Game 27: Duquesne Saturday Feb 20, 7:00PM Cox Sports/OSN

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 8 years ago

URI 14-12 (6-7) 7th place tie
Duquesne 15-11 (5-8) 9th place

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 8 years ago

Our packed house should push us over the top on this one......

eli#10 · Unread post by **eli#10** » 8 years ago

Anyone know if this game will be on the A-10 website?

luke · Unread post by **luke** » 8 years ago

It is on Coxhub online.

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 8 years ago

Not much excitement for this one, I see.

Joe · Unread post by **Joe** » 8 years ago

Four will go off this game

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 8 years ago

http://www.providencejournal.com/sports ... ament-seed

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 8 years ago

http://www.coxhub.com/articles/duquesne ... ake-on-uri

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 8 years ago

Tonight's game is pretty simple:

Defend the 3 well, this will be a win.

If not, this will be a loss.

Imo, CT should start this game. Their guards are quick. Four will get burned often.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 8 years ago

KenPom's computer predicts 81% victory for the Rams and a final score of 78-69 with 71 possessions each side.

While Duquesne is often seen as an explosive offensive team, they aren't efficient. In conference play, URI is #8 in offensive efficiency at 1.073pts/poss and Duquesne, ranked #9, is 1.027pts/poss.

Defensively in A10 play, URI is 4th at 1.00pts/poss and the Dukes 7th at 1.06.

Some stand-out stats for each team:
URI is best in the A10 with a 15.1% block rate.
Duquesne is worst in the A10 with giving up 38% 3FG to their opponents.'

Given Rhody is shooting 3s at 38% (3rd best in A10 play), URI may actually have a chance to have one of those good shooting nights. Let's hope so.

Rhody ranks 2nd in A10 play in defending the 3 ball. Duquesne actually shoots below average at 34.8% from 3, but they take LOTS of 3s. In fact 41% of their shots are from 3 land, accounting for 33% of all their points (both rank 3rd highest in A10 play).

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 8 years ago

http://www.coxhub.com/uri-vs-duquesne-2/20/2016

skwalk47 · Unread post by **skwalk47** » 8 years ago

section(105) wrote:Our packed house should push us over the top on this one......

O/U 3901?

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 8 years ago

ramfan85 · Unread post by **ramfan85** » 8 years ago

rambone 78 wrote:Tonight's game is pretty simple:

Defend the 3 well, this will be a win.

If not, this will be a loss.

Imo, CT should start this game. Their guards are quick. Four will get burned often.

It will take an Act of Congress for Four not to start.

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 8 years ago

skwalk47 wrote:
section(105) wrote:Our packed house should push us over the top on this one......
O/U 3901?

I'm going under. I'll say 3462. I don't know what the record low is (not counting NIT and those types of games), but I think it comes close.

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 8 years ago

Under....

Joe · Unread post by **Joe** » 8 years ago

Is there any way that I can watch this for free? TV or online?

eli#10 · Unread post by **eli#10** » 8 years ago

How much does coxhub.com cost?

RAM67 · Unread post by **RAM67** » 8 years ago

$5 plus small svc charge.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 8 years ago

ramfan85 wrote:
rambone 78 wrote:Tonight's game is pretty simple:

Defend the 3 well, this will be a win.

If not, this will be a loss.

Imo, CT should start this game. Their guards are quick. Four will get burned often.
It will take an Act of Congress for Four not to start.

And even then Obama would veto it

SmartyBarrett · Unread post by **SmartyBarrett** » 8 years ago

rambone 78 wrote:Tonight's game is pretty simple:

Defend the 3 well, this will be a win.

If not, this will be a loss.

Imo, CT should start this game. Their guards are quick. Four will get burned often.

Duquesne has the worst three point defense in the conference. This smells like a Four game offensively. He needs to start.

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 8 years ago

Really now, we can't loose this one....right?

Seawrightspostgame · Unread post by **Seawrightspostgame** » 8 years ago

Ramblinrose · Unread post by **Ramblinrose** » 8 years ago

I'll be there with 3,900 of my closest friends.

ramfan85 · Unread post by **ramfan85** » 8 years ago

ramster wrote:
ramfan85 wrote:
rambone 78 wrote:Tonight's game is pretty simple:

Defend the 3 well, this will be a win.

If not, this will be a loss.

Imo, CT should start this game. Their guards are quick. Four will get burned often.
It will take an Act of Congress for Four not to start.
And even then Obama would veto it

Sad but true.

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 8 years ago

If Jarvis keeps getting open looks, he could get 30 tonight.

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 8 years ago

Why isn't Berry in the game to close the half?

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 8 years ago

hrstrat57 wrote:Why isn't Berry in the game to close the half?

Duquesne had their big man get in foul trouble to, so both sides were going pretty small.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 8 years ago

Damn Mason is annoyingly good.

ram1980 · Unread post by **ram1980** » 8 years ago

What happened to Thompson. Not on bench

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 8 years ago

Thompson is in the concussion protocol. We really can't catch any breaks with the injury bug this year!

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 8 years ago

Refs are doing their best to make the end of this game all about them.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 8 years ago

We won a close game!

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 8 years ago

Yes we did. Still tried to make it very interesting at the end.

Akele at the FT line is a disaster.

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 8 years ago

What a solid effort by Martin. Simply outstanding!

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 8 years ago

Now own the inside track on 7th place in the conference. One game ahead of Richmond, two games ahead of Duquesne and St Louis, have the tiebreakers over all three. Isn't this season so exciting?

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 8 years ago

JT, JG, and Hassan went 21-24 from the line, and were great from the field.

Iverson with 10 rebounds.

Watson 3-3.

Needed all of it, because that's all we've got right now.

Never seen a team have so many injuries.

Seawrightspostgame · Unread post by **Seawrightspostgame** » 8 years ago

One play Duq knocked Earl down on a pick and then dunked on Akele.

Then 9 minutes later they robbed Four of a charge. I thought it was clearly a charge.

URI won.

As much as the offense has sucked at the end. The defense has been worse because they have had the lead and lost it. Today they kept it, thats good.

I think this year would have been better if Four was a guy that made three point shots as oppose to a guy that CAN make a three point shot. At least that is what I thought when he shot faked and it was wide open and he missed it.

Tough year. Ok win. Is this year the FIRST REAL SET BACK? More so than JH or whoever and whatever. I think this year is the first real adversity he has faced here. Everything else has been more like a hurdle.

JT and JG seem to be maturing. Even though they threw the ball away within a minute. Maybe I am more talking about JT after his postgame interview. Had a much more mature feel to me than his usual.

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 8 years ago

It looked like we were definitely more aggressive at the end, which was good.

Of course, we were sloppy, which was bad.

Did enough to win, though.

Man, how many offensive rebounds did Duquesne get in that last minute? Seemed like all of the long 3 ball misses came right back to them.

KI and Akele, are FT missing machines. Thank God the others made theirs.

Will we finish the season with 5 healthy scholarship players?

RI_Bred · Unread post by **RI_Bred** » 8 years ago

I'm really starting to think that our "remaining" players this year are getting the sh!t beat out of them inordinately...could be problematic, or could be that they are young, and recover well. Something to think about though...

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 8 years ago

We've basically got 3 really good players and not much else.

KI can be, but he's nowhere near as consistent as our "core 3".

Those 3 will have to stay out of foul trouble and play 35+ minutes a game the rest of the way, for us to win more games.

The thin "Keaney" blue line.......

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 8 years ago

skwalk47 wrote:
section(105) wrote:Our packed house should push us over the top on this one......
O/U 3901?

I was very surprised to see attendance of 5,112 for tonight's game. I had thought it would be in the low 4k range. I think the game being on a Saturday night with excellent weather helped bring them out.

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 8 years ago

And they left seeing a win against a decent team. Not great in any case, but they were dangerous.

I think we'll go 2-2 the rest of the way. Beat UMass fairly easily and squeak by Fordham, who struggles to win close games also.

Just not enough bodies to do any better.

In NY, maybe they can win 2 games, but the gas tank will be empty at that point.

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 8 years ago

rambone 78 wrote:And they left seeing a win against a decent team. Not great in any case, but they were dangerous.

I think we'll go 2-2 the rest of the way. Beat UMass fairly easily and squeak by Fordham, who struggles to win close games also.

Just not enough bodies to do any better.

In NY, maybe they can win 2 games, but the gas tank will be empty at that point.

That would be an outstanding result and would get us an NIT home game.

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 8 years ago

hrstrat57 wrote:
rambone 78 wrote:And they left seeing a win against a decent team. Not great in any case, but they were dangerous.

I think we'll go 2-2 the rest of the way. Beat UMass fairly easily and squeak by Fordham, who struggles to win close games also.

Just not enough bodies to do any better.

In NY, maybe they can win 2 games, but the gas tank will be empty at that point.

That would be an outstanding result and would get us an NIT home game.

That quite optimistic scenario would put URI at 19-15 with an RPI of around #94 (used RPi Wizard). This would not get an NIT home game. It would likely not even get an NIT invite. The NIT boat sailed away weeks ago.

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 8 years ago

RF1 wrote:
hrstrat57 wrote:
rambone 78 wrote:And they left seeing a win against a decent team. Not great in any case, but they were dangerous.

I think we'll go 2-2 the rest of the way. Beat UMass fairly easily and squeak by Fordham, who struggles to win close games also.

Just not enough bodies to do any better.

In NY, maybe they can win 2 games, but the gas tank will be empty at that point.

That would be an outstanding result and would get us an NIT home game.

That quite optimistic scenario would put URI at 19-15 with an RPI of around #94. This would not get an NIT home game. It would likely not even get an NIT invite. The NIT boat sailed away weeks ago.

We shall see if we get to 19 wins.

I strongly disagree with you let's hope we get to find out who's right....

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 8 years ago

Correct. No NIT. I doubt even 20 wins would be enough.

We'll most likely get a CBI invite.

Please, please, noooooo............but you never know.

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 8 years ago

Bucknell, ASU, Richmond, Illinois, Vanderbilt, Stanford, Charleston Southern and Alabama all were in the 2015 bracket with 19 wins or less....but let's not let facts get in the way with our negativity.

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 8 years ago

20 wins = NIT bid, no problem.

PeterRamTime · Unread post by **PeterRamTime** » 8 years ago

If we win 3 of four to close the regular season and the two in the A-10 tournament I think we get in the knit.
Yay winning

Feels good

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