2019-20 Schedule Thread

[psyclone]

JMU plays UVa today at 6 on ESPNU. Don't expect it to be close but it's a chance to see an upcoming opponent go against an excellent defense.

UVa held Syracuse to only 30 some points just a few days ago.

UVa covers: 65-34

ODU beats St. Joes.

 

[psyclone]

Just some thoughts on the season so far, seen through the eyes of the KenPom rankings.

Granted it's early in the season when those rankings would seem to be quite unreliable, but Kenpom still has us at #155, the same as when the season began. Likely reflecting that their/his spreads on our games have been pretty much on the nose.

Each of our first 5 games are against teams that are a bit better than the previous opponent yet inferior to our current ranking. The next 3 spreads have us as favorites by 9, 8, and 6 respectively. Then we are underdogs to UMd by 17 and ODU by 1.

One could argue that the return of Justin and the more experience that our otherwise young team will get as the season progresses will mean we will be better than we are currently, resulting in an improvement of our ranking. Naturally the initial Kenpom ranking is a bit iffy---did it factor in that Justin would be out several games? Hard to know what number to put on that.

Looking forward to how all this plays out in the upcoming weeks!

 

[sleeperpick]

Just some thoughts on the season so far, seen through the eyes of the KenPom rankings.

Granted it's early in the season when those rankings would seem to be quite unreliable, but Kenpom still has us at #155, the same as when the season began. Likely reflecting that their/his spreads on our games have been pretty much on the nose.

Each of our first 5 games are against teams that are a bit better than the previous opponent yet inferior to our current ranking. The next 3 spreads have us as favorites by 9, 8, and 6 respectively. Then we are underdogs to UMd by 17 and ODU by 1.

One could argue that the return of Justin and the more experience that our otherwise young team will get as the season progresses will mean we will be better than we are currently, resulting in an improvement of our ranking. Naturally the initial Kenpom ranking is a bit iffy---did it factor in that Justin would be out several games? Hard to know what number to put on that.

Looking forward to how all this plays out in the upcoming weeks!

amen... our schedule gets infinitely better as it goes.. so far we have beaten #295 and #305... glad we won but we had to lol

 

[sleeperpick]

Highly ranked GW transfer Amir Harris gets his waiver and is now allowed to play this year.. should be a big improvement for the GW roster.. 3 years of eligibility left for the Frederick MD product

 

[GSII]

Highly ranked GW transfer Amir Harris gets his waiver and is now allowed to play this year.. should be a big improvement for the GW roster.. 3 years of eligibility left for the Frederick MD product

Is it okay to refer to kids as "products"? Asking for a friend since "horses" was offensive to some on here.

 

[JPgmuswim]

Is it okay to refer to kids as "products"? Asking for a friend since "horses" was offensive to some on here.

I feel as though “products” is worse....ha

 

[Leesburg Chankenstank III]

Dead horses are used to make glue and other industrial products.

 

[sleeperpick]

Is it okay to refer to kids as "products"? Asking for a friend since "horses" was offensive to some on here.

Yikes fair point. Don’t want to offend anyone. Better not say man either because we don’t know how Amir classified himself. Might not even be a human if he considers himself something else. Weird times we live in

 

[GMUYoda]

vcu sneaks by #23 LSU 84-82

 

[masonjoe]

JMU just beat ODU, does that hurt our already bad SOS?

 

[Falco]

JMU just beat ODU, does that hurt our already bad SOS?

What a wild game, but does that hurt or help our SOS?

 

[MasonSAE4]

What a wild game, but does that hurt or help our SOS?

I would think it’s relatively negligible unless either of them lose out the rest of the way. Not that it really matters. We don’t have the OOC schedule to really justify anything anyways.

 

[Falco]

I would think it’s relatively negligible unless either of them lose out the rest of the way. Not that it really matters. We don’t have the OOC schedule to really justify anything anyways.

I don't understand the negativity around our SOS. The A10 is looking really good this year, so that alone helps us. vcu will probably be ranked when we play them. And Mason has opportunities with a few big OOC games.

 

[MasonSAE4]

I don't understand the negativity around our SOS. The A10 is looking really good this year, so that alone helps us. vcu will probably be ranked when we play them. And Mason has opportunities with a few big OOC games.

I'm not negative about it at all. I think it's exactly what we needed (starting out with some confidence builders) but it certainly wasn't put together as a roadmap to get to the tourney, which I'm totally fine with this year. Starting out with five straight home games against teams you have to go to the last page of Kenpom to find isn't a signal you're expecting to be in the conversation on Selection Sunday without having won the A10 tourney.

 

[Five Two]

JMU just beat ODU, does that hurt our already bad SOS?

Anyone else think the basket counted at the end? The clip I saw looked like .1 was still showing on the clock when the ball left his hand and the commentators saying it looked good.

 

[Mason32]

I don't understand the negativity around our SOS. The A10 is looking really good this year, so that alone helps us. vcu will probably be ranked when we play them. And Mason has opportunities with a few big OOC games.

People are negative because before the season even started we essentially had zero shot at an at-large bid if the team has a good year. That sucks, I enjoy at least having hope

 

[GMUgemini]

People are negative because before the season even started we essentially had zero shot at an at-large bid if the team has a good year. That sucks, I enjoy at least having hope

Not losing any of these cupcake games and going 15-3 in conference and Mason will be in, most likely. 14-4 or maybe even 13-5 and you're talking about a bubble team. There's your hope.

Not that that's going to happen, but the conference schedule alone will increase the SOS.

You are going to most likely get 2 Quad 1 games against vcu, 1 against UMD, 1 against TCU. Davidson, Duquense, and UMass (yes, UMass) are all predicted in the quad 1 range for away games right now, Dayton for their home game. That's 9 games against quad 1 opponents if the predictions holds together.

Quadrant 2: home to St. Louis, home to UMass, home to URI, home to St. Bonaventure, away to St. Bonaventure. That's 5 Quad 2 games.

14 games against Quad 1 and Quad 2 the rest of the way, that's almost half the schedule.

 

[Washingtonian]

Anyone else think the basket counted at the end? The clip I saw looked like .1 was still showing on the clock when the ball left his hand and the commentators saying it looked good.

The problem was the clock on the bottom right of the replay was a tenth off, but there wasn't a camera angle to show whether the ball was on his fingertips or not when the red light came on. The red light is what counts. You would think with technology now a days, a clearer view could be determined. Props to ESPN3 for showing the game from a Norfolk TV station.

If you have Xfinity, and hit the letter "C" on your remote, you can see all the games that are on TV or internet for multiple sports. That is how I found the JMU/ODU game last night.

I thought it was good in real time.

 

[Five Two]

The problem was the clock on the bottom right of the replay was a tenth off, but there wasn't a camera angle to show whether the ball was on his fingertips or not when the red light came on. The red light is what counts. You would think with technology now a days, a clearer view could be determined.

I didnt realize the clock being shown in the lower right was off.

 

[Pikapppatri8]

I don't understand the negativity around our SOS. The A10 is looking really good this year, so that alone helps us. vcu will probably be ranked when we play them. And Mason has opportunities with a few big OOC games.

Agree with you on this point. We have to win in the A-10 - period. If we are successful in conference - then post opportunities will be there. But we need to take care of business during conference play. A-10 is looking interesting this year - so it will be tough.