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I'm starting to wonder if UMass might be the 2nd best team in our league.

Billyboy78 wrote:I'm starting to wonder if UMass might be the 2nd best team in our league.

Doubt it, but they're certainly better than I thought they'd be.

Slugfest for Dayton. Tied and looking like OT

RhowdyRam02 wrote:Not exactly, their football program was kicked out of the MAC because they wouldn't add all sports to the conference. Something tells me if UMass went back to the MAC and said they'd join in all sports they'd be welcomed back. Conference USA is also a potential spot, with their goal being the AAC.

The MAC is not taking UMASS back. The MAC has made attempts at adding schools over the years, mainly for football...UMASS, Temple, Central Florida. They had Marshall for all sports a while back. They are not good fits. The MAC will never be a TV league defined by TV markets. UMASS does nothing for the MAC.

They've found that adding schools that don't fit the geographic footprint and are a poor match from a philosophical perspective aren't worth adding.

If the MAC were to add a school (or schools), you're looking at Youngstown St., Illinois State, Western or Eastern Kentucky.

UMass definitely trending upwards

Wacky day indeed in college hoops lots of upsets and near upsets

Florida Gulf Coast fell to 7-5 on the season as the Eagles were soundly beaten on their home court by Oral Roberts, 83-64. After trading baskets early on, ORU took over and sustained a double digit margin the remainder of game.

Sunday action sees home court advantage in all four A-10 games:

North Carolina A&T at Duquesne. 12:30 PM. Campus round game in the Las Vegas Classic.

Penn State at George Mason. 4 PM.

Mercer at La Salle. 4:30 PM.

Maine at Saint Joseph's. 4:30 PM.


In games involving URI OOC opponents:

Stony Brook at PC. 2:30 PM. On FS1.

Iona versus St. John's at Madison Square Garden. 4:30 PM. On FS1. MSG Holiday Festival.

Western Carolina at UNC Asheville. 4:30 PM.

Radford at Nevada. 5:30 PM. Campus round game in the Las Vegas Classic.


Other:

Undefeated 9-0 #6 Arizona State hosts Vanderbilt. 2 PM. On PAC12.

Just some god awful games on today.

Arizona State has one of the best offenses in the country. So far, they’ve scored 6 points, at home, against Vanderbilt in 10 minutes. Basketball is crazy.

ace wrote:Arizona State has one of the best offenses in the country. So far, they’ve scored 6 points, at home, against Vanderbilt in 10 minutes. Basketball is crazy.

Ace are you watching this? If so, how?

theblueram wrote:

ace wrote:Arizona State has one of the best offenses in the country. So far, they’ve scored 6 points, at home, against Vanderbilt in 10 minutes. Basketball is crazy.

Ace are you watching this? If so, how?

No, I’m watching the sad, Wentz-less Eagles and following the ASU game on ESPN Gamecast.

ace wrote:

theblueram wrote:

ace wrote:Arizona State has one of the best offenses in the country. So far, they’ve scored 6 points, at home, against Vanderbilt in 10 minutes. Basketball is crazy.

Ace are you watching this? If so, how?

No, I’m watching the sad, Wentz-less Eagles and following the ASU game on ESPN Gamecast.

Losing to the Giants is sad indeed, but fret not...it won't end that way.

Any chance PC loses to Stony Brook ??

pc is just playing lousy. They are a team who does not create tempo, they are dictated by it

PC down by 2 at the half if they sneak out with another couple point win over a bad team I will fly off the handle

reef wrote:Any chance PC loses to Stony Brook ??

Yes-if they play anything like they did in the first half.

PC is not handling its injuries well and their upper classmen have been very disappinting.

Cartwright hurt again and PC behind by 9 with 16 minutes left. Wow.

Cartwright just went to the bench with an injury and PC is now down by 9. Friartown has seen better days.

Fun game to watch for those of us who want to see them go 0-30.

Bye bye PC bye bye !!

If pc wins I wonder what kind of sweet smelling roses the projo is gonna write about this shit show.

Gee, a whistle at the buzzer. Who would have ever predicted that?

ramfan85 wrote:Gee, a whistle at the buzzer. Who would have ever predicted that?

0.6 left in a tie game no less. FT's made. PC wins by two.

Walk on Planek's defensive intensity turned it around for Friars as he was brought in and a press put on.

ramfan85 wrote:Gee, a whistle at the buzzer. Who would have ever predicted that?

It was a horrible call. Made up.
It woukd help us if PC stays in the Top 50.

I thought this was suppose to be the year that pc was going to make a run to the top of the Big East and make some noise in the tournament? Return the entire team expect Holt who was a nice complimentary piece to their team (not the first team AA you'd think he was reading their board) and bring in a nice recruiting class. They've barely escaped Belmont, Brown, Rider and now Stony Brook at home, a team who is heading in the wrong direction and seem to be regressing with each game. The meltdown in progress over there is hilarious, they better get their act in order or they will get absolutely destroyed in conference. As soft as a team I've seen in a while, both mentally and physically. To much talent on that team for them to continue this horrid play, but makes you wonder a little bit about Cooley and his ability to bring pc to the next level.

I think somebody got it right earlier? "Rhody broke them"....?

theblueram wrote:If pc wins I wonder what kind of sweet smelling roses the projo is gonna write about this shit show.

I'm sure Li'l Kevie was taking dictation from the Pee-C sports information office five minutes after the game ended.

NYGFan_Section208 wrote:I think somebody got it right earlier? "Rhody broke them"....?

I had said that. I said it more as a joke, but maybe it was right

Iona is a very good team. I saw some of their game today against St Johns. Thursday we need to be ready to play or we’ll be in trouble.

So sick and tired of these PC wins over bad teams by small margins

No dancing for them

PC has no quality wins of their 8

I feel like PC's season was hanging by a thread at some point last year and they rallied in conference to go from off the bubble to safely in. I have to admit that not living in RI I don't think much about PC most of the time (except when I see "Providence College" bumper stickers on the highway during my commute in and out of Boston, and then I pass some time maneuvering so I can cut them off - traffic is boring and you have to entertain yourself somehow), so this is all a little fuzzy.

PC is nothing if not enormous pests, so I wouldn't write them off yet is my point.

Yes of course it's a long season we have to see how conference play goes

But if they are squarely on bubble then their OOC will do them no favors

Rhody83 wrote:

ramfan85 wrote:Gee, a whistle at the buzzer. Who would have ever predicted that?

It was a horrible call. Made up.
It woukd help us if PC stays in the Top 50.

Top 75 is all that matters with the new selection process. Q1 games are home 1-30. Q2 games are home 31-75.

PC was never going to be a Q1 win for us, they should be squarely a Q2 though. As long as they take care of business in the games they're favored, the Big East RPI should keep them safely in that range - NCAA trip for them or not.

Why wouldn't we want PC to have a great year?

....Every win for them helps our RPI. Ditto for every team we play.
....The A10 games are not going to help us much this year, with only three opponents ranked in the top 100 RPI.

CTRamfan wrote:Why wouldn't we want PC to have a great year?

....Every win for them helps our RPI. Ditto for every team we play.
....The A10 games are not going to help us much this year, with only three opponents ranked in the top 100 RPI.

Totally agree. No different than Seton Hall...want them both to have great seasons.

CTRamfan wrote:Why wouldn't we want PC to have a great year?

....Every win for them helps our RPI. Ditto for every team we play.
....The A10 games are not going to help us much this year, with only three opponents ranked in the top 100 RPI.

PC is not a schedule maker/breaker.

F*ck them, f*ck that school and f*ck that team. I want nothing more than them to go 0-30 and lose every game by 40. Even that is too good for them

Da_Process_Survivor wrote:

CTRamfan wrote:Why wouldn't we want PC to have a great year?

....Every win for them helps our RPI. Ditto for every team we play.
....The A10 games are not going to help us much this year, with only three opponents ranked in the top 100 RPI.

PC is not a schedule maker/breaker.

F*ck them, f*ck that school and f*ck that team. I want nothing more than them to go 0-30 and lose every game by 40. Even that is too good for them

What he said x1000

CTRamfan wrote:Why wouldn't we want PC to have a great year?

....Every win for them helps our RPI. Ditto for every team we play.
....The A10 games are not going to help us much this year, with only three opponents ranked in the top 100 RPI.

This subject has been played over and over and over

Root for PC all you want, but there is a group of long time URI fans who will never root for PC. There is also a group of long time PC fans who will never root for URI. I can respect both URI and PC fans who will not ever root for the opponent.

Same with Ohio State - Michigan, Texas - Texas A&M, UCLA- USC, Oregon - Oregon State, Georgia - Georgia Tech, Florida - Florida State...... it makes for intense, spirited rivalries. Fans of these schools, for the most part, would never root for the other. Not sure why some want to question why some URI fans would never want to see PC win.
I want PC to lose always, in everything. Glad they dropped what was a successful baseball program years ago, glad they have no football team, glad their basketball attendance is down, just the way it is.

But you are free in my opinion to root for both PC and URI, just don’t expect me to. Bah humbug and Merry Christmas as Ed Cooley would say.

The A-10 went 3-1 in Sunday results as league teams put away opponents they were expected to handle:

Duquesne beat North Carolina A&Tm 74-58, in convincing fashion.

La Salle sped by Mercer, 95-85,

Saint Joseph's beat Maine on a second half blitz, 72-59.

Only George Mason disappointed as they let a low level B10 team, Penn State, trounce them on their home court 72-54.

BJ Johnson was injured in La Salle’s game yesterday, looked like a knee or an ankle. That’s very bad news for them if he misses extended time.

Obadiah wrote:The A-10 went 3-1 in Sunday results as league teams put away opponents they were expected to handle:

Duquesne beat North Carolina A&Tm 74-58, in convincing fashion.

La Salle sped by Mercer, 95-85,

Saint Joseph's beat Maine on a second half blitz, 72-59.

Only George Mason disappointed as they let a low level B10 team, Penn State, trounce them on their home court 72-54.

The results this past Saturday and Sunday put the league above .500 versus D1 OOC opponents. Hopefully this mark can be maintained for the remainder of the year as there are not many more non league games to be played.

ramster wrote:

CTRamfan wrote:Why wouldn't we want PC to have a great year?

....Every win for them helps our RPI. Ditto for every team we play.
....The A10 games are not going to help us much this year, with only three opponents ranked in the top 100 RPI.

This subject has been played over and over and over

Root for PC all you want, but there is a group of long time URI fans who will never root for PC. There is also a group of long time PC fans who will never root for URI. I can respect both URI and PC fans who will not ever root for the opponent.

Same with Ohio State - Michigan, Texas - Texas A&M, UCLA- USC, Oregon - Oregon State, Georgia - Georgia Tech, Florida - Florida State...... it makes for intense, spirited rivalries. Fans of these schools, for the most part, would never root for the other. Not sure why some want to question why some URI fans would never want to see PC win.
I want PC to lose always, in everything. Glad they dropped what was a successful baseball program years ago, glad they have no football team, glad their basketball attendance is down, just the way it is.

But you are free in my opinion to root for both PC and URI, just don’t expect me to. Bah humbug and Merry Christmas as Ed Cooley would say.

All my in-laws went to Michigan. My feelings about that hideous, disgusting institution on the site of a former mental hospital are perfectly reasonable to them.

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