(12-10-2017 05:03 PM)Dukesfan71 Wrote:  The Dukes are allowing opponents to shoot 40% from 3. Which means you all will shoot 55%. I enjoyed your ODU win.

Sorry that you were on the losing end today. Good luck next week in the playoffs.

(12-10-2017 04:04 PM)LeadBolt Wrote:  Watched the JMU-UR game. JMU's rebounding was impressive. Moseley's early foul trouble and 13 minutes on the bench in the first half may have been the difference. Neither team was all that impressive.

There are 12 D1 schools playing mbb in VA outside the CAA in 6 different conferences. I'd love to see the Tribe play half or more of them each year.

I wonder what teams play they greatest percentage of possible out of conference opponents in their state. The 12 teams are:

Conference USA: Old Dominion
Atlantic 10: Richmond, George Mason, and Virginia Commonwealth
Atlantic Coast: Virginia and Virginia Tech
Big South: Liberty, Longwood, and Radford
Mid-Eastern Athletic: Hampton and Norfolk State
Southern: Virginia Military Institute

Five of those teams are in the Big South and Mid-Eastern Athletic, which will hurt your strength of schedule. To compare, New York has 21 teams other than Hofstra, and Hofstra played or will play 4 of them and non-Division I Molloy.

(12-11-2017 02:01 PM)EvanJ Wrote:  

(12-10-2017 04:04 PM)LeadBolt Wrote:  Watched the JMU-UR game. JMU's rebounding was impressive. Moseley's early foul trouble and 13 minutes on the bench in the first half may have been the difference. Neither team was all that impressive.

There are 12 D1 schools playing mbb in VA outside the CAA in 6 different conferences. I'd love to see the Tribe play half or more of them each year.

I wonder what teams play they greatest percentage of possible out of conference opponents in their state. The 12 teams are:

Conference USA: Old Dominion
Atlantic 10: Richmond, George Mason, and Virginia Commonwealth
Atlantic Coast: Virginia and Virginia Tech
Big South: Liberty, Longwood, and Radford
Mid-Eastern Athletic: Hampton and Norfolk State
Southern: Virginia Military Institute

Five of those teams are in the Big South and Mid-Eastern Athletic, which will hurt your strength of schedule. To compare, New York has 21 teams other than Hofstra, and Hofstra played or will play 4 of them and non-Division I Molloy.

We have regularly played teams in both the Big South (High Point, Winthrop, Liberty) this year we played High Point whose realtime rpi currently sits at 298, Liberty is is at 189 and Radford is 142, we played 2 MEAC schools this year Savannah State & Hampton, so that is already 3 teams from these 2 conferences.

I think that is a good level and shifting opponents from Savannah State(223) & High Point (298) judicially to say Radford (142) & Liberty (189) would cut travel expense and may actually increase rpi. Rotate them from time to time with NSU/Longwood/VMI for 3 games/year.

ODU and GMU were excellent opponents. Rotate them with UR and VCU on a cycle of ideally 3 games vs 2.

Add another opponent from rotation of UVA, VPISU in money games for an additional game.

A total of 7 games here should allow some room for other options, not lower rpi, cut travel expenses, raise instate recruiting profile (possibly cutting scholarship expense) and increase fan interest.

(12-11-2017 02:01 PM)EvanJ Wrote:  

(12-10-2017 04:04 PM)LeadBolt Wrote:  Watched the JMU-UR game. JMU's rebounding was impressive. Moseley's early foul trouble and 13 minutes on the bench in the first half may have been the difference. Neither team was all that impressive.

There are 12 D1 schools playing mbb in VA outside the CAA in 6 different conferences. I'd love to see the Tribe play half or more of them each year.

I wonder what teams play they greatest percentage of possible out of conference opponents in their state. The 12 teams are:

Conference USA: Old Dominion
Atlantic 10: Richmond, George Mason, and Virginia Commonwealth
Atlantic Coast: Virginia and Virginia Tech
Big South: Liberty, Longwood, and Radford
Mid-Eastern Athletic: Hampton and Norfolk State
Southern: Virginia Military Institute

Five of those teams are in the Big South and Mid-Eastern Athletic, which will hurt your strength of schedule. To compare, New York has 21 teams other than Hofstra, and Hofstra played or will play 4 of them and non-Division I Molloy.

NY has a lot of programs though the quality, pound for pound, doesn't come close to Virginia.

Drexel did that this year reasaonably well. Bowling Green and Quinnipiac were really the only games not close by. So from a perspective of getting regional interest this was probably Drexel's strongest schedule:

NJIT, Lafayette, Rider, La Salle, Robert Morris, Temple, Loyola (Md) and non D1 Arcadia. Even the exempt tournament was relocated to Liberty so the travel was close by instead of in the Caribbean.

Our fans have always wanted games against Lafayette, Lehigh, Bucknell, Penn State, Philly's Big 5 etc. Regionally it makes a lot of sense but if you want your brand to be a national brand it hurts. At the CAA level it is not such a bad thing to play a lot of local teams. It helps build fans as well since it gives your fans an opportunity to see schools they have heard of or even looked at potentially attending.

(12-15-2017 12:50 PM)dan10 Wrote:  Drexel did that this year reasaonably well. Bowling Green and Quinnipiac were really the only games not close by. So from a perspective of getting regional interest this was probably Drexel's strongest schedule:

NJIT, Lafayette, Rider, La Salle, Robert Morris, Temple, Loyola (Md) and non D1 Arcadia. Even the exempt tournament was relocated to Liberty so the travel was close by instead of in the Caribbean.

Robert Morris is in the same state as you and Quinnipiac isn't, but Google Maps says you're 320 miles from Robert Morris in western Pennsylvania and 183 miles from Quinnipiac.

The CAA is up to 12th in the Conference RPI. Hofstra moved up from 103rd to 77th without playing because their opponents (only the teams they played already) went 5-0 yesterday.

(12-17-2017 09:12 AM)EvanJ Wrote:  

(12-15-2017 12:50 PM)dan10 Wrote:  Drexel did that this year reasaonably well. Bowling Green and Quinnipiac were really the only games not close by. So from a perspective of getting regional interest this was probably Drexel's strongest schedule:

NJIT, Lafayette, Rider, La Salle, Robert Morris, Temple, Loyola (Md) and non D1 Arcadia. Even the exempt tournament was relocated to Liberty so the travel was close by instead of in the Caribbean.

Robert Morris is in the same state as you and Quinnipiac isn't, but Google Maps says you're 320 miles from Robert Morris in western Pennsylvania and 183 miles from Quinnipiac.

The CAA is up to 12th in the Conference RPI. Hofstra moved up from 103rd to 77th without playing because their opponents (only the teams they played already) went 5-0 yesterday.

I am well aware Quinnipiac in CT is closer than Pittsburgh across the entire state. The point was about regional games. Typically you are talking about in state games not physical closeness. That and very few people have even heard of Quinnipiac where that opponent wouldn't move the needle ever

Big night for the league tonight including our game and Hofstra facing Villanova.

(12-20-2017 09:58 AM)dan10 Wrote:  I am well aware Quinnipiac in CT is closer than Pittsburgh across the entire state. The point was about regional games. Typically you are talking about in state games not physical closeness. That and very few people have even heard of Quinnipiac where that opponent wouldn't move the needle ever

You're right about "typically," but this could be an exception. I'm not saying Drexel and Quinnipiac are geographic rivals. I'm saying that I don't see Drexel and Robert Morris is geographic rivals either. There are very few states with two big cities as far apart as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh (near Robert Morris). Look at it from Robert Morris's point of view. They have Penn State, Pittsburgh, and Duquesne as western Pennsylvania teams in other conferences. I also could see them preferring teams in other states that are closer to them than Drexel is. These teams would be St. Bonaventure, Youngstown State, Cleveland State, Akron, and West Virginia.

Looks like UNCW will fall to Howard. The Hawks fall to 2-10. Towson is just up on Pitt. Hofstra is about even with Nova early.

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UNCW lost and is now 336th in the RPI after being 33rd last season. I wonder what the biggest drop ever is. The CAA went 2-4. Towson blew their lead.

Was there a ton of roster turnover at UNCW? What's going on down at the beach?

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(12-23-2017 01:29 PM)zablenoise Wrote:  Was there a ton of roster turnover at UNCW? What's going on down at the beach?

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Well. There was some roster turnover. Flemmings and Ingram graduated. CJ Bryce transferred to N.C. State with Keatts, and so we were only left with two returning starters in Jordan Talley and Devontae Cacok. Additionally, all of Keatts incoming recruits for this year backed out of their commitments.

On top of that, our new first year head coach has moved away from a pressure defense our team was built for and moved us back to the half-court defense and solely man to man. He also had to recruit with little time, but was able to grab a couple promising freshmen but it’s gonna take time for them.

All in all, it’s been a frustrating year with a lot of road blocks including A player being dismissed from the team in the last couple weeks.

Hopefully, we pull out of this funk.


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UNCW has won, what, 3 CAA Titles straight? They'll be fine.

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Tribal,
I don't know about that. UNCW was all about Keatts and what he did from a coaching and recruiting perspective. Unless they just chalk this season up to a transition year, there's no reason for me to believe that they will just become good again right away. They have one of the top players in the CAA and aren't doing well.

I agree with Tribe32 about UNCW. We need to play them soon, hopefully, before they get their act together. Also, UNCW has only won 2 titles in a row. Northeastern won in '15.

Okay, ONLY 2. I didn't say they'll be back on top this year, though, I wouldn't count them out. My point is that they're a top flight CAA MBB school and they'll be fine. They've won a bunch of CAA Titles in the 2000s and some were against mid-major basketball powerhouse programs. They won't settle for mediocrity. They really have just basketball and baseball (occasionally soccer) to drive their athletic reputation so they won't stay at the bottom for long.

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I'm kind of hoping for that lull that came after their last run of success before they found another good coach. CGHawk saying they hired a coach who's changing their play style sounds like a bad hire to maintain success. Good coaches need time to recruit players for their style. Great coaches adapt their style to their roster.

Delaware came back from down 13 with 7 minutes left to win 97-96 in overtime hosting Cornell. Delaware scored 37 points in the last 12 minutes including 7 minutes of regulation and overtime. Cornell's Stone Gettings scored 39 on amazing shooting, with 16 out of 21 field goals including 7 out of 8 three-pointers. Gettings had his first two 30 point games consecutively in losses. Cornell's Matt Morgan scored 34 to increase his average to 25.3, which is second in Division I. I have no way of finding this out, but it must be rare for a losing team to have teammates score at least 34. Delaware used only 7 players. One of them played 4 minutes, and four of them played at least 39 minutes. They could be tired when they're at UNC Wilmington on Saturday.

The CAA finished 52-56 out of conference against Division I teams. UNC Wilmington hosts non-Division I Greensboro tonight. The CAA is 14th out of 32 in the Conference RPI. The CAA has 3 teams each in the Top 100 and Bottom 100. Delaware was in the Bottom 100 before today.

Charleston smoked Towson.



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