dmvpiranha wrote:

Jun is a great kid, and I'll always be rooting for him. He was a lot better in year 1 at GW when the shooting was better. I'm not sure Rutgers was the best fit for him in terms of floor spacing. For context, in nine years under Pikiell they've been top 200 in 3P% just once, and have always been below average in terms of threes taken during that time. Also, are they poor? Their roster just isn't good enough for the Big Ten. They are starting a transfer from NJIT...

Not sure what happened at the end of the Winthrop-Arkansas game. It looked like Winthrop's Duncomb had Pringle in a headlock when collecting the ball which is obviously not okay, but Pringle also kinda went overboard after that and I felt like his extra pushing at the end was unnecessary and warranted FTs for Winthrop.

Good day for the A10. Mason won big and Rhody picked up a nice win over Yale.

Jacoi had 21 points tonight, but his Longwood squad lost in double OT to Maryland Eastern Shore.

Two good wins indeed for the A10, including Rhode Island's Quad 1 road win over a very good Yale team.   Yale is a top 75 NET and top 80 KenPom, really solid road win for Archie Miller's Rhodey squad

Rhode Island has jumped 155 spots from 2023 to their present #100 KenPom


 

Game wound up closer than it seemed at the end, within 6 (later 5) with a bit less than a minute to go.
Ironically given last year, Darren sealed it with a free throw near the end--and then an almost full court pass
on a rebound to a lone Rutgers player for an easy layup.

At the risk of potentially opening pandora's box, and as a newer member to the board, what is the deal with the Gonzaga fixation every couple days?

This is both a pre-Covid problem as well as a post-Lonergan problem.  It's also an age-old problem.

Even in Jarvis's heyday, even during a 26-1 regular season under Hobbs, the Smith Center has never consistently sold out.  A few games would, and others might fall in the 3,500-4,300 range, which I know is a far cry from what we've been seeing for many years now.  

All you can do about students is attempt the outreach.  But by and large, I'm not convinced that we'd sell out the student section if we were winning games but we don't because we aren't (over the last decade).  I think you have a large number of students who simply have zero interest and will likely never have any interest.  If you made the argument that there should still be enough students out there that could be potentially interested, I would not argue that logic.  However, the fact is we never see consistent sellouts making it hard to buy this.

As for the public, we don't do much and therefore, we don't get much.  You have to spend money to make money, and all that good stuff.

This team has one loss and it was by 6 points at Dayton.  They really do know how to hit 3's and take away the 3.  Am not suggesting that GW shouldn't be comfortably favored but a huge blowout is unexpected, at least by me.

The Dude wrote:

122-50 is the largest margin of victory in the history of two Division I teams

72 points

False.  I know Utah beat Mississippi valley by 94 in 2019. 

You keep making up stats that are wrong 😂

122-50 is the largest margin of victory in program history between two Division I teams

72 point win

Free Quebec wrote:

Dude, would you consider stating a Gonzaga threat, rather than posting every one of their results in the other games thread? (Asking respectfully, not trying to start something or troll).

 Yes, I can't believe that America's Greatest Coach's team would not have their own thread. Strange.