Week #6 - Games of Interest

[Obadiah]

CBB enters Week # 6. George Washington achieves a #21 ranking in the AP poll and #22 ranking in the USA Today poll. Dayton got votes in both polls. Davidson got some votes in the USA Today poll. Among URI OOC opponents, Maryland is #6 in AP poll and #7 in the USA Today poll. PC is ranked #14 in the AP poll and tied with Baylor for #14 in the USA Today poll. Houston got one vote in the AP poll

Cumulative record of URI OOC opponents now stands at 66-54, a winning percentage of .550.

The A-10 cumulative record in OOC play stands at 87-39, .690 winning percentage. The conference RPI is # 7 at .5525, just slightly behind the Big Ten.

No games in either the A-10 or among URI OOC opponents on Monday night. Action for the week will be relatively slow since many schools are in the final exam period. That will change on Saturday.

[RF1]

UMass is hosting New Orleans on Wednesday 12-16-15 at the Mullins Center. Former Coach John Calipari will be honored by the school with a banner (see below) being raised to the rafters to commemorate his time at UMass. An article by Dan Shaughnessy in the Boston Globe today took issue with UMass for bestowing such an honor.



https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015 ... story.html

[Obadiah]

Only game of interest on Tuesday evening is a battle between the A-10 and the ACC as VCU pays a visit to Georgia Tech. 9 PM. On ESPN2.

Both teams are coming off layoffs due to exams. GT has one home loss that to East Tennessee State, 69-68, on a trey with 3 seconds left. For VCU, this will be second road game in a row against ACC teams. In their last game, VCU suffered a tough loss to Florida State, 76-71, when they came back from a 14 point deficit to take a short lived lead before faltering in the final minute.

[Obadiah]

Tonight Monmouth added Georgetown to the list of notable wins alongside UCLA and Notre Dame by easily beating the Hoyas on their home court, 83-68.

How did Jim Baron's Canisius team beat this same Monmouth???

[BPR2010]

More on the national landscape, Bo Ryan announced his retirement effective immediately tonight. Sad to see one of the best in the game go. A guy who never had top recruiting classes or highly sought after NBA talent out of high school, but always found guys right for his system and always had winning teams year after year. Class act and a great coach, the game will miss him a lot.

[PeterRamTime]

Tonight Monmouth added Georgetown to the list of notable wins alongside UCLA and Notre Dame by easily beating the Hoyas on their home court, 83-68.

How did Jim Baron's Canisius team beat this same Monmouth???

Who bloody knows.

[Obadiah]

Wednesday night action of interest.

In the A-10:

* South Carolina State at Duquesne. 7 PM.

* New Orleans at UMass. 7 PM. At this game UMass will honor John Calipari.

* ODU at Richmond. 7 PM.

* Tennessee-Martin at Saint Louis. 8 PM.


In OOC action:

* Texas Southern at Iona. 7 PM

* North Carolina Central at Houston. 8 PM. On ESPN3. Part of the Global Sports Classic.

* Cleveland State at Loyola Chicago. 8 PM. On ESPN3.

[steveystuds06]

Definitely would like to see how ODU and Richmond matchup. Both could be solid wins for us.

[PeterRamTime]

ODU hasn't beaten any of the tough teams on their schedule yet.

Tough loss for VCU last night. 0-4 against power 5 schools. Like us it will be an uphill climb for them to make the dance this year.

[Obadiah]

Tonight's results

In the A-10:

* After a sluggish first half, Duquesne got into high gear to beat South Carolina State, 83-68.

* UMass needed OT to beat a 3-5 U. Of New Orleans team, 103-95.

* Richmond in a romp from start to finish over ODU, 77-61.

* Tennessee-Martin has a 3 point lead over Saint Louis late in second half. SLU has rallied from big deficit.


In OOC action:

* Short handed Iona struggled to beat Texas Southern, 83-73. AJ English did not play, due to minor surgery on a broken knuckle suffered in the game against Tulsa. Is considered day to day. Other Iona players also sidelined due to illness/injury.

* Houston beats NC Central, 73-65.

* Cleveland State in a close one at Loyola Chicago, leading by five with 4 minutes left.

[Obadiah]

Last night URI opponents went 6-1 with Saint Louis taking the only loss.

Not much action tonight with only game being Stony Brook at American. 7:30 PM.

[Obadiah]

No Friday night action for A-10 teams and the only game in OOC is Maryland-Eastern Shore visiting Old Dominion. 7 PM.

Action picks up on Saturday and besides URI entertaining Iona, other games in A-10 are:

* St. Peter's at GW. 1 PM. GW should easily win this one.

* Robert Morris at Duquesne. 2 PM.

* Maine at Fordham. 2 PM.

* South Carolina State at St. Bonaventure. 7 PM.

* #23/#20 Cincinnati at VCU. 4PM. On CBS Sports.

* Furman at Dayton. 7 PM.

* Indiana State at Saint Louis. 8 PM.

* Longwood at George Mason. 8 PM.


In action involving URI OOC opponents:

* Belmont at Cleveland State. 1 PM. On ESPN3

* Missouri State at Valparaiso 2:30 PM.

* Eastern Illinois at Houston. 4 PM. On ESPN3.

* Rider at PC. 8 PM. On FSN1.

Also of interest, #1 Michigan State at Northeastern U. Game is the first basketball game sellout in 20 years at Matthews Arena.

[Obadiah]

Last week Incarnate Word was upset by cross-town rival, NAIA Our Lady of the Lake, but the Cardinals came into Brooklyn tonight and took it out on St. John's, thrashing the Johnnies, 73-51. Rumors are that the Little Sisters of the Poor will be next to play St. John's.

[rambone 78]

And beat them too.

[bressler3south]

Last week Incarnate Word was upset by cross-town rival, NAIA Our Lady of the Lake, but the Cardinals came into Brooklyn tonight and took it out on St. John's, thrashing the Johnnies, 73-51. Rumors are that the Little Sisters of the Poor will be next to play St. John's.

Does that mean that they're better than Syracuse?

[NYGFan_Section208]

Last week Incarnate Word was upset by cross-town rival, NAIA Our Lady of the Lake, but the Cardinals came into Brooklyn tonight and took it out on St. John's, thrashing the Johnnies, 73-51. Rumors are that the Little Sisters of the Poor will be next to play St. John's.

Does that mean that they're better than Syracuse?

Lol, it might! At least better than Boeheim-less Syracuse
Lets see how they fare against the Big Red today...

[Obadiah]

In A-10 action so far, the conference stands at 5-0, mostly easy wins.

* GW beats St. Peter's, 87-74.

* Saint Joseph's in an easy win over Illinois State, 79-65.

* In the closest contest of the day so far, Duquesne beat Robert Morris, 72-65.

* Fordham whipped Maine 70-53. The Metro Rams are now 9-1.

* St. Bonaventure beats South Carolina State, 64-45.

* In a game at the half in Richmond, Cincinnati leads VCU, 33-31.


In games involving URI OOC opponents:

* Cleveland State edges Belmont on a last second lay-up, 67-65.

* Valparaiso routs Missouri State, 74-45.

[PeterRamTime]

Another tough loss for VCU. However, I think they'll be a tough out every night in A-10 play. Just a little too green under their new coach to be able to knock off these good teams in the end of games.

[Obadiah]

The A-10 went 8-2 on Saturday with VCU and Saint Louis as the only teams suffering home court losses.

On Sunday, only A-10 action is Davidson against Pittsburgh in the Gotham Classic at MSG. 12 noon. ON ESPNU.

Other games:

* Maryland-Eastern Shore at American. 1:30 PM.

* Abilene Christian at TCU. 2 PM.

* Samford at Nebraska. 7 PM. On BTN.

[RoadyJay]

Davidson's season is officially over. Crushing defeat against Pitt.

[PeterRamTime]

Rest in peace wildkitties.

[NYGFan_Section208]

yep...they suck (and, what the heck, their fans probably do, too)...season over

[860_rhody]

Who cares? Their fans suck too.

[NYGFan_Section208]

I almost wonder if they lost on purpose...because...you know...college basketball teams do like to emotionally torture their fan bases...

[ace]

Monmouth beat Rutgers. I can't decide if I love or hate their bench.

[SGreenwell]

Monmouth beat Rutgers. I can't decide if I love or hate their bench.

I'm with Jalen Rose and his radio show co-host - I think it's corny now. It was neat when it was seemingly natural reactions, but choreographed routines? Blah. It's the type of shit that makes people lose their minds about NFL players doing it post-touchdown, but it's fine for the Monmouth bench for some reason.

[steveystuds06]

Just watched Samford beat Nebraska easily that loss looks even worse now

[PeterRamTime]

Just watched Samford beat Nebraska easily that loss looks even worse now

Yeaaahh.....
Maybe Nebraska will beat Rutgers in big ten play....

At least our RPI is 87 now...

[Seawrightspostgame]

Does Dan think that way? Critically that way?

Like a loss to 5-6 ODU Tuesday??? Would that make him say WTF?? Why would I pay to watch this?? Or prioritize it?? Or fight traffic after work to get to see it??

[RF1]

Samford outplayed Nebraska in the 2nd half and won by double digits 69-58 in front of 14,871 on Sunday at Pinnacle Arena. Samford is now 7-4 (vs D1 teams) with wins over Kennesaw State, Troy, N Texas, Idaho, Jacksonville, Florida A&M, and Nebraska. The Cornhuskers fall to 7-5.

[Obadiah]

Samford was able to win on the road because they came alive and shot 52.6% in the second half to build the big lead. This was triggered by some great 3-point shooting.

BTW, Nebraska is one of the few schools that reports both the paid attendance and the actual count. As RF1 stated, the paid attendance was 14,871, but the actual attendance was 10,471. There was similar results for URI's game there last week.