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This is not me ripping G'Town at all. Slow starts happen before your team starts to gel sometimes and because of that sometimes you lose a few games that you should have won early on in the season. With that being said, G'Town is the toughest Big East team Villanova has played SO FAR this year. Yes, I know that can change so other fans don't get angry.

G'Town IS a tournament team who can do well for the Big East in the dance. I will be rooting for G'Town to win the rest of the way because you have the horses to make some noise. Again, not me ripping G'Town at all, but if those early losses keep G'Town out of the tournament it is going to be a killer. Just keep playing the way you have been playing the rest of the way and I think you sneak in. What is sad is you shouldn't have to sneak in because you are playing like a legit 5 seed right now.

ChestRockwell85 wrote:This is not me ripping G'Town at all. Slow starts happen before your team starts to gel sometimes and because of that sometimes you lose a few games that you should have won early on in the season. With that being said, G'Town is the toughest Big East team Villanova has played SO FAR this year. Yes, I know that can change so other fans don't get angry.

G'Town IS a tournament team who can do well for the Big East in the dance. I will be rooting for G'Town to win the rest of the way because you have the horses to make some noise. Again, not me ripping G'Town at all, but if those early losses keep G'Town out of the tournament it is going to be a killer. Just keep playing the way you have been playing the rest of the way and I think you sneak in. What is sad is you shouldn't have to sneak in because you are playing like a legit 5 seed right now.

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Yea it's tough. Georgetown probably won't make the tourney. Losing to Radford....RADFORD plus Ashville and Monmouth ... All at home.

Georgetown's RPI is 106. That's a bad loss. Hopefully they don't damage too many Big East teams resumes with their dismal OOC performance. Luckily, they have a chance to help themselves and the conference on Sat vs UConn

I doubt 2 bad loses keep Georgetown out. Duke and Maryland loses are obviously acceptable. Committee won't consider Monmouth who's current projected RPI is 36 a bad loss.
So that leaves Radford and UNC Asheville. Projected RPI's 176 and 127 respectively. They basically erased one of those 2 bad losses tonight with the win @ xavier. Plenty of opportunities to pick up another quality win to erase the other loss. In fact they have that opportunity this weekend @ Uconn. And clearly based on the RPI those losses are bad but not horrendous. They're not 200 or 300+ RPI teams they're the equivalent of DePaul (178) and Marquette (122) currently in the projected RPI and better than St. John's in the RPI (219). Hoyas already have solid wins over Cuse and Wisconsin, while those wins don't mean as much as in years past they still count for something.

Xavier4036 wrote:Yea it's tough. Georgetown probably won't make the tourney. Losing to Radford....RADFORD plus Ashville and Monmouth ... All at home.

Georgetown's RPI is 106. That's a bad loss. Hopefully they don't damage too many Big East teams resumes with their dismal OOC performance. Luckily, they have a chance to help themselves and the conference on Sat vs UConn

RPI is up to 72 with the win @ Xavier.

Now they need to not waste it. Someone had to step up, so I'm fine that it's Gtown. They sure looked like a different team.

Winning @UCONN would sure help matters......big game for both teams.

At the start of Conference play, JT III move Campbell (who missed a number of games early in the season) into the starting line up. Most importantly it got DSR back at SG where he belongs. Peak coming off the bench provides a nice spark. With Paul White shut down for the year after a few ineffective appearances, the rotation appears to be solid finally. Whether it's too late, time will tell.

G'Town is so hard to figure out. They always seem to have stacked teams with tons of size and lots of depth, but they get off to slow starts every year. They take their 2-3 bad losses in OOC then after people write them off, they knock around some top 25 squads in conference. G'Town needs to be the team right after Nova or alternating with them to lead the conference. No disrespect to Xavier, they have been an amazing addition and always respected them even when not in the conference. As someone else said, it's ok that G'Town won, but they have to make it count and go on a big run here.

2 ways they can make their Xavier win pay off:

1) Go on a huge streak in conference play, enter the top 25, and be consistent right into the tourney
2) Continue to confuse people and be ok but not great in conference, then get red hot in the conference tourney and win the conference

It's still weird to me not seeing G'Town in the top 25 most of the time. In the old Big East they seemed to always not only be ranked but somewhere in the top 15. They need to get back to that.

micgoG'town wrote:At the start of Conference play, JT III move Campbell (who missed a number of games early in the season) into the starting line up. Most importantly it got DSR back at SG where he belongs. Peak coming off the bench provides a nice spark. With Paul White shut down for the year after a few ineffective appearances, the rotation appears to be solid finally. Whether it's too late, time will tell.

that's interesting. don't know why DSR was thrust into the pg role in the first place. he never seemed like a pg type guard.

campbell definitely speeds up the tempo. he had a nice open 3 in transition and a nice bounce pass to govan for dunk. gtown has the athletes to score some easy hoops on the break. they need to do that more often.

I also noticed hayes looked much more comfortable at the top of the key. had one nice backdoor to DSR. it's JT3's staple, so they need to get better at it.