Atlantic 10 WBB Awards 2018-19
PITTSBURGH — As exciting as the regular season was, Tuesday is the beginning of a wide-open Atlantic 10 Championship week where several teams have an opportunity to earn the automatic conference spot in the NCAA Tournament as well as close out Pittsburgh’s A.J. Palumbo Center. After each regular season, coaches submit their choices for a …
GW WBB balancing success, development
As George Washington women’s basketball seniors Mei-Lyn Bautista and Kelsi Mahoney sat in La Salle’s visiting locker room last season, the two had a feeling that the team was beginning to click and that the season could be something special. Two months later that vision was realized as GW won the Atlantic 10 Women’s Basketball …
GW WBB’s Mahoney’s confidence extends to all aspects of game
Richmond, VA— Shortly after confetti spread across the Richmond Coliseum, George Washington women’s basketball junior forward Kelsi Mahoney was finally able to sit down and reflect on her freshman season, which provided her biggest challenges and made her lose some love for the game. Mahoney knew that as a post player and she would be …
GW reclaims Atlantic 10 WBB Championship
Richmond, VA— A year ago, George Washington women’s basketball coach Jennifer Rizzotti could not help but cry after a quarterfinals loss, because she felt like she had let her seniors down and in turn, the quartet felt it had disappointed its first-year coach. With just over a minute left in regulation, Rizzotti substituted her starters …
GW, Saint Joseph’s advance to A-10 WBB Finals
Richmond, VA— The Atlantic 10 Championship has been the most competitive it has been with each contest at Richmond Coliseum being hard fought which means it should be no surprise to see the lowest-seeded championship final in conference history as fifth-seeded George Washington and sixth-seeded Saint Joseph’s advanced to the finals. The play in Richmond …
Atlantic 10 WBB: George Washington feeling comfortable with team growth
Pittsburgh, PA— George Washington enters Atlantic 10 Championship play in a position it is accustomed to, on a recent string of momentum and now prepared to host a first round game Tuesday night against La Salle as the fifth overall seed in the conference. February has been rather kind to GW, as it earned seven …
Grading the Atlantic 10 coaching hires
Finally, we’ve got 14 teams and 14 head coaches in the A-10. The offseason came at the Atlantic 10 fast, but after a few hiccups, we now know who will be leading next year’s squads into the 2018 Atlantic 10 tournament in Washington DC. Let’s take a look at ’em and hand out some hiring grades …
Pressure rises in the race for fourth (yes, fourth)
We are in the midst of one heck of a conference race, a race that could see not one but two new conference leaders in just a matter of hours as Saint Joseph’s hosts a Dayton Flyers team while looking to potentially pull the Hawks and the VCU Rams into a tie for first with the …