Compton Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Tough day in the A10, with GMU squeaking out a win against lowly VMI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlebill Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 20 minutes ago, Compton said: Tough day in the A10, with GMU squeaking out a win against lowly VMI. This league is so bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeniceMenace Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 11 minutes ago, Littlebill said: This league is so bad It’s bad...but not nearly as bad as Mo Valley... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 St. Joseph has played, and lost to, Auburn, Kansas, Villanova, now Tennessee and Drexel. I imagine they are glad their OOC schedule is over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Holly Hills Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 1 hour ago, HoosierPal said: St. Joseph has played, and lost to, Auburn, Kansas, Villanova, now Tennessee and Drexel. I imagine they are glad their OOC schedule is over. Hahaha. Who would think that would be a good idea to have that schedule for that team?!? HoosierPal likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 11 hours ago, HoosierPal said: St. Joseph has played, and lost to, Auburn, Kansas, Villanova, now Tennessee and Drexel. I imagine they are glad their OOC schedule is over. And that's not even including the games they had to miss - Bradley (6-2) and Temple (1-0). They were able to reschedule Villanova. HoosierPal likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compton Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 14 hours ago, VeniceMenace said: It’s bad...but not nearly as bad as Mo Valley... True. Post-Creighton and Wichita State departures the MVC is pretty thin. But the A10 could use more wins on the level of the Salukis' defeat of Butler last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBL_Bills Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Richmond currently struggling against Hofstra at home, late in 2nd half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACE Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 6 minutes ago, GBL_Bills said: Richmond currently struggling against Hofstra at home, late in 2nd half. Now down five. Good lord Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACE Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 And GW loses by 1 to Charlotte. Wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compton Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 GW found a way to drop their fourth straight to Charlotte 66-65. GW is now 1-6 on the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBL_Bills Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, ACE said: Now down five. Good lord less than ideal for the conference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlebill Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 This. league. is. so. bad. Mr. Juan Bid is calling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compton Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Down to us, VCU, Bonnies and Flyers for A10 teams without a bad loss. And the Bonnies are nearly in Fordham's camp with a 2 game non-con. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlebill Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 12 minutes ago, Compton said: Down to us, VCU, Bonnies and Flyers for A10 teams without a bad loss. And the Bonnies are nearly in Fordham's camp with a 2 game non-con. Bonnies would need 15 or 16 Ws including against us to make the tournament at this point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schasz Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Watched the UT-St. Joseph game last night. Vols have too many athletes for St. Joe's to compete. Really like the 5 Star Frosh players but they also picked up a couple new transfers. It was their second game over the century mark in a row. They'll try for 3 in a row before they head to a SEC meeting with Missouri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Sorry @SluSignGuy. Had to post this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBL_Bills Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 VCU barely managing to avoid a collapse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David King Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Richmond loses to Hofstra 76-71 at home. Of course, Hofstra is probably underrated; they only lost to Rutgers by 14 points; plus they have a "quality" road win over Monmouth. Thanks for the league embarrassment! #FIRECHRISMOONEY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 There goes our potential shot at a ranked team the rest of the regular season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crewsorlose Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Interesting to look at KenPom now that the numbers are starting to balance out. League has clear tiers: Tier 1 is SLU, at #32, with a bunch of other teams huddled around 60 (VCU, Richmond Dayton) and four more inside the top 100 (Davidson, Bonnies, URI, Duquesne). Richmond is what the eye test has always told us: a good, veteran offensive team (#35) without the depth or personnel to be strong defensively (#89). I wouldn't be surprised if they're top 20 on offense before the season ends, although it's hard to see them having any kind of success with Gilyard or Golden off the floor. Never has a team benefitted more from the mirage of a big win than Richmond in that win over generationally awful Kentucky team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 I never understood why so many people were downplaying the loss of Sherod for Richmond. Golden, Francis, and Gilyard are better but he's their senior captain and no team in the conference now has a greater drop-off after the starting five. Any small doubts I had about whether SLU would end up being the better team were erased when he went down. But people stayed high on them, which was surprising to me. Quality Is Job 1, Zink and RUBillsFan like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 11 minutes ago, Pistol said: I never understood why so many people were downplaying the loss of Sherod for Richmond. Golden, Francis, and Gilyard are better but he's their senior captain and no team in the conference now has a greater drop-off after the starting five. Any small doubts I had about whether SLU would end up being the better team were erased when he went down. But people stayed high on them, which was surprising to me. East Coast bias. Same reason that those Charlie Brown, Lamarr Kimble St. Joseph teams were ranked highly in the preseason despite the fact that they were injury-riddled and played weak defense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taj79 Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Had my first real long look at Mason against Towson yesterday. Yikes! What a Chinese fire drill! AJ Wilson was never that good, a decent shot blocker with the propensity to foul but never an offensive force outside a putback of two. Yesterday? A paltry 2-for-14 from the floor including one of three treys. Must think he's preppign for some next level of some kind. Two official blocks with four fouls. Typical. Mason suspended starter Jordan Miller and two key reserves for the game and were shorthanded but Towson never really took advantage of much yet still only lost at Mason by 5. Javon Greene remains the Justin Kier clone and there was a stretch where Josh Oduro scored nine in a row then Jamal Hartwell Ii scored 9 of 12. Both runs were in the second half and gave the Patriots enough room to breathe and win. The Patriots are who we thought they were as well. Mason 'improved' to 4 and 1 Howard, VMI and Towson are all part of the glut of college teams in the New York City to Richmond corridor and all are fairly pretty bad year to year. Mason will play and likely beat Norfolk State next to go to five and one but then opens at Umass, at Dayton and hosts VCU and Richmond out of the A10 gate. I'd say an 0 and 4 start is looming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bauman Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 2 hours ago, Taj79 said: Had my first real long look at Mason against Towson yesterday. Yikes! What a Chinese fire drill! AJ Wilson was never that good, a decent shot blocker with the propensity to foul but never an offensive force outside a putback of two. Yesterday? A paltry 2-for-14 from the floor including one of three treys. Must think he's preppign for some next level of some kind. Two official blocks with four fouls. Typical. Mason suspended starter Jordan Miller and two key reserves for the game and were shorthanded but Towson never really took advantage of much yet still only lost at Mason by 5. Javon Greene remains the Justin Kier clone and there was a stretch where Josh Oduro scored nine in a row then Jamal Hartwell Ii scored 9 of 12. Both runs were in the second half and gave the Patriots enough room to breathe and win. The Patriots are who we thought they were as well. Mason 'improved' to 4 and 1 Howard, VMI and Towson are all part of the glut of college teams in the New York City to Richmond corridor and all are fairly pretty bad year to year. Mason will play and likely beat Norfolk State next to go to five and one but then opens at Umass, at Dayton and hosts VCU and Richmond out of the A10 gate. I'd say an 0 and 4 start is looming. Taj, thanks for your continuous and thorough A 10 updates. It's nice having someone like you in the eastern area keep us fly-over Billiken fans, informed of what's going on east of Dayton. slufanskip likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.