Week #2- Games of Interest

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

In the AP Poll, no A-10 teams are ranked in Top 25 as VCU falls out given their unimpressive home win over North Texas. LSU takes down the #23 position. Kentucky takes over as #1. VCU with 137 votes is the largest vote getter in the "others" category, PC gets 23 votes, Dayton one.

Given the very early state of the college basketball landscape, the various ranking systems are all suspect, but for what's it's worth, here is a look at how URI stacks up.

URI ratings:
NET - NA
BPI - 68
Pomeroy - 87
Sagarin - 205

No Monday action in A-10.

The only game of relevance tonight - in a tune-up prior to its Friday game at URI, Alabama hosts Florida Atlantic, 8 PM. On SECN+.

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

Let’s monitor Bama v FAU

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

Alabama beat Florida Atlantic, 78-59. The game was only close for the first five minutes when Alabama began the move to build a double digit lead which it expanded to game's end. Alabama was hampered in game by 16 TO's and 15 FAU steals. The Tide was 9-29, 32% on treys. They had a decided edge on the glass (45-32) and outscored FAU by 11 on the FT line.

Florida Atlantic finished near the bottom of Conference USA last season and is forecast to finish in like manner this season. Interestingly URI will face three C-USA teams this year, the favorite Western Kentucky, a greatly improved Middle Tennessee team, and North Texas which gave VCU all it could handle last week.

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

Game of interest last Friday was LIU vs UMASS- Lowell
Raiquan Clark scores 21 points in 24 minutes for LIU. He is viewed as Preseason POY in His conference but was suspended 1 game vs URI. A good thing since our game was closer than should have
Christian Letete his 51 points for UMASS - Lowell. 7-13 on 3Ps. Only 3 players all last season hit over 50 pts

Vs Ohio State Sunday, Letete hit for only 9 pts and 9 rebounds

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

2 games of interest tonight

Northeastern @ UMASS. Jordan Roland leads the Nation in scoring at 40.5 ppg. How does UMASS try to slow Roland down?

#13 Memphis @ #14 Oregon
Memphis starts 5 Freshmen including, of course, James Wiseman.

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

Winthrop Eagles from the Southern Conference beat 18th ranked St Mary’s on the road. Winthrop was +18.5 points

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

Five games on tap in the A-10 on Tuesday evening:.

Lamar at Duquesne, 7 PM. On ESPN+.

St. Bonaventure at Siena, 7 PM. On ESPN+.

Davidson at Charlotte, 7 PM.

American at George Washington, 7 PM. On ESPN+.

Northeastern at UMass, 7 PM. On ESPN+.

In games involving URI OOC opponents:

Delaware State at Manhattan, 7 PM.

North Texas at Arkansas, 8 PM. On SECN+

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

So far, the A-10 is 16-6 on season. Nine teams are without a loss. and St. Bona is only school without a win. The six losses, two of which were to Top 25 teams, included Auburn (neutral), Maryland (away), Ohio (home), Vermont (home), ODU (away) and Towson (away).

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

Ok how about the 16 wins are any of them decent ???

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

PC hero in Cooleys lone NCAA win over USC, Drew Edwards, is tonight leading Charlotte to a 39-22 halftime lead over a Davidson team that has started the year off with difficulty.

Tjrams91 · Unread post by **Tjrams91** » 4 years ago

Fire McKillop!

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

Davidson now down by 20 points to Charlotte which Blue Ribbon forecast to finish next to last in Conference USA!

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

On the strength of a jumper at the buzzer, American takes a 67-65 win over GW.

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

Davidson rallies a bit in second half, but still falls to Charlotte, 71-58. bad loss for the Wildcats and the A-10.

Duquesne beats Lamar of Texas, 66-56. Game was the first of four to be played at nearby LaRoche College while the Duke's arena is undergoing a major renovation.

UMass takes a nice home win over Northeastern. 80 -71, the Huskies had previously won games over BU and Harvard.

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

The A-10 complete the night with a 2-3 record as the Bonnies take their third loss of the season losing to Siena, 78-65

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

Amazing Evansville goes into hallowed Rupp Arena in Lexington and takes down #1 Kentucky. 67-64. Evansville finished last in the MVC last season and they were forecasted not to be much better this season.

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

Pretty special night for Walter McCarty

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 4 years ago

ace wrote: ↑4 years ago Pretty special night for Walter McCarty

Absolutely...

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

Obadiah wrote: ↑4 years ago Amazing Evansville goes into hallowed Rupp Arena in Lexington and takes down #1 Kentucky. 67-64. Evansville finished last in the MVC last season and they were forecasted not to be much better this season.

and Evansville was +25 points!!

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

Obadiah wrote: ↑4 years ago Davidson rallies a bit in second half, but still falls to Charlotte, 71-58. bad loss for the Wildcats and the A-10.

Duquesne beats Lamar of Texas, 66-56. Game was the first of four to be played at nearby LaRoche College while the Duke's arena is undergoing a major renovation.

UMass takes a nice home win over Northeastern. 80 -71, the Huskies had previously won games over BU and Harvard.

Right. Davidson was favored over Charlotte by 10 points. Davidson was in some preseason poll Top 25s. Bad loss for A10.

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

Ok so where do we rank Evansville upset at # 1 Kentucky ??

Has to be the biggest upset in at least 20 years ???

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

Davidson pulls the same shit every year OOC and I, for one, am tired of them sandbagging the league before the conference schedule starts and then magically putting it together in the league. Get it together, Dave.

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

Yeah then when we lose to them in conference it helps to kill our NCAA chances.

They don't miss many 3's when they play us.

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

VCU-LSU should be a good one. Still can’t stand Wade.

Early scouting report on match-up nightmare St. Joe’s: “They have a unique style of play... where they rarely post their bigs, run them off staggers, post their guards and invert you,”

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

UMass being 3-0 is a bit of a surprise given all their turnover.

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

RF1 wrote: ↑4 years ago UMass being 3-0 is a bit of a surprise given all their turnover.

Freshman PG Sean East II played 34 min, 6-9 FG, 2–2 for 3P, 3-5 FT, 7 Assists, Zero Turnovers, 4 Steals for 17 points and this on Sports Center Last Night....

Tjrams91 · Unread post by **Tjrams91** » 4 years ago

So do we want VCU to win or lose tonight?

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

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

I always root for every Atlantic 10 Team to win in every game in every sport
I always root for every Big East Team to lose in every game in every sport

Life is simple

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

Here is tonight's A-10 schedule with the highlight being the aforementioned VCU-LSU tilt. The GMU game will provide an interesting comparative and we will also get a feel for how Hurley's second year UConn team looks.

#23 LSU at VCU, 6 PM. On ESPN2.

Saint Joseph's at UConn, 7 PM. On CBSSN. Game is a campus game in the Charleston Classic.

Fairleigh Dickinson at Fordham, 7 PM. On ESPN+.

Long Island U. at George Mason, 7 PM. On ESPN+.

La Salle at Penn, 7 PM. A Big Five game. On ESPN+.

Eastern Washington at Saint Louis, 8 PM. On ESPN+.

In games involving URI OOC opponents:

Quinnipiac at Brown, 7 PM. On ESPN+

Mars Hill at Middle Tennessee, 7:30 PM.

Paul Quinn at Nicholls, 8 PM.

PC at Northwestern, 9 PM. On BTN.

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

The Quinnipiac at Brown, 7 PM game is interesting as Quinnipiac team is playing only it’s opening game and they have 3 players that URI recruited in the past in their starting line up. Quinnipiac is preseason picked to finish 3rd behind Iona and Rider.
Aaron Falzone okayed 4 years at Northwestern now a grad year
Kevin Marfo
Matt Balanc from DC area. Redshirted last season.

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

Tjrams91 wrote: ↑4 years ago So do we want VCU to win or lose tonight?

The math is simple enough since we play LSU once and we play VCU twice and they also play most of the other teams on our schedule. But that aside, I will always root for an A10 team against another conference, especially a P5 team - both for league perception and out of principle.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 4 years ago

For sure, always want the A10 to win non-conference games, and even more so against P5 teams. Then beat the crap out of VCU a couple times.

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

TruePoint wrote: ↑4 years ago Davidson pulls the same shit every year OOC and I, for one, am tired of them sandbagging the league before the conference schedule starts and then magically putting it together in the league. Get it together, Dave.

This is so true. Now they will go 15-3 in conference and people will think they are world beaters after losing 5 games out of conference

Tjrams91 · Unread post by **Tjrams91** » 4 years ago

I want LSU to be ranked when we play them. I’m rooting for them.

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

LSU had a $250K buy out for the VCU game tonight. How much did Nevada pay? Wasn’t it less than $100,000?

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

VCU up 12 at half, 50-38

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

VCU 50-38 at the half

Big win for the A10

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

St Joes up at UConn 17-5. CBS Sports
Gampel is empty

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

At Joe’s is torching UCONN 34-15 with 10 mins left in first half.

Tjrams91 · Unread post by **Tjrams91** » 4 years ago

Joes up 26

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

Dan is going to have a stroke.

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

I love Dan and from CT and I have one thing to say EFF UConn !

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

VCU falling apart here

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

Rhody83 wrote: ↑4 years ago St Joes up at UConn 17-5. CBS Sports
Gampel is empty

should have stayed here Dan !

I’ll take you back in a heart beat

Now come over and let’s Hug it out

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

VCU did everything they could to give the game away on the defensive glass down the stretch. LSU going to be kicking themselves that they blew that many opportunities.

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

VCU WINS

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 4 years ago

VCU wins and UConn down 20...wow

I think it was key for VCU when Evans fouled out, thought they'd lose when that happened.

DeanDome88 · Unread post by **DeanDome88** » 4 years ago

St. Joes scored 54 in the first half at UConn. It could be a good night for the A10.

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

Looks like DH is really packing the stands. lol.

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