Taj79

Dayton plays X in the nightcap.

St. Joe's. La Salle. Dayton. Move on. Umass and Duquesne in a nip=n=tuck shoot out.

St. Joe's up twelve under a minute. La salle up ten same. GeeDub down 11. Hush, hush SignPunk.

La Salle up 15 now. Richmond appears out of gas with under four to go.

La Salle holding off all Richmond runs,in deepfoul trouble but up seven near the under 8 to.

La Salle in trouble ======= Mills and Wright each pick up third foul in first 55 secondsofsecond half.

Doesn't look like they are playingany defense in Amherst ......48 to 44 Umass with under 30 ticks left in the half. St.Joe's up seven at half. Dayton 31 to 17 at half.

how about we split the point?

@cowboy -- not true. http://www.atlantic10.com/championships/m-baskbl-2012.html

So what is everyone thinking? i know the Wiz has all the higher seeds favored. The trend should hold true that the home team/higher seeds win out and we get the best basketball the A10 has to offer come this weekend. Howewver, as Timmerman points out, all the lower seeds won last year except us at Rhode Island. So we have a potential Joaquin Andujar situiation brewing (youneverknow). While I expect the higher seeds to win, two games give me pause, GeeDub at Dayton and Richmond at La Salle. Will Dayton take the night off after just having dispatched the Colonials last Saturday? While usually stoic and unbeatable at home, Dayton has lost to the likes of Buffalo, Rhode Island and Duquesne in the friendly confines of the DDD this year. I'd also like to see Dayton and Xavier go at it one more time Friday night. Why not? Let them emotionally pound on each other as the winner moves on to hopefully meet us Saturday on a short turnaround. Richmond has been playing well of late, losing by small change at Xavier and routing Dayton. They have had a week off. They employ those mind-numbing match-up zones and motion offenses. I think they have more talent than La Salle. And have the better coach. Plus La Salle's students are on spring break and the Gola Mausoleum wil be even less friendly than usual. Umass did lose at Duqesne earlier this year I can't see that happening at Amherst. And while Charlotte did also win at Hagan earlier this year, the teams in those two games were at different places. I think St. Joe's is a little more on the upswing this time then before and should prevail.

I don't know -- it's all funny money to me. Of ocurse, it will cost them an additionalo $2.5 million to exit their football program from the MAC. So that's $3.5 million for the whole changeroo. What did it cost West Virginia and Mizzou? I don't think an A10/Mac switch is on the same level. So I guess it's okay and reasonable. Of all the schools in the A10, I'd think Temple, Xavier, Dayton and Umass are the only ones likely to afford such moves.

We'll be there. SignPunk won't ----- unless he is running alongside the car really, really fast. That's a strange (and different) place, eh?

@ACE ---- BINGO! Who does indeed know. We all shall see. I think we can all agree that, yes there is a hoel to fill, but this coming year will be different than just about all others as far as roster turnover is concerned and how we are NOT waiitng for anything to come bopping through this spring. Nice feeling.

Surprised we got some votes: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings One in the AP poll to rank us at 38th; six over in the ESPN Coaches Poll to rank us 35th. Temple, despite a loss and an OT win at home, still safely entrenched at 21/24.

Invitel ist is out: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7651208/syracuse-orange-heads-2013-maui-invitational-field Archie Miller has Dayton going.

@kwjybo --- my, my how you have shrunk since I last saw you in AC!!!!

@david --- I guess we shall all see what we all see. All I'm saying is that my report was up there and based on that, I am not expecting much from GG. In all aspects, i hope I am proven wrong. I'd love what a 6'6" Chuck Barley clone could do for us. Seeing him and that kid from Richmond sumo wrestling next year would be well worth the price of admission.

Richmond has enough history and a good enough coach to scare me. They play a match-up zone with a Princeton-like precision that is designed to keep the game low scoring and close, compensating for their short bench/lack of talent and giving them a chance to win with a prayer. I would prefer La Salle. La Salle plays six guys and the seventh is a stiff in 6'11" freshman Steve Zack. Foul trouble would kill them. Dr. Giannini has never impressed me as a doctor, nor as a coach. They are small in playing four guards and they don't play any real defense. Ramon Galloway is undisciplined and a turnover waiting to happen. He thinks he is Curly Neal. Pettis is a ball hog and plays no structured offense. He is geuninely selfish. Mills is not a goo doffensive player (despite averaging 10 ppg) and is a liability on defense. Duren is a good point guard, but his ability is negated by the team's selfishness with Galloway and Pettis. I'd take Jerrell Wright in a heartbeat. I'd prefer La Salle.

@kshoe --- I non-attributed my information in quotes from the source. All I'll say is the source is well-placed, high enough, and irrefutable in my beliefs. I understand Rick understands the press and uses it for his advantage. He praises the recuits and the non-playing players. That is some masterful motivation. He also takes umbrage with a certain few who he believes can take it --- Conklin, Cassity, Barnett to name a few. I say read between the lines there. Could my source be pulling my leg? Sure, although I don't see a reason for doing so. There is no need to make me look bad -- I can do a good enough job myself and have guardian angels like you to point that out for all. @tarheel --- that may be your understanding of Relaphorde's situation and it may be correct. I heard Relaphorde wanted to hang on the perimeter and jack threes all day. Not be the typical player a 6'7" forward should have been on a height-challenged roster. Believe he believed he was on hsi way to the show as a two guard. Given what I saw of him in a few later Colorado games, I think he clearly showed that perchant. Eberhardt was servicable at best. But much like my issues with a certain mid-range game, Eberhardt may be the best of a horrid lot. Being a D+ player does make you better than the Fs but its still not good. I find Rick's quote in the Weixlmann article on our main page to be interesting ...... where he talks about inheriting folks who didn't want to work in the gym but wanted the social scene, the video game scene and the TV scene. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Who did he inherit in 2006-07? Dwayne Polk. Danny Brown. Dustin Maguire. Kevin Lisch. Tommie Liddell. Luke Meyer. Adam Knollmeyer. Bryce Husak. And then late editions Eberhardt, Relaphorde and Mitchell. He released Maguire, Knollmeyer, Mitchell and Relaphorde. Could be one of them? He loved Meyer and Lisch. Doubt it was them. Did he have Husak? We all know he had issues with Liddell. Maybe it was him. I think anybody short of Luke and Kevin would be suspect. I completely disagree with your statement "some were okay." One (BE) is not some.

Hotels: in order of closeness: Trump, Caeser's, Bally's, the Claridge and the Tropicana. Anything else can become a hike and the winds on the Boardwalk in March can be brutal especially when walking into the wind (cold, sand, etc.). Temps for the week show highs in the 50's w/rain on Saturday. Travel: we drive seeing as I am in Baltimore. The docs fly into BWI (great SW/AirTran fares) and we go from there in one car. If driving from Philly, find your way to I-76 East over the Walt Whitman Bridge and follow signs to Rt. 42/Blackhorse Pike and Atlantic City Expressway (ACE). The ACE is a 55-mile straight shot toll road to the beach. The Whitman Bridge is also a toll. The ACE ends in downtown AC at Caeser's and Boardwalk Hall is the half-moon arena to the south of that. There is a parking garage underneath but fees are like $20 and you have to be out 1 hour after the end of the event. We park at the Trop (where we stay) for about $5/day. Airport: check the Philly airport for ground transport as I believe there are trains from there to AC. They might take you to the 30th Street Station or not. Don't know, haven't done that. If you are so inclined, there is also an express bus service. The AC bus station is also near Caeser's but as noted above, the walk can be "shady" to say the least. AC was a decrepit, decaying town before the casinos came and while the casinos and Boardwalk are "okay" the streets around town are still horrid. Tickets; I buy them there. Sessions anywhere from $30 to $67 per and that gets you two games. Title game might jump to $60. This allows flexibility depending on how far the team goes. An all-session pass can be had for as little as $79 in the "bronze" area. Boardwalk Hall is shaped like a horseshoe and the basketball arena looks like it was set down inside the old sandstone facility --- think Ol dKile just not as steep. It seats about 9K but I have never seen it filled for anything except a final game that featured St. Joe's and Temple -- two Philly schools. Usually, we will buy bronze seats but move down for the games with the SLU section usually behind our bench. Places to eat: right across the boards over the ocean is the Pier at Caeser's -- a dining and entertainment complex -- rather high end. All the casino's have something. The older casinos are on the Boards. The newer ones like the Borgata and others are across town to the north in what they call "the Marina." You CANNOT walk from that end to the other. Too far and too dangerous. The north end --- Resorts, Truimp Taj Mahal and Showboat --- are also to far away. Some recommednations: White House Subs at 2301 Artctic Avenue is two blocks away from the beach behind Boardwalk Hall. The Irish Pub is at 164 St. James Place and the Boardwalk -- old, old, old Atlantic City.

The good docs, Doom and Jekyl, are in. They don't post but you know who they are.

I disagree with roy's choice of Dunphy. After more time to mull things over, I am still going with old whatshisname at Bonaventure. Mark Schmidt. I knew I'd get it! He was 17 -11/10-6 in conference for a tie for third. All this with one player and playin gin Olean, NY. Dunphy's biggest attribute, to me, was his win over Duke. Temple was picked for second in the preseason, were they not? He returned his entiring starting lineup sans Lavoy Allen, did he not? Hell, all he had to do was find the key to the gym and open the doors. Majerus was deserving; no need to go there. Derek Kellog was the fourth. He had some nice athletes in Putney, Williams and Morgan. Going to be interesting to guage the threat from western Mass as the years move along.

The information I received from sources was 1) that Manning "will be a superstar," 2) that Keith Carter is "the best guard ever recruited by Majerus to come to SLU," and 3) that Grandy Glaze "does not get it" and when pressed to answer if he will, the answer was "no, I don't think so." So I am somewhat doubtful in believing the second freshman on the bench is Glaze. Which would only leave ET and I have no knowledge of what this kid can and can't do. My only words of caution are revisiting the JB transfer -------- folsk were talking (hoping) he would be a zone buster from three and some predicted him all league during his career here. So far, he leads the league and makes the all-enthusiasm-on-the-bench team. No matter what the outcome is, this is a very fine place to be as opposed to the year spast under the past two coaching regimes. Not knocking the individual coaches, but how many times did we have toi wait for the Spring signing period to finb dout who would be on the upcoming roster that year? i don't have exact numbers, but it seemed to me more usual than not. Occassionally, we'd get a servicable player like Anthony Drejaj. Most times, it was horrible, non-producing duds like Tyrone Caswell, Barry Eberhardt, Sekue Barantine, Obi Ikeafor, Horace Dixon, Anthony Mitchell and Marcus Relaphorde. What we see now is the accension to playing time characteristic of a sustained program. That's what makes me most happiest.

Since when was 28 and 3 shabby? Of course, don't know what kind of competition Union, Logan, Wilberforce, Concordia SEMINARY, Lindsey Wilson, La Sierre, Daemen, Mid-Continent, Victory vor Urbana University/College provide. Beating Concordia SEMINARY 136 to 57 had to have been a "real" college basketball game. Yikes.

Exactly, kevin. Use the meaning of the word. Do not apply your personal synonym(s) in order to make it mean what you want. I s it a prediction or a projection when you say the world will end December 21, 2012? Is it a prediction or a projection that the shoe hayfield will yield 9.5 hay bales been acre planted? I project all higher seeds wil win in the A10 tomorrow night. Whether they all win or all lose, my predictions wil still be 0 - 0. Never made one. I liken it to betting in Vegas .... lay money down, and you've got a prediciton. You are so positive in your call, you are willing to place the bet with your money. Look at the board, call a game, place no money, not the same.