I said at the time I didn’t like the extension and my fears have come true.  CC did a good job of getting the team back to no longer being a joke, so he should get some credit for that.  However, this year clearly shows he’s not the guy that could complete for an A-10 title (regular season or tournament).  Sadly, with the extension we’ll be stuck with this for a few more years.  Not sure it matters, this administration has consistently proved so incompetent that I doubt they’ll get the next hire right either.

porter71 wrote:

I said at the time I didn’t like the extension and my fears have come true. CC did a good job of getting the team back to no longer being a joke, so he should get some credit for that. However, this year clearly shows he’s not the guy that could complete for an A-10 title (regular season or tournament). Sadly, with the extension we’ll be stuck with this for a few more years. Not sure it matters, this administration has consistently proved so incompetent that I doubt they’ll get the next hire right either.

I don't know what leeway the current AD has but Caputo's end-of-game performance in close games shows he can't coach. Something's going on that we may only hear about down the road. 
 

Like everyone else, I’m hugely disappointed with this game. I was unable to watch live, so I watched it today. Since I already knew the score, I was able to view it somewhat dispassionately. Hardly yelled at the TV at all. A few thoughts:

• I don’t think our zone attack was terrible. We got into the paint against the zone but then just missed shots, many of which were layups. The shot chart shows we only took 4 shots that were not in the paint or were 3s. We were 14-36 from 2 – an awful 39%, which is just about as bad as shooting 27% from 3. We had shots inside their zone – we just missed them.
• Also, several times Luke had the ball about 4 feet from the rim but passed or dribbled it out. We can’t ignore these shots in favor of 3s, especially when the 3s aren’t falling.
• 11 turnovers are usually fine except most yesterday were unforced against a very passive zone. We threw the ball out of bounds or right to a Loyola player.
• We were outhustled on 50-50 balls.
• And, also again, we were unable to get over the hump at the end. Twice we were within 2 and failed to tie it up. And the two missed FTs at the end really hurt.
• Loyola won this game by controlling the tempo – we were unable to disrupt them on defense.
• Thought it was notable that McCormick (whom I like – he knows the conference and does his homework) several times remarked that something we did was “unacceptable.” Well said.
• This is a Jekyll and Hyde team. No idea who will show up on Thursday. After rooting for this team for 55 years, however, hope continues to spring eternal.
• And I’ve not given up on CC. He can’t make the layups or FTs we miss.

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NOT accusing anyone of anything, but I am pretty convinced that we got the tournament seeding result we wanted.  Entering Saturday, a home Duquesne win over Richmond meant that GW would be in the 8/9 game, win or lose vs. Loyola.  GW jumped out to a sizable lead on Saturday and if they were doing any scoreboard watching, they might have noticed that Duquesne fell behind by 30 points (not a misprint) in the first half.  Suddenly, GW was looking at a very real possibility of becoming the 7 seed.  Both games essentially flipped around the same time, with GW blowing their lead to eventually lose and the Dukes somehow coming back to win.

The 8/9 matchup is against Fordham as opposed to a 7/10 matchup with Rhode Island (though this was not automatically known as the Saturday games were being played).  Some may prefer the URI matchup but I like the fact that: a) GW gets to to attempt to avenge a very bad loss to Fordham which was Slim's first game out, and b) GW narrowly defeated URI who has several impressive wins this year.  Not by much but I think I prefer the Fordham matchup.

A win on Thursday means a game against St. Louis rather than one against VCU and perhaps counterintuitively, this is where I see the real break for GW.  SLU has lost 3 games down the stretch including a demoralizing 29 point loss to a cold George Mason team on Saturday.  The Bills are in the field of 68 though they are leaking oil and might be playing their way from the 6 line to the 8/9 matchup.  On the other hand, VCU has won 13 of 14 and many feel they will need a win on Friday to cement their status as an at large should this be applicable.  VCU just won at Dayton and are frankly, playing great.  GW, I am sure, would love to get another shot at SLU.  Let's also add that the A10 Tournament has a history of watching its number 1 seed lose early in the day on Friday and it leaves me convinced that GW, with a win over Fordham, is getting the quarterfinal game it wants.

 

DC Native wrote:

Gwmayhem wrote:

NOT accusing anyone of anything, but I am pretty convinced that we got the tournament seeding result we wanted.  Entering Saturday, a home Duquesne win over Richmond meant that GW would be in the 8/9 game, win or lose vs. Loyola.  GW jumped out to a sizable lead on Saturday and if they were doing any scoreboard watching, they might have noticed that Duquesne fell behind by 30 points (not a misprint) in the first half.  Suddenly, GW was looking at a very real possibility of becoming the 7 seed.  Both games essentially flipped around the same time, with GW blowing their lead to eventually lose and the Dukes somehow coming back to win.

The 8/9 matchup is against Fordham as opposed to a 7/10 matchup with Rhode Island (though this was not automatically known as the Saturday games were being played).  Some may prefer the URI matchup but I like the fact that: a) GW gets to to attempt to avenge a very bad loss to Fordham which was Slim's first game out, and b) GW narrowly defeated URI who has several impressive wins this year.  Not by much but I think I prefer the Fordham matchup.

A win on Thursday means a game against St. Louis rather than one against VCU and perhaps counterintuitively, this is where I see the real break for GW.  SLU has lost 3 games down the stretch including a demoralizing 29 point loss to a cold George Mason team on Saturday.  The Bills are in the field of 68 though they are leaking oil and might be playing their way from the 6 line to the 8/9 matchup.  On the other hand, VCU has won 13 of 14 and many feel they will need a win on Friday to cement their status as an at large should this be applicable.  VCU just won at Dayton and are frankly, playing great.  GW, I am sure, would love to get another shot at SLU.  Let's also add that the A10 Tournament has a history of watching its number 1 seed lose early in the day on Friday and it leaves me convinced that GW, with a win over Fordham, is getting the quarterfinal game it wants.

 

All this my be true, but there is no way anyone associated with the team wanted to finish with a losing record in conference, or head into the A10 Tournament after their worst loss of the year (yes, Loyola has a worse NET ranking than Delaware). Besides, the only way GW goes to the NCAA Tournament is to win it all, so they would probably need to beat both St. Louis and VCU at some point anyway, which personally I think they have zero chance of doing.

Again, I am not suggesting that they threw the game on Saturday (and in typical GW fashion, if they did, it turned out that they didn't need to), but I will say that they care a whole lot more about winning the A10 tournament (and perhaps by extension, the easiest path to get there) than whether they finished 9-9 or 8-10 in the conference.  And while they may very well need to beat both Stl and VCU to do it, this path affords an opportunity to upset a Stl team who has clearly come back down to earth and then perhaps play a VCU team in the final with an at large already wrapped up, as opposed to a VCU game on Friday which VCU may really need to go dancing.

DC Native wrote:

Gwmayhem wrote:

NOT accusing anyone of anything, but I am pretty convinced that we got the tournament seeding result we wanted.  Entering Saturday, a home Duquesne win over Richmond meant that GW would be in the 8/9 game, win or lose vs. Loyola.  GW jumped out to a sizable lead on Saturday and if they were doing any scoreboard watching, they might have noticed that Duquesne fell behind by 30 points (not a misprint) in the first half.  Suddenly, GW was looking at a very real possibility of becoming the 7 seed.  Both games essentially flipped around the same time, with GW blowing their lead to eventually lose and the Dukes somehow coming back to win.

The 8/9 matchup is against Fordham as opposed to a 7/10 matchup with Rhode Island (though this was not automatically known as the Saturday games were being played).  Some may prefer the URI matchup but I like the fact that: a) GW gets to to attempt to avenge a very bad loss to Fordham which was Slim's first game out, and b) GW narrowly defeated URI who has several impressive wins this year.  Not by much but I think I prefer the Fordham matchup.

A win on Thursday means a game against St. Louis rather than one against VCU and perhaps counterintuitively, this is where I see the real break for GW.  SLU has lost 3 games down the stretch including a demoralizing 29 point loss to a cold George Mason team on Saturday.  The Bills are in the field of 68 though they are leaking oil and might be playing their way from the 6 line to the 8/9 matchup.  On the other hand, VCU has won 13 of 14 and many feel they will need a win on Friday to cement their status as an at large should this be applicable.  VCU just won at Dayton and are frankly, playing great.  GW, I am sure, would love to get another shot at SLU.  Let's also add that the A10 Tournament has a history of watching its number 1 seed lose early in the day on Friday and it leaves me convinced that GW, with a win over Fordham, is getting the quarterfinal game it wants.

 

All this my be true, but there is no way anyone associated with the team wanted to finish with a losing record in conference, or head into the A10 Tournament after their worst loss of the year (yes, Loyola has a worse NET ranking than Delaware). Besides, the only way GW goes to the NCAA Tournament is to win it all, so they would probably need to beat both St. Louis and VCU at some point anyway, which personally I think they have zero chance of doing.

I think every player and coach on the team would forgo a winning conference record to advancing to through the A10 Tournament.