2 Questions for Thomas (or anyone)

can St Johns ever be St Johns again? can the right Coach restore that progam to glory? I think we both agreed Mullin wasn't the guy to do it. Play in the Garden,all that NYC area talent, what's preventing St Johns from succeeding so many years in a row?

#2 - wanted to ask your thoughts about the A10 POY race since I know you follow college hoops so closely

 

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SBU officially garbage after losing by 10 to Richmond. It's a one bid league for the AQ at this point.

The GW duo of Karl and Pikiell annhilated #13 ranked Michigan St for a huge win

at 7-5 in Big10 play and with tourney resumes wins, a return to the Dance looks in play again for Rutgers 
 

Providence trounced Gtown on the road 71-52 today

Jerry Palm has them as a 2 seed they have 10 Quad 1 and Quad 2 wins,  5-1 in Quad 1, 20-2 overall this year
KenPom on the other hand...not so great.  What a job by the great Ed Cooley 

Woah, Maceo! What a play

Huge possible upset brewing.  

UVA having a very down season, on the bubble after those #1 seed years and a national title, has been beating Duke in Cameron. 

It will be interesting to see if Tony Bennett can get  UVA back to that level 2014-2018 teams where UVA was going 16-2 in the league and landing 1 seeds. 

 

And Mason loss pulls us into tie for 7th place in conference with Mason. Who would have thunk we would be a 1/2 game behind St. Bonaventure at this point in the season at the beginning of the season? Of course, who would have thunk that the Bonnies would be in 6th place at this point in the season? We sure need to win our second road game of the season at UMass Wednesday night.

UVA pulls off the stunner, a win at Cameron. 

This UVA team lost to James Madison and Navy at home

 

About Virginia, Tony Bennett always seemed to take a group of somewhat unheralded recruits and turn them into a dominant team. This year's team had played like a bunch of 3-star recruits(for the most part) until this win at Duke. They still play the elite level defense and are now in the top half of the ACC, they could still end up as a fairly high seed in the NCAA tournament if they finish strong. The ACC is a bit down this year.

#16 Ohio State at Rutgers 7 Big 10 Network

Minnesota at Nebraska  9 Big 10 Network - Nebraska is 0-12 in the Big 10. Minnesota is 2-9 after the great start to the season. Minnesota has been competitive in most of their losses but the Big 10(much like the Big East and Big 12) is just very strong from top to bottom

Georgetown at DePaul  9  FS1  - Georgetown has lost 11 straight games. In their last game, Providence guard/local player Jared Bynum scored 32 points, 27 of those points came in the 2nd half. He actually outscored Georgetown by himself in the 2nd half, 27-22!! Bynum went to Georgetown Prep, so he was literally right next door, some of you may remember Bynum being teammates with Mezie Offurum and/or playing at St.Joe's as a freshman. This could be a pivotal game for Georgetown's program because a bad loss to DePaul(who is 2-9 in the Big East) may anger some Georgetown backers/boosters to the point where they demand Ewing gets fired immediately. DePaul won their last game at #21 Xavier, so they should have a lot more confidence coming into this game.  

Thomas wrote:

About Virginia, Tony Bennett always seemed to take a group of somewhat unheralded recruits and turn them into a dominant team. This year's team had played like a bunch of 3-star recruits(for the most part) until this win at Duke. They still play the elite level defense and are now in the top half of the ACC, they could still end up as a fairly high seed in the NCAA tournament if they finish strong. The ACC is a bit down this year.

#16 Ohio State at Rutgers 7 Big 10 Network

Minnesota at Nebraska  9 Big 10 Network - Nebraska is 0-12 in the Big 10. Minnesota is 2-9 after the great start to the season. Minnesota has been competitive in most of their losses but the Big 10(much like the Big East and Big 12) is just very strong from top to bottom

Georgetown at DePaul  9  FS1  - Georgetown has lost 11 straight games. In their last game, Providence guard/local player Jared Bynum scored 32 points, 27 of those points came in the 2nd half. He actually outscored Georgetown by himself in the 2nd half, 27-22!! Bynum went to Georgetown Prep, so he was literally right next door, some of you may remember Bynum being teammates with Mezie Offurum and/or playing at St.Joe's as a freshman. This could be a pivotal game for Georgetown's program because a bad loss to DePaul(who is 2-9 in the Big East) may anger some Georgetown backers/boosters to the point where they demand Ewing gets fired immediately. DePaul won their last game at #21 Xavier, so they should have a lot more confidence coming into this game.  

Thomas, I have it on reasonable authority that had Karl Hobbs remained at GW, Jared Bynum would have been a Colonial.  No way of course to know for sure but a strong possibility.  There was a good amount of mutual interest.  Interesting that ML would end up recruiting Mezie rather than his high school teammate.