Game 19: AT University of Richmond, Sunday, January 22nd, 1 PM, American Sports Network

[GreenLantern]

Us - 68
Them - 78
OT

 

[Five Two]

This is the third time this season that we will have gone over a week without playing. Its tough coming back from long breaks like this. I realize this one we have little control over because its due to the A10 scheduling and there are no more DI independents looking for January games.

 

[Vurbel]

As we've discussed previously, Coach Paulsen has yet to sign a D-I or JUCO transfer during his tenure here. If I'm not mistaken, Saint Joseph's & Mason are the only A10 programs with no D-I or JUCO transfers on their roster.

I hope that Coach Paulsen has not ruled out signing D-I or JUCO transfers in the future (assuming that they are academically qualified for admission and have no disciplinary issues).

No objection to somebody who has already graduated somewhere else but has a year of eligibility left.

 

[Falco]

Next year will be Paulsen's third year. We will have zero seniors and probably two juniors who play anything more than garbage minutes, so yes, I would say that is young.

By his fourth year, assuming all of our good young talent stays healthy and eligible and doesn't transfer, we will finally have a core of upperclassmen to carry the load augmented by sophomores and freshmen.

That's what you need to be consistently successful in a league as good as the A-10.

I get that you have zero patience and want to go from point A to Z, but that isn't how it works unless you cheat your a** off or get very lucky.

It's not about patience, I think we have the pieces this year to be successful. My idea of successful is finishing with 20+ wins. I certainly think we are close to that, esp if we can win a couple a10 tourney games.

I understand we will be young next year, but I think it's reasonable to expect improvements each year. So despite losing 2 seniors, I'm hoping some younger players can step up.

 

[smccart5]

First of all, I was so bummed about the SLU loss, that this is my first time back to the boards. Second, these long in season breaks are totally ridiculous. How can we go over a week without playing a game?? I understand a break around finals, but man we are in the heart of the season and it seems hard to get into a rhythm and makes it that much harder to shake off a loss. Shouldn't we be playing at least 2 games/week?

 

[Five Two]

Second, these long in season breaks are totally ridiculous. How can we go over a week without playing a game?? I understand a break around finals, but man we are in the heart of the season and it seems hard to get into a rhythm and makes it that much harder to shake off a loss. Shouldn't we be playing at least 2 games/week?

I agree (see my post earlier in the thread). This break is due to the A10 playing the conference tournament the second week in March and starting conference play in late Dec. It means each school will have one week where there is no conference game. In the past, A10 schools would schedule home games vs DI independents who were always looking for January games. But now that schools like Longwood, NJIT and Chicago St have found conference homes, they aren't available to schedule to fill in that "bye" week.

 

[gmutom]

I tend to agree with Five Two and smcart about not liking a week between games, but the flip side is it might help guys like Marquise and Otis who are playing so many minutes. Moore has been nursing an injury and Otis is going through a shooting slump, so a break might do them both some good — not to mention it might lessen the impact of the proverbial freshman wall that Boyd, Kier and Newman might hit.

 

[Pablo]

Another option could be to schedule a game vs. a D-II or D-III school during the "bye" week.

 

[GMUgemini]

Didn't we just play three games in something like 6 days. If we are going to have a bye, why also cram three games into such a tight window?


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[MasonFanatic]

I believe another reasons the conference schedule is set up like this is to allow St. Joe's and La Salle to get their Big Five games in.

 

[Pablo]

https://areyouwatchingthis.com/tv/stations/csndcpl-comcast-sportsnet-mid-atlantic-plus:

• 1:00p - College Basketball - George Mason at Richmond

 

[EXpatriot13]

Game will be on SNY for those in the NY metro area.

 

[Pablo]

http://www.richmondspiders.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=26800&ATCLID=211416391:

"UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - Richmond's men's basketball home game against George Mason on Sunday, Jan. 22, is now officially sold out."

 

[psyclone]

Dayton gets hot in last 5 minutes of first half; leads by 11. on ESPNU

 

[psyclone]

Dayton gets hot in last 5 minutes of first half; leads by 11. on ESPNU

Meanwhile on CBS sports, LaSalle at home goes on a 16-2 run to take 49-40 lead over Davidson at the half.

 

[psyclone]

Dayton gets hot in last 5 minutes of first half; leads by 11. on ESPNU

14-0 run by the Spiders. Game tied with 10 minutes left.

 

[Mason2005]

Meanwhile on CBS sports, LaSalle at home goes on a 16-2 run to take 49-40 lead over Davidson at the half.

Announcer for LaSalle game just said Watanabe for George Mason is still there but they are still underachieving right now.....

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[Washingtonian]

Dayton beats Richmond 75-59.

 

[psyclone]

Dayton beats Richmond 75-59.

The score is deceiving. Richmond didn't stink. Dayton did have a few good runs when they did everything right and the last one came late--turned a 5 pt game to 11 in the time it took me to check in on the LaSalle-Davidson game. Richmond is good (and LaSalle will be hard to beat even though we play them here---they already have 3 games where they've shot 60% or over for a half). It's a tough league for sure.

 

[GMUgemini]

The score is deceiving. Richmond didn't stink. Dayton did have a few good runs when they did everything right and the last one came late--turned a 5 pt game to 11 in the time it took me to check in on the LaSalle-Davidson game. Richmond is good (and LaSalle will be hard to beat even though we play them here---they already have 3 games where they've shot 60% or over for a half). It's a tough league for sure.

La Salle is my dark horse to pull the A-10 auto-sneak thereby giving us three teams in the tournament instead of two.