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districtballer.. VCU has been playing div 1 sports for over 30 years and the University as a whole have been playing sports for over 100 years.. Stony Brook is only playing div 1 sport for a little over 10 years .. As you know, America east conference is a beginners conference for div 1 schools in all sports .. In Football, we just moved up in conference to the CAA from the Big South , another begginers conference for Football. If i'm not mistaken VCU competes in the CAA for all other sports??.   Give Stony Brook a few more years and they will without a shadow of a doubt be dancing in March..  VCU could quite possibly beat us tonight but if they do, it won't be a blowout!!!!! Give us time to grow and when we do, look out !!!!!!!!!!

You should take my post in the context of the post I quoted that was a blatant troll post by SaltySeawolf (he admitted as much on our boards) in order to get discussion going on an otherwise dormant thread. Mission accomplished.

Either way, your history has nothing to do with tonight and was not the subject of my post. In the interest of accuracy (not that any of that is really being emphasized in this thread), VCU became a University in 1968, 11 years after Stony Brook. We've had D1 athletics since the mid-70's. No, I don't count the equivalent of club level sports at our precursor institutions (Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia) as qualifying as 100 years of 'playing sports'. VCU plays all sports in the Atlantic 10 Conference, not the CAA.

My concern is not where Stony Brook is in their athletic journey, it's tonight's game and that's the extent of it. Everything in my post while harsh was completely true and I wouldn't have been so blunt if the post I quoted wasn't so inherently disrespectful and misinformed. VCU will very likely beat Stony Brook as predicted by every statistical model out there and the fact that Stony Brook has feasted on awful teams while not having a good win to their name so far this season, but that's why we play the game. I don't think anyone expects a blowout, although it's certainly possible. Better teams than Stony Brook have been blown out of the building (Brad Stevens had the worst loss of his collegiate coaching career there last season). There's a reason VCU has a top 15 national home court winning percentage at the Siegel Center. We're 39-1 in our last 40 nonconference home contests, the lone loss being to Wichita State last year who went to the Final Four, and that was by 2 points. An unlikely win puts you in elite company, that's for sure.

For those who are travelling, be safe and enjoy the game.

Stony Brook will probably take the lead into the half, but can they hold it in the second half.. That's been our achilles tenon this season!!!

Coley and Jackson need to play complete games.  They need to shoot moderately well and they have to play intense and focused for 40 minutes.  It sometimes seems that they think they can just play without any sense of urgency and it will be enough.  It isn't.

What I've noticed this year is the lack of leadership on the floor. Our boys will start getting a little out of hand and no one appears to take the charge and slow down the tempo .. Something TB would always do.. Coley and Jackson should be the boss with Mcallaster following suite but that does not appear to be the case this year.... I see Warney being the Captain in year 3 ! This team has raw talent on this year, but a lack of structure is holding us back.... This problem can be fixed in a hurry with help from the coaching staff!

I haven't posted about it but I'm really looking forward to this game! Should be a fun one.

The broadcasters are using Stony Brooks oooold logo. Even more weird

As good a first half as we could hope for.  VCU just too deep for us to ever make a run once we went down.  You could tell we were gassed.  The announcers were more than fair.  Some of the best we have had.  The guys from Detroit were very good also.  Let's get Columbia and move on to conference play.  We have the  most talented team in the league by far. 

I haven't read everything because, well, it is all the same thing over and over. We're frustrated we aren't marquee wins, meanwhile our idea of a "marquee win" changes as the program continues to have more success.

Honestly, I agree with all the disgruntled fans- I want to finally win the game we don't think we should win. At the same time, it is somewhat absurd, as a fanbase, that we're frustrated we're losing games we are expected to lose.