Games of interest - Rest of Season

[UCH21377]

I'm watching Kentucky/FL. I'm thinking Toppin might have been able to help us this year.

[Bos8]

Toppin is currently trending on twitter.

[reef]

Wow !!

[NYGFan_Section208]

Cox and the players deserve a ton of credit for never having any Covid breaks all season. Great job by Cox in that department...

That being said, We have to be one of the luckiest teams in the country to get everyone eligible after Cox lost most of our roster. We would have had a Jerry D type of season if Cox didn't catch a major break. I hope Thorr considers that when deciding if Cox should come back next year. I'm just happy we know our talent level. I would have gone into next season thinking Betrand was an all-A10 guard after reading some of the comments on here. I think he could be a nice piece, but we completely overhype players, and I'm never falling for that again.

Agree, if there's credit to be given for staying out of COVID trouble, then they should certainly get that.

I maybe question the lucky-ness though of getting everyone eligible. If they had not got everyone eligible, then what? Would the record have been that much different? Without all/any transfers, would the expectations have been much different from what has actually happened? Would it have been different enough to matter? Would upside have maybe kept us from the 12 man rotation debacle if only 1 or 2 got approved? ....will never know

My guess is Cox was unlucky that the 5 guys were granted waivers - oddly enough.

Who knows, but Cox would very likely not have as hot a seat as he has now from fans.

I don't hate this take at all...

[Rhody15]

Toppin is currently trending on twitter.

I hope he’s a lottery pick, so I can laugh all the posters who said it was a bad move and he’d develop the same here.

[NYGFan_Section208]

Toppin with a sweet throw down to give Ky the lead....

[NYGFan_Section208]

Toppin is currently trending on twitter.

I hope he’s a lottery pick, so I can laugh all the posters who said it was a bad move and he’d develop the same here.

Dude, I'm in before you...I mean, I uh...I made a sign....(which I still have)

[reef]

Both Jacob T and Tyrese M made great moves for their hoop futures

[ramster]

Games for Saturday February 27

• VCU @ Davidson (-3) 2pm ESPNU

• LaSalle @ George Mason (-7) 4:30pm

• URI @ Duquesne (-1) 7pm ESPN+

• #14 Texas @ #18 Texas Tech (-3.5) 12pm CBS

• Marquette @ UCONN (-7) 2:30pm FOX

• Florida @ Kentucky (-2.5) 4pm CBS - Calipari goes for 4th straight SEC win, NET up to 63, up to (7-7) in Conference play with Florida (8-5) (12-6), @ Mississippi (8-7) (13-9) and South Carolina (3-10) (5-12) to go before SEC Tournament. Could go into SEC Tournament (10-7) with 6 straight wins??? Dick Vitale will go NUTS!!

• #2 Baylor (-5) @ #17 Kansas 8pm ESPN

• San Francisco @ Pacific (-1) 10pm PAC

Texas Tech beats Texas
Dan Hurley dominated Marquette 80-62. Tyrese 8 rebounds 6 points
Davidson 65-57 win over VCU
Florida beat Kentucky by 4 - nice effort by Toppin who got 11 points in 21 minutes with many minutes down the stretch.
George Mason clobbers LaSalle by 35. GMU had 17 guys play minutes.
Kansas leads Baylor by 5 with 5 minutes to go

[reef]

Kansas beats Baylor drops them from the undefeated

[Blue Man]

VCU loses to Davidson 57-65.
Tough break for VCU without their top player and leading scorer Bones Hyland and second leading corer Vince Williams injuring his foot in the 2nd half.

Did McKillop gameplan for Bones to be in?

[RhowdyRam02]

I mean, the pandemic cancelled the conference tourney.

Now were we going to win that? No, unless Dayton somehow got upset before the finals. But he technically isn’t wrong when he says the pandemic affected year 2.

That is not my question. Of course the pandemic impacted. My question is how did that impact URI differently from the other 350 schools?

It seems the pandemic keeps coming up as an excuse for URI. How was URI impacted for better or for worse vs the other 350 teams? Or just for the other 13 A10 teams?

I could say Cox got a humongous break from the Covid because the NCAA granted 5 waivers to URI so 5 transfers could play immediately. He was at a greater advantage since he had 5 players in waiting?

True?

He did get a gi-normous break compared to most...not only did he get 5 transfers immediately available...there was no real negative impact to scheduling, when for lots of other teams, there was. If anything, the pandemic gave them as much upside opportunity scheduling as we've seen here in a long time. They just didn't take advantage of it.

And because we didn't have a pause we had more practice time than many teams, including a good portion of our conference mates, and yet we got worse as the season went on. That's damning of the coaching

[RhowdyRam02]

Bryant won games versus Derek Kellogg's LIU the last two nights to clinch a spot in the Covid reduced four team NEC Tournament. Has two more home games against Mt St Mary and with a single win will clinch the #1 seed which would guarantee all tourney games in Smithfield (where they are undefeated on the season). Currently have an overall record of 14-5 that includes at win at UMass (a team URI lost to twice).

I was told that Grasso would be a horrible candidate to consider once Cox is gone. I'll say it again. Grasso can coach and if you give him more resources he'll succeed. Certainly more than Cox. Apparently, we will land Brad Stevens or Shaka Smart, so I guess it doesn't matter..

Is he running Cluess' system at Bryant? If so, he wouldn't be a good candidate here, that system works in smaller conferences but always fizzles on bigger stages. If not, then yes he might be intriguing

[ramster]

I know this doesn't belong here, but today's 1pm game at the Ryan Center is huge for URI WMB

4th seed will go to the winner of this game

It is televised on ESPN+

[ace]

I wasted the day watching parts of old basketball games (happy to report that Rhody still beats VCU to win the 2017 A10 tournament), and it’s amazing how easily used to new things I get- it looked weird to see coaches in suits. Seeing crowds was nice, though.

[ramster]

Sunday night standings

3 games remain in A10 Conference Play
Monday March 1

• Dayton @ St Bonaventure (-7.5) 5pm ESPNU

• UMASS @ St Louis (-10.5) 6pm

• St Joseph's @ Richmond (-14.5) 6pm ESPN+

1-St. Bonaventure (11-3) (13-3) W3
2-VCU (10-4) (17-6) L1
3-UMASS (6-3) (7-5) L1
4-Davidson (7-4) (12-7) W1
5-Richmond (6-4) (13-6) L1
6-George Mason (8-6) (12-8) W4
7-Saint Louis (5-4) (12-5) W1
8-Dayton (8-7) (12-8) L1
9-Duquesne (7-7) (8-8) W1
10-Rhode Island (7-10) (10-14) L2
11-George Washington (3-5) (4-11) L2
12-La Salle (6-11) (9-15) L1
13-Saint Joseph's (2-9) (3-14) W2
14-Fordham (2-11) (2-11) L2

[reef]

Expecting easy wins for the 3 big favs

[ramster]

Expecting easy wins for the 3 big favs

St Bonaventure is playing well but I think Dayton will be closer than the 7.5 points and a possible outright win for Dayton.

[ramster]

Games Monday

Dayton @ St Bonaventure (-7.5) 5pm ESPNU
UMASS @ St Louis (-10.5) 6pm
St Joseph's @ Richmond (-14.5) 6pm ESPN+

Florida Int @ Western Kentucky (-18) 1pm EXPN+
Washington St @ Arizona St (-4.5) 3pm
#7 Oklahoma (-1) @ Oklahoma St 9pm ESPN

[ramster]

Games Monday

Dayton @ St Bonaventure (-7.5) 5pm ESPNU
UMASS @ St Louis (-10.5) 6pm
St Joseph's @ Richmond (-14.5) 6pm ESPN+

Florida Int @ Western Kentucky (-18) 1pm EXPN+ WKU wins by 12. Bassey with 22 points, 15 rebounds
Washington St @ Arizona St (-4.5) 3pm cancelled
#7 Oklahoma (-1) @ Oklahoma St 9pm ESPN

Dayton beats St Bonaventure 55-52. Big road win for Dayton.

UMASS losing by 11 to St Louis at the half.

St Joseph's winning @ Richmond by 9 at the half 35-24. St Joe's going for 3rd straight win after having beaten LaSalle in OverTime and Dayton. Francis out for the 2nd half after hurting his back on a fall in the first half.

[PeterRamTime]

This Bonnies Flyers game is really reminding me how much college basketball has missed the fans.

[ramster]

With Dayton win:

1-St. Bonaventure (11-4) (13-4) L1
2-VCU (10-4) (17-6) L1
3-UMASS (6-3) (7-5) L1
4-Davidson (7-4) (12-7) W1
5-Richmond (6-4) (13-6) L1
6-George Mason (8-6) (12-8) W4
7-Dayton (9-7) (13-8) W1
8-Saint Louis (5-4) (12-5) W1
9-Duquesne (7-7) (8-8) W1
10-Rhode Island (7-10) (10-14) L2
11-George Washington (3-5) (4-11) L2
12-La Salle (6-11) (9-15) L1
13-Saint Joseph's (2-9) (3-14) W2
14-Fordham (2-11) (2-11) L2

[reef]

So STL up 20 what seed they get when they win and who do we play ??

[rambone 78]

We play St. Louis.

Or do we get Richmond at 6-5 if they lose?

7 versus 10 seed.

[Rhodymob05]

Tonight’s a perfect example of why Rhody still has a chance in this tournament.

[reef]

Richmond loses they lose to St Joe !!

[UCH21377]

Do we play Dayton with the Richmond loss?

[ramster]

With Dayton win:

1-St. Bonaventure (11-4) (13-4) L1
2-VCU (10-4) (17-6) L1
3-Davidson (7-4) (12-7) W1
4-Saint Louis (6-4) (13-5) W2
5-UMASS (6-4) (7-6)L2
6-George Mason (8-6) (12-8) W4
7-Dayton (9-7) (13-8) W1
8-Richmond (6-5) (13-7) L2
9-Duquesne (7-7) (8-8) W1
10-Rhode Island (7-10) (10-14) L2
11-George Washington (3-5) (4-11) L2
12-La Salle (6-11) (9-15) L1
13-Saint Joseph's (3-9) (4-14) W3
14-Fordham (2-11) (2-11) L2

[KingstonLane]

Do we play Dayton with the Richmond loss?

Correct. Good news - they’re as volatile as us. Bad news - they’re as volatile as us

[rambone 78]

We've been consistently bad for a while now., not counting an 11 minute stretch.

We were volatile earlier this year.

If Dayton plays bad, we could win. That's the shot.

[reef]

Yes Dayton is wildly inconsistent so if we somehow play our best we will be in the game

[KingstonLane]

We've been consistently bad for a while now., not counting an 11 minute stretch.

We were volatile earlier this year.

If Dayton plays bad, we could win. That's the shot.

I mean yea that’s exactly what I said

[ramster]

Rutgers loses by 21 at lowly Nebraska tonight.
Rutgers was a Top 15 team early in the season.

Worse yet, Nebraska had their top scorer,Teddy Allen, leave the team this past weekend. Allen scored 41 points in a 3 point loss to Penn State last week.

Yet Nebraska played a great game tonight.

[reef]

Yeah bad showing for Rutgers for sure , safely in for now but need to win another game I would think

Oklahoma Oklahoma St in a war late

[ramster]

Tuesday March 2

• #3 Baylor (-4) @ #6 West Virginia 5pm ESPN

• #4 Illinois @ #2 Michigan (-6.5) 7pm ESPN

• Auburn @ #8 Alabama (-11) 7pm ESPN2

• Duke @ Georgia Tech (-1.5) 8pm ACCN

• Memphis (-9) @ South Florida 9pm ESPNU

• Kentucky @ Mississippi (-3) 9pm ESPN

[reef]

Really good games tonight

Duke GT is a bubble game also MSU v Indiana

Big game Xavier @ Hoyas

[ramster]

Baylor wins on OT (94-89). Outstanding level of play on offense and on defense.
Scott Drew vs Bob Huggins - very well recruited and well coached teams

Baylor's 1st Conference Championship in 71 Years!!!!

[reef]

That was a really good Baylor win
Illini kill At Muchigan
Bad losses Boise and Xavier

[rambone 78]

We'll see if Duke's loss keeps them out.

Somehow I doubt it.

[Rhode_Island_Red]

We'll see if Duke's loss keeps them out.

Somehow I doubt it.

We can only hope. But we all know that when it comes down to a Cartel team with a so-so resume and a non-Cartel team with a good resume, obvious nepotism hire Dan Gavitt will make sure the committee bails out the Cartel. And when said Cartel team is the execrable Dook, it’s a lock.

[KingstonLane]

We'll see if Duke's loss keeps them out.

Somehow I doubt it.

They’re on the outside looking in. But definitely can still get in with a few ACC tourney game wins. Just takes the right teams to lose above them.

[JimSidd]

We'll see if Duke's loss keeps them out.

Somehow I doubt it.

We can only hope. But we all know that when it comes down to a Cartel team with a so-so resume and a non-Cartel team with a good resume, obvious nepotism hire Dan Gavitt will make sure the committee bails out the Cartel. And when said Cartel team is the execrable Dook, it’s a lock.

Cynics would also add that CBS execs may have a say in this.

[Rhode_Island_Red]

We'll see if Duke's loss keeps them out.

Somehow I doubt it.

We can only hope. But we all know that when it comes down to a Cartel team with a so-so resume and a non-Cartel team with a good resume, obvious nepotism hire Dan Gavitt will make sure the committee bails out the Cartel. And when said Cartel team is the execrable Dook, it’s a lock.

Cynics would also add that CBS execs may have a say in this.

There are no cynics on this board. Heavens, no!

[JimSidd]

I know no one here has any interest in the Horizon league. However, I feel last night’s quarterfinals results are notable. A triple OT game, two OT games and a one point regulation win decided by a putback at the buzzer.
I think this March will be even wilder than usual. Who knows? That could even include a conference championship decided by forfeit because a team has Covid issues: I hope not.

[Rhody15]

Anyone want to remind me where the Big East runs through?

St John’s with a huge second half over those cowards up north.

[Rhodymob05]

PC with a COLLAPSE.

[Rhode_Island_Red]

PC with a COLLAPSE.

Scadenfreude. It’s a wonderful thing.

[Billyboy78]

Sounds like Collin Gillespie has a serious knee injury. Pretty sure that ends Nova's hope for a national championship.

[LoveThoseRams]

PC with a COLLAPSE.

Karma is a B-I-T-C-H

#WhoDuckin

[ramster]

PC with a COLLAPSE.

Karma is a B-I-T-C-H

#WhoDuckin

St John's played without star Freshman Posh Alexander.
Too much time without a game with the last being last Wednesday night Feb 24 vs Xavier. Prior to that was UCONN Feb 16
Bad schedule to try to build momentum going into the BE Tournament

#WhoDuckin