Wood Hall said:

Back on the Left Coast after a great homecoming. Tremendous weather, catching up with fraternity brothers I first met 50 years ago, and a super day for a game and a big win. Campus is so beautiful in the fall, hit a few of the old stomping grounds, and thoroughly enjoyed myself.

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Phil’s, Julian’s Pizza, etc….

8legs1dream said:

that patch is simply fantastic

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Design gets high marks for class and creativity

Win out and could be looking at earning a top 8 seed, which is IMO the only path to a legit chance at making a playoff run.

PASpider said:

Did anyone know this was a college before they appeared on our schedule?

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Yes use to be Mt Olive College till they started Masters programs. Faison, NC beside it,
is the pickle capital.

I’m setting this line at 33.5. We should have this wrapped up with 10 minutes left so that we can empty the bench to get some minutes for everybody. Even if we have a clunker we should still win this easily.

Temple went 20-12 last season. Should be a close one, hopefully we come out ready and take it to them early.

oh, i'm on that one!

Mo 2.0 said:

In addition to taking care of our own business, we are rooting pretty hard for the Bleu Hens to beat Rhody on Saturday, aren't we?

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URI @ UD 11/9

UD @ Nova 11/23

Both could be BIG for us.Go Hens.

UR at #9 in Coaches Poll

Santa Clara should be decent this year. I assume some uncertainty with the transition at SLU probably weighing into first-game thinking.

Mo 2.0 said:

In addition to taking care of our own business, we are rooting pretty hard for the Bleu Hens to beat Rhody on Saturday, aren't we?

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IMO yes and then they need to beat Nova the last week of season.

It makes Spiders auto bid and makes win over Hens look even better in committee's view I would hope.

In addition to taking care of our own business, we are rooting pretty hard for the Bleu Hens to beat Rhody on Saturday, aren't we?

Rocco picks the Spiders as his A-10 dark horse and categorizes us as an at-large contender in his preview of potential multi-bid leagues.


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is Santa Clara good? Considering the upper tier A10 predictions for SLU, I'm a bit surprised by that line.

Spiders move up three spots to #13 in STATS. In addition to Central Arkansas and North Dakota, we also slipped past Tarleton, who fell all the way from #7 to #14 after losing to EKU.

RichmondNative said:

Hunt
Tyne
Tanner
Soulis
Walz

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Know couple month old speculating thread, but surprised not more Mooney loyalty lineups than just this one. Of course not entirely five players like above, but more lineups than with 2/3 players from last season.

Discussion for years of Mooney taking to long to effectively get his system across to of a new set of players. Appears every coach is on equal footing these days in regards to lots of new faces. So that said not being the most pro-Mooney fan, I will give him much praise if he team finishes say 5,6 in conference.

Torvik has 12th, kenpom 11th probably a few under 10th? No Quinn but think Mooney this season has more size, call it PF if you like at his disposal. Also no King but enough three guard rotations that can hopefully shoot the 3. Maybe off base with these two thoughts.

Haven't heard anything about practices but intrigued about what Mooney can/will do having a big size lineup available other than say two less mobile 5s that Quinn and Walz were last year.

Pulling for Delaware, but they have only played one team with a winning record this year, Richmond.

Rhode Island has beaten two teams that are 5-4 I think as their best wins. This game will be interesting.
Delaware beating RI and Nova would make the Spider victory over the Hens a better win, as well as putting the Spiders destiny in Spiders own hands.

Of course, Richmond has only played one team with a winning record, Delaware. Spiders do have hopes to get a quality win at W&M and the Tribes only other loss this season needs to be against Spiders. Tribe plays Elon this week and I do not think an Elon win helps Spiders in strength of schedule regardless.
Wofford immediately folded after beating Spiders and are now 4-5, I think. That is going to end up a bad loss no matter.

Another game of interest this Saturday is Towson vs Hampton. The winner of that game can end up with 7 wins, if the Spiders beat Hampton the next weekend, they can win the last week and be 6-6 with a loss to Towson, same type situation for Towson if they win their last three, they are 7-5 and Hampton would only be 6-6, with the needed loss to Spiders.

Have not taken time to look at records beyond these few, but Spiders need as much help as they can get with strength of schedule if they win out, for seeding reasons.

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I checked Wofford remaining schedule; they can win their last two SoCon games, the loss to FBS South Carolina to end season would make them 6-6 to end season.

14 A-10 teams in action today, while our guys cram to prepare for Mount Olive.

SLU and Santa Clara kick things off at 3:00 streaming on YouTube.

if we ripped through the non-con with a clean sheet and lots of blow outs we would probably enter A10 play pretty damn high rankings and ratings wise, but it's easier said than done

Charleston - 3.5 over S. Illinois
SLU + 1.5 over Santa Clara
McNeese - 6.5 S. Dakota State
Toledo +5.5 over Troy

that patch is simply fantastic

whampas said:

Yeah, but 13-0 gets you a 28.

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Im not so sure.

Love that we’re wearing a jersey patch to honor him and renamed alumni weekend after him. The patch looks great. Will certainly be an emotional broadcast vs. Marist.

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Ungerer will indeed be the primary analyst this season.

Marist game will be Bob (TV) and Matt (radio) only on play-by-play with no analyst to honor Beck.