Week #9 -Games of Interest

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 11 years ago

Other than a few stray made for TV games, this is the last week of OOC games for most A-10 schools. After this week, the SOS for each A-10 school is about the same after factoring in each school’s RPI.

In this week’s poll rankings, Butler has the #17 slot in the AP poll and the #20 slot in the USA/Today Coaches poll. Both VCU and Temple are getting points in both polls in the others category.

Besides Saint Louis's win over #20 New Mexico, other A-10 action yesterday included:

Iona beating St. Bona, 93-74

Temple over Bowling Green, 75-57.

St. Joseph’s over Drexel, 63-49.

Fordham beat Monmouth, 82-71, to win their fourth.

No A-10 games on New Year’s Day.

Also, in yesterday OOC action, Brown fell to Albany, 57-50.

St. Mary's edged Harvard, 70-69.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 11 years ago

Thx OB! Brown can't win following their upset of mighty C7 PC.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 11 years ago

Watched St. Mary's- Harvard.
Harvard had the game in the bag, leading by 17 points at one point.
They looked so well coached.
Then the refs took over with some really weird calls. One key jump ball that
lead to SMC gettng the lead, was held for less than a tenth of a second. The replay showed
Delladova barely touched the ball after a Harvard player rebounded it.
Harvard got the ball on what could have been the game ending posession, and threw it out of bounds.
The game winner came on two free throws, with 1 second on the clock!
Refs took the game away from Harvard, who had just beaten
Cal, earlier on their trip.

twisted3829 · Unread post by **twisted3829** » 11 years ago

weird schedule by St Mary's play Yale and Harvard on back to back nights at home

rhodyrob · Unread post by **rhodyrob** » 11 years ago

I hope this mean St. Mary's has an East Coast Christmas visit to us, Harvard and Yale next year.

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 11 years ago

rhodyrob wrote:I hope this mean St. Mary's has an East Coast Christmas visit to us, Harvard and Yale next year.

I have got to think the same. I don't think St. Mary's with its 3500 seat gym generates enough revenues to be able to buy a lot of games. Playing Harvard, Yale, and URI at home this year with a single trip back next season for return games seems to make a lot of sense.

Ramulous · Unread post by **Ramulous** » 11 years ago

Basketball is by far the worst sport in terms of the referee's ability to affect the outcome of the game......the only thing close is the home plate umpire in baseball.

The big schools almost always play at home....almost always control the selection (and future selection) of the referees...and almost always get the calls from referees who are afraid to piss off big time coaches and ADs and lose future gigs.

It is my second biggest pet peeve in sports behind the farce that is the BCS national championship and the one bowl game that means something and every other one being an exhibition game.

seanmc94 · Unread post by **seanmc94** » 11 years ago

Referee selection is for ooc games is agreed upon beforehand by both schools and is almost always from a neutral conference.

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 11 years ago

I watched some of that game as well, tough loss for Amakers crew who led the whole way

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 11 years ago

Big night for games of relevant interest to URI fans – some 15 games in total. The first results are in as the PC Friars are easily beaten by #4 Louisville, 80-62.

ace · Unread post by **ace** » 11 years ago

Not really a game of interest, but Rutgers just went 8 minutes and 53 seconds without scoring against Syracuse.

3wisemen · Unread post by **3wisemen** » 11 years ago

RF1 wrote:
rhodyrob wrote:I hope this mean St. Mary's has an East Coast Christmas visit to us, Harvard and Yale next year.

I have got to think the same. I don't think St. Mary's with its 3500 seat gym generates enough revenues to be able to buy a lot of games. Playing Harvard, Yale, and URI at home this year with a single trip back next season for return games seems to make a lot of sense.

Those NCAA television shares and additional donations generated because of them can buy plenty of opponents. Forget the size of the arena. When you go to the tournament four times since '05 the cash rolls in.

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 11 years ago

In tonight’s action so far.

In the A-10:

VCU bolts to a 20+ point lead in first 10 minutes of game and blasts to a 109-58 win at East Tennessee State. VCU moves its record to 10-4.

UMass wins another squeaker, beating Miami (O), 70-69.

#17 Butler pulls away in second half to beat Penn, 70-57.

Xavier continues its fade as it loses at Wake Forest, 66-59.

Richmond in an impressive win over Air Force, 91-68. The Spiders led the entire way.

In OOC action:

#8 Ohio State in a romp over Nebraska, 70-44.

Norfolk State edged at Ball State, 62-61.

Auburn in a nice win over Florida State, 78-72.

After a close first half, Drexel goes on tear in second half to win at Georgia State, 77-60.

Vermont wins at UNH, 64-51.

twisted3829 · Unread post by **twisted3829** » 11 years ago

charlotte holds on and beats UNC-Asheville in overtime

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 11 years ago

Charlotte moves its record to 12-2 with an OT victory over UNC-Asheville, 71-63. The tight win over an average UNCA team adds further questions about Charlotte’s record given the low SOS of its OOC schedule. We will get answer to this when the Rams square off versus Charlotte on January 12 at the Ryan Center. Be there to root the Rams on in their A-10 home opener as this is a key game telling us much about how far URI can go in the conference.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 11 years ago

Obadiah wrote:Charlotte moves its record to 12-2 with an OT victory over UNC-Asheville, 71-63. The tight win over an average UNCA team adds further questions about Charlotte’s record given the low SOS of its OOC schedule. We will get answer to this when the Rams square off versus Charlotte on January 12 at the Ryan Center. Be there to root the Rams on in their A-10 home opener as this is a key game telling us much about how far URI can go in the conference.

Willie Clayton had 16 rebounds for Charlotte tonight - only a freshman who played with Robert Carter for 3 years at Thomasville HS before Carter transferred his Sr year. Carter was heavily recruited by URI. Carter also had a nice game tonight. Clayton has been solid for Charlotte and in the starting lineup.
Marcus Georges-Hunt scored 16 points, fellow freshman Robert Carter Jr. had his third double-double and Georgia Tech defeated Chattanooga 74-58 for its sixth straight victory.
Carter had 13 points and a career-best 12 rebounds as the Yellow Jackets (10-2) pulled away in the second half after a sluggish start.

It'll be interesting to see how Clayton does against us.

Ramulous · Unread post by **Ramulous** » 11 years ago

What's up with Xavier....at this rate the C7 will dump them.....and opt for LaSalle instead...

twisted3829 · Unread post by **twisted3829** » 11 years ago

la salle in a tight battle with miami on NESN

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 11 years ago

Yea, it was a tight battle for three quarters of the game, but Miami (FL) blew out La Salle in the last ten minutes to win going away, 76-59.

A-10 goes 5-2 for the evening.

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 11 years ago

Closing out tonight's action:

In Chicago, Seton Hall got a last second bucket to beat De Paul, 73-72.

SMU came close to handing Wyoming its first loss of season, but the Mustangs faltered in the last minute to lose 59-56.

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 11 years ago

LaSalle fading late in that game hurt me

neil · Unread post by **neil** » 11 years ago

Good point Obadiah about the Charlotte game. There are certain games that are extremely difficult to get a W ie. at St. Louis and Butler to name a few. But if we want to get to Brooklyn, this one would be a good one to get. Too bad, the students won't be back on campus.

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 11 years ago

aaaahhhh, can we get past Brown first............?

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 11 years ago

Not much action this evening.

In somewhat of a surprise, visiting Northeastern overcame a 7 point halftime deficit on some hot shooting (9-16 on treys) to beat George Mason, 84-74. CAA opener for both teams.

Canisius failed to defend its home court and dropped a 66-45 decision to Fairfield, a team it had beaten easily in its MAAC opener in December. Canisius was behind all the way, committing 20 turnovers and had a terrible shooting night, 30% on FG and 51% FT. Billy Baron scored 14 points.

Nice win for Bryant in their NEC opener at Robert Morris, 84-77.

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 11 years ago

Say it aint so Golden Griffs !!

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 11 years ago

George Mason (purchaser of buy games from URI) lost at home to Northeastern 84-74. The Patriots are now 7-6. Hewitt is not making GMU fans forget Larranaga.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 11 years ago

Looks like Baron isn't waiting for February to begin his team's collapse.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 11 years ago

Rod, I was going to say something similar. It's January, so time for the Griffs to find ways to lose.

twisted3829 · Unread post by **twisted3829** » 11 years ago

no it's typical Baron, beats the team the first time and makes no adjustments for the second game against them and it's either close or he loses

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 11 years ago

32 point turnaround on Fairfield from their earlier game!
3 out of the last 5 are losses.
1-2 in last 3 games.
TIMBER!!!!

ace · Unread post by **ace** » 11 years ago

High scoring night in the A10 so far...

21-14, URI over Brown
21-18, GW over Georgia

both at the half

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 11 years ago

Combine all scores and thats a decent half!

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 11 years ago

URI/Brown was not the only rock fight tonight. GW was defeated at Georgia, 52-41. GW shot under 25% for the game, 0-12 on treys alone.

Saint Louis, on its home court, had a surprisingly close game versus Savannah State, but eventually prevailed 67-59. Savannah actually took a one point lead with six minutes remaining.

It looks like Fordham will lose its 11th game as Ole Miss now leads at Oxford, 85-61 with under 5 to play.

Also, Loyola (MD) beat Rider, 71-65

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 11 years ago

Let conf play begin !!!!

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 11 years ago

We will beat GW with defense, it looks like. They look worse offensively than we do.

15 Year Lurker · Unread post by **15 Year Lurker** » 11 years ago

Canisius is the #1 on top 10 plays of the week on ESPN this morning.

And that includes Johnny Football's highlights

This week's sign as the apocolipse is upon us as bill reynolds used to say??

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 11 years ago

A busy day of action in both the A-10 and among URI OOC opponents. Please feel free to join in updating as the day wears on.

In already completed games, we see the usual difficulty teams have on the road as both Seton Hall and Virginia Tech are handily defeated. Seton Hall took its lumps from #21 Notre Dame as the Pirates fell victim to the Irish second half blitz, 93-74.

In a game that was no contest from beginning, Virginia Tech was routed by Maryland, 94-71.

ace · Unread post by **ace** » 11 years ago

VCU will likely pull away and win, but Lehigh is playing them very tough right now- down by only 5 with 7:15 to go. And McCollum, the leading scorer in the country, has been out for the second half.

If the broken foot rumor for McCollum is true, it's a shame... terrible for him and Lehigh.

twisted3829 · Unread post by **twisted3829** » 11 years ago

not really pulling away, 4 point game with about a minute to go

ace · Unread post by **ace** » 11 years ago

twisted3829 wrote:not really pulling away, 4 point game with about a minute to go

No kidding. A late, meaningless basket for Lehigh made the final 59-55 but incredibly impressed by the way Lehigh was able to compete without McCollum.

seanmc94 · Unread post by **seanmc94** » 11 years ago

Wrentham s Jake Layman had a breakout game fir the terps; 18 inthe first half

bigappleram · Unread post by **bigappleram** » 11 years ago

sean why are you on the URI board when your boys are taking a beating? odd.

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 11 years ago

A-10 goes 6-1 in Saturday action:

Butler overcomes new D-1 entrant New Orleans, 57-44.

UMass in an easy win over Eastern Michigan, 75-61.

Strong performance by La Salle in a win against Big Five opponent Penn, 74-57.

Visiting St. Joe’s beats Morgan State, 70-60.

VCU wins a squeaker against Lehigh, 59-55.

Dayton led all the way to beat UAB, 78-71.

Colorado State, unbeaten at home, routs St. Bonaventure, 85-64.

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 11 years ago

In addition to Seton Hall and Virginia Tech outcomes, results of other games involving URI OOC opponents:

Vermont trashes Albany, 70-45.

Georgia State snaps a five game losing streak by beating James Madison, 68-52.

George Mason holds on to beat William & Mary, 73-66.

#11 Illinois whips #8 Ohio State, 74-55.

St. Mary’s a 74-61 winner over Loyola Marymount.

Norfolk State keyed by a fast start beats Navy, 74-68.

DePaul showing superb defensive intensity defeats PC, 83-73

seanmc94 · Unread post by **seanmc94** » 11 years ago

bigappleram wrote:sean why are you on the URI board when your boys are taking a beating? odd.

Halftime..at the game....ugh

bigappleram · Unread post by **bigappleram** » 11 years ago

for long stretches of the brown and depaul game, admittedly a small body of work to evaluate, the Friars have looked very similar to some of our Baron teams.

good talent, deep, porous defense, sloppy and not fundamentally sound offense, and players that aren't very compatible with each other.

seanmc94 · Unread post by **seanmc94** » 11 years ago

Tough to figure right now. VC Just getting healthy, Dunn coming off 6 months off and playing out of position, cotton hobbled. Back court was supposed to be a strength, they have been a liability.

Ramulous · Unread post by **Ramulous** » 11 years ago

Good talent?

Deep?

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 11 years ago

Interesting comment BAR. I was just thinking the same thing. It seems the Boo Birds are beginning to stir in Friartown. Now Jim Donaldson has chimed in on Cooley's contract extension to the tune of ..... undeserving. Some how I am getting the feeling that Cooley may be PC's version of Jim Baron, except Cooley is homegrown. Hope I'm wrong on that.

bigappleram · Unread post by **bigappleram** » 11 years ago

yes Ramulous, on paper Council, Cotton, Batts and Henton are all legit talents. Dunn was a top recruit. Fortune shows promise and Sidiki should be helping inside.

they have 4 above average back court players, a legit 3, and a banger. all on paper. and that should be enough to beat Depaul of all teams.

the true test will be to see if Cooley can get these guys to mesh, because they look very disjointed right now, even though IMO they have talent.

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