Tough loss to UNCW on Thursday. Looks like we are still going to be without Moore (and Bergen). Hopefully Amari is good to go after leaving the UNCW game. This is another game we need to just let Yame do Yame things. Others need to find ways to score since they cant create their won shots. This is not a game we should lose, even short staffed. But let the road woes continue

Drexel- 65
Hampton- 68

We are favored by 4.5

At halftime, you trail 37-31, and Towson leads North Carolina A&T 48-35. If the leading teams win, Towson will clinch the fourth and final double bye, and if you stay ahead of North Carolina A&T for the 5, your first game will be against the 12-13 winner. Williams, Moore, and Bergen did not play, but you still used nine players. Butler is your only double-digit scorer with 13. Hampton's two leading scorers for the season scored 2 and 0, but their teammates stepped up.

Edit: You trail 56-47. Butler has 20 points. Washington shot 0-7. Oden Jr. has 9 points and 8 rebounds, and is the most likely player on either team to get a double-double. Hampton used only seven players, and Russell "Deuce" Dean leads tham with 16 points on 8-13 shooting.

Edit: You came back from down 12 to tie the game, and I wondered if you would play overtime again. Hampton won 75-72, and the game ended with Okros missing a three to tie. Butler scored 30. Oden Jr. had the only double-double on either team wth 21 points and 10 rebounds. House was your other double-digit scorer with 11. Russell "Deuce" Dean led Hampton with 23 points, and tied with teammate Jordan Nesbitt for the most assists with 6. The Hampton announcer called it a "big upset" or "major upset" (I forgot which), which ignores the fact that you play poorly away. Regardless of location, it is bad to let a team score 32 more points than they did in their previous game.

Jameer Nelson Jr. scored 39 in Delaware's 75-66 win hosting UNCW.

Edit: dan10 was correct about the margin.

Embarrassing loss. 2-8 caa road record. Not sure anyone can believe road Spiker isnt a real thing at this point. Hampton was merely coming off a 30 point loss to Hofstra and were nearly locked into the 13 seed. Not a game you can lose. Yame did his part with minimal help. Spiker should be embarrassed he kept Yame off the court so long. Hopefully we get Moore back for the tournament and we see much more of the Yame and Moore show on the court at the same time with Amari.

Drexel is now 14-47 0.229 winning pct in CAA road games under Spiker. That's just embarrassing. 33% is bad. This is horrendous. The issue is that he's not going anywhere. He won them one championship. He's great with the media, fans etc. He always says the right things. And there hasn't been any scandal with the program or any major disciplenary issues with any of his players. I really think that in the eyes of Drexel's administration, that's good enough for them. Putting a championship calibur team on the court isn't really a priority for them.

I mean, I don't disagree with either of you, but jeez it's hard to win a game with 3 of your top players on the bench.

Yame has done impressive work and I don't like to make injury excuses, but that's a different game if Amari, Moore and Bergens are on the floor.

And for sure, it certainly doesn't explain the 46 other CAA road losses.

No doubt, Jon. But a really bad team is a really bad team. We are supposed to be deep without any true stars (beyond Amari defensively). Most of our guards are the same type of player, so missing some isnt supposed to make a massive difference. I believe that is the main point here, that we arent as good as our talent appears to be. We have not improved in most areas, one could argue our players have regressed versus progressed. What this game shows, really, is just how much Amari hides the rest of our deficiencies because of his defensive impact. Take that away and we have no way to truly get stops, which Hampton proved.

I also agree with JB, that championship (whether fluky or not) likely keeps him here as long as he wishes to stay. But the results are clear. Also we all had the same discussion about Bru (runs a good program, players graduate, good person for the school etc- though he did have a few small scandals that he handled properly and swiftly). Drexel isnt an easy gig, though with our investments, I feel like it has gotten slightly easier (from a facilities standpoint). Playing the portal game is a learning curve for most, and so far we can improve upon it, but so can most mid majors.

For this season though, we may end up 9-9 in conference, with the softest possible schedule (Towson is the only top 6 team we played twice, and Charleston and UNCW were at home to boot). This bottom of this conference is bad, historically bad, yet we can find wins. This team should have stumbled to 11 or more wins, yet we couldnt. Thats a problem.