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I would think most Rhode Islanders have nothing but warm wishes for Larry.

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I will not be shedding any tears.

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Only one of the four venues for the 2024 NCAA Men's Hockey Tournament sold out any sessions. The venue at Maryland Heights-MO, which only seated 3,148 (some 650 above its normal capacity), sold out all its games. The best attended games at the other three venues were 5,765 at Springfield (cap 6,800)...

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NC State and UConn have teams in both the NCAA 2024 Men's AND Women's Final Fours. That is quite an accomplishment given some 350 teams compete in D1.

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Could it be that a design firm or actual stadium east stands design has been approved?

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It doesn't seem like 25 years ago. One of the strangest days in URI basketball history. All the emotional twists of highs and lows just in that single day kind of encapsulated what it has been like to be a Rhody hoops fan for the last five decades which have been a series of many program peaks and v...

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RF1 wrote: ↑1 month ago This site tracks transfers. Up to 677 as of right now at 11:30am 03-21-2024:

https://verbalcommits.com/transfers
As of 3:00pm 03/25/2024, the portal is now up to 886

As of 10:30am 03/30/2024, the portal is now up to 1,182

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https://twitter.com/PeteThamel/status/1773900480491520095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1773900480491520095%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url= Utes Five Hires in Last Decade 2015 Tim Duryea (3yrs) 2018 Craig Smith (3yrs) 2021 Ryan Odom (2yrs) 2023 Danny Sprinkle (1yr) 202...

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Blue Man wrote: ↑4 weeks ago I don't know that I've ever heard of any other coach who talks more often or more fondly of their time at a previous school than Dan speaks of URI.

Tom Penders seems to have liked his URI days. Even later bought a house nearby and went to Rhody games after he retired.

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I remember all the lines they had on that court Walsh gym early 80s watching the BE on TV With Dan Calandrillo scoring from all over the court. Walsh is similar to Keaney as it also had a stage at one end so the facility could be used for events outside of athletics. https://www.app.com/gcdn/presto...

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There is an existing thread from last year when it opened with a youtube video of this venue:

viewtopic.php?t=9424

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I believe that how the roof was constructed makes it impossible as is to hang a jumbotron from the center due to weight. At least that's been the excuse so far That was supposedly the reason given when the Ryan Center was being constructed. I however wonder if that is still true today as scoreboard...

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The SBU AD was forced into resigning because of the NIT incident. This was a big deal for the Bonnie's with their community talking a lot about it

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George Mason's leading scorer both declares for the draft and enters the portal. Averaged 16.6ppg in 30.7mpg. Also losing other starter Ron Polite with 7.5ppg in 25mpg. Six players now leaving from GMU which went 20-12 this past season under their first year coach. George Mason Outbound Transfers Ke...

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RF1 wrote: ↑1 month ago This site tracks transfers. Up to 677 as of right now at 11:30am 03-21-2024:

https://verbalcommits.com/transfers

As of 3:00pm 03/25/2024, the portal is now up to 886

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https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1772291882111889823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1772291882111889823%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url= https://twitter.com/jeffborzello/status/1772306980469710934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E17723069804697...

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Sweet 16 teams remaining by conference: ACC- 4 teams; UNC, Duke, Clemson, NC State. BE - 3 teams (no losses yet); UConn, Marquette, Creighton B10 - 2 teams; Purdue, Illinois B12- 2 teams; Houston, Iowa State SEC - 2 teams; Tenn, Alabama Pac12 - 1 team; Arizona MWC - 1 team; SDSU WCC - 1 team; Gonza...

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Also amazing to think we had two head coaches that won NCAA national championships at one time in their careers and another that made the Final Four. Could even add Keaney as he took URI to the NIT championship game when that tournament was considered more prestigious than the NCAA by many. We have...

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Also amazing to think we had two head coaches that won NCAA national championships at one time in their careers and another that made the Final Four. Could even add Keaney as he took URI to the NIT championship game when that tournament was considered more prestigious than the NCAA by many. We have ...

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Was Bozeman on the URI staff for the last year of Cox?

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reef wrote: ↑1 month ago When was Lou Campanelli a URI assistant ?

Everyone else I knew

On Tom Carmody's staff:

https://collegehoopedia.com/coaches/lou-campanelli

Later head coach at James Madison and Cal (where he was replaced by his assistant and former URI player Todd Bozeman).

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Was recently thinking about some of the assistants that have been on the URI coaching staff over the years. It is a pretty impressive list as many have at some point been college head coaches with another even becoming a long time NBA coach. Some Former URI Assistants that have also been D1 College ...

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Wasn’t sure where to place this so put it here since JMU moved up to Sunbelt Conf (FBS)… Interesting story in sportico.com/leagues/collegesports regarding student fee’s funding college athletics. According to the story, James Madison University spent $68 mil on athletics in ‘22-23 and collected $53...

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Weston's 2x transfer history looks to have a downward trajectory.

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Not sure if this is the place to put this, but an interesting article on the state of college basketball in good ol' Olean. Transfer portalling, players behavior, and declining the NIT. https://www.oleantimesherald.com/newsletter/bungling-of-nit-adds-to-trying-times-for-bona/article_e8897032-e72c-1...

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Not sure if this is the place to put this, but an interesting article on the state of college basketball in good ol' Olean. Transfer portalling, players behavior, and declining the NIT. https://www.oleantimesherald.com/newsletter/bungling-of-nit-adds-to-trying-times-for-bona/article_e8897032-e72c-1...

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URI played seven opponents that made the NCAA field. Five of these came from the thirteen OOC games Rhody played. All but one of these seven teams (Charleston) won their first NCAA game and advanced. URI actually beat two of the opponents that won NCAA games (Wagner & Yale) Wagner Northwestern W...

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The Yale game is starting to feel like the near miss by Princeton vs. Georgetown game in PVD back in the 80s. Although the was a 16 vs 1 game I think? I was at that game at the PCC on St Patrick's Day in 1989. Princeton led almost the entire game before Georgetown went ahead with under a minute lef...

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Both of the AAC teams, FAU and UAB, go out in the first round. The trajectory of this league looks to be headed down after all its big name departures. Lost Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF a year ago will soon lose SMU (ACC bound). Has already or will soon add Charlotte, FAU, N Texas, Rice, UAB, and UT...

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reef wrote: ↑1 month ago That Mohegan tourney we played was a good one us and 3 at larges NW Miss St Wash St

URI, Northwestern, Miss St, and Washington State

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In addition to Duke, those of us of a certain age remember when we and the Storrs Leg-humpers were arch enemies. Some good old Yankee Conference battles with UConn back then, Red. Good times. A lot of good New England college hoops during that period: Rhody, UConn, PC, Holy Cross, BC, UMass, the Iv...

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This is a team from Tom Izzo's state that he wants kept out of the tournament so more power conferences teams get bids. Shame on him. These types of teams MAKE the NCAA tournament what it is.

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Love the Oakland win. It personifies March Madness.

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RF1 wrote: ↑1 month ago
RF1 wrote: ↑1 month ago This site tracks transfers. Up to 677 as of right now at 11:30am 03-21-2024:

https://verbalcommits.com/transfers
The numbers keep rising (now 702). 25 more players have entered the portal in just the last 2.5 hours.

This is just crazy. The number at 7:30 pm is at 750.

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Rhody grudges: Nevada, Oregon, Stanford (especially Lee and Madson). Big west coast flavor. Who am I forgetting ? Not counting the Friars. They hold a more special place in Rhody lore. Duke. Jimmy’s crazy game at Cameron Indoor, Mohegan tourney, the ass whooping we had against them second round. Ev...

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Good for the A-10 winning both first round games. Also happy to see Nevada lose as I have never forgiven them for stiffing Rhody on a return home game in 2018-19. It was a slimy move on their part.

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Not sure if this is the place to put this, but an interesting article on the state of college basketball in good ol' Olean. Transfer portalling, players behavior, and declining the NIT. https://www.oleantimesherald.com/newsletter/bungling-of-nit-adds-to-trying-times-for-bona/article_e8897032-e72c-1...

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hrstrat57 wrote: ↑1 month ago Yeah ummmm you’re forgetting somebody…

Actually I am not as I listed all the candidates given SERIOUS consideration with official interviews by the people that were making the hiring decision

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And now here we are. Hired a coach on the cheap and paid dearly for it. After that failure we tried to rectify it with the Archie hire, and so far how has that worked out? We had our chance and we blew it Anyone remember what other coaching names were said to be our finalists when we hired Cox? Wou...

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I am happy for Duquesne and its fans. 47 years without making the NCAA is tough. They now get to add a 1st round win.

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RF1 wrote: ↑1 month ago This site tracks transfers. Up to 677 as of right now at 11:30am 03-21-2024:

https://verbalcommits.com/transfers

The numbers keep rising (now 702). 25 more players have entered the portal in just the last 2.5 hours.

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So, we will be paying Kenny to recruit players to Georgetown (we already are) until June 30th? In the meantime, we are down one recruiter unless we can find someone to do the same here? Perhaps we already have his replacement verbally lined up and they are recruiting for us on their present employe...

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The portal should not open until every game is over and the post season tournament champions are crowned.

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Someday when we are good, our turnover will be less. Will have to really stuff some pockets to keep our best players, but that's the reality. It still may not matter with the present environment. SBU, UMass, and GMU all had decent seasons winning 20 games and they have about the same number as URI ...

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By the way, isn’t he still under contract with URI? Archie's two year contract anniversary was March 17th ( a $500,000 annual raise just went into effect for his remaining three years). It was several weeks later that he assembled his staff. I think assistant coaches are typically on one year agree...

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