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- The Dude
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Re: The CC GW Turnaround
Free Quebec wrote:
GW NET #47 at the start of the day would predict about 44 tomorrow after a 13 point victory over #50 William & Mary
8-2 through 10 games, 3-1 in Quad 2.
Some notable other notable non Power 5 NET teams:
McNeese 46
William & Mary 50
Gonzaga #2
Yale 32 Columbia 60
Saint Louis #34
Saint Mary's 24 Santa Clara 34
Tulsa 38
Some Eye rising Power teams:
Marquette #164 (lost by 20 today going to drop further)
Georgia Tech 208.... 208!!
And how about Vandy #5! what a rise for Vanderbilt, Mark Byington name going to be connected to some big openings in the years ahead.2-2 (not 3-1) vs Q2
3-1 wins over South Florida, Middle Tennessee and William & Mary (at least at the time of the post and here too:
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Re: The CC GW Turnaround
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Official NCAa NET site shows 3-2
- The Dude
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As the OOC nears a wrap, we are about where we started, in the 70 KenPom and also 70s NET
While that is a 150 spot leap from a few years ago, it was a big drop after a very rough Delaware game.
Are we concerned about 1 rough game? Appears to be an anomaly. Played the National Champs Florida tough in Florida, beat a very good William & Mary team, this coming off a good early in season neutral court win over a good South Florida team.
So where do things stand for GW as we near the start of the A10 slate?
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Thread Starter- Basketball Jones
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Re: The CC GW Turnaround
The on-court product has greatly improved over the last few years, and the yearly ticket price increase has been minimal
but from an outsider perspective
1) the home OOC schedule is nothing to bring anyone but a die-hard GWU BBall fans to a game
a) the first and last OOC game I attended was the Georgetown game.
2) The poor play of the past has yielded a poor A-10 schedule in terms of the home/away split and days/weekend start times
3) unsure if there is a solid marketing campaign designed to get the different customer segments into Smith Center
this season I currently only have 4 games -Dayton, GMU, St. Bonaventure (and Georgetown)
there are other good home games on the schedule - VCU, e.g. - but the conflict with other games, activities and priorities will prevent my attendance
There are a lot of basketball choices/alternative in the DMV - Maryland, Georgetown, American, Howard, GMU, Gallaudet, UDC
I don't honestly think that GWU will win the conference tourney and the NCAA Auto-Bid, nor an NCAA at-large bid, but i am hopeful for some home NIT games
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1. Winning big at home against Maine, AU, UMBC and Old Dominion only seemed to prove that this team can win big against subpar teams.
2. The win over South Florida showed a lot of fortitude. Easily the best win of the year so far.
3. Going 1-2 in the Cayman Islands can only be described as disappointing. Not that the quality of competition was bad but I would think any objective fan would have expected to go 2-1 in those games. (And subjective ones felt 3-0 was very much in reach.)
4. The win at Army proved that we can play poorly on the road and still handle one of D1's worst teams. (Sorry Army but you must know this too.)
5. Nice win over William & Mary who is a much tougher out than they have historically been. The kind of win that was much better than it actually sounds.
6. Delaware is a bitter loss. A Jamion type of OOC loss that CC had managed to avoid the past 2+ seasons. It hasn't been the only bad loss but it was by far and away the worst one.
7. I feel I'm in the minority when I say that I don't think we played all that well against Florida. We played hard, and we played a team that will either be far more dangerous in March than they are right now or simply is not that great (for a defending national champion). The ten point final margin is misleading relative to how the game went.
8. Assuming a win over St. Mary's, the team will finish 9-4 in the OOC (officially 8-4 since the next game technically does not count). A pre-season best-case scenario would have projected GW to be at 12-1 and I don't think it's overly biased to suggest that 11-2 would have been a reasonable expectation.
9. Being around 50 spots higher than last year is substantially more meaningful than being around 150 spots better than a few seasons ago.
10. In summary, CC has improved the program without any question. At the same time, our record at this time must be considered disappointing given the program's goals, and is certainly more than simply one rough game.