3 nights, 3 A10 wins over SEC teams. 
Rhode Island blows out Alabama 93-79

Thomas, at what point does Rutgers get the Premiere league style expulsion to a lower league lol
My home state, I am a fan, it has been painful to see. 
Rhode Island did look good yea. I wonder if they can make a bubble watch this year, at times they look like it.
 

Schiano is coming back Thomas, watch out!!!  And the only team to score 3 TDs against OSU all year?  Rutgers!  Against 3rd stringers, but it still counts.

The Ross Man!,  I'll admit to being wrong about Rutgers in their game against Ohio State, they gave a hell of an effort against Ohio State for the entire 60 minutes!! The TV announcers did mention that Rutgers was the 1st or 2nd team to score more than 20 on Ohio State this year. Ohio State looks to be the type of team where the entire team will be in the NFL in 2 years. Is Greg Schiano really coming back to Rutgers?? Schiano coming back would generate a lot of optimism for Rutgers

UConn beat Florida?? I forgot about that game. Florida is struggling a bit right now, but I'd expect them to be elite in March. St.Louis got blown out by Seton Hall at home today. STL missed a bunch of shots to start the game, Seton Hall led 8-0 or 9-0 to start and it was an uphill battle for STL for the rest of the game. No matter who Travis Ford puts out on the floor, you can guarantee that they'll shoot horribly from the field!! LOL

I just saw that St.Bonaventure won at Rutgers, 80-74, last night. That was Rutgers first loss of the season, so the A10 is continuing to knock off BCS teams. St.Bonaventure sophomore star Osun Osunniyi hasn't played yet. Is he injured? Ineligible?

Georgia State at Georgetown  7:30 on FS1 - Georgetown got spanked by Penn State at the MCI-Verizon-Capital One Center during the week and it will be interesting to see how they respond in this game. It seemed as if Penn State had them down by double digits for the entire 2nd half, Penn State ended up winning by 15. A number of Georgetown fans are panicking already, and its just the 4th game.

And Darnell Rogers plays tomorrow night at LSU. 

He is averaging 16 points, 4 rebounds, 5.25 assists per game so far for UMBC.  Looks like he could have succeeded as a college point guard after all, even if it took him a couple of years before getting to really show his stuff.  Hard to believe we could have had Jordan Roland, Collin Smith, Jair Bolden and Darnell Rogers all playing together last year.

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Fatts Russell being helped to the locker room by trainer Daniel Anthony. Limping like he sprained his right ankle. #URI

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Fatts is back in the game, leading scorer in the 1st half.
 

Radford takes it to Northwestern!
Wow. Not sure if that says more about Radford or Nothwestern but wow.
 

 Watched most of Darnell and UMBC vs. LSU. Despite a 9-1 start, UMBC was overwhelmed.
Darnell, however, was not. He clearly can play Division 1 ball. The announcers loved him.
Darnell's shot was really off from his usual form this season, so despite a high average, he didn't score a lot. Still, he scored 6 points (his game total) in a row. Two were from penetrating against and through at least 4 LSU players and then banking in a reverse layup high off the boards. The other was from penetrating and shooting a left-handed pull-up jumper.  These points were against the SEC's LSU, not Towson, Howard, AU or Morgan State.
    Though off, Darnell's outside shot form looked exactly like his father's. Starting low, with a quick spin. He's not as strong as Shawnta. And smaller. Listed at 5'2, as announcers note, tied for shortest D1 player in the last 20 years. In person, he seems shorter than that. Can hang with and can foot defend players literally about a foot and a half taller, but did not yesterday have the steals his father was known for. Nor the active hands, which was a Shawnta trademark. Presumably could be a liability outside of a zone defense and sometimes within, based on the one game, but don't know if he had many steals.
   Absolutely a beautiful passer. Throws a lot of bounce passes to avoid the height issue. Some good bounce passes might be better than some of the lazy passes we've seen that were picked off by low-level competition. Better than his father, in this one game sample, in feeding the post.
  Darnell is really quick. We know where he got this attribute. He can go to the rim almost at will, but often stops short, so he doesn't get blocked. Then sets up his teammates with a great pass. If they had made their shots or not fumbled the pass, Darnell could easily have gotten 10 assists, rather than 4. Watch the game replay.
   Would Darnell start over another A10 legacy JNJ? At point, probably not. JNJ has a bigger upside and is so athletic he can dunk easily. But he could start at point on this team, moving JNJ to 2 and certainly would be good to settle us down at critical times. Darnell was clearly the primary ballhandler on the team, more so than we ask of our point guards. And Darnell had 2 turnovers in 29 minutes, which would be terrific on this team.
  Imagine JC ultimately could figure out a role for him. He would have been great to watch and fostered some excitement as we get beaten down by the Morgan State's of the basketball world. Even the LSU fans were rooting for Darnell when the game was in hand.
And we would have been able to relive (not fully, but a lot) Shawnta,which would have made the past years and our current (and hopefully ending soon) woes just a bit more palatable.
 

Let's make these threads bi-weekly with dates so that we avoid having 100+ threads just called "Other games".

One game not mentioned yesterday was Boston U's 78-70 win over South Carolina in Columbia. We are facing both opponents later in OOC season. The Gamecocks don't figure to be one of the better SEC teams this year, but the result is quite surprising as BU is probably a middle of the pack Patriot team at best. Jair had a decent game all things considered with 8 points, 7 rebounds, and 2 assists, but he failed to make any threes much like the team as a whole. Between BU, South Carolina, a Delaware team that can really light up the scoreboard, and Vermont who gave UVA all they could handle last night, the young guys will get some good practice ahead of conference play.