2015 NIT 2nd Round: @ Stanford - Sunday 9:30pm ESPNU

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 9 years ago

Well we now know Rhody will indeed travel to Palo Alto, California, to face Stanford in their on-campus arena, Maples Pavilion. Exact Time still TBD as well as TV coverage.

Taylor Swift · Unread post by **Taylor Swift** » 9 years ago

I know time is TBD, hoping for a late afternoon game.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 9 years ago

Game will be on ESPNU, which is great news.

Blue Man · Unread post by **Blue Man** » 9 years ago

Oh well. Get more experience, go there and get a win!

PlayMikeMotenMore · Unread post by **PlayMikeMotenMore** » 9 years ago

Not a lot of love for Johnny Dawkins these days...

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegespo ... of-course/

scine20 · Unread post by **scine20** » 9 years ago

ESPNU has one block of time for the NIT on Sunday, 7:30-9:30 PM.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 9 years ago

scine20 wrote:ESPNU has one block of time for the NIT on Sunday, 7:30-9:30 PM.

That jives with Taylor's post above -- late afternoon Pacific Daylight Time game.

However, I wonder what Stanford Men's Hoops considers a "night game"

sf2010 · Unread post by **sf2010** » 9 years ago

Damn! Was hoping for another home game. Oh well - go beat the Cardinal!

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 9 years ago

sf2010 wrote:Damn! Was hoping for another home game. Oh well - go beat the Cardinal!

Still a chance if either St. Mary's or Vanderbilt advance to the third round. We are seeded higher than both of them.

scine20 · Unread post by **scine20** » 9 years ago

Well in looking at the ESPN upcoming games, they have one blocked off for Friday night, one blocked off for Saturday morning, one blocked off for Sunday morning, 1 blocked off from 7:30-9:30 PM Sunday night and 4 blocked off for Monday night. And there's only 8 games in the next round.

So unless the TV schedule is wrong it would have to be the 7:30-9:30 PM slot.

scine20 · Unread post by **scine20** » 9 years ago

ATPTourFan wrote:
sf2010 wrote:Damn! Was hoping for another home game. Oh well - go beat the Cardinal!
Still a chance if either St. Mary's or Vanderbilt advance to the third round. We are seeded higher than both of them.

Or South Dakota State. Wouldn't that be exciting?

xcrun · Unread post by **xcrun** » 9 years ago

Also, that warm San Francisco air will sooth aches and bruises. Also Stanford is not in session right now, they are on a quarter system. So no student crowd.

Iggy1979 · Unread post by **Iggy1979** » 9 years ago

PlayMikeMotenMore wrote:Not a lot of love for Johnny Dawkins these days...

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegespo ... of-course/

Wow:
Stanford participated in March Madness in 13 of the 14 seasons before Dawkins’ arrival and has made it once in his seven years.

Rhode_Island_Red · Unread post by **Rhode_Island_Red** » 9 years ago

Saw part of their game last night and was not impressed.

steviep123 · Unread post by **steviep123** » 9 years ago

Beat Stanford! Avenge '98!

Iggy1979 · Unread post by **Iggy1979** » 9 years ago

Picked 22nd in the country by Blue Ribbon, but finished the season on a 7-9 swoon. Defense seems to be a problem: in 4 of those 9 losses, opposition scored 80-plus.
Unlike URI, an experienced team, led by three seniors:
6-2 Chasson Randle, 18.9 ppg, took 221 3s
6-6 Anthony Brown, 14.6 ppg, 7 rebs, 161 3s
6-11 Stefan Nastic, 13.6 ppg, 6.4 rebs

Will be good if Gil is healthy to match up with Nastic.

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 9 years ago

They don't look supremely talented, from what I've seen, but they're very big.

steviep123 · Unread post by **steviep123** » 9 years ago

Not that it really matters, but since this is being played at the same location that the NCAA women's tourney is being held, I wonder if they will switch out the floors, or keep the NCAA tourney floors out there.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 9 years ago

Gilvydas is hurt. Hassan is ready for a vacation.
This Stanford team has seven players between 6'8" and
6'11".
Not a great matchup. They're 8-0 at home OOC.
This is not like playing Iona.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 9 years ago

I don't think the NCAA Women's tournament does the official generic NCAA floors for opening round sites. I could be wrong.

EDIT: Found a photo of a women's 2014 NCAA tournament opening rounds site and it was the normal host school's floor.

@ Rod, I loved your post. Made me laugh at my desk!

xcrun · Unread post by **xcrun** » 9 years ago

They will switch them out for TV purposes. Those NCAA courts are there partly for ownership/copyright reasons.

Speaking of which... is anyone discussing the rule changes for the NIT? Shot clock... arc?

How do these affect us vs Stanford?

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 9 years ago

XC, see my post above. Opening Round women's sites do not use the generic NCAA floor. They do starting for the regionals, such as when the Ryan Center was NCAA-ized the week Dan Hurley signed on the dotted line in Kingston.

Iggy1979 · Unread post by **Iggy1979** » 9 years ago

Average 4800 so I would expect fewer than that on Sunday.

Iggy1979 · Unread post by **Iggy1979** » 9 years ago

rodfromcranston wrote:Gilvydas is hurt. Hassan is ready for a vacation.
This Stanford team has seven players between 6'8" and
6'11".
Not a great matchup. They're 8-0 at home OOC.
This is not like playing Iona.

Four of those bigs score 4 ppg or less.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 9 years ago

Stanford lost 8 or their last 12 games until last night.
They really imploded.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 9 years ago

3 of those players over 6'8" are among their top 6 scorers
including a 6'11" center.

Blue Man · Unread post by **Blue Man** » 9 years ago

ramster wrote:Stanford lost 8 or their last 12 games until last night.
They really imploded.

Not the most impressive resume of wins. They certainly played a lot of good teams, and played some of them close.

Not our best matchup, but certainly a game we can win. Depends on which team shows up and how hard the travel affects us.

Either way if the road for us ends Sunday, this year was fantastic, and I'd be worried if I were the rest of the A10.

xcrun · Unread post by **xcrun** » 9 years ago

ATPTourFan wrote:XC, see my post above. Opening Round women's sites do not use the generic NCAA floor. They do starting for the regionals, such as when the Ryan Center was NCAA-ized the week Dan Hurley signed on the dotted line in Kingston.

ATP, I think they went down to the dungeon in Tootell, dusted the old one off and moved it back upstairs on Hurley's signing day.

Stanford is going to be interesting, they are definitely a big team with a better on paper offense. But we are better defensively.

Ultimately, this is our preseason for next year. So good for us regardless. Still hope we embarrass them at home. I mean how full circle would that be. It would definitely exercise some demons.

They also could be waiting until today's games are complete to come up with a time...

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 9 years ago

Stanford is on the Quarter System. Students had Final Exams this week.
No Students will be around for our game.
Many of the people at last nights paltry 1500 were from Cal Davis
I'd be surprised to see over 2000

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 9 years ago

Johnny Dawkins sounds like the West Coast version of Jim Baron.

PeterRamTime · Unread post by **PeterRamTime** » 9 years ago

Gosh I guess it's already been 7 years since they had the Lopez twins

ace · Unread post by **ace** » 9 years ago

Sunday is about as good as they could have hoped for, and the players are excited about going to CA. This match-up is a perfect example of who ends up in the NIT. Hope the overachieving, in it for the experience team takes it over the underachieving, can't believe we're here team.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 9 years ago

Ace,
I knew they would be excited about going to California - what college kid wouldn't? I think this is great for our program.
The Stanford Board is not a happy place...........
example of a post there sums it up

Posted: Today 12:14 AM
Re: The Dawkins Decade
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This NIT game (and any additional NIT games we have the misfortune of having to play) is an utter waste of time. It is meaningless. I think it would have been better if Stanford had declined the NIT bid, and I'd like the 6th Man to officially boycott the NIT home games, if only to send the administration a message that this is NOT good enough. We "won" tonight but the boys might as well have saved their wasted effort and stayed home. And for the record I hope we lose the next NIT game so that we can stop wasting time and stop pretending that the coaching staff is doing a "good" job. I've been a loyal Stanford alum for a long time, but we gotta call a spade a spade, and we suck.

theblueram · Unread post by **theblueram** » 9 years ago

I agree with the Stanford poster. They have three seniors leading the team. That is a recipe for NCAA or bust. The NIT for a young team like ours is great for experience and the continuing build of a young team. This tournament takes on a different perspective depending on the status of the team.

Rhode_Island_Red · Unread post by **Rhode_Island_Red** » 9 years ago

Arthur Lee is a punk. Mark Madsen is a hacker.

bressler3south · Unread post by **bressler3south** » 9 years ago

"DukeWest" was incorrectly interpreted by the Basketball Gods, who thought the Palo Alto Faithful were yearning for Duquesne West……

Alas, stupidity is such sweet sorrow……………….

twisted3829 · Unread post by **twisted3829** » 9 years ago

I believe that you cannot turn down an NIT invite, it is run by the NCAA unlike the CBI and CIT

theblueram · Unread post by **theblueram** » 9 years ago

Twisted you can turn down an NCAA tournament invite. If you so desired.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 9 years ago

In 1970, Al McGuire and Marquette turned down an NCAA
bid, because they didn't like the region they were picked in.
Teams that refused an MIT bid include, NC State. which had been the previous year's NCAA champion.
Oklahoma State, Louisville, Georgia Tech, and Georgetown.
The NCAA has to play nice with the NIT, because in 2005, the NIT brought an anti-trust suit against
the NCAA.
The crux of the suit was the NIT claimed the NCAA was trying to eliminate them.
It was settled with the result of the NCAA working with the NIT, as we see today.

McRam · Unread post by **McRam** » 9 years ago

My question is when r we going out there. Obviously, 5-6 hour long plane ride, 3 hour time difference, jet lag etc does not bode well for any team traveling on Sat for a Sunday game.

To me, it makes sense to spend a few more dollars and get out there as soon as possible and get aclamated to west coast time. No doubt, there will be little Home Court fan advantage for Stanford in the game, if we can eliminate the travel baggage, it will really become more of a neutral site game.

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 9 years ago

My guess they fly out Friday.

This is a tired and banged up team, it's going to be tough to win 2 games on the road [assuming we will play Col. St.]

That game will be very difficult. That's a very good team. Let's REALLY hope they stumble before that.

Have to watch their attendance numbers for tonight and their next game. I doubt they lose tonight.

They are major pissed about being left out of the Dance, and rightfully so.

Iggy1979 · Unread post by **Iggy1979** » 9 years ago

ace wrote:Sunday is about as good as they could have hoped for, and the players are excited about going to CA. This match-up is a perfect example of who ends up in the NIT. Hope the overachieving, in it for the experience team takes it over the underachieving, can't believe we're here team.

Of course they're excited. This is a great trip for the team

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 9 years ago

It really is a fantastic trip and opportunity.
And since this is Spring Break week for URI there is not much reason not to hit California a bit earlier than normal.

SmartyBarrett · Unread post by **SmartyBarrett** » 9 years ago

During a break in the Vanderbilt / Saint Mary's game, they put up the NIT bracket of their region (also Rhody's region), and it showed a 9:30 p.m. start time on Sunday on ESPNU for URI vs Stanford.

Mongo · Unread post by **Mongo** » 9 years ago

Looks like 9:30 on Sunday it is.

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 9 years ago

That's 9:30 Eastern time, I hope!

ClassOf2017 · Unread post by **ClassOf2017** » 9 years ago

A lot of you guys are overthinking this game, Stanford has lost 8 of their last 12 games, height can only mean so much when up against much greater skill. A10 has by far the toughest teams in this tournament. I expect Stanford to be like the GW game, close for awhile but we pull away at the end. There crowd at their last game was god awful, im not worried about their home court advantage , we win this game we have a home game at the Ryan center , South Dakota state is smashing Colorado. as I said before and from the beginning we are probalby one of the 3 of the best teams in this tournament, we should have no problem making it to the final four in the NIT.

Mongo · Unread post by **Mongo** » 9 years ago

Billyboy78 wrote:That's 9:30 Eastern time, I hope!

I'm pretty sure that's EST.

Rhody83 · Unread post by **Rhody83** » 9 years ago

South Dakota State is up by 9 at half against Colorado State (#1 seed in Rhody's bracket).
If South Dakota State wins, Rhody could get another home game.
Without looking what is South Dakota State's knickname?

eli#10 · Unread post by **eli#10** » 9 years ago

I like the game time on Sunday night as it gives our guys some much needed rest. Hopefully they fly out no later than Friday--Thursday would be nice.

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