11/15 | Alabama | 7:30PM (NBC Sports)

[spookydog]

University of Rhode Island vs University of Alabama
The Ryan Center, Kingston, RI
Friday, November 15, 2019
7:30PM

Media
TV: NBC Sports
Online: NBC Sports Online
Radio: 101.5 FM (B101) or iHeart Radio App

Previews:
Alabama Fan Forum

URI is looking to get back on track after a suffering a tough loss at Maryland. This game at The Ryan Center is finishing up a home & home series in which Alabama won the opening game 2 years ago at home, 68-64. Dowtin, Cyril, & Fatts are the only members of this current team that played in the last match-up. Dowtin is hoping for a better shooting performance than the last game where he shot 2-11 at Alabama. Alabama is a guard heavy team, so we won’t have the height issues like we faced with Maryland. Alabama has a new coach this season, Nate Oats, who coached at Buffalo the last few years & as most of us already know, he was EC Matthews’ high school coach in Michigan.

Opponent
Record:
1-1, 0-0 in the SEC
Last season: 18-16, 8-10 in the SEC

Rankings:
RPI: 79
KenPom: 73
NCAA NET: 61

Leaders :
Points – Kira Lewis Jr, 23.0 (Soph., G)
Rebounds – John Petty Jr, 7.5 (Jr., G)
Assists – Kira Lewis Jr, 6.5 (Soph., G) (3.5 TO per game)

Historical
Series: 0-2
H: 0-0, A: 0-1, N: 0-1
Most Recent Matchup: 12/6/17 68-64 L at Alabama
Most Recent Win Streak: 2 – Alabama
Matchup Predictor: 79.7% Chance of URI Winning

[wpbrown8267]

1-1 record, they lost to Penn

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......Team Rankings has URI as the #91 ranked team vs. the #60 ranked Bama with a 50% chance to win.....

[spookydog]

1-1 record, they lost to Penn

My bad. I knew they lost & still screwed it up. ha. I fixed it.

[Shinze88]

Was not very impressed with this Bama team from watching the Penn and Florida Atlantic games. Oates will build that program but he doesn't have the players yet. I didn't see any part of their team that is better than ours and they do not take great care of the ball, this is a game we absolutely need to win, especially at home.

[rambone 78]

Totally agree 1000%

[Gonebarongone]

Interesting contrast in styles. They are playing the Oats style where they try to get a shot up pretty quickly, shoot a lot of threes. It's pretty simplistic but this one will certainly come does to 3pt%. They are under 30% for the year and if they are 10-34 or something like that, Rhody should handle them but anything north of 33% it will be a very competitive game.

[RamStock]

I agree. This is a game that we need to win. No excuses. Like others have said Oates is a very good coach that will have this team much improved by the end of the year. Like URI they have had depth issues with injuries, ineligible players and transfers. This is a good time to catch them and hope they get better so the win has some value later in the year.

[RF1]

As others have said, we really need to win this game. A tough OOC schedule necessitates winning nearly all of the five home contests. The team has to improve its shot selection and make baskets. Shooting in the low 30% range is not going to win many games.

[rambone 78]

Would have loved to get Oats here, but he obviously had bigger things in mind.

[ElmCityRhody]

Be a nice win and resume builder - let’s go RHODY !..

Let’s get us some nice momentum from this game !

Looking forward to it !

[A Ramfan In SK]

Want to play in the bigboy post season tournament? This is a must-win game. Simple.

[Gonebarongone]

Would have loved to get Oats here, but he obviously had bigger things in mind.

I am really interested to see how this plays out. I thought he would wait for a low/mid tier Big 10 gig. He might have even been the co-front runner for Michigan with Howard if he hadn't already left. I wonder what he thought when he read Beilein left for the NBA? Coached at a big time Michigan HS for many years and, really, is probably best served up north. We'll see...guy can really coach but fit matters.

[Tjrams91]

The setup for a major meltdown has begun. I’ll be sure to stay far from this board.

[RhodyRams12]

The most important question is does Alabama play zone defense?

[TruePoint]

The most important question is does Alabama play zone defense?

If they don’t normally it’s a pretty safe bet they are working on it as I type this.

[PeterRamTime]

Yeah they play pretty sloppy I'd say.

Definitely athletic and have size.

I'm sure we will get their best game to date.

If we come out against them like we did against Maryland though... I think we will probably hold them off fairly easily.

Hope a good crowd is there!

We got BAMA in the house.

Get excited! Come rock the Ryan!

[ElmCityRhody]

hopefully a sellout

do we have a designated dot counter this year ?

#NOTIT

[ace]

How quickly things change- when this game was scheduled, both teams had different head coaches. Taking over for a fired coach, Oats is still getting the program back and learning about his guys. Their front court is diminished- both Juwan Gary (a 4 star, top 100 recruit) and James Rojas (5th ranked ‘19 JUCO) are out for the season with injuries. It’s easy to focus on your own team’s tough luck and roster implications, but most teams are dealing with them. Friday home crowd, some quality practice time since Maryland- I think they get off to a quick start and end up winning by at least 8.

[Obadiah]

As of now It looks like plenty of tickets remain for this game and the likelihood of a sellout is remote. It'll be a good crowd, maybe 6800-6900.

[Rhodymob05]

Ticket prices went up for this one. 300 sections going for 20-35$, 200s/100s going for 35-60$. I would agree, 6000-6500 fans. Maybe more.

[Billyboy78]

Tons of tickets left. Going to have to be a busy week at the ticket office to get into the 6000s.

[ramster]

Tons of tickets left. Going to have to be a busy week at the ticket office to get into the 6000s.

The good news it’s not tonight. Currently rain mixed with snow!! :roll

[rambone 78]

Yeah and in the 20's by tonight.

January weather in November. Nice.

[reef]

This one is shaping up to be a war

I will guess about 5900 in attendance

[hrstrat57]

Not sounding like 6k to me if we just announced 2 for 1 on Instagram

[rambone 78]

We have many fair weather fans.

The loss to Maryland by 18 did not encourage them.

[RhodyKyle]

URI may have its shooting woes, but Alabama isn't much better. One consistent strength of URI over the last few years has been the ability to turn teams over and so far Alabama has had issues holding onto the ball. Both teams are a wash when it comes to rebounding with no clear advantage to either side.

It's a shame if we fans cannot pack in there on a Friday evening to give the Rams some energy because this is a very winnable game for them and if they get a high energy crowd and feed off of it, URI could really make a statement against a good (not great) team.

[Billyboy78]

The 100 and 200 sections have about 325 seats left. The 300s have at least a couple of thousand left. And those numbers don't include the 1500 student allotment. Besides the 2 for 1, Groupon has 36 dollar seats for 17 dollars. Not selling well. Hopefully the 2 promotions get a lot of people into seats.

[Rhody83]

Tons of tickets left. Going to have to be a busy week at the ticket office to get into the 6000s.

I counted the dots = 750. I know that isn’t always accurate but what info would you have differently that there are a ton of tickets left?
The dots assume all the students seats are taken.
If the 750 seats left is correct and they get a full student crowd, that would put the crowd at 7100+.

[Rhodyram]

I’m guessing around 6000- initially pricing this as a premium game tuned away a lot of the early ticket sales. Now the ticket office is scrambling to get people in the building.

[bigappleram]

If we don’t have 6k plus for Alabama that’s embarrassing. Need more marketing than Groupon offers. Smdh

[Rhodymob05]

We need an exciting game , I’m talking big blocks from Cyril , big shots from Dowtin and big dunks from Topin. Let’s get people talking because this team needs it.

[eli#10]

Here's a stat that will hopefully help us out on Friday--Bama had 19 turnovers the other night against Florida Atlantic. We gotta turn them over and run run run.

[Dowtinsavestheworld]

Agree agree agree on run run run. We got the lead in Maryland because we forced turnovers and pushed the balk. Then we went to our non moving offense and started bashing our heads against the wall.

Run Run Run

[ramster]

Agree agree agree on run run run. We got the lead in Maryland because we forced turnovers and pushed the balk. Then we went to our non moving offense and started bashing our heads against the wall.

Run Run Run

Non moving dribbling offense.

[PeterRamTime]

If we don’t have 6k plus for Alabama that’s embarrassing. Need more marketing than Groupon offers. Smdh

Yeah I'm flying up from fucking VA so people better show up.

NO EXCUSES.

This is the biggest home non-conference game other than PC in years!

[bigappleram]

I hope we have been practicing our zone attack bc we are going to see a lot of it this year.

[reef]

I am sure Oats knows our weaknesses so I am guessing we see lots of zone also

[Billyboy78]

Tons of tickets left. Going to have to be a busy week at the ticket office to get into the 6000s.

I counted the dots = 750. I know that isn’t always accurate but what info would you have differently that there are a ton of tickets left?
The dots assume all the students seats are taken.
If the 750 seats left is correct and they get a full student crowd, that would put the crowd at 7100+.

If you see a lot of green dots in the front of the 300 sections and not in the back of the 300 sections, the back ones aren't sold either. If the ones in the front of the section start selling, the ones in the back will become green. So, looking at this game, there aren't a lot of seats in the 300s that are actually sold.

[Billyboy78]

And another indication that sales aren't going well, I just got an e-mail about a brand new mini-plan...Alabama, VCU and St. Louis for 35% off....2 days before the Alabama game.

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......is it Friday yet? We need a game, for me, lots riding on this game......

[Rhodymob05]

Bring back the Runnin Rams!

[Rhody83]

Tons of tickets left. Going to have to be a busy week at the ticket office to get into the 6000s.

I counted the dots = 750. I know that isn’t always accurate but what info would you have differently that there are a ton of tickets left?
The dots assume all the students seats are taken.
If the 750 seats left is correct and they get a full student crowd, that would put the crowd at 7100+.

If you see a lot of green dots in the front of the 300 sections and not in the back of the 300 sections, the back ones aren't sold either. If the ones in the front of the section start selling, the ones in the back will become green. So, looking at this game, there aren't a lot of seats in the 300s that are actually sold.

I see that in about 5 of the 300 sections. That should still put the crowd around 6500 if there is 1500 students. The key is do 1500 students show up on a Friday night or does they all leave for the weekend.

[ramster]

Alabama Home Basketball Attendance (In Football Country) to date:
Game 1: Exhibition with Georgia Tech - 9,293
Game 2: Penn - 11,223
Game 3: Florida Atlantic - 9,117

[Rhodymob05]

Coleman Coliseum holds 15.3K.

[Rhody15]

All momentum / publicity this team had already appears over...

[Rhody83]

All momentum / publicity this team had already appears over...

Such a positive view so deep into the season

[Rhody15]

All momentum / publicity this team had already appears over...

Such a positive view so deep into the season

Attendance was beyond putrid the season opener, and we can't even seem to give away tickets to one of the biggest OOC home games in recent years.

[URI2006_Andy]

I counted the dots = 750. I know that isn’t always accurate but what info would you have differently that there are a ton of tickets left?
The dots assume all the students seats are taken.
If the 750 seats left is correct and they get a full student crowd, that would put the crowd at 7100+.

If you see a lot of green dots in the front of the 300 sections and not in the back of the 300 sections, the back ones aren't sold either. If the ones in the front of the section start selling, the ones in the back will become green. So, looking at this game, there aren't a lot of seats in the 300s that are actually sold.

I see that in about 5 of the 300 sections. That should still put the crowd around 6500 if there is 1500 students. The key is do 1500 students show up on a Friday night or does they all leave for the weekend.

The key is always the students. Give them the best seats in the house (instead of the worst) would be my first move.