The Atlantic 10 Thread

[elicoleman]

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Charlotte up on Clemson 62-55 with 9 minutes left.

[elicoleman]

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Dayton wins their 12th in a row, 92-83.

I don't know about other people but I love seeing the A10 back up again.

[SlimKibbles]

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Dayton wins their 12th in a row, 92-83.

I don't know about other people but I love seeing the A10 back up again.

Well, you know I do.

Xavier seemed to take the Bonnies lightly tonight and weren't as sharp as they have been the last 4 games. Still won 83-68 though.

Other scores for 1/9/08

Richmond-75, La Salle-74 (3 OT) ~ This must have been a helluva game
Duke-74, Temple-64 ~ What a shock...Duke played them at the Wachovia Center instead of Liacouras Court
Duquesne-74, Fordham-62 ~ A ticked-off Bryant Dunston will be visiting Cincy on Saturday
St. Joe's-98, UMass-92 ~ A little surprised by this one. Nice win for SJU on the road.
Charlotte-82, Clemson-72 ~ CM, nice win by your boys!

EDIT: I just read on a blog that UD's stud frosh, Chris Wright, got hurt? I hope that isn't the case. I'm all for beating other A-10 teams, especially rivals like UD, but I don't like seeing guys get hurt. Whatever the case is, I hope he'll be back for the game in Cincy on 1/24. I've been looking forward to seeing him play.

[SlimKibbles]

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This is sweet! Also read Linda Bruno, the A-10 commish, told Rivals something along the lines to not approach schools in the conference for these types of "mid-major" awards because they probably won't find any takers.

XU shuns "mid-major" award
BY DUSTIN DOW l CINCINNATI ENQUIRER

Xavier University, the No. 24 team in the Associated Press Top 25, has had enough of the “mid-major” label.

The Musketeers, who are also No. 8 in the RPI and rated the 20th-most valuable college basketball program by Forbes Magazine, turned down a national award Wednesday because of its “mid-major” connotation.

Rivals.com called Xavier to tell the athletic department that the Web site had chosen senior point guard Drew Lavender for its “Mid-Major Player of the Week Award.”

Xavier athletic director Mike Bobinski told the Web site thanks, but no thanks.

“It’s such as easy thing to do to put labels on people,” Bobinski said. “But you do an injustice when you don’t know or tell the whole story by lumping people into broad major or mid-major categories.”

The mid-major term has been used by college basketball media for more than a decade to differentiate between teams from so-called power conferences and teams from lesser-exposed conferences. Rivals.com and ESPN.com have prominently used the terminology this season; Rivals.com with its award and ESPN.com with its “Mid-major Top 10 Poll,” in which Xavier currently occupies the No. 1 spot.

The problem, however, is that Xavier considers the term not only derogatory, but inaccurate. Before the season, after all, trade magazine Basketball Times named Xavier one of the “Top 10” programs of the past five seasons, which made Xavier one of four programs that have made Basketball Times’ Top 10 list each of the three times since 1997.

“It’s not just all about your conference,” Bobinski said. “You can line us up against almost any other school, and we’re going to compare well.

“Mid-major is not an in-depth enough analysis to say that’s who you are. We operate here at a very high level.”

“Major” basketball teams tend to most commonly be referred to as those in the six Bowl Championship Series football-playing leagues (ESPN.com’s mid-major poll, though excludes non-BCS programs Memphis and Gonzaga from consideration).

In college basketball, however, Bobinski reasoned, there are multiple measuring sticks such as RPI and Top 25 already available to compare teams, making “major,” “mid-major” or “low-major” labels unnecessary and at least in Xavier’s case, he said, wrong.

[P2K]

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The Hawk will never die!!!

[boomhauertjs]

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UD keeps rollin'...

[khujo711]

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EDIT: I just read on a blog that UD's stud frosh, Chris Wright, got hurt? I hope that isn't the case. I'm all for beating other A-10 teams, especially rivals like UD, but I don't like seeing guys get hurt. Whatever the case is, I hope he'll be back for the game in Cincy on 1/24. I've been looking forward to seeing him play.

Yeah he had been hurt for several weeks with what they keep calling a badly bruised ankle (severe ankle sprain maybe?), but had been playing a bit lately.

He drove baseline, defender went for the block and he hung in the air for a nice reverse layup. However he came down awkward and tweaked it again. I haven't heard how bad it is, hopefully still just a sprain of some sort.

[SlimKibbles]

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Halftime score of SLU/GW game....

25-7 GW

WTF? SLU made 3 baskets all half. GW didn't shoot much better. That half had to set basketball back 50 years.

[PdiddyPop]

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Duke-74, Temple-64 ~ What a shock...Duke played them at the Wachovia Center instead of Liacouras Court

Seeing as how Temple always wants to play there for a bigger pay gate, and we have gave them games home and away even when they were on a downward spiral..........I see no problem with it. Especially when Temple didn't have their arms twisted to play there. Same conspiracy theories different day. These are getting old btw.

[elicoleman]

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GW wins 49-20.

Twenty points? Are you ****ing kidding me?

[elicoleman]

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They're replaying the URI/Dayton game on CSTV right now for anyone that might be interested.

[SlimKibbles]

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Seeing as how Temple always wants to play there for a bigger pay gate, and we have gave them games home and away even when they were on a downward spiral..........I see no problem with it. Especially when Temple didn't have their arms twisted to play there. Same conspiracy theories different day. These are getting old btw.

Oh, come on, Diddy. We love ya. We just don't like Duke.

In all seriousness, what you said makes sense. I may be wrong, but I want to say that Duke played Temple at the Liacouras Center a few years back when Chaney was still coaching and the Owls had the #1 ranked schedule. I'd have to look it up though.

[SlimKibbles]

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GW wins 49-20.

Twenty points? Are you ****ing kidding me?

Wow...Check these stats out:

SLU
7-48 (15%) FG
1-19 (5%) 3 PT

Tommie Liddell 1-12 FG, 0-4 3Pt, 0-1 FT - 2 Pts
Kevin Lisch 1-9 FG, 0-5 3pt, 0-0 FT - 2 pts

That's what happens when your two studs and the rest of the team take a huge collective dump all on the same night. I thought that game Army played a couple years back set the mark for futility but this blows it away. Rick Majerus has to be thrilled about this one.

EDIT: SLU sets the modern D-I record for fewest points in a game. Congrats, fellas! http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/recap?gid=200801100227

[kodiak]

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And to think Rick wants to move to the Big East if they expand again. Yeah these types of outputs will get you accepted.

[CM1847]

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And to think Rick wants to move to the Big East if they expand again. Yeah these types of outputs will get you accepted.

Way to make an impression in your first A10, it's pretty funny considering all of the trash he talked about the league when he was hired.