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Opinion: VCU, You Deserved A Better Ending

I thought I had seen the worst way for a season to end. Marcus Evans, down on the floor of the Barclays Center. The junior guard, the heart and soul of the 2019 regular season champion VCU Rams, on the ground, screaming in pain. VCU entered the A10 tournament on a roll, but were run …

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Who Should Win Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year?

As the season comes to a close the writers at A10 Talk wanted to provide a piece around the A10 Rookie of the Year award. Five writers have come together to make a case for why some of the top A10 freshman should win ROY. The following players under consideration are as follows: Tyler Kolek, …

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La Salle Keeps Busting A10 At Large Bids, Defeats SLU 82-75

First it was Dayton, then it was Richmond, and now it is Saint Louis. Time and again La Salle University has worked to bust the NCAA at large bids of the best teams in the Atlantic 10 conference. Tonight it was Saint Louis’s turn, as the La Salle Explorers defeated the Covid recovering Billikens, 82-75. …

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Duquesne A-10 opener postponed again

Duquesne will have to wait a little longer to start Atlantic 10 play. The Dukes’ Dec. 30 game versus Saint Louis has been postponed “due to positive COVID-19 results within the Saint Louis University men’s basketball program,” the team announced via twitter Wednesday. It is the second time that their A10 opener has been postponed, …

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Duquesne conference opener versus Richmond postponed

The Duquesne Dukes will have to wait longer to begin Atlantic 10 competition as their Dec. 19 game versus Richmond has been Postponed, A10 Talk learned from the Duquesne Athletic Department via a press release. The postponement is “due to a positive COVID test within the Duquesne program,” the athletics department announced. No makeup date …

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The Pandemic’s Impact on Non-Conference Games

College basketball is officially one day away from the first tip off. Fans of college basketball should be excited . Unfortunately, as the start date approaches news breaks that a different team has to quarantine due to Covid-19. The good and bad news seems to come in twos. One day we get the much anticipated …

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The “Rich Paul Rule”: A Mid-Major Misfortune

August is well known for its extremely slow sports news cycle. Turn on SportsCenter and it’s a continuous loop of the same ten diving catches from the MLB’s previous games. So, when the NCAA drops in a new rule for sports agents the media explodes in a frenzy. Consider this the match in the tinder …

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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 …

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Atlantic 10 WBB: Saint Joseph’s healthy and ready to protect home court

Pittsburgh, PA — Not much has been easy for Saint Joseph’s this season, but enough was done to secure a home game Tuesday night against VCU. “It’s definitely been a journey, there is no question about it, there wasn’t a clear path to where we got to,” Saint Joseph’s coach Cindy Griffin said. “It was …

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Atlantic 10 WBB: Richmond comes back home with momentum

Pittsburgh, PA — Richmond coach Michael Shafer could not be any prouder of his team after a rare road victory Sunday at George Washington, in which the Spiders held GW to 36 points. “I think we’ve been playing really well as of late,” he said. “Wednesday when we played UMass we didn’t play very well …