A10 games 12/5

[MADXSTER]

A10 7-2

WINS

Rhode Island 86 Keith Cothran 19pts, 5 players in double figures
Providence 82

Dayton 89 Chris Wright 16pts 10rebs, Devin Searcy 13pts,
Lehigh 71

Duquesne 58 Eric Evans 17pts, Damian Saunders 15pts
Savannah St 44

UMass 84 Ricky Harris 19pts, Anthony Gurley 18pts, Freddie Riley 12pts
Holy Cross 63

Temple 45 Ryan Brooks 19pts
Penn St 42

Charlotte 87 Derrio Green 20pts, Chris Braswell 21pts 14rebs, Shamarr Bowden 17pts
Louisville 65

Saint Louis 71 Kwamain Mitchell 22pts, Willie Reed 16pts 12rebs, Christian Salecich 10pts
Southern Illinios 61

LOSES

St Bonaventure 53 Ogo Adegboye 13pts, Malcolm Elby 10pts
Mississippi St 105

Fordham 46 Fordham (1-5) fired seventh-year coach Dereck Whittenburg on Thursday, making Grasso the youngest head coach in NCAA Division I this year at age 29. Dana Fife at IUPU-Fort Wayne was the youngest at age 30.
Bowling Green 67

[BandAid]

Rhode Island 1pm
Providence

St Bonaventure 2pm
Mississippi St

Dayton 2pm
Lehigh

Duquesne 3:30pm
Savannah St

UMass 3:30pm
Holy Cross

Temple 4:00pm
Penn St

Charlotte 7:00pm
Louisville

Fordham 7:00pm
Bowling Green

Saint Louis 8:00pm
Southern Illinios

Winners in bold. I'm feeling down on the A-10 today.

[D-West & PO-Z]

SLU is a whole other team at home, then win vs SIU.

[XUglow]

Wow. Bonnies lose by 52 at Miss. State.

[D-West & PO-Z]

Wow. Bonnies lose by 52 at Miss. State.

Ya, pretty pathetic.

[kmcrawfo]

Bonnies are the only loss, so far. Looks like a very good day for the A-10 thus far.

3 more games 2-night.

[kmcrawfo]

Men's Basketball - Conference RPIs (2009-2010)

Last updated - Sat Dec 5 14:52:57 EST 2009

View Conf. Power Ratings View Real Time Conf. RPIsvip

Rank Conference Avg. RPI Avg. SOS SOS Rank Teams
1 Big East 0.6221 0.5520 2 16
2 Atlantic Coast 0.5925 0.5366 5 12
3 Big 12 0.5843 0.5131 12 12
4 Southeastern 0.5821 0.5446 3 12
5 Atlantic 10 0.5535 0.5273 6 14
6 Big Ten 0.5496 0.5253 7 11
7 Pacific-10 0.5369 0.5412 4 10
8 Conference USA 0.5341 0.5006 15 12
9 Missouri Valley 0.5261 0.4720 24 10
10 Mountain West 0.5245 0.4846 21 9

[kmcrawfo]

I don't remember the last time the A-10 looked this good, this late in the pre-conference season.

Men's Basketball - Atlantic 10 (2009-2010)

RPI Rk Atlantic 10 Conf All RPI SOS Rk SOS
20 Temple 0-0 6-2 0.6578 20 0.6178
23 Richmond 0-0 7-1 0.6535 62 0.5737
43 Dayton 0-0 5-2 0.6095 44 0.5868
50 Rhode Island 0-0 5-1 0.6027 151 0.5088
57 Charlotte 0-0 5-1 0.5892 186 0.4908
67 La Salle 0-0 4-2 0.5801 92 0.5512
78 Xavier 0-0 5-2 0.5725 88 0.5534
97 St. Joseph's 0-0 3-3 0.5577 30 0.6026
108 Duquesne 0-0 5-2 0.5455 179 0.4928
144 St. Bonaventure 0-0 4-3 0.5198 150 0.5092
155 Geo. Washington 0-0 5-1 0.5094 287 0.4236
184 Massachusetts 0-0 3-4 0.4923 108 0.5381
187 Saint Louis 0-0 4-3 0.4919 176 0.4959
314 Fordham 0-0 1-4 0.3672 271 0.4369

[SixFig]

don't look now but Charlotte is leading Louisville 35-22

[AdamtheFlyer]

Louisville has a boatload of injuries, but Charlotte is taking it to them. And you know what? If the Niners want to be taken seriously, they should. Louisville with 3 major injuries shouldn't be better than a healthy Charlotte.

[BandAid]

Rhode Island 1pm
Providence

St Bonaventure 2pm
Mississippi St

Dayton 2pm
Lehigh

Duquesne 3:30pm
Savannah St

UMass 3:30pm
Holy Cross

Temple 4:00pm
Penn St

Charlotte 7:00pm
Louisville

Fordham 7:00pm
Bowling Green

Saint Louis 8:00pm
Southern Illinios

Winners in bold. I'm feeling down on the A-10 today.

I'm a fool (so far). Keep it up! A-10 power!

[SixFig]

Way to go A-10!

Three big conference scalps...put em on the wall!

[waggy]

C'mon Saint Louie. You can't lose on your home floor to an MVC team.

[Nocalmuskie]

A10 on fire!!!!

Temple over Penn St.

Rhody with a huge win over Providence

Charlotte blows out Louisville.

[Masterofreality]

Nice day for the league- except if you count those who should not be in the league like "F"-m and Olean Welding Academy.

St. Louis cannot lose that game at home. If they do, the Round Man is sleepwalking through that job.

[waggy]

Online stream for SLU game (mms://a34.l2679740033.c26797.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/34/26797/v0001/reflector:40033)

[SixFig]

It hurts a little bit to see former X recruits like Chris Braswell (Charlotte) and Ari Stewart (Wake) performing so well when we have such a glaring need at the 3/4 spots.

[Nocalmuskie]

k-state looks awfully tough at home, handling Wash St. on ESPNU.

X will be an underdog Tues.

[AviatorX]

k-state looks awfully tough at home, handling Wash St. on ESPNU.

X will be an underdog Tues.

While I agree we'll probably be underdogs, it's Washington St.....without Bennett at the helm.

[GoMuskies]

I went to the UMass/HC game today. UMass looked okay, but it was pretty pathetic that a basketball game involving the University of Massachusetts played in Massachusetts (Worcester in this case) had about 2000 people in attendance.

[D-West & PO-Z]

Just got back from the SLU game. Mitchell got back on track and had a great game. SLU goes as he goes. He hit the floor pretty hard on a dunk attempt at the end of the game that was called an intentional foul. Hopefully he is ok. SLU looked pretty good for the most part tonight. They are tough at home.

[Ninerballin]

Louisville has a boatload of injuries, but Charlotte is taking it to them. And you know what? If the Niners want to be taken seriously, they should. Louisville with 3 major injuries shouldn't be better than a healthy Charlotte.

Let's not forget that the Niners are without starter Anjuan Wilderness.

[jdm2000]

I'll take the Charlotte win either way. Good for the A10.

[kmcrawfo]

Men's Basketball - Atlantic 10 (2009-2010)

Conf. RPI Rank: 5 Conf. SOS Rank: 6



RPI Rk Atlantic 10 Conf All RPI SOS Rk SOS
16 Temple 0-0 6-2 0.6612 18 0.6224
20 Richmond 0-0 7-1 0.6524 62 0.5723
29 Charlotte 0-0 6-1 0.6339 100 0.5421
45 Dayton 0-0 5-2 0.6138 36 0.5927
52 Rhode Island 0-0 5-1 0.6037 148 0.5101
74 La Salle 0-0 4-2 0.5776 92 0.5479
80 Xavier 0-0 5-2 0.5742 79 0.5558
94 Duquesne 0-0 5-2 0.5604 145 0.5126
97 St. Joseph's 0-0 3-3 0.5595 26 0.6050
141 Saint Louis 0-0 5-3 0.5252 133 0.5217
142 St. Bonaventure 0-0 4-3 0.5251 140 0.5162
163 Geo. Washington 0-0 5-1 0.5081 299 0.4220
189 Massachusetts 0-0 3-4 0.4923 105 0.5381
331 Fordham 0-0 1-5 0.3458 297 0.4226

[wny08]

Nice day for the league- except if you count those who should not be in the league like "F"-m and Olean Welding Academy.

You are not a "voice of reason." St. Bona is a proud institution that lives its Catholic values much like XU does. Sorry you prefer to dwell on one event that was very uncharacteristic of SBU, for which they have suffered disproportionately more than they deserved (and XU too has a few skeletons, not terrible but they exist). If you think FU and SBU should be kicked out of the A10, that's fine and I respect your opinion, though you may want to acknowledge that 1 of the 2 is making a concerted effort to win again.

It's also interesting that you consider Cleveland to be a "socialist state." I'm curious as to when exactly Cleveland went Marxist. Maybe what you meant to express is that it's too liberal for your personal liking, not that it's an authoritarian government that seeks to control all the means of production.

In the future leave the juvenile stuff at the door please and think about the meaning of what you type before you post it. Maybe the Olean Welding stuff was said in good fun, but as someone with many family connections to SBU it's kind of offensive to me.

[GoMuskies]

In the future leave the juvenile stuff at the door please


Please do not honor this request. The juvenile stuff is the most fun part of this board. I have to be serious in real life.

[Juice]

You are not a "voice of reason." St. Bona is a proud institution that lives its Catholic values much like XU does. Sorry you prefer to dwell on one event that was very uncharacteristic of SBU, for which they have suffered disproportionately more than they deserved (and XU too has a few skeletons, not terrible but they exist). If you think FU and SBU should be kicked out of the A10, that's fine and I respect your opinion, though you may want to acknowledge that 1 of the 2 is making a concerted effort to win again.

It's also interesting that you consider Cleveland to be a "socialist state." I'm curious as to when exactly Cleveland went Marxist. Maybe what you meant to express is that it's too liberal for your personal liking, not that it's an authoritarian government that seeks to control all the means of production.

In the future leave the juvenile stuff at the door please and think about the meaning of what you type before you post it. Maybe the Olean Welding stuff was said in good fun, but as someone with many family connections to SBU it's kind of offensive to me.

Two things.

1) If you can't come to a Xavier message board and make fun of other A-10 teams then what is this site here for?

2) Cleveland does suck.

[Masterofreality]

You are not a "voice of reason." St. Bona is a proud institution that lives its Catholic values much like XU does. Sorry you prefer to dwell on one event that was very uncharacteristic of SBU, for which they have suffered disproportionately more than they deserved (and XU too has a few skeletons, not terrible but they exist). If you think FU and SBU should be kicked out of the A10, that's fine and I respect your opinion, though you may want to acknowledge that 1 of the 2 is making a concerted effort to win again.

It's also interesting that you consider Cleveland to be a "socialist state." I'm curious as to when exactly Cleveland went Marxist. Maybe what you meant to express is that it's too liberal for your personal liking, not that it's an authoritarian government that seeks to control all the means of production.

In the future leave the juvenile stuff at the door please and think about the meaning of what you type before you post it. Maybe the Olean Welding stuff was said in good fun, but as someone with many family connections to SBU it's kind of offensive to me.

Whatever. The academic fraud happened. Deal with it as well as the embarrassing revelations that happened afterwards, including quitting on the season and hiring an awful replacement coach. What I say is mostly in good fun, except about the disgrace that "F"-m is, but you need to get over you're serious stuff if you want to come on someone else's board. I don't spend my time on the Bonahead board, the LoSsalle, board, or anyone else's. Who really cares?

Pray tell what "skeletons" you know of in Xavier's closet. We'd all be interested in what TMZ-type shocking report you may have to file.

Finally, This is the Cuyahoga Socialist State as run by the Workers Party. Almost all major business has been run out of town by ridiculously high taxes- some of which have been imposed by decree and not from a vote of the people- and by a general anti-business management attitude. The attempts to "redistribute wealth" through tax levies for "health and human services" in this county are legendary. That would certainly be a backdoor way of "controlling production". Let me know what other area would actually elect an admitted Socialist and Charlatan like Dennis Kuchinch to A) Mayor then after he put the city into financial default, B) Multiple terms as a US Congressman!? At least some have finally come to reason as the present entire system of government in this County has been thrown out and an entirely new Countywide structure will be put in place next year. Don't talk about something that you don't know about, sonny. Leave that to the experts.

You can expound on something you do know about in western New York- freezing temperatures, blowing snow, an economically depressed area, bad basketball, and academic fraud. That should keep you occupied for a few hours.

[waggy]

MOR just bitches about the A10 because deep down he cares. And as anyone who has followed the A10 for any amount of time knows, it'll burn you quite frequently.

[MADXSTER]

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[American X]

Finally, This is the Cuyahoga Socialist State as run by the Workers Party. Almost all major business has been run out of town by ridiculously high taxes- some of which have been imposed by decree and not from a vote of the people- and by a general anti-business management attitude. The attempts to "redistribute wealth" through tax levies for "health and human services" in this county are legendary. That would certainly be a backdoor way of "controlling production".

And you voted to extend this to the country at-large (while blathering about in the national media). Hypocrite.

I vote to set Cleveland, Fordham basketball, MOR and his bloviating adrift in Lake Erie.


Also, the A-10 rocked on Saturday.

[XUglow]

MOR,

SBU = Olean Welding Academy?????

What have you got against welders?

[wny08]

Whatever. The academic fraud happened. Deal with it as well as the embarrassing revelations that happened afterwards, including quitting on the season and hiring an awful replacement coach. What I say is mostly in good fun, except about the disgrace that "F"-m is, but you need to get over you're serious stuff if you want to come on someone else's board. I don't spend my time on the Bonahead board, the LoSsalle, board, or anyone else's. Who really cares?

Pray tell what "skeletons" you know of in Xavier's closet. We'd all be interested in what TMZ-type shocking report you may have to file.

Finally, This is the Cuyahoga Socialist State as run by the Workers Party. Almost all major business has been run out of town by ridiculously high taxes- some of which have been imposed by decree and not from a vote of the people- and by a general anti-business management attitude. The attempts to "redistribute wealth" through tax levies for "health and human services" in this county are legendary. That would certainly be a backdoor way of "controlling production". Let me know what other area would actually elect an admitted Socialist and Charlatan like Dennis Kuchinch to A) Mayor then after he put the city into financial default, B) Multiple terms as a US Congressman!? At least some have finally come to reason as the present entire system of government in this County has been thrown out and an entirely new Countywide structure will be put in place next year. Don't talk about something that you don't know about, sonny. Leave that to the experts.

You can expound on something you do know about in western New York- freezing temperatures, blowing snow, an economically depressed area, bad basketball, and academic fraud. That should keep you occupied for a few hours.

Actually I'm an XU grad and season ticket holder, not an opposing fan although I have rooting interests in other A10 programs as well. I can tell you that I don't know of any SBU fans that would ever talk that kind of garbage about other A10 schools, and frankly you really don't know anything about SBU. I hope that feeling the need to make these kind of comments about other schools is not part of the price of winning. If winning made our whole fanbase this embarrassingly arrogant, I'm not sure I'd want to win that badly.

Like I said before, I think what you meant to say is the Cleveland/Cuyahoga Co. are too liberal for your liking. Taxes imposed by decree? What a drama queen. Officials are elected to make those decisions. Go dump some tea in Lake Erie if it bothers you. I would think someone presumably with a degree from XU wouldn't go around like Senator McCarthy calling people or governments socialist that aren't.

Skeletons in XU's closet? Yeah, like I said nothing major, just things that happen when you get into high-D1 basketball. Maybe skeletons was a little strong of a word. Mostly we've won the right way. Along the way we've recruited a few shady characters (certainly far fewer than our fellow scholars across town) and tolerated quite a bit of off-the-court nonsense out of certain players. I also can't say I'm comfortable with the relationship with Cintas given some of the stuff that has been in the news. That's all. Really at the end of the day, the XUs and St. Bonas and Fordhams and SLUs and Duquesnes are the good guys in college basketball because they make values equally as important as winning.

I was disappointed when I came on here yesterday and instead of reading A10 basketball discussion I had to read a bunch of namecalling by some guy calling himself a Master of Reality and Voice of Reason. Who exactly are you to sit on some throne of anonymity lobbing ad hominem insults at people all day long. Call me thin-skinned or whatever, but the more I've read your posts over time the more tiresome they get.

[Masterofreality]

And you voted to extend this to the country at-large (while blathering about in the national media). Hypocrite.

I vote to set Cleveland, Fordham basketball, MOR and his bloviating adrift in Lake Erie.




I do not vote for Comrade Kuchinich. Never have. I am not adverse to voting for some new ideas, however, that may actually move something forward, but checks and balances, sir. Checks and balances. I did vote for our current President in hopes of some fresh thinking. However, I also voted for every Republican Senate or Congress candidiate that I could, again, in the interest of checks and balances. No hypocrisy at all. I certainly voted strongly to overthrow the present "Three Stooge" form of County Government.

Thank you for the proposal to set Cleveland adrift in Lake Erie. If that did occur, I would then be the owner of waterfront property, to my grand enrichment, since I do not live in the city. Please, AmeX. Use all of your vast powers to make that happen.

Bloviating? Again, nice wordsmith crafting, AmeX. It seems as if the art of sarcasm, hyperbole and wit with creative smacktalk as to the other, somewhat deficient, members of our basketball league is no longer in fashion. Well, just call me an old-timer then, because the trashing will continue when it is warranted- especially when I'm called out.

The last thing that I want to see, and I would suppose that you want to moderate Sir AmeX, is a boring, N_I_C_E board.

If it is.........ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

[American X]

Child, please. While trying to paint yourself as the objective moderate, you put yourself in a corner.

Fresh thinking? Ha. You voted for very old, very tired, very bankrupt ideas.

Now I want you to go to the nearest pub, order a Smithwicks, and think about what you've done.

[Masterofreality]

Now I want you to go to the nearest pub, order a Smithwicks, and think about what you've done.

No need to go forth into that good night. Smithwicks is handy and available right here in the friendly confines of the vast MOR Estate.

I just have to proceed down to my temperature controlled beer cellar where the vast array is kept in a perfect environment.

I'll take your comments under advisement, but will continue to free-think.

By the way. Blathering and Bloviating are two of my favorite words in the English language- right next to Charlatan.