Game 33: A-10 Tournament, #2 Seed vcu (In Pittsburgh), Friday, March 10, 6 PM, NBCSN

[GMU-B]

I was just talking to a co-worker about that this morning. I feel like every time we play vcu, the refs let them play their aggressive style of defense and let them get away with shoves, reach ins and elbow pushes where as any other game, those plays are normally called for the foul.

I 100% agree with this statement and it drives me crazy. All that slapping and bumping.

 

[GMUYoda]

Bit OT, but Dayton struggling early against Davidson... Davidson up 10 26-16 with 6:30 left to play in the 1st half

 

[MasonSAE4]

All I ask tonight is that if something isn't going well we make adjustments. At this point it's all house money so let's take a few risks. Maybe it was all the beer I had yesterday but I felt like for a long, long time we kept going to the baseline and getting trapped which kept leading to turnovers.

 

[mason89]

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Great picture!

 

[GMUYoda]

Bit OT, but Dayton struggling early against Davidson... Davidson up 10 26-16 with 6:30 left to play in the 1st half

Davidson 37 Dayton 25 at the half

 

[Old Man]

I *know* it's a neutral court, but since the Penguins, Stillers, and Pirates are all black and gold, Pittsburgh doesn't feel too neutral to me.

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[GMUYoda]

Wow... #1 seed Dayton bounced... Davidson wins 73-67

 

[GreenLantern]

Dayton goes down. So will vcu!

 

[Mason2005]

Looks like there is a huge advantage with teams having played on the court already. GW put up 13 in the first half vs St Louis last night. Mason needs to come out strong off the blocks and never look back.

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[Pablo]

Mason Basketball‏@MasonMBB
Quarterfinal Friday shootaround #Mason2Pitt

 

[By George.]

Day 3 in Pittsburgh - Listen to our latest podcast recapping Mason's win and talking about the rest of the bracket. #downgoesDayton

We will also be broadcasting the post game presser live on our twitter as well as posting videos and photos of the rest of the tourney.

http://giantkiller.co/ByGeorge/2017/03/10/mason-advances/

 

[MasonSAE4]

Depending on how a few other results play out it looks like just playing vcu might put is in the top 100 of the RPI

 

[Falco]

Mason Basketball‏@MasonMBB
Quarterfinal Friday shootaround #Mason2Pitt

Revao is always looking at the floor

 

[patriot2000]

I was just talking to a co-worker about that this morning. I feel like every time we play vcu, the refs let them play their aggressive style of defense and let them get away with shoves, reach ins and elbow pushes where as any other game, those plays are normally called for the foul.

It's not just when we play them; it's virtually every one of their games. Somehow they became the Duke of the A10... They do what they want and it's just not gonna be called. I was at the home game against vcu this year with a buddy who is neither a vcu nor a Mason fan. He was equating it to some other teams through recent history that press all or most of the time, and who do some sort of scramble, "havoc," or other gimmicky defense that requires constant hand checks. The refs basically just decide "If we call everything, there will be no flow to the game." Unfortunately, it usually works out that the other team, who is playing a more traditional brand of basketball still DOES get called for everything. It sucks.

One example is, watch vcu's on-the-ball defender during the press. He will ALWAYS foul the ball handler about halfway between the top of the arc and the half-court line. It will NEVER be called. The refs see it, but they don't think it affects the game enough to call it. The problem is, it gets in the heads of the ball handlers and causes them to rush over the line - this screwing up their flow for the first second or two of the half court offence. Yes, a good PG should be able to handle that, but at the same time, a good ref should enforce the rules regardless of the name on the jersey

 

[Pikapppatri8]

This is a bad matchup for us. However, there is something to be said for a team who has already played a game in a tourney. Look no further than TCU over KU yesterday. Some of the comments coming out after that game were that TCU felt comfortable in the arena having already played a game there and that nobody gave them a shot so they had nothing to lose. Sounds familiar...

I actually like the fact we are playing two games in a row - we are warm and still have the game mindset. I think having a day off would get us cold.

We just need to play like winning is the only thing between living and dying.

Leave it all on the court.

But do agree - they are a senior laden team and we still are filling in a couple of holes on our end.

 

[Mason2005]

Just got to Pittsburg, time to crush this hipster school!

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[Pablo]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.si...nts/2017/3/10/MASON_mbb_notes_A10Q_031017.pdf:

"Troy Temara
• DNP last three games (coach’s decision)"

 

[MasonCrew]

Heading to carpool in Arlington. Let's go boys. Win or lose, last night made this season great.

 

[GMUYoda]

I want to win so badly... but if we were to somehow lose (which we won't) please keep it close... I really don't want to see a 75-52 game

 

[Herndon]

f**k those guys