Non-Conference Road Games

[MDspider8]

Tonight's loss marks our 11th straight non-conference road loss - we haven't won a true non-conference road game since December 5th, 2021 @ Northern Iowa. That's 1,109 days ago! With no more opportunties to break the streak this year, we're going to be pushing FOUR years since we've last won one of these games. Unacceptable.

Mooney talks so much about how hard it is to build a quality at-large resume as a mid-major in this environment. Winning a single non-conference road game across three seasons of basketball would probably help a bit.

 

[Section9.RowD]

Tonight's loss marks our 11th straight non-conference road loss - we haven't won a true non-conference road game since December 1st, 2021 @ Wofford. That's 1,113 days ago! With no more opportunties to break the streak this year, we're going to be pushing FOUR years since we've last won one of these games. Unaccepatable.

Mooney talks so much about how hard it is to build a quality at-large resume as a mid-major in this environment. Winning a single non-conference road game across three seasons of basketball would probably help a bit.

I think I have been to 7 of them - most haven't been close - Charleston, Toledo, Auburn, W&M, in '22, Clemson @ Greenville, Florida @Ft. Lauderdale, Charlotte

 

[8legs1dream]

It's hard to win on the road!
We didn't have enough time to get a good scout on them!
The other team wants to win as much as we do!
etc etc
Extend Mooney

 

[MDspider8]

I think I have been to 7 of them - most haven't been close - Charleston, Toledo, Auburn, W&M, in '22, Clemson @ Greenville, Florida @Ft. Lauderdale, Charlotte

I'm actually not even counting the Clemson and Florida games, since they're technically "neutral site." Here's my count:

11/14/22 @ Charleston
11/30/22 @ Toledo
12/3/22 @ W&M
11/15/23 @ BC
11/29/23 @ Wichita St.
12/6/23 @ Northern Iowa
3/19/24 @ VT (NIT)
11/13/24 @ Charlotte
11/16/24 @ Bucknell
12/8/24 @ Auburn
12/18/24 @W&M

 

[spiderjpo]

Playing close on the road means nothing. Winning is the objective. This administration constantly lets Mooney schedule weak out of conference teams and we still can't win games. Sitting here now watching GM play Duke after they just beat Tulane and we have to play D2_schools because we can't get anyone to play us. Its a joke at this point. Either go in another direction with the program or move to a lower conference and be happy competing at that level.

 

[Eight Legger]

We should have had all sorts of momentum going into the offseason after being the surprise regular season champ. And Mooney somehow managed to translate that success into the worst team he’s ever had. Great job dude.

 

[MrTbone]

We should have had all sorts of momentum going into the offseason after being the surprise regular season champ. And Mooney somehow managed to translate that success into the worst team he’s ever had. Great job dude.

I totally get the sentiment, although it seems increasingly likely that we maybe just caught lightning in a bottle and perhaps that alone makes the momentum continuation a low likelihood.

Last years success was maybe not sustainable, as evidenced by our end of season swoon. And of course the ss were experiencing now.

 

[Eight Legger]

I meant in terms of being able to attract the kind of players who could keep us at that level in a sustainable way. I agree that it was basically the perfect storm scenario, but good players want to play for good teams. We were a good team and should have translated that into great recruiting and more sustained success. Instead, we vomited, tripped in it and landed in it face first.

 

[ncspiderfan]

Playing close on the road means nothing. Winning is the objective. This administration constantly lets Mooney schedule weak out of conference teams and we still can't win games. Sitting here now watching GM play Duke after they just beat Tulane and we have to play D2_schools because we can't get anyone to play us. Its a joke at this point. Either go in another direction with the program or move to a lower conference and be happy competing at that level.

They only move to lower conferences for the teams that succeed at the level they are at.
WBB will be DII if they keep it up.

 

[GKiller]

I think I have been to 7 of them - most haven't been close - Charleston, Toledo, Auburn, W&M, in '22, Clemson @ Greenville, Florida @Ft. Lauderdale, Charlotte

Maybe it’s the shirt

 

[72Spider]

WM had a jam packed "crowd" of just over 2,000 for the game. You can't expect us to perform well on the road under those conditions.

 

[brooklyn brownstone]

WM had a jam packed "crowd" of just over 2,000 for the game. You can't expect us to perform well on the road under those conditions.

it's a big step up from the hostile 50 that UR faced in the worst MTE in the country.

 

[Section9.RowD]

Maybe it’s the shirt

I've changed my entire wardrobe 3 times over at this point and nothing is helping ...

 

[8legs1dream]

We should have had all sorts of momentum going into the offseason after being the surprise regular season champ. And Mooney somehow managed to translate that success into the worst team he’s ever had. Great job dude.

we have a severe intolerance to momentum as a program 😵‍💫