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Want an NCAA Tourney Bid? Clinch a (A-10 Tourney) First Round Bye

Where did the time go? 4 weeks until the regular season ends. 5 weeks until Selection Sunday. And (most importantly), 8 weeks until the Cardinals and Cubs kick off baseball season under the lights at Wrigley. Admittedly, I spend most of my life pondering events too far in advance at the expense of my current …

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Knee Jerk Reactions to Saturday’s Results

Saturday, January 18th was an interesting day in the A-10. 12 of the conference’s 14 teams hit the floor, and as always, this jam-packed Saturday raised some questions and answered others. As I sit here and wait for my beloved New England Patriots’ 916th AFC Championship appearance of my short lifetime, I leave you with …

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George Washington: The Heart of the A-10

The Atlantic 10 is such a fickle league. In the past few years, teams have been coming and going. The conference grows one year and shrinks in the next. Sometimes it’s a 2-bid conference, sometimes it’s a 5-bid. Schools play deep into March, and then one year later find themselves near the basement. A-10, you …

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One guy predicts every A-10 record, for the love of conference play

Finally. It’s time for conference play in college basketball. Games get tighter, rivalries are renewed, and tickets to postseason tournaments are more or less punched. Lucky for you, I went ahead and predicted the winner of every single A-10 game, and subsequently, every team’s record. In full disclosure, I did not use Sabermetrics, nor did …

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5 Eye-Opening Stats from Month Number 1

31 days of College Basketball have come and gone. 31 days means we are that much closer to March. 31 days has been enough time to lose a few hairs, give you hope for the future, and start putting money aside for a trip to Brooklyn. This past month also allowed us to form opinions …

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2014-2015 Minutemen are more than Chaz-less

Make no mistake about it, the UMass men’s basketball program was dormant when Chaz Williams arrived in the summer of 2011. Before Chaz hit the floor, the Minutemen had not achieved a winning record in three years, and were still searching for their first NCAA tourney birth since 1998. Head coach Derek Kellogg almost lost …

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Rhode Island to play its biggest game in years Wednesday at Providence

On Wednesday night, the Rhode Island Rams will play in their most important game of this decade. URI travels all the way across the state, a full 30 miles north, to put its 5-2 record on the line at in-state rival Providence. With just four non-conference games left, the Providence game is the Rams’ last …

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Don’t Sleep on Davidson

Take the following statement to the bank: Davidson College’s Men’s Basketball team will finish higher than 12th in A-10 play this year. In the A-10 preseason poll, head coaches and writers decided that 11 conference teams were better than the Wildcats. I understand that nobody likes a newcomer, but less than 20 days into the …

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