Game 9: GMU (5-3 / 1-1) vs vcu (8-2 / 1-0) on Wednesday, January 6, at 7:00 PM.

[GSII]

We can't beat a team when half the team and coaching staff are missing and we expect to play well and win against vcpoo???

Only thing that keeps this close is the Div III Brotherhood.

 

[psyclone]

Kenpom: vcu (#55) favored by 6 over Mason (#139).

 

[Gopher+RamFan]

one of the nicest ones in the area, you must have gotten your Master's at vcu to get that gig

Yes, the internships at the Richmond area McDonalds set me up for success.

Real talk, I miss the “old” McDonalds in McLean where we’d go after class in high school. It’s now a garden place or something.

 

[Pablo]

https://www.vcuramnation.com/forums...s-of-mason-in-nova-thread-as-scheduled.18990/

 

[gmubrian]

Keys to beating vcu...

After Tom's post on the Dayton game, I have come to the conclusion that the key to this game (and all future games) is to go with the "Costanza". We should have Dave draw up a game plan and then have one of the assistant coaches run the team and do the exact opposite.

 

[mkaufman1]

After Tom's post on the Dayton game, I have come to the conclusion that the key to this game (and all future games) is to go with the "Costanza". We should have Dave draw up a game plan and then have one of the assistant coaches run the team and do the exact opposite.

Love it!

 

[Pablo]

https://twitter.com/marcdavissports/status/1346142365971525632?s=20

 

[Leesburg Chankenstank III]

Very depressing for Mason fans so far. No reason to believe this will change against vcu.

Only things keeping my spirits up are my Tesla and NIO stocks and the Washington Football Team in the playoffs.

Hail To The Football Team That Represents the Greater Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area!
#HTTFTTRTGWDCMA

 

[PDGL Hoops]

Not optimistic about the match up -

vcu: 72
Mason: 60

 

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

but if anyone can skirt common sense protocol rules it's our morally challenged friends to the south.

No surprises here. ^^^^^^^^^

After we completely broke them last year I knew they wouldn't miss a chance to play their GREATEST RIVAL. (us) Certainly their program is not the type that would follow a few common sense COVID protocols just in the name of health and safety...they've invested so much in their program they really can't afford to not have a full season--already the loss of expected revenue is putting them further and further in debt to Chinese creditors, UR alumni, and their unsavory sponsors, most of which are either strip clubs or tied to the Sons of the Confederacy or the New York mafia.

Ugh, thank God for Fairfax attendance restrictions, can you imagine these already diseased, often morbidly obese, f**king second-rate artist heroin addicts bringing us a second wave of COVID up here? Despite our much greater population Richmond city has gotten much more COVID than us, to include Richmond's most powerful man, Democratic Governor Blackface. Meanwhile Fairfax's most powerful man, me, has received zero COVID by comparison despite still travelling and remaining far more sexually active.

Love this matchup despite vcu not taking common sense time off from their program and endangering the whole conference--our stupid defense will entice them into jacking stupid threes as usual and we have the guard quickness to get through their press.

Mason 70
vcu 67

 

[PoorManProfit]

The Rams remain paused, but still beat Patriot who are comatose.

vcu 75
G Mas 68

 

[tblack33]

At some point during this game, we will have a 6-8 minute period where we turn the ball over 6 times and don't score a FG. Might be to start the game, might be at some point before the 10 minute mark in the second half. We'll go down by 18+. We'll make some 3s in garbage time to pull it within 12 and make it look closer than it was. It's a shame, because on paper, coaching and schemes aside, I think that 3 out of our 5 starters are better than vcu's. Couple that with the fact that we are a veteran team who should know exactly what vcu is about to throw at them, we should win this one somewhat comfortably. But we won't.

vcu 76 Mason 64. The seat gets warmer.

 

[GSII]

We beat them last year and made them crash for the rest of the year.

Won't happen this time. Or the next.

 

[GMUgemini]

At some point during this game, we will have a 6-8 minute period where we turn the ball over 6 times and don't score a FG. Might be to start the game, might be at some point before the 10 minute mark in the second half. We'll go down by 18+. We'll make some 3s in garbage time to pull it within 12 and make it look closer than it was. It's a shame, because on paper, coaching and schemes aside, I think that 3 out of our 5 starters are better than vcu's. Couple that with the fact that we are a veteran team who should know exactly what vcu is about to throw at them, we should win this one somewhat comfortably. But we won't.

vcu 76 Mason 64. The seat gets warmer.

This sounds about right. We also will either not score for the first 8 minutes or be up by 15 and then collapse. One of the two.

 

[GreenLantern]

Us 59
Them 80
OT

 

[Pablo]

No surprises here. ^^^^^^^^^

After we completely broke them last year I knew they wouldn't miss a chance to play their GREATEST RIVAL. (us) Certainly their program is not the type that would follow a few common sense COVID protocols just in the name of health and safety...

https://richmond.com/sports/college...cle_94da2165-47b5-54e0-9c57-708e9fa32cf8.html:

"vcu’s Mike Rhoades discussed Monday, there are two kinds of calls a coach never wants to get: one after midnight or — this year in particular — one right before 8 a.m.

'You get a phone call early in the morning from the trainer, it’s like a parent, "What happened? Is everybody OK? Are we safe, are we healthy?’” Rhoades said.

On Saturday morning, Rhoades received one of those unfortunate calls from Dennis Williams, the men’s basketball program’s director of sports performance. Williams informed Rhoades that the results had returned from the Rams’ round of Friday COVID-19 testing. The verdict was that, at the advice of their doctors, the Rams would enter its COVID-19 protocol."

"He also could not comment on what allowed for the quick resumption of activity, including the possibility of a false positive triggering the pause.

'What I did was I talked to our trainers, our administration and our doctors,' Rhoades said. 'And our doctors ran the show and took those steps there. And we just followed that as a staff, which we’ve been doing since we got back [to the team facility on] June 5.'

For such a quick turnaround, a false positive or an at-risk close contact who came back negative for COVID-19 would figure to be the only possible scenarios."

 

[GSII]

Hopefully they don't infect our players or staff. I would just hate it if DP caught this virus and had to isolate for 2 weeks leaving Simpk and MOJO to run the show. Would just be mortified.

 

[GMUgemini]

Hopefully they don't infect our players or staff. I would just hate it if DP caught this virus and had to isolate for 2 weeks leaving Simpk and MOJO to run the show. Would just be mortified.

It is rather interesting they missed one game and we cancelled 5 and didn't play for a month. I still think multiple players got it over that time span, which made our quarantine period so long.

 

[Pablo]

https://gomason.com/news/2021/1/5/mens-basketball-mason-makes-a-10-home-debut-vs-vcu-wednesday.aspx:

"Wednesday's game marks the 64th all-time meeting between old CAA and current A-10 foes George Mason and vcu. Mason is 13-13 at home, 7-22 on the road and 1-7 on neutral courts vs. vcu (21-42 overall). The Rams have won 15 of the past 20 meetings and 11 of the 14 games in Atlantic 10 play."

"A LOOK AT THE RAMS (8-2, 10 A-10, NET #31, KenPom #55)
vcu was picked to finish ninth in the A-10 preseason poll but currently sports the top NET ranking in the A-10 through 10 games. vcu earned non-conference wins over KenPom top-75 teams Utah State (85-69) and Memphis (70-59), with the only two losses coming to top-50 teams Penn State (72-69) and West Virginia (78-66). vcu sports the 17th-best defense in the country according to KenPom, giving up just 0.905 points/possession. The Rams rank fifth in the country in steals per game (11.2), 13th in turnovers forced per game (19.0) and 19th in blocks per game (5.3).

 

[Bricker]

1-7 on neutral courts

"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."