The Dude wrote:

James Madison pounds Wisconsin!!

In total control for 40 minutes, as impressive a huge upset as it gets!! 

James Madison a 30 win team that beat Michigan State on the road,  that would not have received an at large invite 

Yale Oakland James Madison, we do indeed need more of these teams and fewer 18-14 Power 5s.

Greg Gard in the tourney since 2018:

Missed the tourney, 15-18
Lost round 1  to the 12 seed
No tourney
Lost round 2
Lost as a 3 seed to the 11 seed, round 2
Missed the tourney again
Lost round 1  to the 12 seed 

Wisconsin was 16-4 and #6 in the country, lost 10 of their 16 games to end the year

See, this is why we can't have so many non-power schools in the NCAA tournament. It's just not fair to the big schools, who have been anointed by God and G0d.

Sincerely,
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey

You think Calipari would come to GW? After all, the A-10 is a second chance league for high profile coaches.

Free Quebec wrote:

Virginia embarrassing the committee.

I mean, thank goodness they didn’t put the team who is #1 in the nation in effective FG% in the tourney because watching Virginia fail to score for 13 minutes is way better. We all know a mediocre ACC team is better than an MVC team that gets few chances to impress while winning 30 games in incredible fashion.

Literally the worst basketball performance I've seen all year, including all the terrible GW games in A-10 season. How anyone pays money to watch UVA basketball is beyond me. I guess it's cheaper than a root canal, but just as painful.

Gwmayhem wrote:

That said, Juwan made $1.5 million more this season than Shaka did, so if he did leave to try to rebuild Michigan, it would be hard not to understand this.

How much does Shaka make? If he's making say $1.5 million (I doubt it's that low), then yes, going to UM would make sense for an extra $1.5 million. But if he's making $5 million or more, is the extra buck and a half really worth it to take the UM job where he'll always be second fiddle and potentially get his rear kicked in the expanded Big Ten? He can take other jobs. He's got it pretty good at Marquette right now.

But yes, to your point, money talks. We'll see what happens.

Alum1 wrote:

Could he play in the Big East at a school like DePaul?

Why on earth would anyone at GW play at DePaul and get humiliated every night? Is the NIL money really better there than here?

GW0509 wrote:

Poking around on KenPom

1. Meh Offense, Stinky Defense
Our conference only offense rating in '24 was only .5 points worse than '23.  However, the league got better overall.  Last year we were the 4th best offense in the league but this year the functionally equivalent offense dropped to 8th.

Our conference only defense rating in '24 was 6.2 points worse than '23.  Big reason for that was giving up a putrid 39.4% from 3 and only generating 5.8% non-steal turnovers.  As we all saw with our eyes, we played triple-ply Charmin soft defense. 

2. Failing Around the Rim, Bombs Away From Deep
Last year we were 11th in the entire country in 2P% with 56% and this year we dropped to 49.9%. Last year 52.7% of our points came from 2-pointers and this year it was 45.3%.  45.3% was 330th in the country.  Amazingly, there were 3 other A10 teams who got even fewer points from 2s: St. Joe's, VCU, and Dayton.

We attempted a school record number of 3s this year. While we shot better from 3 this year than last year, we all saw what happened when the 3's weren't falling (In the three-game stretch of La Salle, Dayton, and URI we shot a combined 13 for 76 from 3...yuck!).

Personally, I didn't expect us to miss Brendan Adams as much as we did this year. His ability to compliment JB and drive to the rim was sorely missed.  

3. Meaningless, but technically true
GW has finished the season with a better KenPom rating than where it started.  CC did this last year as well.  Mojo and JC never finished better than where they started.  

Good analysis. Appreciate the effort.

Was great to see Purdue lose. Big Ten officials treat PU like Duke. Edey parades to the free throw line when opponents breath on him. Today in the final seconds against Wisconsin, a Badger player drove the paint for an unmolested jump shot to win. What did Edey do? Backed away from the shooter.

PU sucks and is a creature of corrupt Big 14 officiating. They'll have another early exist in the tournament.

Why do you guys think JT3 hasn't had a head coaching job since he left Gtown in 2017?

Joel Joseph wrote:

I'm not sure why the GW fanbase has been so quiet about our AD all these years based on her performance.

I just think we're all beaten down at this point. The provosts hate sports and they won't spend the money required to succeed over the long term in college basketball. Super wealthy GW alums aren't paying for early coaching buyouts or throwing money in NIL.

Not that there would be anything wrong with that, but it's a simple fact of life that many elite academic institutions like GW, Stanford with football, etc, hate athletics. And GW has lots of rich alums who have interests outside of spending big bucks on men's basketball. Just the way it is.

The provosts care whether the men's bball players qualify academically and represent the school well (as far as we know). Other than that, the provosts do not care.

I think overall they keep TV around so the fans don't get a taste of success and start demanding more.

The Dude wrote:

Jameer Nelson Jr and TCU beats Oklahoma and will certainly be dancing

Makes you wonder how many more wins would GW have with jameer Nelson Jr and Jamison Battle on this team

Instead we played with almost all freshmen and the first four-year player in GW in nearly a decade. Lot of talent has gone out the door the last 3 or 4 seasons due to the coaching changes

My GW friend and I were discussing at the ACC tournament last night whether a team of the best players who transferred out of GW could beat garbage Syracuse or Clemson. Of if they could have won the A-10. Just nonsensical garbage that GW basketball fans discuss because they are treated so poorly by school administration.