RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑5 years ago
Sorry for doubting you Spookydog, but I saw the series stats and said no way that's right and went to the record book. You were right! I definitely thought we've played them more than 34 times. Great job on the preview
34 seems about right assuming we had few or zero games against them before they joined the A10 for the 1995-96 season. That is 23 seasons (prior to this one) of A10 basketball for which both Rhody and Dayton were in the league together at the same time. When the A10 went to 12 teams that season, they had an east/west format (from 95-96 to 99-2000 and from 2001-02 thru 2004-05 - the 2000-01 season there was 11 teams in the year between when Va Tech left and Richmond came in). Dayton was in the West and URI in the East. You played each team in your division home and home and the six teams in the other division once (3 home, 3 away). Those 9 years of east/west divisions, Dayton and URI played each other once during the regular season and 4 times in the A10 tournament for 13 total games (not counting that 11 game season):
1998
2001
2002
2003
After the 04-05 season, Charlotte and SLU joined, expanding the league to 14 teams and the league abandoned divisions from there. So in 9 years of divisional play, they met 13 times. I didn't look up how many times they met during the season/A10 tournament in the other years, but I know they met twice several of those seasons. For the sake of argument, let's assume an average of 1.5 per season in the other 14 years, that's another 21 games average (discarding the extra 1/2 game), so that would add up to that would be a total of 34 games in the life of both teams being in the A10 together.
So 34 seems like an appropriate # and just about right.