DistrictBaller

1. Saint Louis
2. VCU
3. St. Joe's
4. Temple
5. UMass
6. Butler
7. Dayton
8. La Salle
9. Richmond
10. Xavier
11. St. Bonaventure
12. Charlotte
13. Rhode Island
14. George Washington
15. Fordham
16. Duquesne

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Muddy Waters

Thanks, DistrictBaller. I added your post to my More Predictions post:

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DukesDan

Rhode Island at 13????

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2010-2011 Locks of the Day Regular Season Champion 31-20-4 ..... .600

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z8-Minutemen

Aw, feeling a little butthurt because a team considered your level was put too high? This is why you are a huge homer.

Rhode Island at 13 is about right. They have obtained a good group of talented youth and I believe Danny Hurley can the best of out of them. If you think they're equal or even close to your Dukies then you truly are delusional. The players on their team are far more talented, and Hurley is the far better coach.

From the way your posts have sounded lately, it sounds like you'd be content (if not overjoyed) with a 15th place finish in the A-10. If this is true, it must be a sad state of affairs in Dukie Land...

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DistrictBaller

Blue Ribbon is by far the most comprehensive, well-written, and researched preseason college basketball magazine out there. I highly recommend everyone get one. Very in-depth analysis of each conference and team. It'll sate your basketball appetite until the games start.

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SpiderDave19

URI's uptick in talent arrives next year. They will struggle this year.

TheCobra

z8, why are you so concerned with Dukes Dan being a homer? You had a hissy fit because WH was NOT a homer in his preseason team and individual rankings. Your team is supposed to finish in or near the top quadrant of the conference. Dukes Dan's team, unfortunately for him, is not. UMass has been in DU's position pretty recently, so you should know how it feels. Is he not allowed to like his team? And why do you care?

UMass87

And, seriously, who is a loonier homer than Z8? ExplorerSteve (who i am concerned must not be well since he has been conspicuously absent and this is the year La Salle will actually be good)? Twister? Muddy?

waldo027

Muddy predicted a 13-3 record and a 2nd place finish for Dayton. Let's not sell him short.

Bona91

He's busy on his investigative report on A10 referee corruption and their conspiracy to keep LaSalle down.

DukesDan

URI has been pretty consistently ranked 15th by all other outlets. They are arguably worse than Duquesne. Lets be honest, the Hurley name is the only reason they are a consensus pick ahead of the Dukes. This doesn't even make sense based on history. I'll repeat the same fact: Ferry beat Hurley 4 out of 4 times they have played each other.

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Duquesne Dukes: 2012 A10 tournament qualifier!!

2012-2013 Locks of the Day TBA
2011-2012 Locks of the Day NIT participant 29-26-0...... .527
2010-2011 Locks of the Day Regular Season Champion 31-20-4 ..... .600

#15 Cooper #11 Green #10 Nixon #12 Ricketts #24 Somerset

uz2b-len

I'm not surprised you say that because as I read their prediction I thought, This is the first magazine prediction that actually makes sense. Maybe I'll buy a copy and remind myself what it feels like to read print on paper.

uz2b-len

Because he's 14 years old.

z8-Minutemen

First, I'd like to clarify this. I didn't throw a "hissy fit" because WH was NOT a homer in his/her predictions. I called him/her out for not stating the truth and being true to himself/herself. If you rank UMass at the top and call Chaz the A-10 POY, that doesn't make you a homer. That's simply stating the obvious truth. In WH's case, you can tell that he/she tried NOT to be a homer, in order to gain credibility in his/her predictions from the rest of the board, which in turn, feeds his/her ego.

I'm concerned with DukesDan being a homer for multiple reasons. I am a homer, but at least my team backs it up. I only display this homerism once or twice every few days on this board, which is fine. DukesDan, however, is constantly touting every single random Duquesne player and pumping sunshine in his Duquesne recruiting threads 5 times a day. This gets a little tiring. This isn't Xavier, or even Dayton, this is Duquesne. I could care less about the 1 star recruit they got, competing with the likes of Binghamton, Evansville, Mercer, and Charleston Southern. This is irrelevant. I don't care, and I'm not sure anyone else does either.

I never said that he's not allowed to like his team. He absolutely has that right. He can like his team all he wants, but he doesn't need to make 10 posts a day touting how great Duquesne is. He doesn't need to whine in threads like this. Whether Duquesne or URI finishes 15th doesn't matter, because fact is, they're finishing 15th. If my team were in the position that DukesDan team is, I would shut my mouth and eat all that humble pie. I did it for years and I do know how it feels. But now my team is on top and I can let people know it, so I do.

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vaNtR

Your squad hasn't been to the NCAA tournament since 1998 -- and only has 8 tournament appearances to speak of. You talk like you're a fan of Duke or something. UMass isn't "on top" until they prove it on the court, something they haven't done since Calipari was on the sidelines over a decade ago.