A10 Winners Tonight 1/14

[jdm2000]

Dayton over Fordham
LaSalle wins at Charlotte
SLU holds off UMass
St. Joe's beats St. Bona
Duquesne beats GW
Richmond loses to Va. Tech
Temple beats Penn


Did I miss any?

Lessons we can learn?

* UD struggling mightily with Fordham can't be a good sign for them.
* LaSalle and Duquesne may be for real...or realer than they've been in the past
* I think with their style, SLU will beat some better teams in the league by the end of the year. Also, you could not pay me to watch a SLU/UD game. How ugly will that be?
* I think Temple is a top 3 team in the conference.

[XU 87]

To me, this looks like a lot of bad teams playing each other. You know the league sucks when LaSalle and Duquesne are two of your better teams.

[kyxu]

* I think Temple is a top 3 team in the conference.

Each year, I pray that Temple will do in the non-conf what it often does within the conference.

Some of us felt slightly justified when they made the dance last year. But I was pretty disappointed when they were promptly dismantled by a not-that-great Michigan State team in the first round.

[jdm2000]

That's another option which, while I hope it's not the case, may be true.

[xavierj]

I will put it this way. Xavier should go 16-0 in this crap league. Probably won't happen but this league blows donkey balls. I think Xavier should see if they can win every game by 10 + points and have some fun playing these shit teams.

[vee4xu]

Duquesne scored 54 points in the second half, is 12-4 and 3-0 in conference. Those record numbers are usually reversed for them. Greg Amodio seems to be doing a good job getting that program back in shape. Should be a good one when X goes there. It has been a tough place for X to win even in years when the team was doing very well and the Dukes sucked.

On another note, how does ud have to score a layup with 2 seconds left to beat Fordham at home? They have struggled to sqeek by so many marginal and bad teams that it isn't really possible to take them seriously.

[Xaveriana]

Interesting game this Saturday at Duquesne.
Who is the bigger poser--UD (http://daytonflyers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/sched/dayt-m-baskbl-sched.html) or DU (http://goduquesne.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/sched/duqu-m-baskbl-sched.html)? :eek: 15-2 vs. 12-4.
Time will tell.

http://graphics.collegesports.com/graphics/teams/team-logo-dayt.gif vs. http://graphics.collegesports.com/graphics/teams/team-logo-duqu.gif

[XU05and07]

When Duquesne struggles at home against GW...they have a problem...GW is as good as Hobbs is tall

[The Artist]

They were worse last year, and we struggled with them at both places.

Good win for La Salle.

[xavierj]

They were worse last year, and we struggled with them at both places.

Good win for La Salle.

Who was worse last year that X struggled with? Xavier beat the Dukes by 27 and Dayton by 26 at Cintas

[kyxu]

Who was worse last year that X struggled with? Xavier beat the Dukes by 27 and Dayton by 26 at Cintas

I believe he's talking about GW.

[dc_x]

Each year, I pray that Temple will do in the non-conf what it often does within the conference.

Some of us felt slightly justified when they made the dance last year. But I was pretty disappointed when they were promptly dismantled by a not-that-great Michigan State team in the first round.

I think Temple is clearly the 2nd best team in the A-10. Hopefully, their win over UT holds up, although I think UT is overrated. I think Temple is the primary challenge to X for 1st place in the A10....happy we are playing them in Cintas.


When Duquesne struggles at home against GW...they have a problem...GW is as good as Hobbs is tall

GW has some good talent. Diggs, Hollis, and Witherspoon are all very good players. But they obviously have some sort of coaching/chemistry problem. On the nights they play organized basketball with effort, they will be tough to beat.