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« Reply #1020 on: February 16, 2024, 09:52:06 am »
While Caitlin Clark went and set the career scoring record, check out how many boards Lauryn Taylor had last night:

https://fmupatriots.com/boxscore.aspx?path=wbball&id=11048
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« Reply #1021 on: February 17, 2024, 09:37:51 pm »
Wow Elon goes into UNCW and beats them on a buzzer beater tip-in. Good chance winner of the league finishes with 5 losses. Conference is probably looking at a 14 seed at best in the tournament.
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« Reply #1022 on: February 26, 2024, 03:37:12 pm »
UMass is headed from the A-10 to the MAC for all sports (except hockey I'm guessing/I hope). That drops the A-10 to 14 teams. You wonder if they're content there or if they're still looking at adding a couple. There are a lot of sub-FBS/non-football schools in that conference, and we have a few attractive schools who fit that mold in our conference including, well, us . Yeah, but really, not happening.

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« Reply #1023 on: February 26, 2024, 03:48:21 pm »
A10 to MAC is a basketball downgrade. UMass is really going all in on football?

MAC is at odd number now and if anything, we'd be gunning for a spot there instead of the A10 as a football school.
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« Reply #1024 on: February 27, 2024, 11:33:35 am »
Gonna be fun to see these teams jockey for position down the stretch we can make some moves.
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« Reply #1025 on: February 27, 2024, 12:56:37 pm »
We can still get as high as #4 and as low as #9.  If we lose to Drexel and win at home vs. Delaware, and all favorites win the other games these last 2 weeks, we get a #7.  Getting a #6 or #7 would be great (avoiding CoC until the Final), but lots can happen in these last 2 weeks.
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« Reply #1026 on: February 28, 2024, 04:36:37 pm »
Man, even the CAA (19) is ranked higher than the MAC (24) in KenPom conferences right now.
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« Reply #1027 on: February 28, 2024, 04:48:04 pm »
Quote from: Accelerator on February 28, 2024, 04:36:37 pm
Man, even the CAA (19) is ranked higher than the MAC (24) in KenPom conferences right now.

UMass basketball enthusiasts are not pleased. In the KenPom ratings, you can list off seven A-10 schools before you reach Akron at #100, and another three A-10s before reaching a second MAC team. Does Frank Martin skip town? Can they recruit at the same level? I dunno. I'm skeptical.

Here's a good rundown of what it all means for the program. All you need to know is that UMass Lowell is in a better basketball conference than UMass. On Saturday, they had their best crowd in years .... YEARS (7,000+) ... and this news broke two days later. Brutal.

UMass move to MAC is brutal blow to its men’s basketball program | Vautour
The Mid-American conference is one of the worst basketball conferences in Division I.
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« Reply #1028 on: February 28, 2024, 11:08:56 pm »
With a week to play, the belief on bracketmatrix.com is that Charleston is looking at a 14 seed if they make it this year. I shudder to think what Drexel, Hofstra or Towson would get, even us. For real, we'd be one of the six 16s, right?

In other news, poor CBSSN has Elon/William & Mary tomorrow night, not Hofstra/UNCW or Stony Brook/Drexel. Not the greatest exhibition of CAA hoops.
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« Reply #1029 on: February 29, 2024, 11:16:24 am »
An interesting read from Mid-Major Madness. They list five programs who should be strongly considered as additions to the A-10, all speculative as I don't think it was authored by a real insider. Yet there's a lot of sense to it.

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Charleston
Vermont
UMass Lowell

UMass departure for MAC opens door for potential A10 realignment
With UMass on the way out, here’s a short list for a potential future move to the A10
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« Reply #1030 on: February 29, 2024, 11:44:44 am »
A10 should just wait a couple of years before adding more. They will likely lose another team or two to Big East.
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« Reply #1031 on: February 29, 2024, 12:01:05 pm »
Quote from: Checkmate on February 29, 2024, 11:16:24 am
An interesting read from Mid-Major Madness. They list five programs who should be strongly considered as additions to the A-10, all speculative as I don't think it was authored by a real insider. Yet there's a lot of sense to it.

Among them:
Charleston
Vermont
UMass Lowell

https://www.midmajormadness.com/2024/2/29/24086292/umass-departure-for-mac-opens-door-for-potential-atlantic-10-realignment

Can definitely see Charleston on the move.  Not Vermont (they seem to love their niche basketball in the cold upper northeast) and UML (too new to D1 and not a lot of notoriety yet).
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« Reply #1032 on: March 17, 2024, 06:51:02 pm »
Opponents who made the tournament: Charleston, Duquesne, Nebraska, Yale, Wagner and Michigan State. St. John's missed out, but it's still gotta be a record for us. I'd guess easily.
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« Reply #1033 on: March 17, 2024, 07:03:31 pm »
Shocked that St John’s didn’t make it. Kenpom rank of 25.  Poor Quad 1 record and/or anti-Pitino sentiment did them in. Next to SBU, I watched them the most this year.
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« Reply #1034 on: March 18, 2024, 12:10:05 pm »
Dstone Dubar from Hofstra has entered the portal as a grad transfer. Assume he will get big time high major interest. 6'6" and shot 40% from 3.
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