Taj79
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La Salle names Darris Nichols, head coach at Radford, to replace thew retiring Fran Dunphy at La Salle. Harris had two seasons as HC at Radford in the Big South, going 21 and 15 last year, followed by 20 and 13 the year before per the La Salle/A10 press release. Radford finished fourth this year losing to High Point in both this year and last year's Big South tournament. Nichols was an assistant coach at Florida, Wofford, Northern Kentucky and Louisiana Tech.
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In case you missed it ...... Saint Louis University will host a series of rallies in DC for the A10 tournament. A kick-off event will be held at 6 pm on Wednesday, March 12 with subsequent gatherings two hours before each tip-off as the Bills advance. All events will be held at Penn Quarter Sports Tavern, 639 Indiana Street, NW, which is about 2.5 blocks due south of the Capital One Arena.
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Just one year removed from a Final Four, Kevin Keats was fired at NC State. One of the names rumored for this portal opening is Ryan Odom, HC at VCU.
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Umass downright horrid. Worst shooting team in A10 according to Tim McCormack. It shows. Top four about dead. Umass down double digits at home at half.
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I believe Dayton and VCU (like many other schools) come out and push the physicality to the point where it is in the ref to make a call. Some do, some don’t. And if you get away with it, well, that’s great coaching. You see this with teams that have greater depth because escalating foul totals don’t hurt them much.
As a team and/or coach , you play and coach to what’s in front of you. You adjust. Given our depleted roster, this factor of a game is lost on us. With only 5 usable players, if I were an opposing coach, I’d make us work our butts off on our defensive end to reap some downside on our offensive end.
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Count me in the camp that says no to High Point and goodbye to the A10 and McGlade if this happens.
Having said that, my daughter went to High Point. High Point's physical campus can compete and maybe even surpass SLU. The president, Nido Quebein, is a motivational speaker who came to the US from Lebanon with $5 in his pocket. My daughter went there from 2009 to 2012. In that time, Quebein bought up a neighboring nursing complex, built modern dorm/apartments, built the brand new Quebein Athletic and Convocation Center, built a first-class soccer facility, instituted men's and and women's D1 lacrosse, built a four-story Student Union complete with hotel-like dorm rooms and a four-star steak house, expanded a first-class baseball stadium, and built a world-class fraternity and sorority village. He added a grad school, a school of pharmacy, a school of education and a school of communication. He stopped short of buying the adjacent High Point mall which was also rumored to be the site of a new football stadium should High Point pursue a football team.
The basketball team has been on a two-year run. They won the Big South last year but lost in the league tournament and are currently in first this year with a 25 and 6 record with a three-game lead as the last week of the season plays out. There is a lot to be proud of for the school. Will they sustain it? I can't speculate.
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Here's my take, cooled by seven hours of driving and covering about 400 miles, as gleaned from the fifth row courtside ......
Amazing first half and when it was over, an eighty-year-old Daytonite in the fourth row turned to me and asked if we shoot like this all the time. My response: no lead is ever too big, no deficit is ever too large. And so it went.
In the second half, Dayton just ratcheted up the pressure. It was by no means clean, the clutching and grabbing was reminiscent of VCU. Nothing was called. Dayton had five fouls with a minute to go. Santos held Avila; Cheeks held Jimerson; Bennett and Smith held Swope. Nothing. Did I say NOTHING?!?! Dayton has been setting moving picks going back to Obi Toppin days. Zed Key was throwing shoulder blocks into our guys on picks. It's how McCottry got hurt. And Robbie crapped the bed from three. Still, I didn't feel that doomed us all by itself. We also went to sleep offensively. Santos switched on Avila both halves but in the second half, Dayton doubled down on Avila. Not at first, but giving him time to telegraph his intentions. His outlet passes went to guys who had lost some of their legs in Jimerson and Swope. There is no one else. And then Schertz did absolutely nothing to quell the run Dayton was constructing. And if you've ever been in Dayton Arena, once the run starts, the crowd amplifies it. I would have burned all three of my second half timeouts during that run. But Schertz did not.
Dayton is not that good but we are obviously short-handed. But if Schertz doesn't change his philosophy of playing five guys, then nothing will ever change. Not a lot of warm and fuzzies over this one. We just can't seem to beat Dayton, home or away.
- cgeldmacher and Dr Bird
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Slash now 43/39/ 100
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Slash right now is 50/53/100
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By the way, lots of empty seats. Sell outs appear to be padded.
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In a game like this, nine total fouls.
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Damn. They moved Rammer and Earl to the other side of the court. Still at half court behind the TV guys.
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The key is win out. I expect the Joeys and Loyola to do this. If we win out, and Dayton loses on the road at VCU, there are three teams at 12 and 6. The first tiebreaker in a multi-team tie is the collective record of those three teams against each other. Again, as noted, we are all 1 and 1 there. Then you go to the top and compare how teams did against #1, #2 and so on until the tie is broken. We beat VCU, the #1 team. End of story. We get #3 in that scenario. Loyola and St. Joes split head-to-head, neither beat VCU or Mason. Loyola split with Dayton while the Joeys lost to them so Loyola would get #4, the Joeys #5 and Dayton #6.
But the key is Tuesday.
- gabriel and thatskablamo
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Based on the three games since Hoosierpoisted above, Gibson has added 209 minutes to his total for 5266 and should now be in thirteenth place by my count.
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My usual spot .... fifth row, center court behind Rammer and Earl. It's good to have friends, even Dayton season ticket holders.
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Right now, VCU is projected in as the auto-qualifier from the A10. No other A10 teams gets even a sniff. I guarantee you Bernie McGlade and company are hoping like hell that someone other than VCU wins in DC.
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Avila can't really defend. He can't really rebound. But he is the centerpiece of Schertz' system. If he is proactive and looking to advance to the next level, would his skills be better showcased in Schertz' system or go somewhere else where he may or may not fit? Look at the two guys who went from ISU to Texas, and the fifth kid who went to Xavier. Right now, Texas is the last team in in Lunardi's projected bracketology. Xavier is in the first four out. Life is not always greener on the other side.
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I believe that if the season ended today, with the standings Hoosier has posted, Dayton would get the four (2 and 0 vs. us and the Joeys). That would then make us and the ZJoeys still tied and we'd get the five because we split with the Joeys but beat the top ranked VCUers.
Of course, that will all likely change over the next two weeks. Beating Loyola and Duquesne are strong possibilities; beating Dayon is not. That would be an 11 and 7 record. I can't see the Joeys losing again. That's 12 and 6. Dayton likely goes 2 and 1 as well, making them 11 and 7. Loyola losing to us but winning out then goes 2 and 1 and finishes 12 and 6. With all that, it's likely VCU, Mason, Loyola, the Joeys, Dayton then us.
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I will say the defense was indeed good but balance that against any semblance of athleticism from Davidson. Looked like “Hoosiers” out there.
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Disbelief for sure. I watched of course completely frustrated as many of you opined but I NEVER called ballgame. No lead is too safe; no deficit too large. Davidson remains one of the weakest athletic teams in the conference. Right up there with Richmond and Fordham. No way it should have come down as it did but outside of Swope, the whole team was off kilter in the first half. If Jimerson has his usual game, the big three ignite and we win going away. But Belk has been a house of horrors for us for sure.
We outshot them from three --- 9 to 8. We had the better 3% at 33 to 28. Eleven total free throws in the game means you don't foul jump shooters and drives on both sides were weak. Durkin, best 3pt shooter in A10 went 2 for 8. Kochera kept them in the game. McCottrey did a very nice jog on Bailey. The sloppy turnovers are maddening. We took the lead at 34 to 33 and then gave ip a layup, followed by an Avila missed three (1 of 5 on the night), gave up another three to Kochera when Robbie didn't close out, had another sloppy turnover by Avila (credited to Jimerson) and then the breakaway dunk by the only guy on the Davidson team who likely can dunk with Robbie lumbering down behind him. The climb was over and it was now 40 to 34.
It was 51 to 38 with 6:31 to go. Outside of Kochera, no one else scored for Davidson. Great team defense won that game plus Swop's amazing three and Avila's layup. I, like someone else said, knew we lose these games and the prayer against the open look Durkin got at the end was answered!
The atmosphere was blah. The telecast was blah (yeah, why are you running replays during live action?). The announcers were blah. The crowd was blah. We were blah. Blah-blah-blah. Yadda-yadda-yadda. Take the win and run away.
- Crewsorlose and brianstl
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Magassa was an NCAA Clearinghouse thing as I recall. Just like Ellis. I thought Vouyoukous missed the first 10 games or so of his first year.
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I don't know how you correlate McCollum and Drake with him and us. I think we can all just about agree that the athletes in the A10 are much more superior to that in the Mo Valley. Robbie and Isaiah found out as did Schertz. I'll admit I don't know much about the Valley but to just believe McCollum and company do the same thing here as at Drake seems a little far-fetched. Of course, we'll never know.
Now that someone said McCollum to Iowa, I have also heard McCollum to Indiana. Love those rumors.