2019-20 A-10 Predictions

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 5 years ago

Dave Jablonski, the Flyers beat writer for the Dayton Daily News, has made some early league predictions for next season:

Early Atlantic 10 prediction: VCU, Dayton, Davidson among top contenders in 2020
DDN 05-01-2019
Link: https://www.daytondailynews.com/sports/ ... BbkBKTrDK/

1 VCU
2 Dayton
3 Davidson
4 URI
5 SBU
6 Duquesne
7 SLU
8 GMU
9 Richmond
10 UMass
11 LaSalle
12 St Joe's
13 GW
14 Fordham

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 5 years ago

Seems like a pretty fair prediction at this point of the offseason. Those top 4 are all probably in a position where any of them could finish 1-4.

steviep123 · Unread post by **steviep123** » 5 years ago

I'm going to post one of my favorite twitter posts regarding this from SmartyBarrett's twitter account (Sorry SB if I'm stealing your thunder):

SmartyBarrett · Unread post by **SmartyBarrett** » 5 years ago

Evergreen content.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 5 years ago

Perfect.

Rhody83 · Unread post by **Rhody83** » 5 years ago

Rhody15 · Unread post by **Rhody15** » 5 years ago

My guess is we end up 4th in the preseason poll behind VCU Dayton Davidson. Bonnie’s lost two key guys.

rhodyruckus · Unread post by **rhodyruckus** » 5 years ago

steviep123 wrote: ↑5 years ago I'm going to post one of my favorite twitter posts regarding this from SmartyBarrett's twitter account (Sorry SB if I'm stealing your thunder):

Love the guy that replied to the effect of yeah but Fordham beat you guys once!!1! Great, how about you talk with the team and ask why the hell these guys can't match the effort somehow produced while playing us in order to get more than 3-4 conference wins a season?!

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 5 years ago

steviep123 wrote: ↑5 years ago I'm going to post one of my favorite twitter posts regarding this from SmartyBarrett's twitter account (Sorry SB if I'm stealing your thunder):

......my vote for post of the off season......

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

Trip to Bahamas in August for Duquesne should help them

http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticle.d ... =211804965

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

New Basketball Associate Commissioner for A10

http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticle.d ... =211804941

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 4 years ago

John O'Connor, longtime Richmond Times-Dispatch Spiders beat writer listed the top half teams for the conference.

His article requires registration. His top 7 A-10 teams are in the following order:

1. VCU
2. Dayton
3. Davidson
4. Rhode Island
5. St. Bonaventure
6. Richmond
7. Saint Louis

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 4 years ago

College Sports Madness is back with their Top 144 countdown of teams for 2019-20. It apparently does not think too much of the A-10 as it has just six of its fourteen members in its top 144. St Louis comes in at #143 and is predicted as the sixth place team in the A-10. This is the worst showing for the league in this ranking as in the last 5 years, starting with last year, there have been 8, 9, 8, 8, and 11 A-10 teams in this top 144.

#143 St Louis / #6 Atlantic 10 https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/article/17581

PeterRamTime · Unread post by **PeterRamTime** » 4 years ago

RF1 wrote: ↑4 years ago College Sports Madness is back with their Top 144 countdown of teams for 2019-20. It apparently does not think too much of the A-10 as it has just six of its fourteen members in its top 144. St Louis comes in at #143 and is predicted as the sixth place team in the A-10.

#143 St Louis / #6 Atlantic 10 https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/article/17581

I'm thinking Saint Louis may be worse than that. They have lost a lot from a team that was barely good at all.

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 4 years ago

The top of the A10 should be very good.

That's the first 5 teams or so.

The rest? Dreck.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

Of 5 sleepers, two are from the A10

https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2 ... nessee-vcu

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

Tristan Freeman
‏@hoopsnut351
5m5 minutes ago
A-10 basketball rankings for 2019-20:
1. VCU
2. Davidson
3. Dayton
4. Rhode Island
5. Duquesne
6. St. Bonaventure
7. St. Louis
8. UMass
9. George Mason
10. Richmond
11. La Salle
12. GW
13. St. Joe's
14. Fordham

Expect 3-4 bids from league next season.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 4 years ago

There isn’t going to be a lot of variance in who these experts pick as the top 4 teams, but I think you could legitimately put those four teams in basically any order and it would be hard to really argue it.

It’s clear there are going to be some horrendous teams in this league next year, but if UMass finishes 8th then the middle of the league will have been much much worse than I’m expecting. As a point of reference, URI was 8th this past season, and even though it wasnt a great year it was a much more talented team than what UMass will put on the floor this season.

Rhody83 · Unread post by **Rhody83** » 4 years ago

Everyone will have VCU 1st preseason. They are a clear preseason Top 25 team. I also don’t think any of the experts will have URI ahead of any of the top 3 preseason. Rhody needs to have a solid year and outperform one of these teams. A10 has a good chance at three bids if three of the top four play up to expectations.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 4 years ago

Maybe everybody will have VCU first and URI fourth. There is a lot of group-think with these things. I don’t see much difference between the four teams. Maybe what I should have said is that you could tell me those four teams will finish in any order and it wouldn’t shock me. If one of these teams isn’t in the top four, I will be surprised.

Rhody83 · Unread post by **Rhody83** » 4 years ago

TruePoint wrote: ↑4 years ago Maybe everybody will have VCU first and URI fourth. There is a lot of group-think with these things. I don’t see much difference between the four teams. Maybe what I should have said is that you could tell me those four teams will finish in any order and it wouldn’t shock me. If one of these teams isn’t in the top four, I will be surprised.

I agree with both of your comments in the last sentence.

luke · Unread post by **luke** » 4 years ago

Definitely agree TP . and less is known about URI's 6 new players around the A 10 than the other three. I don't think it
would be out there to expect the URI Rams to have added the most new talent to their roster . And the addition of two
already post high school bigs plus an anticipated much healthier Harris should significantly improve performance. Additionally,
who knows how healthy VCU's Evans will be ? Look how some of URI's injuries affected players like EC and maybe CT and
others .BTW does anyone have any info on Evans health ?

KevanBoyles · Unread post by **KevanBoyles** » 4 years ago

People seem to forget we beat VCU 2 out of 3 last year.

wpbrown8267 · Unread post by **wpbrown8267** » 4 years ago

KevanBoyles wrote: ↑4 years ago People seem to forget we beat VCU 2 out of 3 last year.

Hope that trend continues, we have been their kryptonite that past few years, from 2016-17 we are 6-1 against them

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

ramster wrote: ↑4 years ago Tristan Freeman
‏@hoopsnut351
5m5 minutes ago
A-10 basketball rankings for 2019-20:
1. VCU
2. Davidson
3. Dayton
4. Rhode Island
5. Duquesne
6. St. Bonaventure
7. St. Louis
8. UMass
9. George Mason
10. Richmond
11. La Salle
12. GW
13. St. Joe's
14. Fordham

Expect 3-4 bids from league next season.

This upcoming season 2019-20:
1. VCU-2
2. Davidson-2
3. Dayton-2
4. Rhode Island
5. Duquesne-home
6. St. Bonaventure-away
7. St. Louis-home
8. UMASS-2
9. George Mason-away
10. Richmond-home
11. La Salle-home
12. GW-away
13. St. Joe's-2
14. Fordham-away

Similar conference schedule to last season where we went 9-9 but had to win our last 4 games to improve from 5-9 beating GW home, Dayton away, GW away and UMASS home.
Again 1/3 of out schedule is against the top 3 teams with 6 games vs VCU, Dayton and Davidson. St Bonaventure away will be a tough game to win.

Last season games vs teams as scheduled
1. VCU-2
2. Davidson-2
3. Dayton-2
4. Rhode Island
5. Duquesne-away
6. St. Bonaventure-home
7. St. Louis-2
8. UMASS-2
9. George Mason-home
10. Richmond-away
11. La Salle-away
12. GW-home
13. St. Joe's-away
14. Fordham-home

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 4 years ago

In order to finish near the top of the A-10, URI has to better its record against lesser teams. As noted above, URI fared ok versus the top five NET teams in the league (4-5). It was against the lower ranked teams where URI failed going only 5-4 (started out 2-4) versus the bottom 8 teams - losing to the likes of UMass and Duquesne on the road and at home to GMU and Fordham. The wins against the top teams showed Rhody had the talent to compete. The losses to lower level teams however exhibited the mark of a team that had wholesale changes from the previous year. The loss of a head coach and five key players along with a first year inexperienced head coach had an effect. It seemed like things were finally getting figured out toward the end of the season.

PeterRamTime · Unread post by **PeterRamTime** » 4 years ago

luke wrote: ↑4 years ago Definitely agree TP . and less is known about URI's 6 new players around the A 10 than the other three. I don't think it
would be out there to expect the URI Rams to have added the most new talent to their roster . And the addition of two
already post high school bigs plus an anticipated much healthier Harris should significantly improve performance. Additionally,
who knows how healthy VCU's Evans will be ? Look how some of URI's injuries affected players like EC and maybe CT and
others .BTW does anyone have any info on Evans health ?

I'm sure he's going to be fine, he played in the NCAA tournament game against UCF.

I feel like that injury is long gone already.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 4 years ago

RF1 wrote: ↑4 years ago In order to finish near the top of the A-10, URI has to better its record against lesser teams. As noted above, URI fared ok versus the top five NET teams in the league (4-5). It was against the lower ranked teams where URI failed going only 5-4 (started out 2-4) versus the bottom 8 teams - losing to the likes of UMass and Duquesne on the road and at home to GMU and Fordham. The wins against the top teams showed Rhody had the talent to compete. The losses to lower level teams however exhibited the mark of a team that had wholesale changes from the previous year. The loss of a head coach and five key players along with a first year inexperienced head coach had an effect. It seemed like things were finally getting figured out toward the end of the season.

A lot of that was timing - it’s not like we just decided to go hard against good teams and mailed it against lesser teams. During the swoon where we dropped a lot of those games against weaker teams we also got destroyed by VCU and by Dayton at our place. If the schedule had been structured a different way, we could have gone 0-9 or 1-8 against good teams and won all of the other games by wide margins. I think the key for next year is more being consistent and not losing focus for a 3-4 week stretch.

phipsiGD'11 · Unread post by **phipsiGD'11** » 4 years ago

TruePoint wrote: ↑4 years ago
RF1 wrote: ↑4 years ago In order to finish near the top of the A-10, URI has to better its record against lesser teams. As noted above, URI fared ok versus the top five NET teams in the league (4-5). It was against the lower ranked teams where URI failed going only 5-4 (started out 2-4) versus the bottom 8 teams - losing to the likes of UMass and Duquesne on the road and at home to GMU and Fordham. The wins against the top teams showed Rhody had the talent to compete. The losses to lower level teams however exhibited the mark of a team that had wholesale changes from the previous year. The loss of a head coach and five key players along with a first year inexperienced head coach had an effect. It seemed like things were finally getting figured out toward the end of the season.
A lot of that was timing - it’s not like we just decided to go hard against good teams and mailed it against lesser teams. During the swoon where we dropped a lot of those games against weaker teams we also got destroyed by VCU and by Dayton at our place. If the schedule had been structured a different way, we could have gone 0-9 or 1-8 against good teams and won all of the other games by wide margins. I think the key for next year is more being consistent and not losing focus for a 3-4 week stretch.

Do we think TJ being on the bench for games at the end of the year may have helped with that growth as well?
I don't remember the first game he sat on the bench with Carroll out.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 4 years ago

The first game Carroll missed was the Davidson game at the Ryan, I believe. That was the game I’ve fingered as the turning point, even though we didn’t win. Was the first game in a month that they played with noticeable focus, energy and effort.

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 4 years ago

You wonder with the timing with that.

Hopefully it wasn't because of problems with Carroll...or it could have been a spark supplied by TJ.

theblueram · Unread post by **theblueram** » 4 years ago

rambone 78 wrote: ↑4 years ago You wonder with the timing with that.

Hopefully it wasn't because of problems with Carroll...or it could have been a spark supplied by TJ.

Or it could have been game plan. Remember during DH the ups and downs until Cox took over the game plan for each game? We started winning big time. Maybe Cox game planned after Carroll.

Rhody83 · Unread post by **Rhody83** » 4 years ago

TJ did several Scouts that they won including the VCU game in Brooklyn.

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 4 years ago

I've said all along that TJ was a big reason they turned it around late in the season.

Coincidence? I think not.

Promote him, and it increases our chances of having a good season.

If Carroll comes back and TJ isn't made an assistant, don't say I didn't tell you so if the team flops.

theblueram · Unread post by **theblueram** » 4 years ago

I think we need to maintain an in season thread of who is scouting each game. This has come up time after time. We should keep a running tally of asst coaches and their scout W/L.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

The top projected teams have a lot of starters returning
URI has the entire starting 5 returning, however, only went (9-9) with the last 4 games as Wins to finish .500
Dowtin and Langevine are very solid and either one could have have a phenomenal season and take 1st team A10 honors, or even POY
Harris and Martin are capable and will be Sophomores
Need Russell to greatly improve his shooting for URI to challenge for the Top 4 Tournament Bye Positions

Will be an interesting Obadiah Prediction Contest this year

Tristan Freeman
‏@hoopsnut351
5m5 minutes ago
A-10 basketball rankings for 2019-20:
1. VCU (16-2)
2. Davidson (14-4)
3. Dayton (13-5)
4. Rhode Island (9-9)
5. Duquesne (10-8)
6. St. Bonaventure (12-6)
7. St. Louis (10-8)
8. UMASS (4-14)
9. George Mason (11-7)
10. Richmond (6-12)
11. La Salle (8-10)
12. GW (4-14)
13. St. Joe's (6-12)
14. Fordham (3-15)

Expect 3-4 bids from league next season.

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 4 years ago

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

Some A10 Talk Predictions

https://www.a10talk.com/a-10-summer-hot-takes/

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 4 years ago

Atlantic 10 Offseason Reset: VCU, Davidson, Dayton headline much improved conference
https://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com ... onference/

Rhody74 · Unread post by **Rhody74** » 4 years ago

RF1 wrote: ↑4 years ago Atlantic 10 Offseason Reset: VCU, Davidson, Dayton headline much improved conference
https://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com ... onference/

Fair assessment.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 4 years ago

That guy likes Grant Golden about 3000X more than I do. I don’t think you should be eligible to be paid for your basketball opinions if one of them is that soft-ass Grant Golden is a better player than Cyril Langevine.

PeterRamTime · Unread post by **PeterRamTime** » 4 years ago

There's no way Richmond will be the most I'll interesting team in the league.

They bring everyone back, but they really aren't that talented.

I'm sure they will have their good nights, but I'd be surprised if this isn't Chris Mooney's last year.

It also had a lazy write up of us.

They didn't mention any of our transfers, how the top freshmen class in the league is getting a year older, and how we are bringing in the second best class in the league to back all that up.

steveystuds06 · Unread post by **steveystuds06** » 4 years ago

PeterRamTime wrote: ↑4 years ago There's no way Richmond will be the most I'll interesting team in the league.

They bring everyone back, but they really aren't that talented.

I'm sure they will have their good nights, but I'd be surprised if this isn't Chris Mooney's last year.

It also had a lazy write up of us.

They didn't mention any of our transfers, how the top freshmen class in the league is getting a year older, and how we are bringing in the second best class in the league to back all that up.

Very lazy. You don't bring up Jeremy Sheppard or Antwan Walker? How about the potential of a healthy Jermaine Harris? Tyrese Martin and Dana Tate a year older? I'm fine with finishing 4th but we have the potential to win the league. He makes Richmond out to be that team.

PeterRamTime · Unread post by **PeterRamTime** » 4 years ago

steveystuds06 wrote: ↑4 years ago
PeterRamTime wrote: ↑4 years ago There's no way Richmond will be the most I'll interesting team in the league.

They bring everyone back, but they really aren't that talented.

I'm sure they will have their good nights, but I'd be surprised if this isn't Chris Mooney's last year.

It also had a lazy write up of us.

They didn't mention any of our transfers, how the top freshmen class in the league is getting a year older, and how we are bringing in the second best class in the league to back all that up.
Very lazy. You don't bring up Jeremy Sheppard or Antwan Walker? How about the potential of a healthy Jermaine Harris? Tyrese Martin and Dana Tate a year older? I'm fine with finishing 4th but we have the potential to win the league. He makes Richmond out to be that team.

No way Richmond has enough to challenge any of the top tier teams.

They're excited because they have Nick Sherod back.... I mean so what?

They still lost to Longwood last year WITH Nick Sherod.

They have everyone back from a 20 loss team with no additions except Sherod who missed most of last year.

We have our best players back from a winning team and made upgrades with our replacements.

Yeah they really didn't mention anyone on our team at all.

RhodyKyle · Unread post by **RhodyKyle** » 4 years ago

PeterRamTime wrote: ↑4 years ago
steveystuds06 wrote: ↑4 years ago
PeterRamTime wrote: ↑4 years ago There's no way Richmond will be the most I'll interesting team in the league.

They bring everyone back, but they really aren't that talented.

I'm sure they will have their good nights, but I'd be surprised if this isn't Chris Mooney's last year.

It also had a lazy write up of us.

They didn't mention any of our transfers, how the top freshmen class in the league is getting a year older, and how we are bringing in the second best class in the league to back all that up.
Very lazy. You don't bring up Jeremy Sheppard or Antwan Walker? How about the potential of a healthy Jermaine Harris? Tyrese Martin and Dana Tate a year older? I'm fine with finishing 4th but we have the potential to win the league. He makes Richmond out to be that team.

No way Richmond has enough to challenge any of the top tier teams.

They're excited because they have Nick Sherod back.... I mean so what?

They still lost to Longwood last year WITH Nick Sherod.

They have everyone back from a 20 loss team with no additions except Sherod who missed most of last year.

We have our best players back from a winning team and made upgrades with our replacements.

Yeah they really didn't mention anyone on our team at all.

And also forgot to mention that URI's returning team took 2 of 3 from VCU and split with Dayton last season, but sure, Richmond is the one who will grab that 4th place spot. Did their editors really allow the writer to mention Richmond and the NCAA Tournament in the same sentence?

SmartyBarrett · Unread post by **SmartyBarrett** » 4 years ago

Pretty sure this is the fifth or sixth consecutive "This is the year!" for Richmond.

rhodylaw · Unread post by **rhodylaw** » 4 years ago

Our core is strong - it was last year too - is the surrounding pieces are a year older. We gonna kick some asss this year. Cyril is going to own the A10.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

VCU 5 incoming Freshmen for 2019 Class
VCU was ranked 2nd best A10 Class to UMASS

https://www.vcuramnation.com/2019/07/a- ... man-class/

Rhody74 · Unread post by **Rhody74** » 4 years ago

Not a prediction but Chris DiSano’s keys to Ram improvement.
https://www.yurview.com/uri-rams/improv ... reas-rams/

KevanBoyles · Unread post by **KevanBoyles** » 4 years ago

Rhody74 wrote: ↑4 years ago Not a prediction but Chris DiSano’s keys to Ram improvement.
https://www.yurview.com/uri-rams/improv ... reas-rams/

Good read. Thanks for posting.

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