Week #2- Games of Interest

URI_05 · Unread post by **URI_05** » 4 years ago

I wonder how many articles UConn’s beat writers will write about their fair weather fan base and how that’s not how to build a winning program...?

Rhodymob05 · Unread post by **Rhodymob05** » 4 years ago

Typical VCU team, suffocating defense and scrappy offense that lives at the free throw line.

Tjrams91 · Unread post by **Tjrams91** » 4 years ago

Suffocating defense that allowed 84 points? I beg to differ.

I wanted both teams to lose.

theblueram · Unread post by **theblueram** » 4 years ago

Hurley with the Tech. lol

Rhodymob05 · Unread post by **Rhodymob05** » 4 years ago

Tjrams91 wrote: ↑4 years ago Suffocating defense that allowed 84 points? I beg to differ.

I wanted both teams to lose.

They forced 26 turnovers to the #23 team in the country, not too shabby.

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 4 years ago

UConn roaring back.... within 3

theblueram · Unread post by **theblueram** » 4 years ago

Danny has to be happy losing to Joes in an empty home court. You wanted it, you got it. Boneyard should be lively tonight.

LoveThoseRams · Unread post by **LoveThoseRams** » 4 years ago

96-87 St. joes. Brendan Adams fouls out with 3 points. I often wonder if we dodged a bullet with him going to UConn with Hurley. His Mommy Dearest would have been a bit much.

SmartyBarrett · Unread post by **SmartyBarrett** » 4 years ago

Really solid night for the A-10.

Seawrightspostgame · Unread post by **Seawrightspostgame** » 4 years ago

I also thought it was a funny situation. Losing to joes in a middle of the week game with less than 50% attendance. I thought that was what he didn’t like!

Wish that was a better win for the league. The VCU win was a good one tonight.

Seawrightspostgame · Unread post by **Seawrightspostgame** » 4 years ago

How did Charleston get Oklahoma state on its home floor?

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 4 years ago

UConn, behind the entire game, falls to St. Joe's, 96-87 despite UConn having a 10 pt edge at the FT line and great 3 point shooting, 14-29, 48+%. What happened to Hurley's vaunted defense intensity??

Rhodymob05 · Unread post by **Rhodymob05** » 4 years ago

A10 winning 5/6 tonight including LSU and Uconn. Solid.

theblueram · Unread post by **theblueram** » 4 years ago

We need to follow up and take down Bama on Friday!!!!

wpbrown8267 · Unread post by **wpbrown8267** » 4 years ago

LoveThoseRams wrote: ↑4 years ago 96-87 St. joes. Brendan Adams fouls out with 3 points. I often wonder if we dodged a bullet with him going to UConn with Hurley. His Mommy Dearest would have been a bit much.

With our awesome depth at guard I would take Adams right now

theblueram · Unread post by **theblueram** » 4 years ago

wpbrown8267 wrote: ↑4 years ago
LoveThoseRams wrote: ↑4 years ago 96-87 St. joes. Brendan Adams fouls out with 3 points. I often wonder if we dodged a bullet with him going to UConn with Hurley. His Mommy Dearest would have been a bit much.
With our awesome depth at guard I would take Adams right now

always a debbie downer.

wpbrown8267 · Unread post by **wpbrown8267** » 4 years ago

theblueram wrote: ↑4 years ago
wpbrown8267 wrote: ↑4 years ago
LoveThoseRams wrote: ↑4 years ago 96-87 St. joes. Brendan Adams fouls out with 3 points. I often wonder if we dodged a bullet with him going to UConn with Hurley. His Mommy Dearest would have been a bit much.
With our awesome depth at guard I would take Adams right now
always a debbie downer.

I’m a Debbie downer? Haha aren’t you known for complaining constantly on this board

I rarely bitch and moan on this board, I think we could use a Brendan adawa right now

theblueram · Unread post by **theblueram** » 4 years ago

wpbrown8267 wrote: ↑4 years ago
theblueram wrote: ↑4 years ago
wpbrown8267 wrote: ↑4 years ago

With our awesome depth at guard I would take Adams right now
always a debbie downer.
I’m a Debbie downer? Haha aren’t you known for complaining constantly on this board

I rarely bitch and moan on this board, I think we could use a Brendan adawa right now

Well, there is a lot to bitch and moan about. lol.

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 4 years ago

theblueram wrote: ↑4 years ago
wpbrown8267 wrote: ↑4 years ago
theblueram wrote: ↑4 years ago

always a debbie downer.
I’m a Debbie downer? Haha aren’t you known for complaining constantly on this board

I rarely bitch and moan on this board, I think we could use a Brendan adawa right now
Well, there is a lot to bitch and moan about. lol.

Like this familiar call, only from the boneyard: "Hurley needs to take some blame. So obvious now we needed a grad transfer pg who could play immediately"

ramfan85 · Unread post by **ramfan85** » 4 years ago

They could use a new mascot, too. All I saw was the husky sitting behind the bench. Looked like a cheerleader for a funeral.

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 4 years ago

PC lays an egg 1h

Bye bye PC bye bye

SmartyBarrett · Unread post by **SmartyBarrett** » 4 years ago

ramfan85 wrote: ↑4 years ago They could use a new mascot, too. All I saw was the husky sitting behind the bench. Looked like a cheerleader for a funeral.

I was legit wondering if the guy inside the mascot fell asleep.

JimSidd · Unread post by **JimSidd** » 4 years ago

Nichols defeats someone named Paul Quinn 81-66 .... don’t know what to make of that. They shot about 41% from the field and about 27% from three.

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 4 years ago

Paul Quinn is a black school affiliated with the Methodist Church and is located In Dallas. School has less than 1000 students their athletics compete in the NAIA. Obviously Nicholls had difficulty in putting a schedule together otherwise they would not have played in regular season such a lower level opponent.

More important is Nicholls' next opponent which is LSU followed by their game against URI. They have played two road contest of worth - taking Illinois to OT before losing and beating Pitt.

PeterRamTime · Unread post by **PeterRamTime** » 4 years ago

Northwestern is just out classing providence.

Playing much smarter

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 4 years ago

PC. 13-50
NW. 18-31

FG %

eli#10 · Unread post by **eli#10** » 4 years ago

That hot bed of college basketball, Storrs, CT, had a huge crowd of 4,081 tonight.

Can you imagine what this board would be like if we had a crowd like that.

PeterRamTime · Unread post by **PeterRamTime** » 4 years ago

eli#10 wrote: ↑4 years ago That hot bed of college basketball, Storrs, CT, had a huge crowd of 4,081 tonight.

Can you imagine what this board would be like if we had a crowd like that.

Thought Dan wanted to go big time?

Living in the shadow of Jim Calhoun and thriving off of his prior success is soooo much more ambitious than making Rhode Island the Gonzaga of the east....

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

Northwestern loses to Merrimack,then Northwestern upsets PC tonight.

Say it ain’t so Ed Cooley.

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 4 years ago

Wow 4 k attendance for UConn that is hard to believe

Solid night for the A10

Rhode_Island_Red · Unread post by **Rhode_Island_Red** » 4 years ago

Hard to imagine a better night than one in which the mental hospital and the Storrs Leg-humpers both lost to what their fans would describe as lower-quality opponents.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

I enjoyed the PC loss as well Red.
10 point favorites and they lost to Northwestern who got beat by 1st year D1 Merrimack.
Pipkins was coming home to Chicago for this game but was a bad 3-15 shooting
Night with many shots clanging off the front of the rim
Young and Reeves both started and went scoreless with 15 minutes of play. Cooley benched Reeves 2nd half because his defense was so bad

Gannt, the freshman big looked good and should have played more. Duke played well also. White good off the bench

Cooley went to the full court press too late, should have pressed sooner to wake his guys up.

Northwestern 1-3-1 zone hurt the Fryuzzz offense.

Section104 · Unread post by **Section104** » 4 years ago

eli#10 wrote: ↑4 years ago That hot bed of college basketball, Storrs, CT, had a huge crowd of 4,081 tonight.

Can you imagine what this board would be like if we had a crowd like that.

People talk about attendance, or lack thereof, a lot, but I think we too often glorify some of our A10 opponents like people should be lining up to watch St. Joseph's. The reality is if we played Villanova, Georgetown, St. Johns, annually we'd see a lot of full houses. St. Joseph's just doesn't excite anyone.

I also think Hurley is getting a little bit of a pass with his "lack of talent" or "not his players". The reality is St. Joseph's roster has no where near the talent of UConn and Hurley recruited the vast majority of that roster...they just picked UConn over URI.

I have no doubt Hurley will turn it around, but stop pretending Christian Vital, Alterique GIlbert, etc. shouldn't blow the doors of St. Joes.

ElmCityRhody · Unread post by **ElmCityRhody** » 4 years ago

Poor PC .. bahahhahaha

bigappleram · Unread post by **bigappleram** » 4 years ago

2 of the last 3 times DH has played St Joe’s he’s been on the wrong end of a boat racing to epic proportions. Senior Night and last night. He must hate that flapping Hawk!

Rhodymob05 · Unread post by **Rhodymob05** » 4 years ago

Think about it though. If Indiana, or Kentucky were having a coaching change, do you think they would EVER have less then 8K in their arenas?

CHICO 78 · Unread post by **CHICO 78** » 4 years ago

Northwestern 1-3-1 zone hurt the Fryuzzz offense.
kind of like what Marylands did to us. Although it was nice to see PC go down
against a second tier Big ten school.

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 4 years ago

.......hhhhuuummm...are U Mass and Joe’s gonna be better than previously thought?

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 4 years ago

The VCU win over LSU was big on many levels. VCU, even with two wins in week 1, had just fallen out of the top 25. LSU was ranked #23. The coach of the tigers is none other than Will Wade whose very short stint at VCU left its fans with a bad taste. The H&H series only came about because VCU has had a clause in the contracts of its head coaches that they have to consent to a series if they leave. That is why Oklahoma, Texas, and now LSU have played at VCU.

VCU fans were very revved up for this game and made a big deal of Wade's legal issues with the NCAA in Baton Rouge. The crowd really trolled him with numerous signs. The funniest bit was the group sitting at court side wearing sunglasses and matching jackets with FBI caps.

https://www.barstoolsports.com/barstool ... DJK2XhlPDY

bigappleram · Unread post by **bigappleram** » 4 years ago

Also funny was the inference by VCU fans that Will Wade only became a cheater after he left Richmond

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 4 years ago

bigappleram wrote: ↑4 years ago Also funny was the inference by VCU fans that Will Wade only became a cheater after he left Richmond

.......yes, but back then Wade was their cheater......

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 4 years ago

Only Thursday night game in the A-10:

Vanderbilt at Richmond, 7 PM. On ESPN+.

There are no games involving URI OOC opponents.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

LoveThoseRams wrote: ↑4 years ago 96-87 St. joes. Brendan Adams fouls out with 3 points. I often wonder if we dodged a bullet with him going to UConn with Hurley. His Mommy Dearest would have been a bit much.

Ryan Daly has 30 points, 8 rebounds and (6-12) on 3Ps. Daly was (0-11) on 3Ps in the first 2 games
Daly sat out last season after transferring from U of Delaware having played 2 years there. Daly is scored and rebounded well so far.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

I’ll just hijack this games of interest for a minute:

Friday is a busy mid afternoon file URI

URI WBB plays at North Dakota at 12 noon. Video available

#23 Ranked, 1-Seed and A10 League Champion URI Men’s Soccer vs #5-Seed Fordham in NYC 1pm. Video available. Semi Finals of A10 Tournament

So take a Friday half day off!!!

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 4 years ago

section(105) wrote: ↑4 years ago .......hhhhuuummm...are U Mass and Joe’s gonna be better than previously thought?

Maybe Joes. Their best players last night were all new - two transfers and a freshman, and as someone pointed out elsewhere in this thread, they’re playing an unorthodox style. So maybe their new guys will make them better than we expected, or maybe by the time we get to the league part of the schedule teams will have figured them out.

UMass I’m pretty sure is terrible. They’ve played pretty lousy teams so far but if they’re going to play a bad schedule at least they are winning which is good for the league. That roster is bad. Tre Mitchell is going to be a legit guy but not sure I see many other A10 players there right now.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

Section104 wrote: ↑4 years ago
eli#10 wrote: ↑4 years ago That hot bed of college basketball, Storrs, CT, had a huge crowd of 4,081 tonight.

Can you imagine what this board would be like if we had a crowd like that.
People talk about attendance, or lack thereof, a lot, but I think we too often glorify some of our A10 opponents like people should be lining up to watch St. Joseph's. The reality is if we played Villanova, Georgetown, St. Johns, annually we'd see a lot of full houses. St. Joseph's just doesn't excite anyone.

I also think Hurley is getting a little bit of a pass with his "lack of talent" or "not his players". The reality is St. Joseph's roster has no where near the talent of UConn and Hurley recruited the vast majority of that roster...they just picked UConn over URI.

I have no doubt Hurley will turn it around, but stop pretending Christian Vital, Alterique GIlbert, etc. shouldn't blow the doors of St. Joes.

But this is the Big East being the future now for UCONN. You would expect more
Only 5,204 at Northwestern for the PC game. Lot of excitement for the Gavitt Games Big 10 - Big East matchups

Rhody83 · Unread post by **Rhody83** » 4 years ago

Richmond up by 2 on Vandy with 10 minutes left.

DeanDome88 · Unread post by **DeanDome88** » 4 years ago

Who do you like in overtime?

Rhody83 · Unread post by **Rhody83** » 4 years ago

Florida escapes at home against Towson. They were favored by 15.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 4 years ago

Haha Richmond guy bricked a dunk (?) at the buzzer to win it for Richmond. Going to 2OT. That guy is going to be sick if they lose this game.

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