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Tyler Mason now in the portal

ESPN+'s ranking of transfers has Josh Cohen at #54 and Matt Cross at something like #170 (I only estimated #170; Matt is next to last on their "Next in line" list of guys ranking below 100. Few leaving the A10 made the list. Koby Brea (Dayton) tops the A10 guys at #33. Josh is next highest...

1400? That's a staggering number. There are 362 D1 basketball teams x 13 scholarship spots = 4,706 total scholarships available in D1 hoops. 1400 transfers is 30% of all available roster spots, and each team is losing on average 3.4 players to the transfer portal. Add in players exhausting their el...

A tough NIL competitor, at least until MAC time: https://www.a10talk.com/2024/03/questions-for-dayton-in-the-offseason/ NIL section snippet: "It was reported this season that Dayton’s roster has a $1 million compensation total among the roster, with DaRon Holmes understandably getting the most ...

just noticed this post from just before the tourney started, and imagine many agreed with you then. But today, the ACC has 4 in the sweet 16, and only 1 team they sent lost so far, although Virginia looked awful and probably shouldn't have made it (obviously just squeaked in to the first 4). The ACC...

great win for Colorado over Florida today. In this era of so much movement, surprising to recognize 5 of Colorado's players (of the 8 that played, and 4 starters) were there when UMass beat them in Myrtle Beach last season.

Providence didn't help your argument, losing last night's home game to ACC's 11th place BC.

Hold up.. I thought good players only left MAC schools.. not A10 schools.. in all serious though the NCAA needs to do something. Players should get 1 free transfer. After that you sit out. Unless your coach bails or gets fired. Then you can go without sitting out. the NCAA did what you wanted, but ...

not a former player, but recent and former coach Matt McCall is reportedly joining Chris Mack on Vanderbilt's staff.

https://x.com/ZackDPT/status/1769445534731833564?s=20

sounds like many, like me, rooted for the Dukes. VCU and Dayton have great programs, but I'm tired of them. Also, Keith Dambrot is a coach I like. The A10 has almost uniformly excellent coaches, but too many complainers. Some of these guys have coached for 20 years and in their minds (based on what ...

I also think Davis progressed this season, not dramatically as, say, Diggins since last year, but noticeably. He likely has a clear picture of how to improve and will make it happen. Amid all the talk of rust from the layoff, no one mentioned that Davis and Keon didn't have just an 8-day layoff, the...

tournament, like the regular season, seeing many very close games. Today SLU edged URI by 3, La Salle won by 1 and Fordham won in OT. Is there a record for most close games? UMass was 8 out of 18 close ones, more if you don't just go by final score.

I think I’d rather play VCU than Davidson, after seeing how they sliced us up with back door cuts and we were never able to make adjustments. It's either VCU or a team playing its third game in 3 days, which is very hard. Davidson has their top guy injured, so their depth (already questionable) isn...

On behalf of the naysayers, even though I don't think I'm one, as of a few days ago we needed the following to happen to get a double bye: --UMass needed 3 wins in a row, something that wasn't done all year and had to include 2 roads games, also something not done all year. The previous chance for 2...

also an upset of Dayton so 2 A10 teams get into the NCAAT and something to cause the NIT committee to take 2 from the A10 in a scenario where UMass is certainly 4th best. Maybe with VCU missing 2 players as they did last night and bad losses for SBU starting with 1 tonight. Dayton, Richmond and Loyo...