Great day for the A-10

[jdm2000]

This may have been the best day the A-10 has had in the non-conference.

X over the kittens
Temple crushes Tennessee
UMass shocks Kansas
GW over Harvard
St Bona over Md.-Eastern-Shore
SLU over Samford
URI and Dayton beat cupcakes

Duquesne lost by 5 to WVU, and Richmond lost by one to VCU. 8-2 on the day. Not bad at all. And phenomenal considering the terrible losses the conference was taking as recently as the last couple weeks.

[Masterofreality]

Freakin' amazing day, and totally out of the blue!!

[JAPER]

conference kind of needed that. Hope UMass esp is back on a better track.

[pizza delivery]

Umass 19 point dogs on the road, wow!

[jdm2000]

Plus the day was made even better by the fact that Temple, UMass, and X all won on ESPN or ESPN2. How many times do we see the league get a game with great exposure only to spit the bit?

[MADXSTER]

http://www.zagsblog.com/2008/12/14/big-night-for-the-atlantic-10/#more-8758

How about that big night for the A 10?

Temple downed No. 8 Tennessee, 88-72, behind 35 points from Dionte Christmas.
And UMass won at No. 25 Kansas 61-60.

Think Xavier can keep up the trend when it faces Duke on Saturday at the Izod Center in Jersey?

The 6-foot-5 Christmas made 6-of-7 3-pointers in the second half for Temple and scored 24 of the Owls’ first 33 points in the first 11:15 of the second half. “When you’re hot, you’re hot,” Christmas told the Philly Inquirer. “The second half the basket looked like an ocean.”

Said Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl: “Twenty NBA scouts were here and they obviously got a real show of what a big-time NBA two-guard can do when he gets it going.”