2024 NCAA/NIT Post Season Tournaments - All Things

[bigappleram]

I can't belive we beat someone that beat Auburn haahaha. Nuts

We did, however Yale’s best player was out hurt.

Wolf is Yale’s best player. And he played in that game.

[ramster]

I can't belive we beat someone that beat Auburn haahaha. Nuts

We did, however Yale’s best player was out hurt.

Horseshit.

They had Poulakidis and Wolf.

These 3 highlighted 1st and 2nd team All Ivy players played against us.
Mbeng was Defensive POY as well.
Wolf
Poulakidis
Mbeng

[reef]

Holy cow Grand Canyon can play ! Bryce Drew 91-33 there as head coach he’s going to get a much better job

[ramster]

Holy cow Grand Canyon can play ! Bryce Drew 91-33 there as head coach he’s going to get a much better job

I’m watching it. Very impressive.

Also Utah State wins by 16 over TCU. Utah State plays Purdue next on Sunday

[Jdrums#3]

Holy cow Grand Canyon can play ! Bryce Drew 91-33 there as head coach he’s going to get a much better job

They are playing really well, Reef. Impressive on D.

Utah State, too. I like their PG Brown. Excellent floor general. We need a PG like that. Hopefully it will be Hammond.

[reef]

Yeah Utah St plays Purdue , will be pulling for them for sure

[Jersey77]

We did, however Yale’s best player was out hurt.

Horseshit.

They had Poulakidis and Wolf.

These 3 highlighted 1st and 2nd team All Ivy players played against us.
Mbeng was Defensive POY as well.
Wolf
Poulakidis
Mbeng


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Ramster, you left off (PF) Owusu-Anane who is in the portal and would love for us to get.

[NYGFan_Section208]

Holy cow Grand Canyon can play ! Bryce Drew 91-33 there as head coach he’s going to get a much better job

"There" is probably already a much better job than most....

[ramster]

Horseshit.

They had Poulakidis and Wolf.

These 3 highlighted 1st and 2nd team All Ivy players played against us.
Mbeng was Defensive POY as well.
Wolf
Poulakidis
Mbeng


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Ramster, you left off (PF) Owusu-Anane who is in the portal and would love for us to get.

That was not the discussion. This was PeterRamTime Tome responding to R15 who said URI beat Yale but Yale was missing their best player.
Yale played last night with their 3 all conference guys and those 3 also played in the URI-Yale game. Mbeng, Poulakidis and Wolf. Wolf was 1st team and Mbeng was Defensive POY.

[Jersey77]

These 3 highlighted 1st and 2nd team All Ivy players played against us.
Mbeng was Defensive POY as well.
Wolf
Poulakidis
Mbeng


IMG_2822.jpeg

Ramster, you left off (PF) Owusu-Anane who is in the portal and would love for us to get.

That was not the discussion. This was PeterRamTime Tome responding to R15 who said URI beat Yale but Yale was missing their best player.
Yale played last night with their 3 all conference guys and those 3 also played in the URI-Yale game. Mbeng, Poulakidis and Wolf. Wolf was 1st team and Mbeng was Defensive POY.

He may have been referring to Knowling (missed our game) who was their top player the previous season and 1st Team All-Ivy 22-23.

Still a good win for us, we didn't have many.

[ramster]

Ramster, you left off (PF) Owusu-Anane who is in the portal and would love for us to get.

That was not the discussion. This was PeterRamTime Tome responding to R15 who said URI beat Yale but Yale was missing their best player.
Yale played last night with their 3 all conference guys and those 3 also played in the URI-Yale game. Mbeng, Poulakidis and Wolf. Wolf was 1st team and Mbeng was Defensive POY.

He may have been referring to Knowling (missed our game) who was their top player the previous season and 1st Team All-Ivy 22-23.

Still a good win for us, we didn't have many.

Maybe so but this was about this year. And for this year the 3 best players I mentioned were all named 1st or 2nd team All Ivy.

Could also say URI was without their best player in David Green who was not eligible yet and didn’t play against Yale

Yale was an excellent win for URI either way and looking even better now.

[Jersey77]

That was not the discussion. This was PeterRamTime Tome responding to R15 who said URI beat Yale but Yale was missing their best player.
Yale played last night with their 3 all conference guys and those 3 also played in the URI-Yale game. Mbeng, Poulakidis and Wolf. Wolf was 1st team and Mbeng was Defensive POY.

He may have been referring to Knowling (missed our game) who was their top player the previous season and 1st Team All-Ivy 22-23.

Still a good win for us, we didn't have many.

Maybe so but this was about this year. And for this year the 3 best players I mentioned were all named 1st or 2nd team All Ivy.

Could also say URI was without their best player in David Green who was not eligible yet and didn’t play against Yale

Yale was an excellent win for URI either way and looking even better now.

Yeah, that may have been our only real high point, aside of course from winning our first 3 conference games.

[4Diffs]

I can't belive we beat someone that beat Auburn haahaha. Nuts

We did, however Yale’s best player was out hurt.

Wolf is Yale’s best player. And he played in that game.

Our best win of the year. And that was early in the year after a disappointing performance at the Mohegan Sun. Down 12 at the half and played a great second half and the Ryan Center was rocking. I can't believe how we went from that effort to the most pathetic effort I have even seen in the Ryan Center in the game against Brown a mere 11 days later. Jekyll and Hyde. But one team Yale got better like most well coached teams do and the other one got much worse, and dare say they quit on their coach. You can blame the players for this but this is the second straight year this has happened. We were 6-2 after that game, 9 - 7 after beating UMass and ended up 12-20. For the second straight year, there was a ton of internal turmoil on the team that showed down the stretch. This is much deeper than just better players. This team was not nearly as bad as they played in the last month of the season. Archie has to look in the mirror and change his approach with his players. People laugh at Jerrod Mayo when he said he wanted his players to first feel like he valued and cared about them. But in 2024, that is important. Even Tom Izzo, one of the greatest and most hard ass coaches there is, talked about how he had to change due to the new rules. Unless this happens with Archie, I do not see this situation getting much better sadly.

[RF1]

URI played seven opponents that made the NCAA field. Five of these came from the thirteen OOC games Rhody played. All but one of these seven teams (Charleston) won their first NCAA game and advanced. URI actually beat two of the opponents that won NCAA games (Wagner & Yale)

Wagner
Northwestern
Wash State
Yale
Charleston
Dayton
Duquense

[Rhodymob05]

That Mohegan Sun tournament was no joke. All except URI we’re at large teams.

[Rhody15]

Ramster, you left off (PF) Owusu-Anane who is in the portal and would love for us to get.

That was not the discussion. This was PeterRamTime Tome responding to R15 who said URI beat Yale but Yale was missing their best player.
Yale played last night with their 3 all conference guys and those 3 also played in the URI-Yale game. Mbeng, Poulakidis and Wolf. Wolf was 1st team and Mbeng was Defensive POY.

He may have been referring to Knowling (missed our game) who was their top player the previous season and 1st Team All-Ivy 22-23.

Still a good win for us, we didn't have many.

Correct, Jersey.

Should have specified best player going into the season/at the time of the game.

[Jdrums#3]

Dayton/AZ : good matchup of big men Holmes and Ballo.

Great test for Dayton and the A10.

[Jdrums#3]

AZ looks like a clear title contender. Very good at all positions and on both ends of the floor. Dayton will need to play their best game of the year to just stay in striking distance.

[4Diffs]

This is going to be like the UNC Rhody game over 30 years ago. Blow out city, one of the best offensive teams in America and a Dayton team that cannot score. Happy they beat Nevada, but they scored 63 points. That will not cut it today. Blow out city. Hope I am 0 for 3 but doubt it. Dumb selection for a game with no other alternatives. Much rather see Duquesne and Illinois in this spot. Duquesne is playing better than Dayton and Illinois is no where near as good as Arizona. They have a chance to win that game. This one, not so much.

[PeterRamTime]

This is going to be like the UNC Rhody game over 30 years ago. Blow out city, one of the best offensive teams in America and a Dayton team that cannot score. Happy they beat Nevada, but they scored 63 points. That will not cut it today. Blow out city. Hope I am 0 for 3 but doubt it. Dumb selection for a game with no other alternatives. Much rather see Duquesne and Illinois in this spot. Duquesne is playing better than Dayton and Illinois is no where near as good as Arizona. They have a chance to win that game. This one, not so much.

It won't be that bad

[PeterRamTime]

Dayton just needs to hang in there

It's times like these where they really miss a true PG.

[PeterRamTime]

Yeah Dayton can't hit anything

[Jdrums#3]

It’s a win if they can go into the half down only single digits.

Just need to hang in there. Maybe their shots will start to drop in the second half.

[Jdrums#3]

Great fight from Dayton. 10-0 run!

[theblueram]

Dayton got it into single digits at halftime. Nice run at the end of the half.

[reef]

Nice job to cut it from 17 to 7 and that last 3 was halfway down them out !

[NYGFan_Section208]

way to hang, flyers!

[PeterRamTime]

Let's f'n go Dayton!

[Jdrums#3]

Dayton v AZ has turned into an excellent game. Dayton hanging tough.

[PeterRamTime]

C'mon Elvis take that to the cup good lord

[NYGFan_Section208]

'zona racking up fouls after a questionable couple series of foul/no foul questionables

[reef]

Dayton is making runs then Everytime AZ stretches the lead back

[PeterRamTime]

Man

Dayton has blown so many opportunities to tie it or take the lead ugh, frustrating!

[PeterRamTime]

Back to back blown 1 and ones brutal

[theblueram]

It's go time for Dayton bigtime. Down 15 with under 7 to play. They need to pull a rabbit out of the hat right now.

[Jdrums#3]

It is a shame we will never see these two programs (and similar type programs) play a home and home series. Sucks for college basketball fans in general and robs fans at schools like Dayton of experiencing that excitement.

[PeterRamTime]

It's go time for Dayton bigtime. Down 15 with under 7 to play. They need to pull a rabbit out of the hat right now.

If they just shot the ball a little bit better this game would go down to the wire.

[4Diffs]

Dayton has played great defense. Sorry not buying Grant not being a good game coach. He knows he does not have the horses to play with Arizona so he has changed his defenses multiple times, has pressed, played zone. This is coaching, not playing the same defense every time when you are outmanned.

But they play hard and to be within 10 of this team under four is a testament to how well coached they are. But can's miss the front end of two one and ones. And the refs of course do not call the guy running through the screen so Holmes retaliates. Game over flagrant 1. But not the blow out I expected but still a comfortable win for Arizona.

[theblueram]

Holmes with a flagrant. This game is over

[PeterRamTime]

Dayton has played great defense. Sorry not buying Grant not being a good game coach. He knows he does not have the horses to play with Arizona so he has changed his defenses multiple times, has pressed, played zone. This is coaching, not playing the same defense every time when you are outmanned.

But they play hard and to be within 10 of this team under four is a testament to how well coached they are. But can's miss the front end of two one and ones. And the refs of course do not call the guy running through the screen so Holmes retaliates. Game over flagrant 1. But not the blow out I expected but still a comfortable win for Arizona.

You just had no idea that Arizona wasn't a juggernaut.

Dayton is still in this shooting 39%

If they even have an average day from the field it's a one possession game.

They have lost to much worse teams than Dayton.

[Jdrums#3]

Why did Elvis make that pass into Holmes with 3 defenders in the vicinity! ?

[Rhode_Island_Red]

God, Holmes is so thin

[RI_Bred]

Dayton got nothing from their bench today. Arizona did.

[Jdrums#3]

Dayton had their chances but just couldn’t get key shots to fall. It happens.

Then, AZ would respond to keep Dayton at arms length.

Tough loss against a potential national champ.

[Rhody15]

It is a shame we will never see these two programs (and similar type programs) play a home and home series. Sucks for college basketball fans in general and robs fans at schools like Dayton of experiencing that excitement.

Dayton gets P5 H&H series pretty regularly.

Recent years they’ve had Northwestern and Ole Miss.

[NYGFan_Section208]

Dayton had their chances but just couldn’t get key shots to fall. It happens.

Then, AZ would respond to keep Dayton at arms length.

Tough loss against a potential national champ.

Picked AZ to win it all...

[PeterRamTime]

Dayton had their chances but just couldn’t get key shots to fall. It happens.

Then, AZ would respond to keep Dayton at arms length.

Tough loss against a potential national champ.

Picked AZ to win it all...

Oof

Not happenin

[PeterRamTime]

Kobe Elvis' decision making cost them a bunch and Anthony Grant hoarded his timeouts, let the deficit get too big several times. Had 3 timeouts left in the last minute.

The saving timeouts for the end and trying to play through it is just dumb.

Really good season for Dayton though!

Next up Duquesne! Get your slippers on!

[Jersey77]

Kobe Elvis' decision making cost them a bunch and Anthony Grant hoarded his timeouts, let the deficit get too big several times. Had 3 timeouts left in the last minute.

The saving timeouts for the end and trying to play through it is just dumb.

Really good season for Dayton though!

Next up Duquesne! Get your slippers on!

Terrance Shannon for the Illini is a total stud, one of the best players in the country.

[reef]

Yeah good effort for Dayton , seemed like AZ had a little too much for them , that’s the danger of getting a 7-10 seed as opposed to a 6 v 11 some times you get a better round of 32 matchup