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Dayton Survives a Feisty UMass Squad, Moves on to the Semis

Summary The Dayton Flyers were given all that they could handle from UMass, but they prevailed in the end, 75-72. The win puts Dayton in the semifinals for the first time since the 2016 season. UMass came out firing on all cylinders, going up by as many as 11 in the first half. Eventually, Malachi …

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Rhode Island Fires Head Coach David Cox After Four Seasons

Less that 24 hours after their collapsing loss to Richmond, the Rhode Island Rams have fired men’s head basketball coach David Cox. Cox, who was in his fourth season as head coach, led Rhode Island to a 15-16 record overall and a 5-12 record in the A10 this season, good for 11th place, which was …

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Dayton Gets UMass for a Friday Night Showdown in DC

The Flyers open up A10 Tournament play against UMass. The Dayton Flyers finally know their opponent for their Friday night game in the A10 Tournament: The UMass Minutemen. UMass destroyed a very lack-luster George Washington team on Thursday night by the score of 99-88. UMass got hot early and kept it up all the way …

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Tourney Time: Bonnies Battle Billikens in D.C. on Friday

WASHINGTON – St. Bonaventure Coach Mark Schmidt said that he divides up the season into three parts: the non-conference slate, conference play, and then the postseason. Well, it’s officially the second week of March and that means that the postseason has arrived for the Bonnies. Kyle Lofton, Dom Welch, and Osun Osunniyi have a career …

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The A10 Talk Staff Predicts the 2022 A10 Tournament

Ah, prediction time. It’s one of the more pointless things that human beings do, and yet we keep doing it. We try and try to be correct, and yet we are often wrong again and again. As we do every year for the A10 tournament, each of our staff members tries to predict the A10 …

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George Washington A-10 Tournament Preview: Is There A Path?

(Photo Courtesy of Chris Tucci/UMass Athletics) FOGGY BOTTOM – Even though George Washington (12-17, 8-9 A-10) failed to beat Fordham (15-15, 8-10 A-10) in their final game of the regular season, GW was lucky enough to stumble into the 7th seed in the Atlantic 10 Tournament thanks to a heroic overtime UMass (14-16, 7-11 A-10) …

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The A10 Tournament Preview

Here we go. It’s tourney time! The Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament starts this week with all 14 teams fighting to get that coveted automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. This is the first time that the conference tournament will be back to normal after the 2020 cancellation and the 2021 social spaced out event in …

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A10 Bracketology Update Going into the A10 Tournament

It’s finally March, and it’s finally conference tourney time! Looking back on the last update, which you can find here, we had a few more teams fall out of the at-large race for the A10. They will now have to win the A10 Tournament this week in Washington, D.C. The first team to exit the …

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Just Win Baby: Dayton Heads to Hawk Hill on Saturday to face Saint Joe’s

The Haunted House of Hagan Arena Brian Gregory never won there. Archie Miller never won there. Anthony Grant has won there once. Before Grant won there, the last Dayton win at Hagan Arena was in the 2001-2002 season, during the time of head coach Oliver Purnell. That’s a span of 18 years and 7 games. …

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Power Rankings – December 6, 2021

Here’s this week’s A10 Talk power rankings. The number of first place votes are in parentheses. Attached is the anonymous breakdown on how each contributor voted this week: A10 Power Rankings (Responses) 1. St. Bonaventure (10) 2. Saint Louis (1) 3. Dayton – tie 3. Davidson – tie 5. Richmond 6. Rhode Island 7. …