Atlantic 10 Outlook 2020-2021 Season

[KingstonLane]

Separately, VCU scheduled to resume basketball activities??

Wouldn’t mind some clarity on what happened here. Has to be a false positive I’d guess? Not sure how else you can have only a 2 day COVID shutdown

[Rhodymob05]

Can someone update the NET rankings?

[Rhodyram]

2nd place in the A-10.

Tied with LaSalle and GW

[Jersey77]

How will losing these significant players impact their team's chances in the A10?
Chase Johnson - Dayton
Nick Sherod - Richmond
Makhi Mitchell - URI

[wpbrown8267]

St Louis @ #23 in both polls...no other A10 receiving votes this week

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings

[ramster]

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[SandorClegane]

2nd place in the A-10.

Feels good baby but I wouldn’t expect to hold it

I agree. I’m thinking we take over 1st place by mid January. #A10Champs

[rhodylaw]

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As much as I loved our take on the world attitude this year in the non-conference, VCU sits at 31 with a couple of wins and then some cupcakey games. Hopefully we learned from playing the tougher teams and no team in the A10 is better than Wisconsin.

[reef]

Colgate ranked 16th in NET is just flat out wrong

Adonal Foyle is smiling

[Jersey77]

Big blow to Duquesne backcourt:

Austin, Carry step away from Duquesne men's basketball team
AP Jan 9, 2021

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Tavian Dunn-Martin, who suddenly became Duquesne's lone starting guard hours before the game, scored 11 points as Duquesne narrowly beat Fordham 48-45 on Saturday.

Dunn-Martin was left alone at the starting guard spot after Maceo Austin and Sincere Carry each apparently stepped away from the program hours before the game. A third guard, Lamar Norman, entered the transfer portal Jan. 5.

A Duquesne spokesman told the Pittsburgh Tribune Review that Carry “has decided to take time away from the program.” Austin has “stepped away for personal reasons,” the spokesman said.

Austin, a sophomore who won four state championships at Kennedy Catholic, started 29 games last season. He has made four starts this year and is averaging 4.8 ppg.

Carry, a three-year starter, was a 2nd Team All-Atlantic 10 selection last year after averaging 12.2 ppg. and leading the team in assists (158). This year, he was averaging 9 ppg. and 4 apg.
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[Ibn34]

Wtf is going on in Pittsburgh??

[Obadiah]

The very latest word is that Carry will transfer.

https://pittsburghsportsnow.com/2021/01 ... -duquesne/

[SGreenwell]

Duquesne is 3-3, which doesn't exactly suggest a team in complete disarray. I'd assume they're going to have some walk-on tryouts shortly, since usually the one thing every campus has is a 5'8" to 6'1" guy who can be a last resort walk-on.

[adam914]

usually the one thing every campus has is a 5'8" to 6'1" guy who can be a last resort walk-on.

This is when that one guy who dominates the intramural courts gets his time to shine!

[reef]

Barely beat FU at home come on Keith D get control of your program

[Rhody15]

Barely beat FU at home come on Keith D get control of your program

If you're telling Dambrot to get control of his program because they're having players leave and almost losing to Fordam at home, going by your logic, you would have to say the same about Cox for barely beating (and should've lost to) an 0-7 St Joe´s team (without their best player) at home and our players leaving as well.

Obviously both of those statements are patently false.

Dambrot has the program heading to the right direction from where it was before he got there.

[NYGFan_Section208]

Barely beat FU at home come on Keith D get control of your program

If you're telling Dambrot to get control of his program because they're having players leave and almost losing to Fordam at home, going by your logic, you would have to say the same about Cox for barely beating (and should've lost to) an 0-7 St Joe´s team (without their best player) at home and our players leaving as well.

Obviously both of those statements are patently false.

Dambrot has the program heading to the right direction from where it was before he got there.

I'm not sure they're both false. I would not say the Rhody program is 'heading in the right direction from where it was before he (insert current coach) got here..." could just be me tho....

[RhodyKyle]

Barely beat FU at home come on Keith D get control of your program

If you're telling Dambrot to get control of his program because they're having players leave and almost losing to Fordam at home, going by your logic, you would have to say the same about Cox for barely beating (and should've lost to) an 0-7 St Joe´s team (without their best player) at home and our players leaving as well.

Obviously both of those statements are patently false.

Dambrot has the program heading to the right direction from where it was before he got there.

I'm not sure they're both false. I would not say the Rhody program is 'heading in the right direction from where it was before he (insert current coach) got here..." could just be me tho....

He's saying it's false to say that Dambrot and Cox lost control of their respective programs. The comment about the direction of the Duquesne program is ancillary and unrelated to his point about both comments being false.

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......did I just hear, A-10 tourney is leaving Brooklyn for a campus site, due to Covid?

[adam914]

......did I just hear, A-10 tourney is leaving Brooklyn for a campus site, due to Covid?

Yep, likely to be played at VCU or Richmond I believe.

[reef]

Yup mentioned on today’s broadcast

[ramster]

[reef]

Hopefully by March we get a better handle on the virus and this won’t be as big an issue

[ramster]

7 games remain unless the postponed GW gets Rescheduled

Jan 30 Sat @ Dayton - 105 - CBSSN - 4pm
Feb 3 Wed vs VCU - 44 - ESPN+ 7pm
Feb 6 Sat vs UMASS - 111 - ESPN2 - 8pm
Feb 10 Wed @ St Louis - 20 - CBSSN - TBA
Feb 13 Sat @ Davidson - 67 - ESPN+ 2pm
Feb 16 Tue vs Dayton - 105 - CBSSN - TBA
Mar 2 Tue @ St Joseph's - 247 - ESPN+ 6pm

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......conference tournaments games just give more potential Covid to spread, and put teams in jeopardy of missing actually playing in the NCAA.......make the NCAA a regular season champ the auto bid, populate the remaining field of 64 with invites that are not in a pause......no?

[ramster]

......conference tournaments games just give more potential Covid to spread, and put teams in jeopardy of missing actually playing in the NCAA.......make the NCAA a regular season champ the auto bid, populate the remaining field of 64 with invites that are not in a pause......no?

So URI’s dreams of winning the A10 Auto bid would likely be over with no tournament with a current (6-4) record.

A10 just announced Yesterday Tournament will be played At Richmond and VCU. Looks like we will have a conference tournament and rightfully so imho.

[Rhodymob05]

There’s no difference in a conference tourney vs a Mohegan sun type of tourney.

[reef]

We only have one cupcake left @ Joes

[phipsiGD'11]

......conference tournaments games just give more potential Covid to spread, and put teams in jeopardy of missing actually playing in the NCAA.......make the NCAA a regular season champ the auto bid, populate the remaining field of 64 with invites that are not in a pause......no?

If they're that concerned about spreading the virus, they shouldn't be playing period.

Do they even have data on transmission rate from players during games? Would be miniscule if I had to guess.

[Rhody15]

We only have one cupcake left @ Joes

They should’ve beat us at home, they are not a cupcake.

[KingstonLane]

......conference tournaments games just give more potential Covid to spread, and put teams in jeopardy of missing actually playing in the NCAA.......make the NCAA a regular season champ the auto bid, populate the remaining field of 64 with invites that are not in a pause......no?

Pretty sure rumor mill is saying NCAA is scheduled to address this sooner rather than later. Seems like it’s going to be an “up to you” policy for teams. If there’s teams that are securely in the field of 68 and want to abstain from participating in their conference tournaments you have the green light.

I’d guess you see a maximum of 5-10 teams do this. And they’d all be those teams ranked in the top 10.

[Rhodymob05]

If conference tourneys don't happen, then the entire season for 90%+ of schools would be pointless.

[ramster]

[reef]

Bonnies are playing really well and probably best in the A10 though I don’t think top 25 material maybe top 35 though

[rambone 78]

The Bonaventure coach is good....gets the most of that team. That's been said many times on this board.

Especially since their BB budget is one of the smallest in the A10, if not the smallest.

He seems to be quite content to stay there too, since he's been mentioned before for a higher level job.

[Rhodymob05]

How do teams like Richmond, Davidson, St Joes, Sr Bonnies , all keep their HC for years an years, but Uri cannot.

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How do teams like Richmond, Davidson, St Joes, Sr Bonnies , all keep their HC for years an years, but Uri cannot.

.....OK, I will take a stab at it.......those coaches come into their programs with a developed “system” style of play(call it what you like) AND recruit and retain players that fit those systems.....coaches committed to the system......Cox was hired to keep Fatts here, and he would learn on the job and evolve into a serviceable D1 coach that would catch the classic URI lightning in a bottle years that is not sustainable.....
.......and for recruiting, it has been said he is a good/great recruiter......OK was that accolade earned from the Hurley years, where is personal style clicked with recruits, now he heads the war room of recruiting and how does that work?......does he chase athletes with skill sets that he figures he can mold into the team, or chase players that fit his “system”?......plus, now a days chasing recruits with often baggage that comes with transfers......?

[reef]

Schmidt is definitely a solid coach and I am surprised he has stayed at Bona so long , I bet he be a candidate at BC if they fire Jimmy C

[sevegny7]

LaSalle is no longer a cupcake.

[KingstonLane]

LaSalle is no longer a cupcake.

Rothstein has his classic warn out sayings, but he couldn’t be more spot on about the A10 cannibalizing itself.

We complain a lot on the forum but there’s really no team in this league this year that’s head and shoulders better than the rest. STL and RICH were supposed to be those teams and they haven’t been (I’m not ignorant enough to pretend COVID hasn’t stalled their momentum but still)

[Jersey77]

LaSalle is no longer a cupcake.

Rothstein has his classic warn out sayings, but he couldn’t be more spot on about the A10 cannibalizing itself.

We complain a lot on the forum but there’s really no team in this league this year that’s head and shoulders better than the rest. STL and RICH were supposed to be those teams and they haven’t been (I’m not ignorant enough to pretend COVID hasn’t stalled their momentum but still)

Nobody really standing out in league play, probably just a lot more parity in the A10 then we thought.

[KingstonLane]

LaSalle is no longer a cupcake.

Rothstein has his classic warn out sayings, but he couldn’t be more spot on about the A10 cannibalizing itself.

We complain a lot on the forum but there’s really no team in this league this year that’s head and shoulders better than the rest. STL and RICH were supposed to be those teams and they haven’t been (I’m not ignorant enough to pretend COVID hasn’t stalled their momentum but still)

Nobody really standing out in league play, probably just a lot more parity in the A10 then we thought.

Agreed. And I truthfully do think it’s because the conference is a lot better overall than people give it credit for.

[reef]

Rothstein has his classic warn out sayings, but he couldn’t be more spot on about the A10 cannibalizing itself.

We complain a lot on the forum but there’s really no team in this league this year that’s head and shoulders better than the rest. STL and RICH were supposed to be those teams and they haven’t been (I’m not ignorant enough to pretend COVID hasn’t stalled their momentum but still)

Nobody really standing out in league play, probably just a lot more parity in the A10 then we thought.

Agreed. And I truthfully do think it’s because the conference is a lot better overall than people give it credit for.

I agree with Rothstein on this also . We won easily at LaSalle who all of a sudden has these good wins

I am not impressed at all with VCU After watching them tonight and Dayton is inconsistent

Looks like Bona has the best chance to dance right now