KeaneyBlue - The URI Basketball Forum

You probably recognize Steve Wolf most recently from the CBS Sports Network, as he provides color on many of the A10 games shown there. He spoke to Yahoo! Sports to break down the upcoming new-look A10 conference.

URI is named as Steve's sleeper team:

Yahoo! Sports: When you look at the rest of the league, is there a sleeper team you could see surprising everybody and cracking that top six?

Steve Wolf: Out of the rest of the teams, I'm interested to see what Rhode Island will do. Rhode Island fell off the tracks last year. They weren't as bad as they played, but they had so much dissension, so many problems. Everyone knew [Jim] Baron was gone, but now they've got Dan Hurley in there and I love what he did at Wagner. You've got a coach who teaches fundamentals, you've got a guy, [Nikola] Malesevic, who's a good shooter, Ryan Brooks is a senior and is ready to play. So I think Rhode Island could be a sleeper. The other one may be La Salle. I liked them at the end of last season. They have a great point guard in [Tyreek] Duren. So I would say it's a pick'em between Rhode Island and La Salle.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the ... ncaab.html

Love it. Honestly if everything goes right, and thats a big if, I think this years team can be a bit better than people are expecting

Thank you Steve Wolf !!!

Nice to know some of us aren't alone in our optimism.

Consider me having already drunk the Kool-Aid