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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...

If there's one thing you can say about Hurley, it's that no matter the level of talent, the game, the moon, the tides, the alignment of the planets...his teams always played hard. I can't say that about Archie. Last year's team you at least saw cohesive offense, and I figured you'd see growth in ot...

St Joe's with a big win over Princeton That loss to D1 transitioning Texas A M Commerce is gonna come back to haunt them come bubble time. Their opponent strength of schedule is currently 322 by KenPom, 302 by Sports Reference. Might get better if they can beat Princeton and Charleston, but right n...

Rhodymob05 wrote: ↑4 months ago We aren’t good at threes and struggle in the paint. What else is there?

We're 100th in 3-point percentage. It doesn't really matter so much if Montgomery is just vanishing from games, though. (Five total attempts vs. Brown and Providence.)

There is kind of a hierarchy of shots, if you will. It goes something like: Layup / Dunk Open 3 by 35+ percent shooter, or attacking drive or post-up for 2 Open 2 by 40+ percent shooter Strongly contested 2 Strongly contested 3 Part of the reason the open 3 has become such an emphasis point isn't ju...

https://x.com/jonrothstein/status/1733120439184920879?s=46&t=RiOaTCLvtjhXX7DAYI1lEg Another non “cartel” transfer waiver. So people really can’t say only the P6 schools are getting waivers. It’d be worthwhile if the NCAA explained why players don’t get waivers. People would still get pissed, bu...

We're 322nd in steals per game, and teams are only averaging 8.8 turnovers per game against us. We're 294th in fouls per game, which seems good on the surface, but suggests we're being too passive on defense because we're not generating steals, blocks (227th), or especially low shooting percentages ...

Kenpom currently has it at: 1 Dayton (56) 2 Duquesne (83) 3 Bonaventure (84) 4 St. Joe's (88) 5 Richmond (90) 6 George Mason (98) 7 VCU (105) 8 Davidson (120) 9 Loyola (121) 10 UMass (142) 11 George Washington (158) 12 URI (190) 13 Fordham (198) 14 St. Louis (206) 15 La Salle (217) Last year, the ra...

Fuchs was a -7 with 11 points. I rest my case. If you score double digit points and your team is significantly worse with you on the floor you probably suck. Too much emphasis on the +/- Not when it lines up with what I saw with my own eyes. The lineup of Kortright/House/Montgomery/Weston/Bilau iro...

The fixation on Fuchs is kind of bizarre to me. He had 11 points, eight rebounds and drew six fouls in 24 minutes. Unless he was the primary defender on Anya (5-for-7 from the field), he was fine. Brown won because their starting guards combined to play 77 minutes and shoot 6-for-14 from 3. They com...

If we had to pay both basketball teams scholarship players $30k a year that is completely doable. I think a D1 basketball league of teams willing to make that commitment would be good. Probably cut the D1 ranks down to under 300 teams. I really don’t care what level the rest of the sports teams pla...

Brown is probably a bit better than their record indicates - they have four losses by 5 or less points, and only lost by 11 to USC. But they also lost to Maine by 11 and New Hampshire by 18. It's a team we should handle easily, but they'll probably want to make the game ugly. They've got a brutal of...

Hamm is directing a pretty efficient and high scoring O, it appears. Nothing like a good floor general running the show. Thanks for the updates, 78. I wish I could find a box score and see how many assists he's getting in these 100+ point games. Eh, probably kind of irrelevant. Sounds like they're ...

Assuming they leave the A-10 at some point, I'm OK with playing UMass if it gets rid of some of the dreck, 300+ games we're seemingly playing every year now. Better to play them than like Wagner or Central Connecticut. But they're not good enough from a basketball or gate standpoint to warrant signi...

It is kind of amusing that they get the "perfect" field for an eight-team playoff the year before it is implemented. They had been flirting with this kind of nightmare scenario in the past, but it didn't hit them until now.

Yup. I'm still not bullish on the A-10's ceiling but their floor is certainly WAY higher than last year. I think that's fair - the A10 has no "unbeatable" teams, but it doesn't look like we're going to have any abjectly embarrassing 250+ teams either. Not the best recipe for multiple NCAA...

Rhody's schedule to date is pretty much either feast or famine in SOS with no in between. URI has played THREE Quad 1 games, 1 Quad 3 game, and three Quad 4 games. Only about 30 other teams nationally have played that many or more Quad 1 games. No other A-10 team has played as many and several have...

Screen Shot 2023-12-03 at 6.33.56 PM.png Thanks for posting this, ATP. Now that we have a practice facility, our foul shooting percentage stinks. Go figure. Our 3 point percentage has been a bright spot so far this season - though, we don’t fire up a lot of 3’s per game - as has our overall field g...

Yale coughs up a 5-point lead to Vermont with about three seconds left and loses:

Heck of a game right now! Tied 56-56 with 47 seconds.

VCU lays another egg - against a team that lost to Fordham The horror…..the horror. I thought VCU would struggle a bit this season, even more so with Bairstow out and Bam denied. Still this is a bad loss for them. But Norfolk State isn't horrible, and neither is Fordham. They are picked 2nd in the ...

Early season KenPom incorporates the previous season until early to mid-January, IIRC, with the assumption usually being that decent teams tend to stay decent. (Games from this year replace games from last year, until there is no effect.) Fordham will likely tumble down the ratings by that point, s...

Sometimes it doesn’t make sense. Tell me how Fordham has a better KenPom rating. Early season KenPom incorporates the previous season until early to mid-January, IIRC, with the assumption usually being that decent teams tend to stay decent. (Games from this year replace games from last year, until ...

We didn't create a thread before this game - apparently we were sleepwalking as much as URI tonight. Woof.

At least vs. Yale, Brown was the only big man that got more than 20 minutes (25). Fuchs started and had 13, Bilau 15, Foumena 6. That's roughly 59 minutes out of 80 minutes available for the 4 and 5 - Weston played 24 minutes, so plenty of his time came at the 4. It wouldn't surprise me if Miller tr...

You can imagine many things, like winning the lottery or a date with Sydney Sweeney. I think that's equally as likely as this bizarro Frankenstein conference you're suggesting. I think there is a much greater chance that UMass gives up on their pursuit of burning barrels of money each year in footba...

This seems like a make-or-break year for Lange, and the league is better if St. Joe's is better, so hopefully they have figured some things out. Xzayvier Brown has been dynamite from day one, and their guard depth is pretty impressive.

As a conference, the A-10 is scheduling more like we're the Big East or ACC or Big Whatever. Meaning, a ton of Q3 and Q4 games OOC. Losing one or two of those games doesn't kill you, but it means you have nothing impressive on your resume when it comes tournament time. It means you land in that no-m...

Not a fan. I've never been a fan. Ever. This system was brought up last March on Friday (the off day media day) prior to the Semi-Finals by Travis Ford when it was his turn to speak. He talked about it hurts the Mid-Majors. Since inception the NET has underrated the Top A10 Teams as compared to the...

OK, so they "need" to keep improving. 1) You can improve and still lose this game or other games. and 2) Improvement is not linear over the course of season. (Let me know if you need me to explain what I mean by that.) Keeping players from transferring? I don't think any coach has a magic...

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The Pomeroy ratings as of this morning (11-28-2023) for the A-10 69 Dayton 79 Richmond 81 Duquesne 83 VCU 103 GMU 104 SBU 116 St Joe's 125 Loyola 139 GW 140 Davidson 142 UMass 167 St Louis 169 Fordham 174 URI 205 LaSalle My general observation without a big dive into the individual game details is ...

Per Sports Reference, we're 343rd right now. I'm not sure how many teams they rank, but its near the bottom. There are about 360 D-I hoops programs.

I think the A-10 is improved this year, but most of the teams have a pretty awful loss on their resume already, or like us, they might have one decent win. I'd be surprised is anyone is as bad as we or Loyola were last year, but we don't have any clear at-large teams either. Short of Dayton in the b...

Is it better or any benefit for this particular Rhody team to have no game in between for us before the big game (5 days off between games) ? Would any have preferred a tune up game in between ? I am not sure one way or the other. Although, I think it is good for us that we are coming off a good, c...

If Montgomery keeps playing at this level he’s an all conference level player. Too soon to tell on Estevez. Yup, the difference with Zek/House is Zek has consistently produced against all levels of competition. Jaden has struggled mightily against bigger and better teams. He's definitely struggled ...

Now that we're roughly a quarter through the season, and faced off against a couple decent teams - Weston has been a good surprise! I was pretty pessimistic on him coming into the year, but he's been stroking it on offense. It isn't sustainable to shoot, hm, 72.7 percent from 3 for the year, but eve...

So, we haven't had a close game yet. Here's my question. 10 seconds left in the game, we're down one and we have the ball. What play does Archie go to for the last shot and who takes it? We've seen 6 games so far, so we're starting to get an idea of what each player does well and what they don't do...

I hope Foumena still gets minutes, but he may be the odd man out, which will suck. Archie seems to have Brown and Fuchs ahead of him. Bilau is probably the best out of the bunch right now, so I don't see how he doesn't start or is the first big off the bench. If Fuchs continues to not give a shit a...

Last year, our best wins by Kenpom rating were Dayton (79), UMass-Lowell (134) and Fordham (137). Everyone else was 200+. Yale is currently at 78, although the season is only roughly five to six games deep for most teams. They'll likely slide as the season goes on, but last year the top three Ivy te...

RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑5 months ago Fordham won vs Georgian Court 85-44
Dayton won vs SIU Edwardsville 75-74
Saint Louis lost vs Wake Forest 94-66

Georgian Court sounds like a fast travel location in Skyrim or The Witcher.

Team hasn't shot well from 3 to start the year. If only we had a great shooter last year that we didn't give enough minutes to and she transferred....... If you're referring to Dolly Cairns, she's currently shooting 27 percent from 3 for Florida Gulf Coast. Maybe she'll bounce back, but its not lik...

J&W is 1-3 so far this year, with a 33-point loss to Salve Regina, a 34-point loss to WPI and a 23-point loss to Ithaca. This kind of seems like a waste of time for both sides, but whatever. Might as well get Dubsky, Stewart and the walk-ons some time to play in a game.

True the portal gives and takes. Well, I guess we don’t expect to have that kind of success again(Hurley). If we wont be able to keep our best freshman…how many people think Cam will make it to his junior year here? Unfortunately for teams like URI I think it's gonna be more taking than giving unle...

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