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PC board is comedy gold right now. Main conspiracy theory is that the NCAA set out to screw poor ol Providence with the time of the game, location, and of course paid off refs.

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i can hear the crying of all of the thousands of "alumni" on Federal Hill, and it is music to my ears.

wonder how Bunky and Friar Mac are gonna spin this one

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As a point of reference, Duquesne has experienced five winning seasons in the last 30 years, with four of them coming in recent years under Ron Everhart. And since Fordham has been the other team mentioned - According to Wiki and Basketball Reference, last NCAA appearance was 1992 , when they won t...

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haha, only took 2 games to bust my bracket. Had ISU in the Final 4

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on the subject of announce teams, its not the NCAAs without Gus Johnson

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Agree with everyone that the fans there sounded loud and seemed more than the announced attendance; but I was really surprised and disappointed at the small announced crowd. It seems that only the hard core care and the majority of Rhode Island fans and students have to be dragged along kicking and...

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how does that makes sense for Fordham? Pecora recruited some really good talent there and they seemed to turn the corner this year

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From Iona's thread: "Rhode Island's arena was impressive, but their fans not so much. Lots of booing, even during Pre-game lay-ups. Tasteless signs. 40 minutes of whining at the refs . Booed the refs as they left the court and as they returned to the court at halftime. I wouldn't go back. The ...

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I'd think the game will be Monday. Cant picture the NIT wanting to head to head with NCAA opening weekend.

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can watch the replay for free on espn3.com

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whatever the actual number was, it showed very well on the broadcast. Was loud throughout. Big cheers for the dunks/blocks and VERY loud boos for the officials. To the point that old "friend" Timmy Welsh cracked a joke about RI fans and our love of heckling.

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This is a game we should roll. They lost to Canisus. I have no idea how their RPI is as high as it is. Their best win is against 130 Wake Forest. The last time they played a team in the top 100 was UMass in December. They lost. Lost to #53 Wofford in November. Blown out by Arkansas Thanksgiving wee...

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We lost that semi to UNC, not because of that call, but because we shot 2-6 from the FT line the last 2 minutes. Even if they had called the foul, would Ulmer have made at least one of those foul shots? We had that game won. Then we would have had Dayton in the final, and at that time we owned them...

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This will be Rhode Island's 15th NIT appearance. The game vs Iona will mark the eight home game (out of 29 games) in the tournament that URI has hosted. RHODE ISLAND NIT HISTORY 14 Appearances - 13-15 (.464) DATE | SCORE | W/L | OPPONENT 3/19/1941 | 54-70 | L | Seton Hall 3/19/1942 | 71-82 | L | To...

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Too "Poly Purebred". Sorry, real world big programs don't operate like they're run by Mary Poppins. In other real recruiting news, Dan was at Vermont Academy recently. They have some Expressions Elite players attending Vermont Academy. Did you see Reischel play against Dayton? He didn't. ...

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not worried about Iona. Held a better offense in Davidson to 19pts below their average and 3-19 from 3.

Just gotta bring the defense and smother Iona. They dont play defense.

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Isn't the end of the season a pretty good time for this? I will say I haven't gotten into some of the other threads so maybe there is some comments that have led to this thread being necessary. Either way, I just don't care for people making massive blanket statements (e.g. anyone who has anything ...

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I live near rider college. I go every year when they play IONA. Iona is usually a collection of under the radar guys and transfers. David Laury could be a match up nightmare for us. Hes the maac poy. Haas will have his hands full. AJ English is a stud guard too. This team shoots the 3 as well as an...

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All of this. Hurley has us on the fast track now. We just came within an eyelash of making the NCAA with a team of underclassmen. Cant wait to see next year with the additions of Butts, Thompson and of course Iverson. That may be the strongest top 7 since Al was still around. All we need (and by all...

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rodfromcranston wrote:Again, 1,000 points in 30 plus game seasons, isn't the mark
it once was.
Similar to 1,000 yard rushers in the NFL. When it was 12 games, it
was a fete. In 16 games? ZZZZzzzzz!!!!!!!

It wouldn't be a thread without Rod coming in and making his typical cranky old man "back in my day" post.

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make it a war and take advantage of their short bench on a back to back

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Davidson definitely has a horseshoe up their a**

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Steve Zack channeling his inner Shaq. 18 and 10 in the 1st half

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I guess those are not my DVD's uploaded to youtube since there seem to still be commercials and pretty sketchy tape quality. I have all these URI hoop DVDs from generous fans who let me borrow their precious VHS tapes years ago, but I'm afraid to put them on youtube like this guy did for these game...

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not too worried about GW. They've been living on the 3. Not going to be able to do that against our defense.

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Terrance would have been better off coming to Rhody in my humble opinion.....the combination of his mom's success with his talent could have gone a long way for creating life-long goodwill for them in the family...and the pro scouts will see you play here just as well as at Fla St . This. Florida S...

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It always amazes me, that Euros, and Africans, and others, can come here and speak better English than the people born here. The educational system in the US, should explore why most Germans, among others, can speak fluent English, while Americans struggle to pass Spanish 101. 1. English is essenti...

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our OOC was a perfect storm of suck

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And all the Euro bigs want to be Dirk. Nobody wants to be Hakeem the Dream, unfortunately. I wonder if we'll ever see his type of beautiful post play, again? Al Jefferson is the last of that breed, McHale-esque on the block. Post play isnt pretty or highlight worthy, which is why its dying. Not goi...

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the way VCU hit the skids shows that Weber is the POY to me. Havoc has disappeared without him.

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3 with a chance for 4.

(2) VCU and Dayton are locks
(3) Davidson is in unless they lay an egg and go 1 and done in the tourney
(4) We win the A10

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Would like to see this one turned into a rock fight. Wear them down physically and get them in foul trouble. We have the bodies to stay fresher, got to use that advantage.

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Student attendance has not been great for Saturday games. Let's hope that changes this week. TJ and Gil have been big parts of the beginning of the resurgence for our program. It hasn't been easy for them. They deserve huge support from their fellow students this Saturday. think a 2pm tip really wi...

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I put rowdiness and noise over attendance #s. When our crowd is vocal and into it for all 40min, it doesnt need to be a sellout to be a massive home court advantage. Hell of the 3 loudest games I've seen there, only 1 was a sellout. 1. Richmond pinkout/blizzard game. They opened all seats up to stud...

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ramsman75 wrote:Interesting quote from Mckillop in the CBS Sports article...

"This is as electiric an atmosphere I've seen in many, many years."

liked this one too

"The Ryan Center, one of the better gyms you don't hear enough about"

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The loss to Davidson was devastating. I'm not sure what it will do to this team's psychy. We have three tough upcoming games. The team could fold like a lawn chair and go 0-3, or it could learn a lesson and go 3-0 and be favorites in the A10 tournament. In any case, an NCAA at-large berth is lost. ...

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up to that last possession we were 1for 18 on 3's;20 for 42 on all other shots take it inside,or stop & pop--- Davidson wasnt going to allow anything inside the 3pt line, and you arent getting a foul call in that situation unless a bone breaks. A wide open 3 from the elbow is a great shot oppor...

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there's going to be a lot of frustration taken out on LaSalle. They know they had this last one and gave it away.

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last night, was a great example of how big of a home court advantage we can have when the crowd gets going. As we were making that push to tie the game, and the crowd got just kept getting louder, you could see it get to Davidson. They started rushing things, taking bad shots early and it definitely...

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Seawrightspostgame wrote:I wish we could roll Drob out there to win the game when we need a last shot before the buzzer.

except against Dayton, that honor goes to Marquise (or Hellenga is Jones in not available)

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scine20 wrote:Bitee was very good. I should have included him as well.

The 97-98 team clearly was better. But the more talented team? That's up for debate.

The 07-08 team also had Joe Mbang off the bench. was a freak athlete and a huge energy boost when in there.

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How in the world did this team miss the tournament with Will Daniels, Jimmy Baron, Kaheim Seawright, Lamonte Ulmer and Keith Cothran all on the same team? Just mind boggling. And Delroy James was also on that team but hadn't really began making an impact yet. But seriously that team was every bit a...

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they were also stuck in No Man's Land scheduling this year:

Tournament level teams wouldnt want to schedule them because we were no guarantee.

We were good enough on paper that the win wasnt guaranteed, but lack the track record to ensure we wouldnt be an RPI killer.

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What? No Jon Clarke? I don't want to be mean but Jon Clarke HAS to be the worst starting player that the school has had since moving into the Ryan Center. The only other one in the conversation would be Jason Francis. That would be an interesting thread title but I know that it wouldn't fly on this...

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What? No Jon Clarke? I don't want to be mean but Jon Clarke HAS to be the worst starting player that the school has had since moving into the Ryan Center. The only other one in the conversation would be Jason Francis. That would be an interesting thread title but I know that it wouldn't fly on this...

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Given the make up of this team, I'm taking Jimmy all day. We have inside presence and strong guards who dribble drive. We also see a lot of zone and teams pack the middle and dare us to beat them outside. With Jimmy getting basically double teamed, that opens huge gaps for Terrell and EC to get free...

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