5-13. Being good against NJIT and Hampton is not the same as being competitive in the A10. Soft interior play dooms the team to relying on hot outside shooting, which will not always happen. Trying to be positive, but the loss to AU haunts me.

LA Colonial wrote:

7-9 will not happen given that we play 18 conference games, not 16.  I am interested to see what role Nessah plays especially since he has missed eight games.  I think he can make a difference if he is playing at least 15 mnutes a game and is as good as he is projected to be.

My bad:   Meant 7-11.

As I mentioned in another thread a few days ago, if we beat every team ranked lower than us in NET and KenPom and lose to every team ranked higher, we finish 9-9, due to a favorable schedule. I think that is probably the most likely outcome of the year. But I am really hoping that they beat at least one of the higher ranked teams, plus 1 or 2 more at home to make up for the inevitable 1 or 2 losses to lower ranked teams on the road, to finish 10-8.

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W - St. Louis, LaSalle(2), Duquesne, Fordham, Umass(2), Richmond (2) = 9 wins

Middle to bottom of the league is not very good
OOC schedule does little to prepare the team to play against good teams

9-9 Conference record
 

It pains me to say this because there is some legit promise with this team, but I am on team 8-10 or 7-11 with others.

I would be with the 9-9'ers, but I think we unfortunately lose the first three games in a spiral and then right the ship to beat those below us and lose to those above us. My glass half full comment is we stay out of pillow fight and win 2 games in A10 tourney. 🤷‍♂️

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Hoopsfan23 wrote:

Im optimistic that we can handle Richmond. Even if away there will be very few students to even out the playing field

This may wind up meaning nothing but we are catching Richmond at the right time.  They have no great wins, shaky home wins over Maine and VMI, dubious road losses at William & Mary and at Bucknell, home losses to Marist and Belmont, and were blown out by Auburn (no real shame) and Charlotte (a bit more shameful).  Chris Mooney teams tend to improve over the course of a season as the players become more familiar with his system. Most of the roster is unrecognizable with Jordan King, Neil Quinn, Isaiah Bigelow and Andre Gustavson all playing professionally overseas.  GW needs to take advantage to avoid a potential 0-3 start.