gwstudent2024 wrote:

 Are you okay, Mentzinger?

Nope. Check back when you've followed the team for 38 years. Maybe a name change will be the cure. 

Yeah I missed the Tin Tabernacle, Fort Myer and us in the SoCon. Too busy being indoctrinated into college basketball by my dad (Villanova '66). It's a disease but I'm quite immune. I still think the crowds were bigger and more boisterous in the Smith Center in 1986 (1-27).

Mentz is exactly right. Tough year for the A-10. We get just 1 bid this year, the auto qualifier. I hope this is not the way of the future. We still have some established coaches left in the conference with some promising up and comers (CC included).

2024 - like you, we were fans of all sports when we attended GW. Unlike you, we have 30-50 years of steady donations to GW from many of us over that time. Stick around long enough after graduation and you also will earn the right to be grim. It's a time honored tradition for GW grads!

By the way……not for nothin’ but what kind of ass-backwards conference throws their #1 Seed out there for the 11:30 game?  Don’t @ me about Fordham…they may put a few more asses in the seats, but for TV purposes you bury your team with national name i.d. In the morning? When they are the #1 Seed?

Last edited by Alum1 (3/09/2023 12:29 pm)

The 4 best A10 teams all won today, which is good for the league.

Think we're hoping for a Dayton win over VCU in the Final and force the committee to leave out a 26 win A10 regular season champion 

 

Gwmayhem wrote:

Alum1 wrote:

By the way……not for nothin’ but what kind of ass-backwards conference throws their #1 Seed out there for the 11:30 game? Don’t @ me about Fordham…they may put a few more asses in the seats, but for TV purposes you bury your team with national name i.d. In the morning? When they are the #1 Seed?

Alum1, are you fairly new to the world of conference tournaments?  Pretty much most if not all #1 seeds play in the earliest game of the first day that they are playing (and this pattern continues throughout the tournament).  Actually, I believe that they are given the choice, and they all choose the first slot.  This gives the team the most time to rest and prepare for the next opponent.  Plus, I think the best teams would rather not know the other results of the day before they play.  Look around...Miami, Marquette, VCU, UCLA (noon PST)  all played at 11:30/noon today.  Purdue, Alabama and Kansas each does so tomorrow.

I've watched conference tournaments for many years and never picked up on that!! I assumed TV or the conference randomly decided what time each team plays. I assume the coaches of the 1 seeds do not like the idea of having their players sitting around for possibly 6 or 7 hours waiting to play as well.  

No, no, as someone said earlier the number one overall picks usually play early so they get the most rest.  I can't say that's always the case, but it's what I observed for the most part.

Alum '04 wrote:

Thomas wrote:

I assume the coaches of the 1 seeds do not like the idea of having their players sitting around for possibly 6 or 7 hours waiting to play as well.  

This is the real reason, not necessarily rest or having to play late. Fewer hours hanging around at the arena.

Yeah, I can understand, the players aren't on campus or playing a single game on the road. I look at this Maryland-Indiana game that is about to tip off at 9:20 ET, the first Big 10 quarterfinal game of the day(Purdue-Rutgers) started at noon, so Maryland and Indiana have been doing whatever for about 9 hours!!

I’m disappointed Fordham lost, but I guess you can’t complain too much about having the best two teams in the final. Go Dayton!

Hopefully VCU wins and brings back more $$ for us!