The Neubauer Era – Great, Oftentimes Phenomenal Defense Didn’t Lead To Wins

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Jeff Neubauer knows what he’s good at. It was not a fluke that he recorded 188 wins while at Eastern Kentucky, second most in program history. And it was not a fluke when he won 101 games in his last five seasons at the school, a number that still stands for a program record during any five-year stretch. However we find ourselves forgetting this, or in some cases we believe that these sorts of records ended when he got to Fordham. 
In some ways they did. It is not a secret that this Rams team has struggled in recent years to get in the win column – particularly in the A10 – having just 6 total conference wins since the 2018-19 season. But pending how you look at it, not everything that Neubauer did was wrong. As a matter of fact, he actually did a lot quite right.
His first season with Fordham finished with a 17-14 record during the 2015-16 season. This record was good enough to get them a postseason appearance in the CIT tournament, their first postseason tournament appearance...

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