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The consolation being that I think it increases the chances of LSU beating them on Saturday.

That's a big loss for them at home. Falling to 13-11 (10-8).

Hopefully Mark Schmidt stays in Olean and doesn't make the leap to Penn St. or BC. It'd be tough for any incoming coach to keep that program where it is.

Rooting for GT to kick Duke off the bubble.

I wouldn't be surprised to see an epic snub of Drake (24-3), for the simple reason that they haven't beaten anyone other than Loyola-Chi at home by 1 point a day after losing to them at home by 27 points. That could bump us up one key spot in many bracketologists' eyes.

LSU hosting lowly Vandy on 3/2. Mizzou playing a strong Florida squad in the swamp on 3/3. The setup is there!

That's jumping the gun. He'll be coaching the team at Arch Madness.

Well done WIz.

The Five City Conference: Pittsburgh: Duquesne, Robert Morris Richmond: VCU, Richmond DC: GW, GMU, JMU, American Baltimore: Towson, UMBC, Loyola (MD) Philly: LaSalle, St. Joe's, Drexel Fordham, UMass and URI to the Patriot; SLU and Dayton to the Big East or AAC.

If two of those leave, it'd probably be Houston and Cincy whose football programs are a step above Memphis and the whole point would be to strengthen the Big 12's College Football Playoff chances. WKU would probably be a leading replacement candidate. Being in a conference with Memphis, Wichita State, WKU, Tulsa, SMU and Temple would provide at least comparable match-ups to the A10, with significantly better geography.

Yeah. I ignore that. Fixating on wanting to beat Dayton in their arena seems like pointless emotional beef that is a distraction from the main goal of getting to the tourney and getting the best seed possible. The "Only One Thing left To Do...." is too win out during the regular season. Wins against VCU, Richmond and UMass would have things back on track in terms of at-large. It's not the right time to worry about beating Dayton at Dayton (the time for that was two nights ago) and never the right time to worry about dreamt up hexes.

Good thing we added the UMass game. Going to need it.

NET: 31. VCU, 32. SLU, 41. Bonnies The Bonnies have an easier path to winning out than SLU or VCU, with Dayton at home and Duquesne on the road as their toughest challenges. In other words, there's a pretty good path to the Bonnies getting on/staying on the right side of the bubble and the A10 being a 3 bid conference this year.

Not that it will happen, but at this point a road loss to VCU would not kill our NET.

"Archaic reference lost on younger listeners."

A very polite and thoughtful answer that seems to belie his level of interest. Hopefully it develops from here.

The problem there was that the teams didn't have wining records in conference, which the committee likes to see. If SLu drops one to VCU or Richmond they'd end the season 7-3.

#32 now. One spot behind VCU. I'd think from this spot we can still lose to either VCU or Richmond and be in a good spot for an at-large.

LSU's 13 point win over #14 (#11 NET) Tenn will give us a nice boost. Certainly moreso than our 28 point win over Fordham.

An Illinois native, IU alum, recruiting Indiana and Illinois kids, at an Indiana school can work occasionally in the MVC. A team led by Roby, Yarbrough, Reynolds, Bartley and Welmer might have done pretty well at Evansville. But that lineup wouldn't/didn't work at the A10 level, and that recruiting approach would never generate the type of depth we have (and need) now.

^Got some help from Minn beating #24 Purdue last night.

Had it already been reported that Ford signed a big extension recently? I wouldn't call that a mole hill. That's a pretty big deal.

Another angle of looking at what you described is that with many programs in a sort of holding pattern and fewer departing P6 coaches, Fordham (or any other mid-major that fires their coach) is going to have a much shallower pool of candidates than they normally would - relying more on assistant coaches looking for their first HC job (especially as truly promising smaller conference HCs might want to hold out for a better market) than experienced P6 HCs looking for a new opportunity (like coaches Ford and Majerus).

We do know that he never went at UMass.