2021–22 Schedule News
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You say potato, I say p'otato. LaSalle and St. Joes are both terrible (although LaSalle does seem to beat us more than they should). Mooney seems to have a zen like ability to be beat both Davidson and URI, both of which are solid mid pack A-10 teams.
Which is why I say playing H&H with Davidson is better than with LaSalle. At least for us, no one else seems to win at Belk.
I misunderstood. Thought you were saying you wanted to sub Davidson and LaSalle for URI and St. Joes. Yes, I am in agreement. I don't like playing LaSalle twice. Mooney is going to lose one of those LaSalle games and it will be a damn anchor on our resume.
Yes I was saying sub Davidson for LaSalle and St Joe for URI (as to locations). But not sure that second will change the Quads...
Also still wondering if Dayton will be better than SLU. I feel like they may have reloaded better.
I agree. I am thinking 4-2 against St Bona, SLU, and VCU would give us some solid wins, and then go at least 10-2 against everyone else to get to at least 14-4 IC, which should be good for first or second.
Based only on my anecdotal following of SLU and Dayton this offseason, I would agree with you on that.
I was touting Daytons talent prior to last season and did not work out well for them. I will say Grant is not content with status quo, I think he has reloaded, turned the roster over. They will have talent again
Damn was really hoping I’d get to see Tech and UR match up. I’m definitely planning on going down for this event. Charlotte is a pretty cool city with a lot of fun stuff to do. I had a great time when I went for the Belk Bowl in 2019 and would suggest everyone hit up the epicenter if you decide to go.
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Yeah Charlotte is a fun city, some great restaurants and with a mid-December date you can take in a full day of college basketball and possibly fit in a Hornets or Panthers game if you stick around for a day or two depending on their schedules.
Anthony Grant has proven repeatedly that he is above average when it comes to recruiting, and largely average to below below average when it comes to the product he puts on the floor (coaching them up). Watching him work a game, he isn't impressive.
Won nicely at VCU, but he was living off the school and predecessor success. A whole bunch of Mooney like season's for much of his career.
Grant's only Dayton team that was really good was when he had player of the year (Toppin), and Jalen Crutcher together. The rest of his Flyer teams are 49-39.
I agree with you that Dayton will have talent. What Grant can do with them; history says most likely just a bit above mediocre.
I was thinking about going, but now that I know there are millions of Bonaventure grads there, I'm not so sure....
A-10 opponents are now official...same as what Rothstein reported earlier.
richmondspiders.com
Atlantic 10 Announces 2021-22 Men's Basketball Opponents - University of Richmond Athletics
RICHMOND, Va. – The Atlantic 10 conference announced pairings for the 2021-22 men's basketball season on Thursday. Richmond's 18 conference games will consist of
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At the signing event, Mooney was asked about the schedule and he mentioned the NC State game in Charlotte. We'll also be playing ODU at home, Toledo home-and-home starting at home, at Wofford. Couple more that he can't talk about yet.
Working on an MTE. He can't speak to it yet as it hasn't been finalized, but it "has the potential to be a very good tournament."
Working on an MTE. He can't speak to it yet as it hasn't been finalized, but it "has the potential to be a very good tournament."
Oh, nice! I saw that tweet scroll by my feed out of the corner of my eye, but the Richmond mention didn't register, duh.
We get another shot at Fatts. Great tournament, and love to get the guaranteed shot at Maryland...they should be very good. And then the second game is very solid either way.
We get another shot at Fatts. Great tournament, and love to get the guaranteed shot at Maryland...they should be very good. And then the second game is very solid either way.
Yeah, this should be two really good games. Schedulers coming through here of recent. Need to get one more big OOC game on the schedule in my opinion.
Then we have to send Louisville back to the Big East to balance things out. 😉
Exactly, too many things going on today, So I zoned back to Y2K.
Or maybe it is just I haven’t seen them much since they left?
Some more schedule details...lot of home games in there including first mention of Georgia State. That makes 10 games, so three more to fill.
UNI game is December 5. Did we know this is a four-game home-and-home series? I thought it was just two. Hope the Panthers get back on track...this was supposed to be a great series.
I'm updating the first post in this thread as we get additional info, and I've just added last year's final NET rankings and quads (based on location) to get a sense for how things are shaping up.
Non-conference:
Q1 (1): Maryland (N)
Q2 (3): NC State (N), Louisville or Mississippi St. (N), Wofford (A)
Q3 (4): Toledo (H), ODU (H), Georgia St. (H), UNI (A)
Q4 (2): Bucknell (H), W&M (H)
A-10:
Q1 (3): Bona (A), SLU (A), VCU (A)
Q2 (5): Bona (H), SLU (H), VCU (H), URI (A), Mason (A)
Q3 (6): Davidson (H), Dayton (H), UMass (H), Mason (H), Duquesne (A), La Salle (A)
Q4 (4): St. Joe's (H), La Salle (H), Fordham (H), GW (H)
So overall that yields the following with three games left to schedule:
Q1: 4 games
Q2: 8 games
Q3: 10 games
Q4: 6 games
Last year, we ended up with the following:
Q1: 5 games
Q2: 6 games
Q3: 7 games
Q4: 4 games
Non-conference:
Q1 (1): Maryland (N)
Q2 (3): NC State (N), Louisville or Mississippi St. (N), Wofford (A)
Q3 (4): Toledo (H), ODU (H), Georgia St. (H), UNI (A)
Q4 (2): Bucknell (H), W&M (H)
A-10:
Q1 (3): Bona (A), SLU (A), VCU (A)
Q2 (5): Bona (H), SLU (H), VCU (H), URI (A), Mason (A)
Q3 (6): Davidson (H), Dayton (H), UMass (H), Mason (H), Duquesne (A), La Salle (A)
Q4 (4): St. Joe's (H), La Salle (H), Fordham (H), GW (H)
So overall that yields the following with three games left to schedule:
Q1: 4 games
Q2: 8 games
Q3: 10 games
Q4: 6 games
Last year, we ended up with the following:
Q1: 5 games
Q2: 6 games
Q3: 7 games
Q4: 4 games
Looks pretty good so far. I would love for us to get another OOC Quad 1 game with one of the remaining games. After that - the others could be Q4. But I think you got to look for another solid Q1 game OOC. But overall this is a schedule that can get us to NCAA bid, but we will still need to win a lot of games and still need a top 3 finish in A10.
No. The “best” possible Q3 opponent would be #76 played at home. The NET has obviously been used for a only a few years, but no team anywhere close to that has earned an at-large. One or two teams in earlier years may have approached it based on RPI (thinking of a USC team about a decade ago), but they weren’t quite that low.
Thanks for the effort SF. So basically it is a wash compared to last year and the season becomes a true “redo”. Too bad there is no marquee home game. Looks rather weak from that perspective, but after not being able to go to games at all last season there is a good chance attendance numbers will be better than average.
Yeah, the Quad system was only used one, maybe two years prior to the NET (with RPI). I can't recall an at-large with a ranking of 76 or worse.
Great analysis. I have got to think with our returning squad that we are hunting for one more really good Quad 1 BCS game road game.
Unrelated note, what happened to Cincinnatti series. I thought that was a H&H we signed and then last year got cancelled because of Covid. Did that negate the whole series?
I'm guessing the Cincinnati thing got nixed entirely rather than pushed back, as we haven't heard anything about it.
