the case of 2013, like 6) guys who are not able to play for whatever reason would have been the difference maker. I have fallen into the trap quite a few times myself. I am hopeful Walker will be a solid c...

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Utah State hangs on, closes the game on an 11-0 run over the final 4:11 to win by 9.

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North Texas is hanging with Utah State... up 5 with 10 minutes left.

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