GW hasn’t won 2 games in the A10 Tournament since we last won it all in 2007. I’m guessing we win on Tuesday and lose on Wednesday.

Given the new NIL/professionalized era we live in, will players on teams with no chance at The Dance mimic players on football teams going to minor bowls and "opt out" of their conference tournaments if they plan to portal/enter the draft?
Would be a shame, and an expected result of the "transition" in college sports.

DC Native wrote:

GW hasn’t won 2 games in the A10 Tournament since we last won it all in 2007. I’m guessing we win on Tuesday and lose on Wednesday.

La Salle has had their way with us twice.
I’m not optimistic.
Time for some changes!!!

GW Alum Abroad wrote:

Given the new NIL/professionalized era we live in, will players on teams with no chance at The Dance mimic players on football teams going to minor bowls and "opt out" of their conference tournaments if they plan to portal/enter the draft?
Would be a shame, and an expected result of the "transition" in college sports.

That’s the rumor about Keyshawn Hall at Mason. The thing about basketball compared to football is while there’s a very unlikely chance at a bottom seed winning the A10 tournament, there’s still a chance. Even more so in the smaller conferences with fewer teams.  In football, the non-CFP bowl games are 100% irrelevant. I guess the basketball equivalent would be the NIT.

As for NBA prospects, they can really increase their stock with big performances over the next couple of weeks. I don't see them opting out. 

i think we’ll just continue to see what we see now and that’s players entering the portal the minute their team is officially eliminated from March Madness. It’s why schools are making coaching changes sooner as well. 

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Alum1 wrote:

Anyone actually going? Doubt it from my end. That’s a lot of coin to travel to NYC for a weekday afternoon one and done, as fun as NYC is.

Not me. I'm going to the ACC tournament on Wednesday night.

What's telling is that GW fans, such as those on the board, would normally be going or talking about
the A-10 tournament more than what we are doing. 
      But the feeling of haplessness pervades, especially after a 12-game losing streak. 
We're playing better and competing harder now, even with acknowledging reality.
  So the challenge to the team and the coaching staff is that it is a new season right now.
The slate has been wiped clean. Make some noise, so we can look to the future.
    

Love the optimism in the  discussion of winning first two in A-10 Tournament.
How about 3 wins the tournament.
Let's think big and bring back memories of the 1960-61 season. We entered the Southern Conference Tournament with a 6-16 record overall and 3-9 in the conference with a 7th place finsih in the nine-team conference.  Back then, I believe, only the ACC and Southern Coference had tournaments to select their representatives in the tournament. (No more than one team per conference was allowed in the tournament.) In the Southern Conference Tournament, GW beat Virginia Tech, Citadel and William &  Mary to earn GW's second trip to the NCAA. GW lost to Princetopn in the first round to finish the season   9-17.  That GW team ranks among with the teams with worst winning percentage to make the tournament with 39.1 percentage. In the modern era, beginning in 1985 when the tournament expanded to 64 teams, only Fairfield (1997), UCF (1996) and Florida International (1995), all with 37.9 winning percentages had worse winning percentages than the 1960-61 GW team.

Good catch LA, thank you.  A more favorable draw in Loyola in the quarters and Dayton in the semis than the other way around.  And, I am with you in your use of the word, somehow.

GW 250:1 to win the tourney.   So Vegas is saying there’s a chance 😂