Digging this up just because....
Standings:
| George Washington | 12-0 | 22-1 |
| Charlotte | 9-3 | 16-9 |
| La Salle | 9-4 | 17-7 |
| Saint Louis | 8-4 | 14-10 |
| Fordham | 7-5 | 12-13 |
| Xavier | 7-6 | 16-8 |
| Temple | 7-6 | 14-10 |
| Massachusetts | 6-6 | 11-12 |
| Rhode Island | 6-6 | 12-11 |
| Saint Joseph's | 5-7 | 11-12 |
| Dayton | 5-8 | 13-14 |
| Richmond | 4-8 | 11-14 |
| Duquesne | 1-12 | 3-21 |
| St. Bonaventure | 1-12 | 7-17 |
Xavier shoots themselves in the foot again, Thorton's injury sends them to the NIT along with a bunch of other A10 teams. GW cruising along, no real tests left, get second place Charlotte, but it is at home on senior night, shouldn't be a contest at all. Temple is the only team with any shot at an at-large bid with a top 60 RPI and a game against Duke left. If they take care of their 3 A10 games left(they should on paper), they will be sitting top 50 RPI, 17-11 going into the A10 tounry. A trip to the finals would probably lock up a bid.
People seem to WANT to give the A10 more than one bid this year, but no team seems to want to earn it. Charlotte, La Salle & St. Louis all killed themselves with terrible OOC losses. St. Joe's has the RPI, but can't beat anybody(which is one of the many reasons I HATE the RPI!!!!). Temple still has a chance, but in all honesty should have already locked it up by now, those St. Louis and UMass losses are killing them.
More interesting may be the A10 POY chase. It would be almost impossible for a GW player to get it seeing as how unbelievable balanced they are as a team. Pinnock and Pops could both argue for it, but I don't see it happening. Steven Smith might be the frontrunner on the 3rd place team leading the league in scoring and top 3 rebounding. The two guys ahead of him in rebounds are Curtis Withers(Charlotte) and Rashaun Freeman(UMass). Withers will get some votes, he is dominating rebounds and top 10 scoring. I think Freeman will be a favorite next year, but he could make a huge case tonight playing head to head with Withers. Outplaying him would turn some heads. Brian Thorton would have been in the running if not for the injury. I just don't see him getting it missing the last 4/5 games. Mardy Collins is also in the mix for Temple. If they win their last 3 A10 games it would help his cause.
If it ended today I would say Collins wins.
Coach is easily Karl Hobbs. Defensive player is probably Collins. I don't know if newcomer is actually an award that gets handed out or just a videogame/internet writer thing, but if it is real, De'Angelo Alexander of Charlotte would win, something like 5th in scoring in the league, a transfer player. Not sure who would win freshman of the year if that is an award.
02-11-2006, 01:54 PM
