Week #17 - Games of Interest

[Obadiah]

St. Joe's edges Fordham, 73-69. Fordham was down 16 points with less than four minutes to play and began an amazing run to get within two, but they just ran out of time. Ryan Daly was game's top scorer with 21 points.

[DC_Rams]

LaSalle beats the Bonnies. Osi with an underwhelming 11-5 star line.

[Obadiah]

Another exciting finish in the A-10, as La Salle upsets St. Bonaventure, 73-65. Explorers led by 19 points at one point and held off a SBU rally to even their record at 14-14.

[McRam]

r the Bonnies still the 4 seed?

[Joe95]

Baylor down 8 against TCU under 2 min left. Dayton could be #3 in the polls coming into the Ryan Center.

[reef]

Is our Q1 win at VCU ?? I guess it doesn’t matter if they slip up later in the year it’s when we beat them ???

[CaptainRon]

Is our Q1 win at VCU ?? I guess it doesn’t matter if they slip up later in the year it’s when we beat them ???

No, it’s where they end up. Not where they were when you played them. Hence The Brown loss is moving towards Quad 4

[reef]

Ok then who is our only Q1 win then ??

[steviep123]

Ok then who is our only Q1 win then ??

Still VCU at VCU.

[reef]

Huh ?? I am confused Ron above said it’s not VCU is he wrong ??

[luke]

Yes , VCU is at 60 NET so it is still a quad 1 win as long as they remain 75 or better in NET . Not likely to drop 15 spots .

[reef]

Got it a road win over top 75 is Q1 and home win over top 30 is Q1

[Rhody15]

Ok then who is our only Q1 win then ??

Do you follow along at all?

Not trying to be a dick, but I mean come on now...

[NYGFan_Section208]

Syracuse...who my son always tells me "isn't good" looks to be right. Down 16...to this-year-UNC ? Good grief.
A friend just texted that the Orange have 'em right where they want 'em and UNC will wilt in the 2nd half. I guess that's just as possible.

Reef, I think maybe PC is our quad 1, but not sure (or care) enough to check. It's just a number. Win the games, we'll be fine.

[Rhody15]

WVU doing us no favors getting blown out at home against fellow bubble team Oklahoma.

[Rhody15]

Syracuse...who my son always tells me "isn't good" looks to be right. Down 16...to this-year-UNC ? Good grief.
A friend just texted that the Orange have 'em right where they want 'em and UNC will wilt in the 2nd half. I guess that's just as possible.

Reef, I think maybe PC is our quad 1, but not sure (or care) enough to check. It's just a number. Win the games, we'll be fine.

PC will not become a Q1 win unless they win the Big East tournament.

[RamStock]

WVU doing us no favors getting blown out at home against fellow bubble team Oklahoma.

They might be the only team around who is playing worse than VCU lately. They are terrible

[ramster]

Big win by TCU
Dayton moves up another notch
Maybe more if Gonzaga loses tonight

[Rhodymob05]

My goodness what happened to WVU

[SmartyBarrett]

Left for personal health reasons apparently. Per Rothstein

No idea what's up with Jenkins but Mike Rhoades was very emotional after the game. I'm no VCU fan but gotta feel for them. Really good team win.

[reef]

Yeah WVU does is no favors at all helping another bubble team out

[Rhody15]

And ETSU with a furious comeback after being down the whole game.

Gotta hope they win their conference tournament or else they’ll be getting an at large.

[RhodyRam86]

If you're a bettor...GW -12 @ VCU - grab that k-zash... you're welcome

thanks for the advice. guess i can always pitch a tent and live under a bridge somewhere now.

[reef]

Yeah not one of 208s better selections

[NYGFan_Section208]

If you're a bettor...GW -12 @ VCU - grab that k-zash... you're welcome

thanks for the advice. guess i can always pitch a tent and live under a bridge somewhere now.

Yeah, gets kinda cold under bridges, but I think the Cue app works there....

[reef]

Richmond laying the wood to UMass means we better show up big tomorrow

[RhodyRam86]

If you're a bettor...GW -12 @ VCU - grab that k-zash... you're welcome

thanks for the advice. guess i can always pitch a tent and live under a bridge somewhere now.

Yeah, gets kinda cold under bridges, but I think the Cue app works there....

i'm sure the cue app will work better than it does in the RC. it's all relative.

[LoveThoseRams]

Richmond laying the wood to UMass means we better show up big tomorrow

I've come to the ultimate conclusion that I dislike UMass even more than VCU...
Never thought that could happen. I now have sympathy for VCU, and their troublesome season.

As long as UMass has that toolbox Bergeron, they will be my most despised A10 Team. And now they just picked up the Shea High School recruit because of Slick Bergeron. I wonder how much longer Matt McCall is the "Head Coach"

[Rhody15]

Richmond laying the wood to UMass means we better show up big tomorrow

I've come to the ultimate conclusion that I dislike UMass even more than VCU...
Never thought that could happen. I now have sympathy for VCU, and their troublesome season.

As long as UMass has that toolbox Bergeron, they will be my most despised A10 Team. And now they just picked up the Shea High School recruit because of Slick Bergeron. I wonder how much longer Matt McCall is the "Head Coach"

Erickson Bans is going to Bryant.

[ramster]

Richmond laying the wood to UMass means we better show up big tomorrow

I've come to the ultimate conclusion that I dislike UMass even more than VCU...
Never thought that could happen. I now have sympathy for VCU, and their troublesome season.

As long as UMass has that toolbox Bergeron, they will be my most despised A10 Team. And now they just picked up the Shea High School recruit because of Slick Bergeron. I wonder how much longer Matt McCall is the "Head Coach"

Erickson Bans is going to Bryant.

Love those Rams is referring to Dyondre Dominguez who announced for UMASS today. Dominguez played for Tolman in Pawtucket, not Shea. His father works at Tolman too.

[LoveThoseRams]

I've come to the ultimate conclusion that I dislike UMass even more than VCU...
Never thought that could happen. I now have sympathy for VCU, and their troublesome season.

As long as UMass has that toolbox Bergeron, they will be my most despised A10 Team. And now they just picked up the Shea High School recruit because of Slick Bergeron. I wonder how much longer Matt McCall is the "Head Coach"

Erickson Bans is going to Bryant.

Love those Rams is referring to Dyondre Dominguez who announced for UMASS today. Dominguez played for Tolman in Pawtucket, not Shea. His father works at Tolman too.

My Bad! Exactly...Dyondre was who I was speaking of. I confused Shea with Tolman.

[rambone 78]

We have to hope McCall continues to suck as a coach, because Mitchell is a beast.

If they keep getting talent, they will win in spite of themselves.

[ramster]

Erickson Bans is going to Bryant.

Love those Rams is referring to Dyondre Dominguez who announced for UMASS today. Dominguez played for Tolman in Pawtucket, not Shea. His father works at Tolman too.

My Bad! Exactly...Dyondre was who I was speaking of. I confused Shea with Tolman.

I knew you knew. Rhody15 thought you had the wrong guy thinking you meant Bans. Dominguez is the guy UMASS just got the commitment from.

[Rhody15]

USC over Arizona St.

Beat Dayton, or A10 final is a necessity (which may not even be enough.)

Besides Dayton, we just don’t have the games that’ll move the needle.

[CaptainRon]

Huh ?? I am confused Ron above said it’s not VCU is he wrong ??

No, I said Brown could be a Quad 4 loss. VCU still should stay as the best win, unless they totally tank.

[TruePoint]

I dont care what the numbers say, Arizona stinks. Great job, Arizona. This is the worst 3 minutes of basketball I’ve ever seen.

[TruePoint]

USC over Arizona St.

Beat Dayton, or A10 final is a necessity (which may not even be enough.)

Besides Dayton, we just don’t have the games that’ll move the needle.

You keep saying this, and it’s just as dumb every time you say it. We don’t need to move the needle. We are in the field. We need to not screw up.

[Joe95]

I dont care what the numbers say, Arizona stinks. Great job, Arizona. This is the worst 3 minutes of basketball I’ve ever seen.

The pac-12 as a whole is completely overrated.

[TruePoint]

In every sport, every year.

[Rhody15]

USC over Arizona St.

Beat Dayton, or A10 final is a necessity (which may not even be enough.)

Besides Dayton, we just don’t have the games that’ll move the needle.

You keep saying this, and it’s just as dumb every time you say it. We don’t need to move the needle. We are in the field. We need to not screw up.

I mean, we do need to move the needle.

Come Monday, we’ll barely be in (if we beat St Louis.) We stay stagnant, and other teams will jump us with better wins, along with bid stealers shrinking the bubble.

[Rhody15]

I dont care what the numbers say, Arizona stinks. Great job, Arizona. This is the worst 3 minutes of basketball I’ve ever seen.

The pac-12 as a whole is completely overrated.

So because of three minutes, the 11th Ranked NET team stinks.

The Pac 12 (which has one of the two teams
Who has beaten Dayton) is now overrated along with the Big East.

Man, how delusional are we?

[reef]

Was not a good day for us with regards to the bubble though Utah St losing lately helped a bit

TP said it right just keep winning and holding serve any loss is going to hurt us bad

If we do lose to Dayton we definitely need to get to the A-10 finals and hope that’s good enough

[TruePoint]

Some bubble teams will win and others will lose.

There has been a lot of ink spilled on how Arizona’s NET ranking is an indictment of the system, or at least is evidence of its flaws. There’s no way you can watch that team multiple times and come away thinking you’re watching the 11th best team in the country.

[ramster]

Some bubble teams will win and others will lose.

There has been a lot of ink spilled on how Arizona’s NET ranking is an indictment of the system, or at least is evidence of its flaws. There’s no way you can watch that team multiple times and come away thinking you’re watching the 11th best team in the country.

And 12th best team just went 9-18 FTs and 5-30 On 3Ps today will weak defense

But I’d hardly say there has been a lot of ink questioning NET on Keaney Blue - here the NET is the gospel

It’s going to be a very interesting Tournament Selection Process this Season

Interesting how the NET doesn’t list OOC Road Games. Because there would hardly be any for the P5 and BE Cartel Conferences

The P5 and BE Conferences are not held to much, if any, negative impact from playing most all of their OOC games on their home court or in at most neutral sites with most neutral sites in remote locations in November with very small crowds. Then they use their Home Court and Neutral Court beefed up NETs to impact their Conference NETs. The PAC12 and BE Individual NETs just get better and better as Conference Play goes on.

So when NCAA Tournament Time comes around these teams often get knocked off by Mid Majors who are not really 11th or 12th caliber seeds, and the Mid Majors are used to playing Road Games in front of hostile crowds because it’s the only way they can play a P5 or BE Team - with few exceptions.

Look at these NET Rankings with the associated Team Records. No wonder Vitale went off on the absurdity of a Purdue’s NET on Friday Night

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[ramster]

I dont care what the numbers say, Arizona stinks. Great job, Arizona. This is the worst 3 minutes of basketball I’ve ever seen.

The pac-12 as a whole is completely overrated.

So because of three minutes, the 11th Ranked NET team stinks.

The Pac 12 (which has one of the two teams
Who has beaten Dayton) is now overrated along with the Big East.

Man, how delusional are we?

Show how the BE and PAC 12 did on OOC Road Games

[reef]

Yes it’s how it’s always been in some conferences you get 10 teams that are top 100 NET

The bottom of the A-10, always brings the league down that’s what sucks about being a mid major

[RamStock]

Biggest Day of the season!!

Not only do we need the win today, but almost all the bubble teams that didn’t play yesterday are in action and two others have huge games on a Tuesday

Xavier at Georgetown
Indiana at Illinios
Cincinnati at Houston
Wichita State at SMU
Colorado at Stanford

Tuesday

Purdue at Iowa
Maryland at Rutgers

[Obadiah]

Only Sunday game in the A-10 highlights Rhode Island hosting Saint Louis, 2 PM. On ESPNU.


In games involving URI OOC opponents:

Manhattan at Monmouth, 2 PM. On ESPN3.

Western Kentucky at North Texas, 2 PM. On CBSSN. A battle for the C-USA title.

Middle Tennessee at Rice, 3 PM.

[Rhody15]

Biggest Day of the season!!

Not only do we need the win today, but almost all the bubble teams that didn’t play yesterday are in action and two others have huge games on a Tuesday

Xavier at Georgetown
Indiana at Illinios
Cincinnati at Houston
Wichita State at SMU
Colorado at Stanford

Tuesday

Purdue at Iowa
Maryland at Rutgers

All bubble teams on the road today, that’s big.

[rjsuperfly66]

The pac-12 as a whole is completely overrated.

So because of three minutes, the 11th Ranked NET team stinks.

The Pac 12 (which has one of the two teams
Who has beaten Dayton) is now overrated along with the Big East.

Man, how delusional are we?

Show how the BE and PAC 12 did on OOC Road Games

Ah yes, my scenario from last week is coming true. I’m glad since now I can just copy and paste it...


It's the same cryfest every year...
"___ barely ever plays true road games during OOC. It's not fair."
"Well how many Q1 or Q2 road games did they play during conference?"
"9, but you are missing the point, they didn't play the little guys and it's not fair."
"So they played 1 true Q1 roadgame during the OOC, played 2 other Q1/Q2 games on a neutral court, and played 9 Q1/Q2 games on the road during conference play, plus probably another 2-3 on a neutral court during the conference tournament, but they should be penalized and forced to play more road games against teams like you?"
"Exactly. We deserve our chances too. I don't care that they play 12 Q1/Q2 games away from home and more in the conference tournament, it's just not fair."
"Well how many Q1/Q2 games did you play on the road during conference play?"
"4, but you are missing the point?"
"So they play 9 Q1/Q2 games on the road during conference play, and you play 4, and you are saying they should come play games at your house because you always have to play there, even though they go on the road and play 2x+ the Q1/Q2 opponents during conference play?"
"Exactly!!! Now you get it!"