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Charleston and Bama were not trash games. Charleston has been disappointing - I have closed the "Hire Earl Grant" billboard GoFundMe account. Bama was the best "get" on our schedule.

I think we could do without playing two Big South teams in the future. That conference is trash. Plus, we're 1-3 against them the past two seasons.
 
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ChoppinBroccoli said:
Charleston and Bama were not trash games. Charleston has been disappointing - I have closed the "Hire Earl Grant" billboard GoFundMe account. Bama was the best "get" on our schedule.

I think we could do without playing two Big South teams in the future. That conference is trash. Plus, we're 1-3 against them the past two seasons.
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No individually they're not. Charleston was expected to be a little down from prior years. But collectively the "Lunardi" games are no positive. 4 out of 6 is not good. Trash may be harsh but his whole strategery was poor, never liked it and have been on that train from the get go. Mooney and Hardt are two of the highest paid guys in the university and we have all this support staff yet we can't figure out scheduling? That's even worse. And then Jabba the Hardt and Philly Bob do that hour long show with Lunardi about how great it is. And the real positive would be expected PR with his brackets and media spots etc and that's been the complete opposite, when arguably he could have us much higher like Jerry Palm.

We had a solid base on schedule to start...the tourney, ODU, BC. We were supposed to be the toughest or one of the toughest in A10 and we're 7th or 8th, we tried to get too cute and f*cked it up imo.
 
Lunardi update...

1/31 bracketology - VCU does what VCU does, embarrass us and go to NCAA over and over. They moved up to 1 of the last 4 byes. URI is now one of last 4 in.

We are not in the top 8 OUT.

Jabba's got some explaining to do.
 
We were in some brackets after out of conference schedule. Now, we are out of them after losing back-to-back IC games. Yet, the out of conference schedule is still being blamed? It's not like we went undefeated OOC with no good wins and are being penalized for it.
We lost to Radford. We lost to Bama. It wasn't the schedule. The schedule was set up great for an at large. How would things look for us had we beating Radford and Bama? Or, since we lost to Auburn, Alabama, and Radford, had we played some top power schools and lost them also, how would we be looking at 13 - 8 right now?
 
GKiller said:
Lunardi update...

1/31 bracketology - VCU does what VCU does, embarrass us and go to NCAA over and over. They moved up to 1 of the last 4 byes. URI is now one of last 4 in.

We are not in the top 8 OUT.

Jabba's got some explaining to do.
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Jabba is Jabba. Drawing a paycheck and eating well. The last good AD at Richmond was Chuck Boone.
 
VT4700 said:
We were in some brackets after out of conference schedule. Now, we are out of them after losing back-to-back IC games. Yet, the out of conference schedule is still being blamed? It's not like we went undefeated OOC with no good wins and are being penalized for it.
We lost to Radford. We lost to Bama. It wasn't the schedule. The schedule was set up great for an at large. How would things look for us had we beating Radford and Bama? Or, since we lost to Auburn, Alabama, and Radford, had we played some top power schools and lost them also, how would we be looking at 13 - 8 right now?
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We've never been in Lunardi's bracket. NET rankings for the Lunardi games...

207 St Francis
165 Vandy
313 Hampton
127 Charleston
179 Radford
40 Bama
 
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VT4700 said:
We were in some brackets after out of conference schedule. Now, we are out of them after losing back-to-back IC games. Yet, the out of conference schedule is still being blamed? It's not like we went undefeated OOC with no good wins and are being penalized for it.
We lost to Radford. We lost to Bama. It wasn't the schedule. The schedule was set up great for an at large. How would things look for us had we beating Radford and Bama? Or, since we lost to Auburn, Alabama, and Radford, had we played some top power schools and lost them also, how would we be looking at 13 - 8 right now?
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I agree with most of your post. Yes, you're correct that the OOC was sufficient to put us in position to make the tourney. The evidence being that we were widely picked as either in or at least on the bubble after OOC.

But I disagree with you on the last part. Why would you assume that if we scheduled say 2 more P5 schools or traditional tourney teams that we would lose both of those games? We beat Wisconsin (neutral) and RI (road) right?
 
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Lunardi added to what we already had, and did a good job doing so. It would have made no sense to add six top 100 games to our schedule. We went 4-2 against the six teams you mentioned. Did you really want to make it any tougher?
 
gospidersgo said:
I agree with most of your post. Yes, you're correct that the OOC was sufficient to put us in position to make the tourney. The evidence being that we were widely picked as either in or at least on the bubble after OOC.

But I disagree with you on the last part. Why would you assume that if we scheduled say 2 more P5 schools or traditional tourney teams that we would lose both of those games? We beat Wisconsin (neutral) and RI (road) right?
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Not assuming we would have lost those, but fair to say likely, especially considering they probably would have been on the road. Yes, we maybe could have one one of them, even two, but it was not worth the risk. Even after losing to Radford, at 10 - 3, with the schedule we had, we were still in a very good position to get a bid going into conference play. The resume says we beat Wisconsin and Rhode Island, but lost to Auburn, Alabama, Radford, Dayton, VCU, and St. Louis. And, even after all that, we still have a shot for an at large. So, I don't think we wanted to make our out of conference schedule tougher.
 
VT4700 said:
Lunardi added to what we already had, and did a good job doing so. It would have made no sense to add six top 100 games to our schedule. We went 4-2 against the six teams you mentioned. Did you really want to make it any tougher?
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That a serious question? Uh yes. I'm confident in the players, stop being so negative on them.

Adding 6 top 100 of his 6 is crazy except nobody is making that argument at all. Maybe try to find something in between before you go to the extreme. We should not be the 7th or 8th toughest OOC in A10 with our team.

5 of the 6 Lunardi games are three quad 4 games and two quad 3 games, and the two quad 3 ones could both drop to quad 4.
 
GKiller said:
That a serious question? Uh yes. I'm confident in the players, stop being so negative on them.

Adding 6 top 100 of his 6 is crazy except nobody is making that argument at all. Maybe try to find something in between before you go to the extreme. We should not be the 7th or 8th toughest OOC in A10 with our team.

5 of the 6 Lunardi games are three quad 4 games and two quad 3 games, and the two quad 3 ones could both drop to quad 4.
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The two things that could be better in hindsight are @W&M instead of Hampton, and a start of a H&H with a home 60-70 instead of Radford.

Not sure how easy either of those would have been to get.
 
GKiller said:
Lunardi update...

1/28 bracketology - hey go F yourself Lunardi.

I didn't even want to look but we have fallen outside his top 8 OUT. VCU is in, URI is now first out.

What's holding us back...hmm...maybe it's the trash "Lunardi" games...St Francis, Charleston, Hampton, Bama, Radford and 0-36 in sec Vandy.

It's amazing that we have such a pretentious AD that can also be such a MOron.
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His games have something to do about it but more likely and rightly so, that this team missed two big chances to get quality wins and lost at home to SLU badly and to Radford on NC. We really havent shown the quality of play that deserves an at large to this point.
 
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Lunardi update...

2/4 bracketology - VCU & URI essentially flip flopped with URI now one of last 4 with byes and VCU among the last 4 in.

We are again not in the top 8 OUT.

I've been told Lunardi thinks poorly of our OOC he helped build. Also does Joey get to stand on a box during his TV spots?
 
GKiller said:
Lunardi update...

2/4 bracketology - VCU & URI essentially flip flopped with URI now one of last 4 with byes and VCU among the last 4 in.

We are again not in the top 8 OUT.

I've been told Lunardi thinks poorly of our OOC he helped build. Also does Joey get to stand on a box during his TV spots?
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This morning, out of 100 brackets (3 updated 1/30 the rest since then)
URI is in on 95 of them, VCU 75, UR 3
In one sense making us 12th out...
 
Still plenty of time to catch and pass both URI and VCU. Rhody's worst loss (Brown) is a LOT worse than our worst loss (Radford). We are also 2-4 against the top 41, which is pretty solid...and have a chance to make that 3-4. Not a lot of bubble teams would be better than that. Rhody is solidly in at this point on the basis of being second in the A10. After they lose twice to Dayton, we'll see how things look for them, especially with us having the head-to-head win at their place in our back pocket. That's going to mean something for us down the road.
 
Eight Legger said:
Still plenty of time to catch and pass both URI and VCU. Rhody's worst loss (Brown) is a LOT worse than our worst loss (Radford). We are also 2-4 against the top 41, which is pretty solid...and have a chance to make that 3-4. Not a lot of bubble teams would be better than that. Rhody is solidly in at this point on the basis of being second in the A10. After they lose twice to Dayton, we'll see how things look for them, especially with us having the head-to-head win at their place in our back pocket. That's going to mean something for us down the road.
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I'd rather have Dayton left at home than not. Much more enviable spot imo. I think lock UD loses 1 of those games.
 
Rhode Island has 7 top 100 wins to our 3, with more games against the top 100 left on their schedule.
 
ChoppinBroccoli said:
Rhode Island has 7 top 100 wins to our 3, with more games against the top 100 left on their schedule.
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2 of which were Quad 3.
I will give you the wins over Bama & Providence at home are what we are missing...
I do feel the committee looks more at your winning percentage against Quad 1&2 than total wins. As long as you have enough attempts, but what is enough?
2-0 is not likely to beat 7-10...but they are trying to get away from saying 3-15 is better than 2-0.
 
Dayton isn't going undefeated in conference. Someone is gonna get them. Hopefully, it is not Rhody or VCU as they at large competition for us at this point.
 
Hard to know what to root for there. URI beating Dayton might lock them in as a Q1 win for us, helping us but simultaneously hurting us. Same for VCU beating them. I think Rhody is more likely to get them than VCU, but don't discount the possibility of them running the table. They are about to be a top-5 team in the nation, and the last time we had A10 teams ranked this high (GW in 06 and St. Joe's in 04), they both went undefeated in the league too.
 
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Hard to know what to root for there. URI beating Dayton might lock them in as a Q1 win for us, helping us but simultaneously hurting us. Same for VCU beating them. I think Rhody is more likely to get them than VCU, but don't discount the possibility of them running the table. They are about to be a top-5 team in the nation, and the last time we had A10 teams ranked this high (GW in 06 and St. Joe's in 04), they both went undefeated in the league too.
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I intend to root for Dayton in their next two games against SLU & URI both at Dayton
I'll worry about at URI later.

And let's win the 2/15 game so that VCU's next two Quad 1 games might be a no lose scenario. If they lose we might pass them, if they win they might become Quad 1 and drag us up over the bubble...
 
Eight Legger said:
Hard to know what to root for there. URI beating Dayton might lock them in as a Q1 win for us, helping us but simultaneously hurting us. Same for VCU beating them. I think Rhody is more likely to get them than VCU, but don't discount the possibility of them running the table. They are about to be a top-5 team in the nation, and the last time we had A10 teams ranked this high (GW in 06 and St. Joe's in 04), they both went undefeated in the league too.
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Oh and GW and ST Joe's were only undefeated A-10 regular season...
 
I like that stategy. From where we sit, we definitely want Dayton to run the table. It brings the two teams ahead of us back to the back and eliminates their chances for a signature win. VCU is hanging everything is has on that LSU win. It really has nothing else yet. Rhody has more but if they can lose a couple more games and we end up in a tiebreaker scenario with them, it plays to our advantage.
 
urmite said:
I intend to root for Dayton in their next two games against SLU & URI both at Dayton
I'll worry about at URI later.

And let's win the 2/15 game so that VCU's next two Quad 1 games might be a no lose scenario. If they lose we might pass them, if they win they might become Quad 1 and drag us up over the bubble...
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Sadly I believe we need to be well ahead of vcu to get a bid over them. If its between us and them on equal ground, i think we lose.
 
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Sadly I believe we need to be well ahead of vcu to get a bid over them. If its between us and them on equal ground, i think we lose.
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We'll always lose that battle as long as we have a milquetoast coach and a figurehead athletic director. That dynamic duo have created an environment of soft, while VCU has created an environment of HAVOC no matter who the coach is.
 
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Lunardi update...

2/7 bracketology - not much expected to change with us with no games this week and with fordham & lasalle pending. This could be interesting to look at after our 2/15 game vs. VCU. But Mooney is 6-19 vs VCU nothing to fear there.

URI is now up to the 1st of the last 4 byes. VCU now dropped to 2nd Out. They have plenty of chances to move solidly in though w upcoming schedule.

Lunardi does have Liberty (jerry falwell consulting $$??) and Texas in his first 8 out and he regards them higher than us. Sources also confirm that Joey brackets does indeed stand on a box.
 
Bracket matrix has 99 brackets up as of February 6th.

Rhode Island is in 95 of them and is a 10 seed.
The last four in based on number of brackets are Memphis 76, Purdue 62, VCU 61, and Xavier 59.

The first four out with number of brackets are Mississippi State 57, Tulsa 43, Minnesota 30, and Cincinnati 17.

The next five out are Georgetown 12, Arizona State 8, Utah State 5, Richmond and Texas 4 each.

10 more teams showed up on 1-3 brackets, with St Louis showing up on one.
 
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Georgetown has a top 50 out of conference SOS, and has 3 quad 1 wins and 4 quad 2 wins. Nine of their ten losses are top 50 losses. The other one is top 80. They definitely belong on the bubble right now. But, like all bubble teams, still some work to do.
 
VT4700 said:
Georgetown has a top 50 out of conference SOS, and has 3 quad 1 wins and 4 quad 2 wins. Nine of their ten losses are top 50 losses. The other one is top 80. They definitely belong on the bubble right now. But, like all bubble teams, still some work to do.
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And they have a marketable player in Mac McClung. I think players like that can get a team over the hump with the committee. Something to think about.
 
Lunardi update...

2/11 bracketology - URI has moved up to 9 seed, even past the last 4 byes. VCU is last team in.
We are 7th team OUT. Lunardi removed Liberty and Texas even tho he had no business including them over us in his last bracket 2/7 that I mentioned above. Liberty got a W over same type of team we did yet now we've replaced them. but hey you do you Joey. again this guy over & over could have had us listed higher at minimum top 8 out or above but has refused to unless beyond obvious. Yet Hardt and Philly Bob thought this guy walked on water.

However my sources have told me Joey has gotten wind of these updates on Spidernation. hey Joe since you're listening uh Memphis yeah their best wins r Tennessee and Cincy, ours is Wisco and URI. Much better and we have better NET and 1 difference in kenpom. Knock their ass down. I know you found a sucker in John Hardt but not up in here on the spidernation.

Gotta take care of business at Lasalle and then the biggie...VCU with Mooney 6-19 record. If we do what we expect I got my eye on you come Feb 18. Sleep with the fishes, dine on the whales.
 
GKiller said:
Lunardi update...

2/11 bracketology - URI has moved up to 9 seed, even past the last 4 byes. VCU is last team in.
We are 7th team OUT. Lunardi removed Liberty and Texas even tho he had no business including them over us in his last bracket 2/7 that I mentioned above. Liberty got a W over same type of team we did yet now we've replaced them. but hey you do you Joey. again this guy over & over could have had us listed higher at minimum top 8 out or above but has refused to unless beyond obvious. Yet Hardt and Philly Bob thought this guy walked on water.

However my sources have told me Joey has gotten wind of these updates on Spidernation. hey Joe since you're listening uh Memphis yeah their best wins r Tennessee and Cincy, ours is Wisco and URI. Much better and we have better NET and 1 difference in kenpom. Knock their ass down. I know you found a sucker in John Hardt but not up in here on the spidernation.

Gotta take care of business at Lasalle and then the biggie...VCU with Mooney 6-19 record. If we do what we expect I got my eye on you come Feb 18. Sleep with the fishes, dine on the whales.
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Let's look at the brackets if we win the next two.
When was the last game that seemed make or break and was likely a one possession spread?
Even Brooklyn in 2015, I'm not sure we know we were a 1 seed NIT...
 
Lunardi update...

2/14 bracketology - UR 6th team out. VCU 2nd team out. URI is solidly in. We moved ahead of Memphis which I mentioned last update shouldn't have been above us anyway. It's all about the next 2/18 update anyway with our monster swing game saturday.
 
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