The Atlantic 10 Thread

[SlimKibbles]

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90-65. Yuck. Good win by the Flyers. Obviously Xavier didn't want to be there, didn't want it as badly, and appeared to give up with about 6 or 7 min to go in the game. I hope they take the attitude of, "It's one loss. Let's just move on," in preparation for the game in Gainesville next Saturday.

I would like to add, the Flyer faithful can thank the officials for changing the complexion of the game for calling those 4 fouls combined on Jason Love and Kenny Frease for doing nothing during the first 2 minutes of that game. That was BS. Probably wouldn't have mattered in the end because UD seemed to want it more but that really changed the way X was going to play.

[ELDoro]

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I would like to add, the Flyer faithful can thank the officials for changing the complexion of the game for calling those 4 fouls combined on Jason Love and Kenny Frease for doing nothing during the first 2 minutes of that game. That was BS. Probably wouldn't have mattered in the end because UD seemed to want it more but that really changed the way X was going to play.

Officials give the advantage to every home team, I really hate it overall. Same can be said for Chris Wright's fouls at Xavier.

[CM1847]

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Good day for the league yesterday, the top 2 teams fall, but in doing so boost the resumes of Richmond and Dayton. Charlotte has played two horrible games in a row, they will get destroyed @ Dayton if they make it three. They are alone in first, but also appear the most shakey out of the top six right now.

The thing that worries me right now about the league is that it is looking like nobody will be ranked at tourny time if the current pace keeps up, which means thr 3-6 teams who get in will all be 7-11 seeds, which means not many favorable matchups for the league. Also, lacking a dominant team will bring all of the league members down a little on selection sunday, the perception of having a top 20 team would help the whole league.

[Marino]

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Everyone knows that a Bobby Lutz team plays down and up to their opponents.

I expect Charlotte be prepared for Dayton on Wednesday, hopefully Derrio Green could get going early.

But if they do show up like they did against ODU or how they have recently, they will lose by 30+.

[SlimKibbles]

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Officials give the advantage to every home team, I really hate it overall. Same can be said for Chris Wright's fouls at Xavier.

Crawford got into foul trouble during that game in Cincy too. I guarantee you Brian Gregory said something to the officials prior to the start of the game about watching Love and Frease in some of the things they do. I don't know how an offensive player crossing through the lane and running into the defensive player (Love's 2nd foul) is an automatic defensive foul. The funny thing, like I said, is I don't think it would have mattered in the end. UD wanted it more. I would have liked to have seen both teams playing with all of their bullets in the chamber but that wasn't the case. I thought the officials were a little over the top on Saturday. I'm surprised it took as long as it did for Chris Mack to get T'ed up.

You are right though. Seems the refs, especially the A-10, tend to favor the home team. I try to be as objective as possible when watching the games at Cintas and X has gotten away with plenty of stuff.

[CM1847]

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Richmond @ Rhody and Charlottle @ Dayton tonight. The winners of each of those games will start to feel pretty good about at-large bids, especially if either of the road teams can pull the upset.

[boomhauertjs]

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No TV or WebTV for UD/Charlotte. Only one of the biggest A-10 games this season. Argh!

[CM1847]

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Charlotte kept it close in the first half, got destoryed in the second. Big win for Dayton. Even bigger win for Richmond at Rhody.

[kodiak]

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Wow Richmond goes to Rhody and wins by 2. They were down 65-60 with 3 to go. Then up 3 with 5.5 secs left Richmond fouled so RI could nor hit a 3. He made the first and intentionally missed the second. Rams got rebound but could not hit tying shot. That just might be the win that locks up a bid

[OSUFan_88]

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It's never easy for this team...

[boomhauertjs]

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Huge win for the Flyers. I'm hoping the tourney selection committee will look at how they blew out Xavier and Charlotte, while their losses to RI and St. Joe's were only 1 point losses.
It seems like Gregory has finally slowed down on his hockey-style substitutions and is letting guys get into a rhythm before making subs.

[Marino]

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My buddy and I were in class and saw that it was 30-27 at halftime. So we came to library to watch the 2nd half. We left 10 minutes later.

Good win Dayton.

[CM1847]

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Dayton is rolling, starting to live up to those preseason expectations, they dominated two good teams at home, they will be a tough out in the tourny. Charlotte's played three bad ones in a row, at least they get a week off to figure it out.

[CM1847]

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Rhody @ Temple is the big one this weekendm tough spot for Rhody coming off of the loss to Richmond and getting Temple who's had a week to prepare coming off of their own loss to Richmond.

Xavier @ Florida should be good. Richmond should handle the Bonnies, Dayton goes to St. Louis who has played everyone closely outside of the blowout @ Richmond.

[phenom1990]

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Temple beat Rhode Island today and looked really good in doing it. That effectively kills Rhode Island chances at a regular season title with 4 losses and being in 6th place currently.

St.Louis beat Dayton in 2 OT's and probably hurts Dayton chances at an at large. But Xavier won at Florida today which is a great win for them.

I think the results of today could narrow the A-10 down to 4 bids come March madness.
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