Week #8 - Games of Interest

[rhodysurf]

Bonnies vs Zoomass is pretty entertaining so far. Two freshman got in a tussle and both were tossed from the game.

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Bona beat UMess......

[ramster]

Will be away for the New Year's holiday, so here in advance is Friday's action. Happy New Year to all!!

On Friday, A-10 action heats up as conference play begins:

St, Bonaventure at UMass. 4 PM. Bonnies win at UMASS 89-77

La Salle at Dayton. 6 PM. Dayton wins at home 66-55. Kendall Pollard with 20 points and 4 steals

Duquesne at Fordham. 7 PM Duquesne wins 75-72

GW at Saint Joseph's. 7 PM GW outrebounded SJ by a whopping 49-29 but lost 68-63 at St Joes. Normally strong Tyler Cavanaugh was only 4-20 FG. Watanabe only 2-8.

URI at Saint Louis. 7 PM. On ESPNU.

VCU at George Mason. 8 PM VCU wins 73-64 in a battle. GMU with 5 players in double figures. Lewis with 26 points and steals for VCU havoc. GMU will be a tough game for URI at GMU Saturday Feb 18th


In games involving URI OOC opponents:

Valparaiso at UIC. 5 PM. On ESPNU. Valpo won 70-59 on the road after being favored by 6 1/2 points. They go to 11-3.

Holy Cross at BU. 7 PM.

HC loses at BU 61-55 to go to 6-8

[reef]

GWU let me down plus 4 loses by 5 after leading the whole way

[ramster]

In A10 Games - only one on Saturday:
Richmond upsets Davidson @ Davidson 80-78. Davidson was favored by 5 points. TJ Cline almost with a triple double with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists. Richmond was up by 15 points with 4:22 to go

In Games involving URI Opponents:
Virginia Tech Upset #5 Duke winning by 89-75. Game was played at Va Tech. Duke was favored by 5 points.

Houston wins 70-56 @ South Florida to go to 11-3 (2-0)

Marist Loses @ Iona 93-80 to fall to 4-10 (1-2)

Old Dominion, playing at home, beats Rice 62-56 to go to 8-5 (1-0)

Dartmouth wins @ UNH 63-62 to go to 2-10

Brown, playing at home, loses to Stony Brook 92-89 to go to 9-6

Northeastern, playing at home, defeats William & Mary 84-64 as W& M falls to 6-6 (0-1)



In other games of interest:
Ga Tech Upsets #9 North Carolina winning 75-63. Game was played at Ga Tech. UNC was favored by a whopping 17 points.

UCONN loses in OT at Tulsa by 61-59. Tulsa was favored by 2 points. UCONN falls to 5-8 (0-2).

[RhowdyRam02]

I think Richmond beating Davidson is a good result for us. If you're looking ahead to the end of the year standings and conference tournament seeding, we've tended to have Richmond's number while Davidson has had ours.

[ramster]

In A10 Games - only one on Saturday:
Richmond upsets Davidson @ Davidson 80-78. Davidson was favored by 5 points. TJ Cline almost with a triple double with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists. Richmond was up by 15 points with 4:22 to go

In Games involving URI Opponents:
Virginia Tech Upset #5 Duke winning by 89-75. Game was played at Va Tech. Duke was favored by 5 points.

Houston wins 70-56 @ South Florida to go to 11-3 (2-0)

Marist Loses @ Iona 93-80 to fall to 4-10 (1-2)

Old Dominion, playing at home, beats Rice 62-56 to go to 8-5 (1-0)

Dartmouth wins @ UNH 63-62 to go to 2-10

Brown, playing at home, loses to Stony Brook 92-89 to go to 9-6

Northeastern, playing at home, defeats William & Mary 84-64 as W& M falls to 6-6 (0-1)

In other games of interest:
Ga Tech Upsets #9 North Carolina winning 75-63. Game was played at Ga Tech. UNC was favored by a whopping 17 points.

UCONN loses in OT at Tulsa by 61-59. Tulsa was favored by 2 points. UCONN falls to 5-8 (0-2).

Action for Sunday New Year's Day:

No A10 Games

2 Games involving URI OOC Teams:

PC @ #13 Ranked Butler 3pm PC is 0-3 with True Road Games losing to Ohio State, Boston College and Xavier. Butler 7-0 at home. CBSSN. Butler favored by 10 1/2 points. Butler team was very shaken up by a scary flight this week.

Tulane at #23 Cincinnati 7pm CBSSN. Cincinnati favored by 24 1/2 points

[NYGFan_Section208]

Huge win for FSU at VA today...fun game to watch to boot

[reef]

ACC is just so loaded

[Obadiah]

PC down 20 in the early going at Butler.

[ramster]

Nebraska goes to 2-0 in Big 10.
After beating #16 Indiana at Indiana where they had won 26 straight at home the Cornhuskers today beat Maryland on the road too. Nebraska was down 12 points with 6 minutes to go.

Syracuse 10 1/2 point favorites today @ Boston College loses their opening ACC Game by 96-81. Freshman Ky Bowman with 30 points and 9 assists for the Eagles.

St John's goes to 2-0 in BE beating DePaul on the road

[Gonebarongone]

Nebraska goes to 2-0 in Big 10.
After beating #16 Indiana at Indiana where they had won 26 straight at home the Cornhuskers today beat Maryland on the road too. Nebraska was down 12 points with 6 minutes to go.

Syracuse 10 1/2 point favorites today @ Boston College loses their opening ACC Game by 96-81. Freshman Ky Bowman with 30 points and 9 assists for the Eagles.

St John's goes to 2-0 in BE beating DePaul on the road

Watched the BC/Cuse game because I'm a sucker for original big east matchups. Certainly not vintage Cuse but what a zone busting clinic. Nice job by Jim C. Might just be turning it around. You can build around a soph and frosh guard who are all-league types. How did they both get out of Carolina?

[Gonebarongone]

ACC is just so loaded

It's nuts. Teams will beat up on each other now and a good team or two will go 5-13 only because someone has to lose. There are legitimately 13 teams good enough to dance. Should get 10+, though.

[ramster]

Nebraska goes to 2-0 in Big 10.
After beating #16 Indiana at Indiana where they had won 26 straight at home the Cornhuskers today beat Maryland on the road too. Nebraska was down 12 points with 6 minutes to go.

Syracuse 10 1/2 point favorites today @ Boston College loses their opening ACC Game by 96-81. Freshman Ky Bowman with 30 points and 9 assists for the Eagles.

St John's goes to 2-0 in BE beating DePaul on the road

Watched the BC/Cuse game because I'm a sucker for original big east matchups. Certainly not vintage Cuse but what a zone busting clinic. Nice job by Jim C. Might just be turning it around. You can build around a soph and frosh guard who are all-league types. How did they both get out of Carolina?

GBG,
Amazing story on Ky Bowman is that he committed to North Carolina to play football in 2014. He was a 2 sport start in HS. He surprised when as a Sr he announced a Top 5 - not for Football but for Basketball. Jim Christian did a nice job of recruiting him.
Bowman hit 7-8 three pointers against Cuse today on is way to 30 points
The game before he hit 7-8 FG vs PC and went for 16 points in an upset win
The game before that against Fairfield Bowman was 13-21 FG and went for 33 points
Will be interesting to see how he does in the ACC Conference Play. He did not start off the season playing like this but he is really gaining confidence very fast.

[Seawrightspostgame]

Worth Noting Dayton has to take on the Bonnies before they play us.

No walk in the park. Really hoping for a 2-0 week. Put 2016 behind us.

[rambone 78]

Some teams are really turning it around.....could we be one of them?


I would like that.

[reef]

Great job by Nebraska winning those very tough games on the road on the Big 10

Nice to see BC getting on the right track

Bye bye PC bye bye !!

[RhowdyRam02]

Coach K will probably coach Wednesday night against Georgia Tech then go on the shelf for 3-4 weeks for back surgery. It's really a testament to the amount of talent that they have that they're still a top ten team with all the injuries and story lines they're dealing with this year. I certainly don't envy the interim head Coach's job though. Keep Duke in good shape and successfully navigate Allen's suspension situation while getting everyone on the same page.

[Rhode_Island_Red]

Coach K will probably coach Wednesday night against Georgia Tech then go on the shelf for 3-4 weeks for back surgery. It's really a testament to the amount of talent that they have that they're still a top ten team with all the injuries and story lines they're dealing with this year. I certainly don't envy the interim head Coach's job though. Keep Duke in good shape and successfully navigate Allen's suspension situation while getting everyone on the same page.

Injuries? Puh-leeeeze. So they're down to, what five McDonald's All-Americans? And they still get every bleeping call. We should have to endure such hardships.

[PeterRamTime]

So William and Mary and Old dominion picked up wins tonight.
Marist in a tight one with Manhattan right now.
Tiny victories for us!

[Obadiah]

Thanks to all, especially ramster, for keeping this thread updated while I was away celebrating in St. Louis. Much appreciated!!

[PeterRamTime]

Marist also won.
I wonder how much these three opponents winning today will effect our RPI tomorrow...

[reef]

Get well Coach K

I always pull against Duke but respect Coach K for what he has meant to the game

[ramster]

Thanks to all, especially ramster, for keeping this thread updated while I was away celebrating in St. Louis. Much appreciated!!

Thank you and Welcome back

[ramster]

Towson falls to 8-7 (0-2 in CAA) as they get trounced 64-44 by a bad James Madison team at JMU. JMU goes to 4-11. Pat Skerry, now in his 6th year at Towson.
Dayton (10-3) visits St Bonaventure (9-4)Tuesday Night 8pm. Bonnies favored by 1 point

North Carolina 12-3 (0-1) visits Clemson 11-2 (1-0) Can UNC start the season off 0-2? Clemson 7-0 at home so far. UNC favored by 3. 7pm ESPN2