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Around the A-10: 2024–25 Edition

A-10 goes 7–2 today with Dayton over Marquette, Bona over Providence, and VCU over Colorado State. Only losses were La Salle to UNC and of course us.

Spiders dead last in the A-10 in KenPom at 209, though Duquesne (205) and UMass (206) aren't much better.
 
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Good wins by the A10 tonight with Bonnies over Providence, VCU over Colorado State, and Dayton over Marquette. Bonnies, VCU, Dayton, Loyola, and Rhode Island in good chance to be at-large with a good A10 performance. Key OOC games left for at-large bids:

Loyola v. U. San Francisco
VCU v. New Mexico
Dayton v. Cincinnati
Dayton v. UNLV
George Mason v. Duke (if Mason pulls this off they will certainly be back in at-large convo)
Temple v. Rhode Island

Less key for team getting at-large but still good wins for A10
SLU v. Illinois State
SLU v. Grand Canyon
Davidson v. Temple
Virginia Tech. SJU
Arizona State v. UMass
 
2024 final kenpom numbers:

Dayton 32
VCU 75
Duquesne 88
Richmond 89
UMASS 92
Loyola 93
Mason 97
St. Joe's 99
St Bona 102

2025 kenpom:

Dayton 26
VCU 42
Mason 81
St Bona 82
Rhode Island 93
Loyola 94
St Joe's 104
Davidson 115
GW 145

He uses kenpom for reference, and then says A 10 is stacked? Not according to kenpom, they aren't.
 
Its a bad year for UR to not be competitive in the A10. First time in many years there are multiple teams having good OOC seasons. It would have been exciting.
 
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Dayton has already played the same amount of Q1 games that we are projected to play all season, good grief. Not that it matters since we weren't going to be contending for an at-large bid anyway it's just sad to see the gulf between them and us. They beat the back to back defending national champs by 20 and we lose to Marist and Bucknell for Pete's sake 😫
 
Dayton's win over Marquette catapulted them from 38th last week to #22 in the AP poll and from 44th to #24 in the coaches poll.
 
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