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C ya next week, same time, ESPN2! This time in OUR HOUSE.
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josephski wrote:Great game! Fatts and Cyril picking a good game to have their best games in conference!

Also another great stat line by Stan: 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 6 steals and 9 points!
Stan is the definition of glue guy.
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What a great game! Nice job on the boards guys!
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Wow. great game by all. Really shared the ball. Cyril was a monster on the boards and scored as well. D played well. If I am not mistaken, URI held Mobley scoreless in the 2nd half.
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That was impressive... 2 of the most impressive wins at 2 of the tougher places to win in Dayton & vcu... Cyril bottle what you did tonight..monster on the boards and going straight up to the basket without dribbling...
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Good start. Cyril is back. EC was involved early.
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Earned that week off tonight.

1 away from 20 straight A10 wins
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ATPTourFan wrote:C ya next week, same time, ESPN2! This time in OUR HOUSE.
Not just next week. Rhody on ESPN2 the next three Friday nights.
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They brought the A game tonight!!!!! Great job by all.
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not a second of fear all night...what a squad...
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And agree with 1980... down year or not, its unheard of to go to Dayton and VCU and decisively beat them both
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RF1 wrote:
ATPTourFan wrote:C ya next week, same time, ESPN2! This time in OUR HOUSE.
Not just next week. Rhody on ESPN 2 the next three Friday nights.
I know this. One game at a time...
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. ..Rams, Rams, freakin Rams....
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That was.

So sweet.

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Traveled to Manhattan all night without my phone and I was pleasantly surprised at that score!!! Let’s gooo
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So sweet. Got home from an event with about a minute left. About to watch the game on DVR now!! I was so nervous coming in, but to win both at Dayton and at VCU in the same season is special!
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Well, there's gonna be a lot of hydrated and rowdy students in the Ryan Center on Friday. Gonna be a mad house
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I had this one as a one of the very few losses in my projections. What a game!! Great game by Cyril. I thought rebounding was going to be an issue. Boy was I wrong. Most impressive win in a while.
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FG%, 3PT% and FT% were almost identical. URI won on rebounds, TOs and steals.
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I’m really on a major high from these games.... so proud of our guys.... real special season. We need to keep doing viewing parties for these road games.
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Agreed. Watched with my son who is my good luck charm. So happy, and also happy to have a week off to soak it all in.
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And to think I was worried. I'd bet most of us penciled this in as a loss at the beginning of the season. VCU has some talent, but we are so friggin deep it doesn't seem to matter.
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Mobley 15 points at the half. Half time adjustments=Mobley 15 points at end of game.
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Cyril and Dre.....40 minutes...20 points, 24 rebounds...how's that for production from the 5 spot?!!!
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The Stanimal...continued...
Earlier this year, an ESPN story called him, "Tanford" Robinson, then, in a game, he was referred to as "Stanford Washington", and tonight...on ESPN...

Rhode Island: The Rams' winning streak coincides with Matthews' return from a broken wrist. In coach Dan Hurley's favored four-guard lineup, Matthews, Terrell, Jeff Dowtin and Stanford Russell also make it difficult for even defensively disruptive teams to cause ball security issues.
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Their best game of the season . They did everything right and continually hit back whenever VCU made any
kind of a run . You could see in the faces of the VCU players that they were becoming resigned to the fact
that it just wasn't going to happen for them tonight . Rhody had way too many weapons . I think VCU played
a great game too but it wasn't enough and they knew it . I'm not sure either team can play any better than
they did tonight . Now keep that focus for the week and take to Davidson the same way.
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I'm getting phone calls from friends who watched the game...who aren't Rhody fans.....but even they are impressed....

We're going to get some national pub this week.....
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Luke, absolutely. I was worried about URI fatigue. By the end of the game, VCU needed the oxygen masks. I can't think of any of the good Rams who had a bad game ..... even Akele provided valuable minutes in the 1st half. Dre was in foul trouble, but I thought his fourth was a bullshit call and he was dominant offensively when he was in. Fatts is back and even Cyril became an offensive weapon. Just outstanding.
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Can't say enough about their effort. I was watching in the first half, thinking their size was going to give us serious trouble. We beat the crap out of them off the boards! We out hustled them and out "havoc"d them. Beat them at their own game!
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This one should move the needle in the polls. Double digit road win in a hostile environment. Ramster you still worried about those rebounds ;)
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Yes nice mention of Akele above. He only played a few minutes but played very well.
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We stayed so poised the whole game.

VCU just could not match us. Our defense played well and they were just too one dimensional on offense.

Cyril cleaning up the boards was so important.

We were ready to play man.

Fatts was also key. We just have too many good players!

After that It's hard for me to see any A-10 team beating us...
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Rhody just played its toughest stretch of the season with four of five games on the road. Won all five with three of them being by double digits. Two of the easiest wins were at Dayton and at VCU. This Ram team likes to rise to the occasion. It seems the better opponents bring out better play by URI.

Get some much needed rest for the final wind down of the season. Seven games left with four at home.
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Billyboy78 wrote:Cyril and Dre.....40 minutes...20 points, 24 rebounds...how's that for production from the 5 spot?!!!
Against Tillman!
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What a game. This team is special
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rhodysurf wrote:What a game. This team is special
Hoping you captured this one, or will when WatchESPN has it on-demand.
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Rock solid.

Langevine fabulous performance, clearly working hard in practice.

Big impressive win.
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ATPTourFan wrote:
rhodysurf wrote:What a game. This team is special
Hoping you captured this one, or will when WatchESPN has it on-demand.
WatchESPN has it for a month so I’ll grab it permanently sometime this week
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bigappleram wrote:This one should move the needle in the polls. Double digit road win in a hostile environment. Ramster you still worried about those rebounds ;)
ramster wrote:Last post game Dan Hurley said they wanted to get Dowtin more control of the ball following what they saw vs Duquesne. He said he wouldn’t use the term selfish but he said we did not pass the ball well and we did not take good shots and had guys “hunting” for shots which didn’t work well.
So there you have Jeff getting 10 assists, could have been higher as some easy shots were missed following passes from Jeff. We shot a season best 61.2% and needed all of that 61.2% to beat UMASS.
The impressive thing is how Hurley and staff made adjustments

I would expect similar adjustments to address rebounding Friday night with rebounding.......


URI is averaging 33.4 rpg
Our worst rebounding games have been:
Virginia-22
Dayton-26
Duquesne-24
UMASS-22
VCU-47
So 3 of our worst rebounding games have come in the last 4 games we have played.......
Of Our 4 key rebounders EC and Langevine missed the Virginia game
Vs Dayton EC had 7, Stan 3 and Berry and Langevine only 1 apiece = 12
Vs Duquesne EC, Stan and Langevine had 3 apiece and Berry had 2 =11
Vs UMASS Stan had 5, Berry 4 with EC and Langevine only 1 apiece = 11
Vs VCU Stan had 5, Berry 6, EC 5 Langevine 18 = 34

The previous game vs UMASS our rebounds were double with 44 versus this past Tuesday night. Stan and Langevine each had 12, Berry 5 and EC 2

It would be nice to have a strong rebounding effort Friday night vs VCU

Lets finish this out at 26-3.
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Above is what I said earlier in this thread. Sure I was worried about rebounding, based on 3 of our worst rebounding games of the season had come in our last 4 games - then going against Tillman and Lane.
But earlier note that I said Hurley made adjustments with Dowtin to have him handling the ball more and controlling the game more because Dan said we had guys taking bad shots and spending time hunting shots. Then the rebounding has not been good and then here we go again - I do not know how he does it but I just had the feeling Hurley would make things change. But this kind of change was mind boggling, over the top

The big 4 rebounders you look for had 12 vs Dayton, 11 vs Duquesne, 11 vs UMASS and then huh? 34 versus VCU and Tillman and Lane and a hostile, sold out crowd? Langevine had 1 vs Dayton, 3 vs Duquesne, 1 vs UMASS - how in the world does he get 18 rebounds in 27 minutes and an impressive 12 points to go with it when he was so low versus Dayton, Duquesne and UMASS? Just amazing.

Certainly all the credit in the world has to go to Langevine tonight - he was the Player of the Game on the Post Game Show with Don Kaull.

But once again, Dan Hurley makes adjustments. We totally dominated the glass outrebounding VCU by an astounding 47-31 and 19-8 on the offensive glass. Absolutely mind boggling.

Dan Hurley is amazing. He continues to amaze even more. Heck with A10 Coach of the Year, he is in the running for National Coach of the Year in my opinion. Tonight was unreal. I can't wait to be in the Ryan Center against Davidson and for that matter Richmond as well.
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Tonight was the highest rebounding game for us this year with 47
Next closest were UMASS and George Mason with 44
Tonight was the highest for Offensive Rebounding with 19 with the next closest being 18 vs Iona and Nevada
Langevine was unbelievable

The whole team played phenomenally well and credit the Coaching Staff a lot too
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VCU fans had some good things to say about us.
https://www.vcuramnation.com/forums/thr ... pn2.17348/
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I just finished DVRing the game. That was an end-to-end BEATDOWN. This is one very very special team, and I am savoring every minute of it!
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The stars are aligning for a great time in the Nation's Capital in 5 weeks
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