White Pelican Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Now RI is back in it. Dayton trying to give it away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JettFlight5 Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 6 minutes ago, White Pelican said: Now RI is back in it. Dayton trying to give it away. Rhody up 1 with 23 to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Pelican Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 More stellar a10 officiating in this one. uh oh tied up 6.8 seconds Rhodie ball after TO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoCoBillsFan Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Crutcher misses a free throw to tie the game with 3 seconds left and Dayton loses. Yet he plays out of his mind against us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taj79 Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 There had to be some tired legs and fatigue working against Dayton last night. But Chatman's return gives them a much better lineup than if Weaver plays. It also deepens their bench. Nwokeji's career 30 point night will NEVER happen again. Rhodey's interior big man defense is horrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiken Rich Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Can we PLEASE destroy Dayton next game? Bills71, BuiltFordBills and drkelsey55 like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuiltFordBills Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Davidson follows Richmond and schedules a tune-up game before they resume A-10 play. Kinda wish we would’ve been able to do something like this and play Harris-Stowe or UMSL. I guess we were the A-10 guinea pigs on how to come back from a long COVID pause Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 34 minutes ago, BuiltFordBills said: Davidson follows Richmond and schedules a tune-up game before they resume A-10 play. Kinda wish we would’ve been able to do something like this and play Harris-Stowe or UMSL. I guess we were the A-10 guinea pigs on how to come back from a long COVID pause -what a crock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 First time watching Richmond in a while and wow, grant Golden is not playing well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crewsorlose Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 13 hours ago, wgstl said: First time watching Richmond in a while and wow, grant Golden is not playing well. VCU up to 31 in NET. Richmond down to 60. They're only dancing if they win the A-10 tourney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taj79 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 I am not sure if VCU ran away from Richmond last night or if Richmond just plain flopped. With seven minutes to go, Richmond was down one 53 to 52. They scored four points the rest of the way to lose 68 to 56. I'd say both Blake Francis and Tyler Burton were the main culprits, chucking and ducking from deep for the last seven. VCU used the long rebounds to have Hyland and Watkins cherry pick and score on breakaways. Only Nathan Cayo scored for Richmond in those final seven minutes. VCU is much deeper in athletes than Richmond and it showed. Burton finished 1-for-7 and 2 points while Francis was scoreless in the first half but finished 5-for-15 for 12 points. Of those shots, he was 1 of 7 from deep. Overall Richmond was 3 of 19 from deep. VCU's defense is very good and both Francis and Gilyard are small so the athleticism, coupled with the height, really played into VCU's advantage. As usual, Richmond's bench was non-exiustent. They almost got more fouls and TOs with 6 (negatives) than they did points, rebounds, blocks and turnovers (positives) with 12 in 37 minutes of play. VCU still is suspect on a few fronts. Bones got his 20 but there was a sequence where he let loose three questionable bombs from deep. He was supported in the first half where Ward, Baldwin and Williams all scored at least 7 points to help VCU to a 32 to 24 lead, Richmond's lowest first half output of the year. The offense for Bones seems to be the same .... work the floor to try and find someone but with seven seconds on the clock, make sure its in Bones' hands. Vince WIlliams again finished with ten but he dribbled one ball out of bounds, and then passed to no one in the front row twice. He just seemed lost. Ace Baldwin had a nice game and looked like a Brickus clone so that doesn't bode well for us next week. Jhamir Watkins looks better and better each game. But VCU's youth leads to inconsistency at many times. You can't let them get out and run on turnovers of commission. It was announced that Levi Stockard is coming back for a sixth year next year taking advantage of the COVID rules. Steve Wolf remains a talking head idiot. Never did like him. No matter what game he is covering, he has the eventual national champions in front of him. Last night it was of course, VCU. No team wuld suffer more if they lost one player to early out more than VCU and Bones. They don't have any established secondary scorers just yet. No matter how you cut it, these next three games will be key. CBFan likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compton Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Not that it will happen, but at this point a road loss to VCU would not kill our NET. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 5 minutes ago, Compton said: Not that it will happen, but at this point a road loss to VCU would not kill our NET. Agreed, another reason why the next two Fridays are so important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compton Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach314 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Next year will be Stockard's 5th year. He was Class of 2017. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 3 hours ago, Compton said: 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. ideally the bonnies beat Davidson Sunday. It helps that win Slu had over the bonnies look better(we didn't play Davidson so doesn't matter) and also knocks Davidson out of the double bye, and moves SLU into top 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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majerus mojo Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Assuming this also cancels or reschedules our March 2 game vs. George Mason. 2 weeks between the A10s and NCAAs. At least we'll be able to practice during this layoff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majerus mojo Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Missed these wrinkles: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUBillsFan Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 minute ago, majerus mojo said: Missed this wrinkle: This seems really bizarre to me. Over a week off in between the A10 semi-final and final? If the A10 expects 3 bids that means an NCAAT team from the A10 will have a nearly 2 week delay between losing in the A10 tournament and their 1st NCAAT game. That would kill momentum / excitement for that team. Also does UMass need to get to 13 regular season games to participate in the A10 tournament? If so, this set up potentially screws them out of the tournament. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majerus mojo Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 2 minutes ago, RUBillsFan said: This seems really bizarre to me. Over a week off in between the A10 semi-final and final? If the A10 expects 3 bids that means an NCAAT team from the A10 will have a nearly 2 week delay between losing in the A10 tournament and their 1st NCAAT game. That would kill momentum / excitement for that team. Also does UMass need to get to 13 regular season games to participate in the A10 tournament? If so, this set up potentially screws them out of the tournament. Also, if Covid is the reasoning for moving everything up, what happens if a team is affected during the lull between the semis and the final? They're SOL/no game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlebill Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 5 minutes ago, majerus mojo said: Also, if Covid is the reasoning for moving everything up, what happens if a team is affected during the lull between the semis and the final? They're SOL/no game? I’d imagine those teams effectively quarantine for a week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majerus mojo Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 27 minutes ago, Littlebill said: I’d imagine those teams effectively quarantine for a week Teams have been trying to effectively quarantine all season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 I’m so confused as to how this makes sense. I get moving it up(sorta) but then why wait to play the championship game. Is Dayton hosting it so it’s close to Indy? and this will make it very hard to finish with a double bye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Let's examine the press release: https://atlantic10.com/news/2021/2/18/atlantic-10-adjusts-mens-womens-basketball-championship-dates.aspx "Reordering the championship dates allowed the A-10 to reschedule a series of key matchups during the final two weeks of the regular season. Tipping the men’s championship on March 3 provides additional play dates and flexibility for the league to adjust to any unforeseen COVID-19 interruption." ----- Translation: We want to get the tournament started early as a possible. If a first-day participant tests positive after a win, this allows them a week in quarantine before the next game. Personal commentary: Before you complain about the extra week, some MBMs argued that we should skip the tournament altogether. So those folks shouldn't have any problem with an extra week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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