GW Hoops / A10 Media Day 2025

**Posted by dmvpiranha** 9/29/2025 9:26 am

Will be held tomorrow (9/30) at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, PA.

A10 LIVE SHOW (ESPN+):
8:00 – 8:45 am............ FORDHAM – Bridgette Mitchell / Ornella Niankan / Mike Magpayo / Dajour Reaves
8:30 -- 9:15 am .......... DAVIDSON – Gayle Fulks / Charlise Dunn / Matt McKillop / Sean Logan
9:00 – 9:45 am............ RHODE ISLAND - Tammi Reiss / Brooklyn Gray / Archie Miller / Jonah Hinton
9:30 – 10:15 am.......... RICHMOND – Aaron Roussell / Maggie Doogan / Chris Mooney / Mike Walz
10:00 – 10:45 am........ VCU – Beth O’Boyle / Mary-Anna Asare / Phil Martelli, Jr. / Brandon Jennings
10:30 – 11:15 am........ SAINT LOUIS – Rebecca Tillett / Zya Nugent / Josh Schertz / Robbie Avila
11:00 – 11:40 am........ LOYOLA CHICAGO – Allison Guth / Kira Chivers / Drew Valentine / Miles Rubin
2:00 – 2:15 pm............ ATLANTIC 10 – Bernadette V. McGlade, Commissioner
2:15 – 3:00 pm............ ST. BONAVENTURE – Jim Crowley / Aaliyah Parker / Mark Schmidt / Dasonte Bowen
2:45 – 3:30 pm............ GEORGE MASON – Vanessa Blair-Lewis / Zahirah Walton / Tony Skinn / Braydon O’Connor
3:15 – 4:00 pm............ DUQUESNE – Dan Burt / Mackenzie Blackford / Dru Joyce III / John Hughley IV
3:45 – 4:30 pm............ DAYTON – Tamika Williams-Jeter / Nayo Lear / Anthony Grant / Javon Bennett
4:15 – 5:00 pm............ SAINT JOSEPH’S – Cindy Griffin / Gabby Casey / Steve Donahue / Anthony Finkley
4:45– 5:15 pm............. GEORGE WASHINGTON – Ganiyat Adeduntan / Sara Lewis / Chris Caputo / Rafael Castro
5:00 – 5:30 pm.............LA SALLE – Mountain MacGillivray / Ashleigh Connor / Darris Nichols / Jerome Brewer

FIELD OF 68 SCHEDULE (YOUTUBE):
9:00 – 9:15 am...................... FORDHAM – Mike Magpayo / Dajour Reaves
9:15 -- 9:30 am .................... DAVIDSON – Matt McKillop / Sean Logan
9:30 – 9:45 am...................... VCU – Phil Martelli, Jr. / Brandon Jennings
9:45 – 10:00 am.................... RHODE ISLAND - Archie Miller / Jonah Hinton
10:00 – 10:15 am.................. SAINT LOUIS – Josh Schertz / Robbie Avila
10:15 – 10:30 am.................. RICHMOND – Chris Mooney / Mike Walz
10:30 – 10:45 am.................. LOYOLA CHICAGO – Drew Valentine / Miles Rubin
10:45 – 11:00 am.................. ATLANTIC 10 – Commissioner McGlade
11:00 – 11:15 am.................. SAINT JOSEPH’S – Steve Donahue / Anthony Finkley
11:15 – 11:30 am.................. LA SALLE – Darris Nichols / Jerome Brewer
2:00 – 2:15 pm...................... DAYTON – Anthony Grant / Javon Bennett
2:15 – 2:30 pm...................... DUQUESNE – Dru Joyce III / John Hughley IV
2:30 – 2:45 pm...................... GEORGE MASON – Tony Skinn / Braydon O’Connor
2:45 – 3:00 pm...................... GEORGE WASHINGTON – Chris Caputo / Rafael Castro
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm................ ST. BONAVENTURE – Mark Schmidt / Dasonte Bowen

**Posted by GW0509** 9/30/2025 7:17 am

Official 2025-26 @A10MBB Preseason Poll:
1. VCU (11)
2. Saint Louis (11)
3. Dayton (3)
4. George Washington
5. Loyola Chicago (2)
6. George Mason
7. Saint Joseph's
8. St. Bonaventure
9. Duquesne
10. Richmond
11. Davidson
12. Rhode Island
13. La Salle
14. Fordham

Castro Preseason First Team All Conference
Dinkins Preseason Second Team All Conference
Autry and Jones Preseason Third Team All Conference
Castro Preseason All Defense

Last edited by GW0509 (9/30/2025 7:19 am)

**Posted by Free Quebec** 9/30/2025 8:36 am

If we really have 4 all conference players, ain’t no way we’re finishing 4th.

But I do appreciate that we’re being underrated by the A10 media again. I would take the over in 4th (as in we finish top 3).

Maybe this will move our Vegas odds to be more favorable.

Last edited by Free Quebec (9/30/2025 8:37 am)

**Posted by Gwmayhem** 9/30/2025 10:08 am

Underrated by the A10 media? For finishing in 4th place?

I fully understand that we should be better this season, but the last time GW finished in 4th place or better in the A10 was during the 2006-07 season when it came in 3rd and then won the A10 Tournament.

Since I raised the question, allow me to state that I truly hope that hype is a good thing.

**Posted by Free Quebec** 9/30/2025 11:58 am

Gwmayhem wrote:
Underrated by the A10 media? For finishing in 4th place?

I fully understand that we should be better this season, but the last time GW finished in 4th place or better in the A10 was during the 2006-07 season when it came in 3rd and then won the A10 Tournament.

Since I raised the question, allow me to state that I truly hope that hype is a good thing.

Guess we’ll find out if I’m right. I suspect it’s more about overrating Dayton (and maybe SLU) than underrating us.

**Posted by jf** 9/30/2025 12:29 pm

Would rather be underrated and hungry than overconfident.

**Posted by GWRising** 9/30/2025 12:39 pm

Best Case: Regular season Champs.
Base Case finish somewhere between 3-5
Worst Case 6-8

Agree with Mayhem that picking us 4th is not underrating us pre-season in the slightest. Yes, we have more talent but talent doesn't win games alone. The trick is going to be chemistry with a lot of new parts coming from different programs and cultures. I think CC can get it done but it is not an easy task in this era of transfers and NIL. That has truly become the underrated part of coaching right now and perhaps as or more important as having enough talent. We have to see how it all comes together.

**Posted by BGF** 9/30/2025 2:17 pm

Enjoyed the Field of 68 interview.

The big takeaway for me isn’t what they said, but rather how they said it. There is a certain amount of bravado and media-speak optimism you normally get in these kind of preseason interviews, but this one seemed realistic.

Both Coach Caputo and Castro were clearly not being hyperbolic or exaggerating the team’s potential. Rafael spoke of his loyalty and commitment, which we’ve heard before from him, and I sense that attitude probably has spread across the program. I’m not naïve about the financial benefits, but it’s clear that the players want to be here.

Can’t wait for the season to start!

**Posted by Gwmayhem** 9/30/2025 2:35 pm

Well stated BGF. John Fanta (co-hosting with Rob Dauster) was practically taken aback by Slim's response to why he stayed. To paraphrase, he said something to the effect of that he could not find it in his heart to leave a program that gave him the opportunity he was given (after two seasons of largely riding the bench at Providence.) CC fondly referenced how GW was a top-tier A10 team for around 25 years and spoke of this year's team more within the context of being the team that leads the program back to that level of prominence as opposed to any specific goals for this season. Both were very impressive.

**Posted by Gwmayhem** 9/30/2025 4:33 pm

Interesting note from CC during the press conference. He was talking about Tre Dinkins and how he wanted to recruit him when he entered the portal after leaving Canisius but was not allowed to because he only had one year of undergraduate work remaining. (CC remarked that some schools would have been allowed to recruit him but GW is not one of those schools.) When Tre became a graduate student and re-entered the portal, he was fair game for GW.

Is this something new at GW? Maybe not as the experienced transfers I can recall coming to GW were all graduate students (or redshirt juniors or younger). Mitola, Steeves, Ziegler, Moyer, Hansen, Hunger..all grad students at GW. Have we never welcomed a transfer who was an undergraduate with one year of eligibility remaining?

**Posted by BGF** 9/30/2025 5:15 pm

I wondered the exact same thing. The more I thought about it, I wonder if GW, academically, allows transfers who need less than 30 credit credits more to graduate.

Is it possible that the university won’t accept more than “x” number of credits for transfers?

**Posted by GW0509** 9/30/2025 6:20 pm

I think GW wants a minimum number of undergrad credits to take place here before conferring an undergrad degree.

Which is why one year grad transfers are ok.

**Posted by AT Hiker** 9/30/2025 9:51 pm

I agree with Free Quebec that we deserve to be predicted to finish higher than 4th, especially given the prediction we will have 4 players on the first, second and third all A-10 teams. And we have four high quality players returning, more than any other A-10 team. Go, Revs!

**Posted by Gwmayhem** 10/01/2025 8:22 am

GW0509 wrote:
I think GW wants a minimum number of undergrad credits to take place here before conferring an undergrad degree.

Which is why one year grad transfers are ok.

Makes sense. Likely true of the entire GW student population. The school doesn't want anyone to receive an undergraduate degree who has only spent a single year on campus. You might think that revenue-generating athletes might be an exception to this rule, but apparently not at GW.

On a separate note, in a sign of the times, 8 of the 18 1st, 2nd or 3rd All A10 team members are transfers. This includes 7 that are brand new to their schools and 1 who sat out last year.

**Posted by Florida Colonial** 10/01/2025 4:39 pm

Another Team Preview from A10 Media Day