Games of Interest - 2023-2024 MBB

[Rhodyg]

Saint Louis ML +320. I think Jimerson goes off.

[reef]

Dave Jablonski of Dayton Daily News on welcome back to UD Arena for Archie Miller
https://www.daytondailynews.com/sports/ ... POXCY2CAU/

Really good find , I think Arch gets a nice cheer !

[Jdrums#3]

VCU looking good tonight. They are rolling over SLU. Up 20 late 2nd half.

[NYGFan_Section208]

man, what a freeking gutpunch at St Bona... I know that some of Rhody's really good teams in history have had clusterdumps like this, but this team had not yet established complete gnarlyness, so such a nutkicking just seems (probably) more painful than need be

[Jersey77]

VCU looking good tonight. They are rolling over SLU. Up 20 late 2nd half.

Bam with 29 pts (7-10 3PT).

[Jdrums#3]

VCU looking good tonight. They are rolling over SLU. Up 20 late 2nd half.

Bam with 29 pts (7-10 3PT).

Jersey, VCU looks like they will be a handful when we play them.

[Jersey77]

VCU looking good tonight. They are rolling over SLU. Up 20 late 2nd half.

Bam with 29 pts (7-10 3PT).

Jersey, VCU looks like they will be a handful when we play them.

Yeah, especially down there.
They do have a lot of talent and Ryan Odom is a solid HC.

[ramster]

Bam with 29 pts (7-10 3PT).

Jersey, VCU looks like they will be a handful when we play them.

Yeah, especially down there.
They do have a lot of talent and Ryan Odom is a solid HC.

St Louis hit only 4-20 3P's = 20%
Joe Bamisile hot 7-10 3P's = 70% coming off the bench for VCU. Overall 10-13 FG for 29 points in just 23 minutes of play. Tough to overcome a guy hitting 7-10 3P's

[ramster]

Saturday A10 Games:

• George Washington (14-3) @ UMASS (-7.5) (11-6) ESPN+ 12pm

• URI (9-8) @ #21 Ranked Dayton (-13.5) (14-2) USA Net 12:30pm

• Loyola (-1.5) (12-6) @ Fordham (8-9) ESPN+ 1pm

• St Bonaventure (11-5) @ George Mason (-1.5) (13-5) ESPN+ 2pm

• Duquesne (9-7) @ St Joseph's (-5.5) (11-6) USA Net 2:30pm

• Richmond (12-5) @ Davidson (-1.5) (11-6) ESPN+ 4pm

A10 Standings:
Dayton (4-0) - Dayton has won 11 straight games
Richmond (4-0) - Richmond has won 7 straight games
Loyola (4-1)
George Washington (3-1)
URI (3-1)
VCU (3-2)
Fordham (2-2)
St Bonaventure (2-2)
George Mason (2-3)
UMASS (2-3)
Davidson (1-3)
St Joseph's (1-3)
St Louis (1-4)
Duquesne (0-4)

[Jersey77]

Jersey, VCU looks like they will be a handful when we play them.

Yeah, especially down there.
They do have a lot of talent and Ryan Odom is a solid HC.

St Louis hit only 4-20 3P's = 20%
Joe Bamisile hot 7-10 3P's = 70% coming off the bench for VCU. Overall 10-13 FG for 29 points in just 23 minutes of play. Tough to overcome a guy hitting 7-10 3P's

VCU having Bam eligible now certainly gave them a big lift.

[Jersey77]

Saturday A10 Games:

• George Washington (14-3) @ UMASS (-7.5) (11-6) ESPN+ 12pm

• URI (9-8) @ #21 Ranked Dayton (-13.5) (14-2) USA Net 12:30pm

• Loyola (-1.5) (12-6) @ Fordham (8-9) ESPN+ 1pm

• St Bonaventure (11-5) @ George Mason (-1.5) (13-5) ESPN+ 2pm

• Duquesne (9-7) @ St Joseph's (-5.5) (11-6) USA Net 2:30pm

• Richmond (12-5) @ Davidson (-1.5) (11-6) ESPN+ 4pm

A10 Standings:
Dayton (4-0) - Dayton has won 11 straight games
Richmond (4-0) - Richmond has won 7 straight games
Loyola (4-1)
George Washington (3-1)
URI (3-1)
VCU (3-2)
Fordham (2-2)
St Bonaventure (2-2)
George Mason (2-3)
UMASS (2-3)
Davidson (1-3)
St Joseph's (1-3)
St Louis (1-4)
Duquesne (0-4)

Interesting that every home team except Fordham is favored. GW, Richmond, and the Bonnie’s, all under-dogs. Lots of A10 action, good viewing.

[ramster]

Saturday A10 Games:

• George Washington (14-3) @ UMASS (-7.5) (11-6) ESPN+ 12pm

• URI (9-8) @ #21 Ranked Dayton (-13.5) (14-2) USA Net 12:30pm

• Loyola (-1.5) (12-6) @ Fordham (8-9) ESPN+ 1pm

• St Bonaventure (11-5) @ George Mason (-1.5) (13-5) ESPN+ 2pm

• Duquesne (9-7) @ St Joseph's (-5.5) (11-6) USA Net 2:30pm

• Richmond (12-5) @ Davidson (-1.5) (11-6) ESPN+ 4pm

A10 Standings:
Dayton (4-0) - Dayton has won 11 straight games
Richmond (4-0) - Richmond has won 7 straight games
Loyola (4-1)
George Washington (3-1)
URI (3-1)
VCU (3-2)
Fordham (2-2)
St Bonaventure (2-2)
George Mason (2-3)
UMASS (2-3)
Davidson (1-3)
St Joseph's (1-3)
St Louis (1-4)
Duquesne (0-4)

Interesting that every home team except Fordham is favored. GW, Richmond, and the Bonnie’s, all under-dogs. Lots of A10 action, good viewing.

Yes 77, but 3 of the games are very close, all 1.5 point spreads. Loyola at Fordham is an interesting game. Fordham could win it and Fordham won AT St Bonaventure the game just before our massacre...............but if Loyola wins that would put them at 5-1 with their next 3 games @ VCU Tuesday, then 2 games at home vs St Louis and Davidson.

St Bonaventure at GMU today is intriguing.

[Jdrums#3]

GW up 4 10 minutes in at UMass. Hmmmm

[RF1]

GW up 4 10 minutes in at UMass. Hmmmm

Cross is out again for UMass today. Third game in a row.

[PeterRamTime]

GW up 4 10 minutes in at UMass. Hmmmm

Cross is out again for UMass today. Third game in a row.

UMass blowing GW out

63-43 9 minutes left

[Jdrums#3]

GW up 4 10 minutes in at UMass. Hmmmm

Cross is out again for UMass today. Third game in a row.

UMass blowing GW out

63-43 9 minutes left

Maybe it’s blow out day in the A10.

Unfortunately, we are on the wrong side of it. Brutal.

[PeterRamTime]

LOL

Bonnies with only 14 points with 5 minutes left in the half

4-22 from the floor

[rambone 78]

Ram Tough we are not.

[reef]

Pats beat the Bonnie’s 69-60

[NYGFan_Section208]

Ram Tough we are not.

Nope, but BC is hanging tough with #4UNC...4 point game with 5 and change to play

[PeterRamTime]

Ram Tough we are not.

We were

lamb fluff

[RF1]

Things could be worse for Rhody fans. Look at Duquesne. Many pegged them to have a good season. They lost at St Joe's today to fall to 0-5 in league play

[Rhody_NYCT]

Bryant looking like the best team in RI. Not even Bassy can take them down.

[reef]

Bassy had 20 on 7-20 floor 2-7 from 3

[Rhody15]

Loyola now 5-1 in conference in third place.

Holding their own.

[RF1]

Loyola now 5-1 in conference in third place.

Holding their own.

I wonder if their fans are discussing throwing poor performing programs out of the A-10. There are some teams that have never been good while the Ramblers have been in the A-10.

[Jdrums#3]

Cbb is crazy. 13-4 Georgia getting beat by 28 and have already given up 96 pts at Kentucky with 7 min left! Crazy!

[theblueram]

Loyola now 5-1 in conference in third place.

Holding their own.

I wonder if their fans are discussing throwing poor performing programs out of the A-10. There are some teams that have never been good while the Ramblers have been in the A-10.

Name 1 team who the Ramblers were better than in the A10 conference last year.

[Rhody15]

Cbb is crazy. 13-4 Georgia getting beat by 28 and have already given up 96 pts at Kentucky with 7 min left! Crazy!

That game was yesterday, you must be watching a a replay.

Also, Kentucky is one of the best teams in America and was playing at home.

That wasn’t really a shocking or crazy result.

[NYGFan_Section208]

Cbb is crazy. 13-4 Georgia getting beat by 28 and have already given up 96 pts at Kentucky with 7 min left! Crazy!

That game was yesterday, you must be watching a a replay.

Also, Kentucky is one of the best teams in America and was playing at home.

That wasn’t really a shocking or crazy result.

Can we all just rewind it to yesterday and skip the Dayton Massacre?

[Jdrums#3]

Cbb is crazy. 13-4 Georgia getting beat by 28 and have already given up 96 pts at Kentucky with 7 min left! Crazy!

That game was yesterday, you must be watching a a replay.

Also, Kentucky is one of the best teams in America and was playing at home.

That wasn’t really a shocking or crazy result.

Giving up 96 points with over 7 minutes left in the game between 2 good teams is crazy to me. How often does that happen between a 13-4 team and a ranked team - rarely I would guess.

If you don’t think it’s crazy, that’s fine. I think it’s crazy.

[RF1]

Loyola now 5-1 in conference in third place.

Holding their own.

I wonder if their fans are discussing throwing poor performing programs out of the A-10. There are some teams that have never been good while the Ramblers have been in the A-10.

Name 1 team who the Ramblers were better than in the A10 conference last year.

May be none last year but this season is a different matter.

[theblueram]

I wonder if their fans are discussing throwing poor performing programs out of the A-10. There are some teams that have never been good while the Ramblers have been in the A-10.

Name 1 team who the Ramblers were better than in the A10 conference last year.

May be none last year but this season is a different matter.

They beat 15 Duq, 14 SLU and 11 FU. Let's see how this plays out.

[PeterRamTime]

Name 1 team who the Ramblers were better than in the A10 conference last year.

May be none last year but this season is a different matter.

They beat 15 Duq, 14 SLU and 11 FU. Let's see how this plays out.

They've been clutch, but not great and kinda lucky. Same with Richmond.

Both have been very fortunate thus far. I feel pretty certain they'll come back down to earth. Duquesne is a few bounces away from having a similar record. They blew it against Richmond the other day.

Aside from Dayton, the rest of the league will be completely unpredictable. There isn't a big difference between 2-15.

[Rhody15]

May be none last year but this season is a different matter.

They beat 15 Duq, 14 SLU and 11 FU. Let's see how this plays out.

They've been clutch, but not great and kinda lucky. Same with Richmond.

Both have been very fortunate thus far. I feel pretty certain they'll come back down to earth. Duquesne is a few bounces away from having a similar record. They blew it against Richmond the other day.

Aside from Dayton, the rest of the league will be completely unpredictable. There isn't a big difference between 2-15.

We just lost by 35 to Bonnie’s.

I’d say that’s a big difference.

[rambone 78]

Nobody in this league has played worse in a particular game than we have so far this season.

Twice.

[Jersey77]

Things could be worse for Rhody fans. Look at Duquesne. Many pegged them to have a good season. They lost at St Joe's today to fall to 0-5 in league play

The Dukes are 0-5 but probably not as bad as their record.
They lost their last 2 games (Richmond and the Joes) by only 2 points each.
Also they have been without their best player and leading scorer Grant and 2 forwards Savrasov and H. Drame.

[Obadiah]

Nobody in this league has played worse in a particular game than we have so far this season.

Twice.

Actually if you look at all the D1 scores on both days we got blown out, there are only a few scores with greater matgins, notably PC's thrashing of DePaul 100-62.

[theblueram]

Things could be worse for Rhody fans. Look at Duquesne. Many pegged them to have a good season. They lost at St Joe's today to fall to 0-5 in league play

The Dukes are 0-5 but probably not as bad as their record.
They lost their last 2 games (Richmond and the Joes) by only 2 points each.
Also they have been without their best player and leading scorer Grant and 2 forwards Savrasov and H. Drame.

Did you just say a team that is 0-5 in conference is not as bad as their record? Like what other measure in sports tells us how good a team is besides wins and losses? Sheesh.

[theblueram]

Nobody in this league has played worse in a particular game than we have so far this season.

Twice.

Actually if you look at all the D1 scores on both days we got blown out, there are only a few scores with greater matgins, notably PC's thrashing of DePaul 100-62.

Hearing McGlade is ready to offer DePawful a bid to the A10.

[Jersey77]

Things could be worse for Rhody fans. Look at Duquesne. Many pegged them to have a good season. They lost at St Joe's today to fall to 0-5 in league play

The Dukes are 0-5 but probably not as bad as their record.
They lost their last 2 games (Richmond and the Joes) by only 2 points each.
Also they have been without their best player and leading scorer Grant and 2 forwards Savrasov and H. Drame.

Did you just say a team that is 0-5 in conference is not as bad as their record? Like what other measure in sports tells us how good a team is besides wins and losses? Sheesh.

Try reading the whole post.
I think they will be a better team once Grant returns, plus some of their loses have been very close especially to 2nd place Richmond.
Just my opinion, Sheesh.

[PeterRamTime]

They beat 15 Duq, 14 SLU and 11 FU. Let's see how this plays out.

They've been clutch, but not great and kinda lucky. Same with Richmond.

Both have been very fortunate thus far. I feel pretty certain they'll come back down to earth. Duquesne is a few bounces away from having a similar record. They blew it against Richmond the other day.

Aside from Dayton, the rest of the league will be completely unpredictable. There isn't a big difference between 2-15.

We just lost by 35 to Bonnie’s.

I’d say that’s a big difference.

Okay and we are also the exact same team that a week ago looked like the clear cut second best team in the league lol so your point is what exactly?

So we have looked like a top 2ish team and the worst team in the league all within two weeks. Are we not going to win again? Just gonna get blown out the rest of the year? Your point is dumb. No other team has been as insanely bi polar as we have, but the rest of the league has looked evenly matched, verrrry average and very up and down. Odds are we don't completely collapse the rest of the year and we win some more games. Impossible to tell from this team. Just like it's impossible to predict the rest of the A-10 aside from Dayton, which is the point I'm making.

Richmond and Loyola are fortunate to be 5-0 and 4-1. Richmond needed Duquesne to choke in the last minute to win the other night after Duquesne led the entire game. Loyola is the same way. Needing comebacks and barely beating anybody. Everyone can compete and beat everybody. Except Dayton...

[PeterRamTime]

Things could be worse for Rhody fans. Look at Duquesne. Many pegged them to have a good season. They lost at St Joe's today to fall to 0-5 in league play

The Dukes are 0-5 but probably not as bad as their record.
They lost their last 2 games (Richmond and the Joes) by only 2 points each.
Also they have been without their best player and leading scorer Grant and 2 forwards Savrasov and H. Drame.

Did you just say a team that is 0-5 in conference is not as bad as their record? Like what other measure in sports tells us how good a team is besides wins and losses? Sheesh.

Ever heard of context? It's not hard. UMass killed them, but they only lost to Dayton by 10, lost to St Joe's and Richmond by two (blew it against 5-0 Richmond) lost to Loyola by 5. They could very easily be 3-2. What you said would make sense if they had gotten blown out all 5 games, but it's far from it. So huh yeah, they aren't as bad as their record. Also have guys out. Kinda like SLU getting Parker back. SLU isn't a good team but they're talented enough to be competitive with Dayton.

[ramster]

Things could be worse for Rhody fans. Look at Duquesne. Many pegged them to have a good season. They lost at St Joe's today to fall to 0-5 in league play

The Dukes are 0-5 but probably not as bad as their record.
They lost their last 2 games (Richmond and the Joes) by only 2 points each.
Also they have been without their best player and leading scorer Grant and 2 forwards Savrasov and H. Drame.

RF1,

Consider the A10 is a 1-Bid Conference. All of the strategy now should be for each HC to get their team as prepared as possible for the A10 Tournament in March. The Automatic Qualifier has to be the goal for each team with the exception possibly of Dayton who could lose and still get a bid. But for everyone else it's A10 Conference Championship or BUST.

So even a 0-5 start for Duquesne is not the dire situation you paint it to be.

At 0-5 Duquesne is still NET 100 as compared to 3-2 URI NET 199.

3 of the 5 losses were AWAY at UMASS, Loyola, St Joe
The home losses were to red hot Dayton and Richmond

Next 5 games have 4 at HOME with the 5th AWAY at URI

Duquesne Record to date:
Jan 3: Lost 61-80 AT UMASS NET 86
Jan 6: Lost 67-72 AT Loyola NET 120
Jan 12: Lost 62-72 vs Dayton NET 15
Jan 16: Lost 61-63 vs Richmond NET 72 - without leading scorer Dae Dae Grant averaging 3rd in A10 at 18.3 ppg
Jan 20: Lost 69-71 AT St Joseph's NET 82 - without leading scorer Dae Dae Grant

Jan 23: St Bonaventure NET 75
Jan 27: Fordham NET 192 with $1 Beers
Jan 31: Chicago State
Feb 3: AT URI NET 199
Feb 7: Davidson NET 131


A10 NET
15-Dayton
72-Richmond
75-St Bonaventure
82-St Joseph's
83-George Mason
86-UMASS
91-VCU
100-Duquesne
120-Loyola
131-Davidson
144-George Washington
192-Fordham
199-URI
213-LaSalle
214-St Louis

[ramster]

Tuesday A10 Games:

• #16 Ranked Dayton (-8.5) (15-2) @ LaSalle (10-8) ESPN+ 6:30pm

• St Bonaventure (11-6) @ Duquesne (-3.5) (9-8) ESPN+ 7pm

• St Joseph's (12-6) @ UMASS (-2.5)(12-6) ESPN+ 7pm

• Loyola (13-6) @ VCU (-4.5) (11-7) CBSSN 7pm

A10 NET
15-Dayton
72-Richmond
75-St Bonaventure
82-St Joseph's
83-George Mason
86-UMASS
91-VCU
100-Duquesne
120-Loyola
131-Davidson
144-George Washington
192-Fordham
199-URI
213-LaSalle
214-St Louis

[theblueram]

Things could be worse for Rhody fans. Look at Duquesne. Many pegged them to have a good season. They lost at St Joe's today to fall to 0-5 in league play

The Dukes are 0-5 but probably not as bad as their record.
They lost their last 2 games (Richmond and the Joes) by only 2 points each.
Also they have been without their best player and leading scorer Grant and 2 forwards Savrasov and H. Drame.

RF1,

Consider the A10 is a 1-Bid Conference. All of the strategy now should be for each HC to get their team as prepared as possible for the A10 Tournament in March. The Automatic Qualifier has to be the goal for each team with the exception possibly of Dayton who could lose and still get a bid. But for everyone else it's A10 Conference Championship or BUST.

So even a 0-5 start for Duquesne is not the dire situation you paint it to be.

At 0-5 Duquesne is still NET 100 as compared to 3-2 URI NET 199.

3 of the 5 losses were AWAY at UMASS, Loyola, St Joe
The home losses were to red hot Dayton and Richmond

Next 5 games have 4 at HOME with the 5th AWAY at URI

Duquesne Record to date:
Jan 3: Lost 61-80 AT UMASS NET 86
Jan 6: Lost 67-72 AT Loyola NET 120
Jan 12: Lost 62-72 vs Dayton NET 15
Jan 16: Lost 61-63 vs Richmond NET 72 - without leading scorer Dae Dae Grant averaging 3rd in A10 at 18.3 ppg
Jan 20: Lost 69-71 AT St Joseph's NET 82 - without leading scorer Dae Dae Grant

Jan 23: St Bonaventure NET 75
Jan 27: Fordham NET 192 with $1 Beers
Jan 31: Chicago State
Feb 3: AT URI NET 199
Feb 7: Davidson NET 131


A10 NET
15-Dayton
72-Richmond
75-St Bonaventure
82-St Joseph's
83-George Mason
86-UMASS
91-VCU
100-Duquesne
120-Loyola
131-Davidson
144-George Washington
192-Fordham
199-URI
213-LaSalle
214-St Louis

So the A10 is a one bid conference with 15 teams. Why would any school want to play through 15 teams for an AQ? It only takes 8 teams to make a D1 conference eligible for AQ. Seems it would be better to be in an 8 team conference.

[reef]

Bonnie’s down 35-28 1235 left jeez only had 15 halftime

[RI_Bred]

^ crazy! 15!

[ramster]

Tuesday A10 Games:

• #16 Ranked Dayton (-8.5) (15-2) @ LaSalle (10-8) ESPN+ 6:30pm

• St Bonaventure (11-6) @ Duquesne (-3.5) (9-8) ESPN+ 7pm

• St Joseph's (12-6) @ UMASS (-2.5)(12-6) ESPN+ 7pm

• Loyola (13-6) @ VCU (-4.5) (11-7) CBSSN 7pm

A10 NET
15-Dayton
72-Richmond
75-St Bonaventure
82-St Joseph's
83-George Mason
86-UMASS
91-VCU
100-Duquesne
120-Loyola
131-Davidson
144-George Washington
192-Fordham
199-URI
213-LaSalle
214-St Louis

Duquesne defeats St Bonaventure by 4 points. Dukes were favored by 3.5 on their home court. They played again without their best player, high scorer Dae Dae Grant

[spar]

Tuesday A10 Games:

• #16 Ranked Dayton (-8.5) (15-2) @ LaSalle (10-8) ESPN+ 6:30pm

• St Bonaventure (11-6) @ Duquesne (-3.5) (9-8) ESPN+ 7pm

• St Joseph's (12-6) @ UMASS (-2.5)(12-6) ESPN+ 7pm

• Loyola (13-6) @ VCU (-4.5) (11-7) CBSSN 7pm

A10 NET
15-Dayton
72-Richmond
75-St Bonaventure
82-St Joseph's
83-George Mason
86-UMASS
91-VCU
100-Duquesne
120-Loyola
131-Davidson
144-George Washington
192-Fordham
199-URI
213-LaSalle
214-St Louis

Duquesne defeats St Bonaventure by 4 points. Dukes were favored by 3.5 on their home court. They played again without their best player, high scorer Dae Dae Grant

Bonnies put up 50 total pts for the game. They put up 51 in the first half against us last week. Gotta love seeing that.