"Can" the Dukes do it? Yes. I am sure stranger things have happened.
"Will" the Dukes do it? No.
Are we all rooting for the Dukes to do it? Most of us.

The basketball program at JMU has been a case study in failure

.6%

http://kenpom.com/blog/2017-caa-tournament-forecast/

I don't know if stranger things have happened. I believe the record losses for a NCAA tournament team is 22. JMU could tie the strangest

(03-02-2017 12:24 PM)UofRfan Wrote:  .6%

http://kenpom.com/blog/2017-caa-tournament-forecast/

Someone has to do it:

(03-02-2017 12:24 PM)UofRfan Wrote:  .6%

http://kenpom.com/blog/2017-caa-tournament-forecast/

So you are saying there is a chance.
The faith meter is now up to 0.6%

Dukes open as 2.5 pt favorites versus Drexel Friday evening

edit note: Dukes have won 7 straight against Drexel and beat the spread in 6 of those 7

We were shut out of all awards except for all academic team. Congrats to Cabarkapa and Satkus. Does not bode well for our chances of winning 4 games. Maybe we win the Scholastic bowl.

(03-02-2017 08:17 PM)Dukesfan71 Wrote:  We were shut out of all awards except for all academic team. Congrats to Cabarkapa and Satkus. Does not bode well for our chances of winning 4 games. Maybe we win the Scholastic bowl.

Ditto the congrats to Paulius and Dimitrije.

Demitrije's bio at jmusports.com advises his favorite class at JMU is "Anatomy". Good choice. :>)

Paulius has really come on this season and deserves a team award for Most Improved.

All Rowe's fault that JMU MBB didn't have any 1st, 2nd, or 3rd team first teamers. #BlameLouRowe

(02-28-2017 05:50 PM)UofRfan Wrote:  Would help if Jonsson misses again.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketb...ri-jonsson

Is he still out? Dukes need all the breaks they can get

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Line up to 3 in favor of JMU.

I think it will be a dud of a game but a coin flip of a game. Hope Drexel wins, but it really depends on if Kari plays for Drexel. If he is still out, then JMU will win and cover likely by double digits

Faithbuilder #4
4 - the number of years since JMU won the tournament
4 - the number of games JMU must win consecutively
4 - the number of days in the CAA tournament

It is science

Has the faith meter increased a little bit? I say yes.
Dukes took care of game 1. 3 more to go.

CoC will be a tough test and they should have 95% of the fans being only 10 miles from their campus. However, they are a poor shooting team. This shapes up as a textbook game for the 3-2 half court zone defense. If the Cougars Miss some 3's early in the game then CoC's sphincter will begin to tighten up.

With Byron taylor leading this team anything is possible

(03-03-2017 10:45 PM)Hart Foundation Wrote:  Has the faith meter increased a little bit? I say yes.
Dukes took care of game 1. 3 more to go.

CoC will be a tough test and they should have 95% of the fans being only 10 miles from their campus. However, they are a poor shooting team. This shapes up as a textbook game for the 3-2 half court zone defense. If the Cougars Miss some 3's early in the game then CoC's sphincter will begin to tighten up.

If we can shoot like we did today (and hopefully Shakir can shoot better than 3-13), and the 3-2 zone is working, then we have a good chance to go 2 for 2 in our quest for 4 in a row.

(03-02-2017 09:35 PM)NJDuke97 Wrote:  All Rowe's fault that JMU MBB didn't have any 1st, 2nd, or 3rd team first teamers. #BlameLouRowe

Number of All CAA Players by team

UNCW (4)
COC (2)
Towson (2)
W&M (2)
Elon (1)
Northeastern (1)
JMU (0)
Hofstra (1)
Delaware (1)
Drexel (1)

Only CAA team with a 2 average star rating on Verbal Commits (JMU)
Only CAA team without an all conference performer (JMU)

But it's all horrible coaching as to why JMU MBB has struggled this year- yeah ok.

(03-03-2017 08:53 AM)Hart Foundation Wrote:  Faithbuilder #4
4 - the number of years since JMU won the tournament
4 - the number of games JMU must win consecutively
4 - the number of days in the CAA tournament

It is science

(03-03-2017 08:53 AM)Hart Foundation Wrote:  Faithbuilder #4
4 - the number of years since JMU won the tournament
4 - the number of games JMU must win consecutively
4 - the number of days in the CAA tournament

It is science

It's also the 4th of March!!

And then...Final Four