No, we are at the bottom. That is why we were picked at the bottom preseason and why we are at the bottom right now. It is not because of Mooney's coaching acumen, but because of our talent. That is how these ranking go and literally everyone outside our program looked at our talent and said "basement A-10 team". Go back and look at what Dayton fans said about our team after their game.
We have 3 A-10 level players, that is it. Woj and Dre wouldn't ever be recruited at a program like Dayton, SLU, VCU, shoot even Duquesne at this point. And in no program (save maybe Fordham), would they be anywhere close to a starting role. Who else recruited Woj and Andre, basically no one. Same for Grace.
Sal may have some talent but what does it say about him that he can't even get 1 minute of playing time in this line-up we roll out.
And then you have Yates, JJ, and Verbinskis. Those guys are slow and don't have one A-10 level skill.
Mooney is not a great coach but it takes a combination of bad coaching and lack of talent to lose to bad teams like Wyoming, Longwood, Hampton, Oral Roberts and then get blown out by teams that are just decent like Davidson and Dayton.
Losing to a bad A-10 team like St. Joes who is down to 7 scholarship players. We got them missing 2 starters and a top reserve off a team that when they had those players was getting blown out in conference games and we got beat.
We need to stop deluding ourselves that we are talented. We are not.