Scheduled Game:
Charlotte (+9) plays MIAMI at 7 pm ESPN3
Atlantic 10 Up to Date Standings:
Charlotte 0-0 9-1
Temple 0-0 7-1
La Salle 0-0 6-1
Richmond 0-0 8-2
Xavier 0-0 7-2
Butler 0-0 7-2
Dayton 0-0 7-2
Virginia Commonwealth 0-0 6-3
Saint Joseph's 0-0 5-3
St. Bonaventure 0-0 5-3
Saint Louis 0-0 5-3
Massachusetts 0-0 4-3
Duquesne 0-0 6-4
George Washington 0-0 4-6
Rhode Island 0-0 2-7
Fordham 0-0 1-8
Overall Non-Con Record: 89-51
*Caps denote home team
Just one game on Friday for the A-10 and it is a pretty big one. Charlotte looks to start the season 10-0 and grab it's biggest win yet as they go on the road to face Miami as 9 point underdogs.
We were 9 point dogs to Davidson as well and we all know how that turned out. Granted, Miami is a tougher test, but they haven't played for two weeks. I hope they are rusty and think we are the same team they trashed last year.
Tough tough matchup for us. Miami is massive inside and we try to score all of our points there. We havent seen this kind of size since we played them last year and the same thing happened. They blocked all our interior offense and they hit everything they threw up from outside.
I am a little annoyed at the charging calls against us. Very questionable. Feel like we should only be down 7.
That said, Miami is beastly. How in the hell do they lose? Such an underperforming team they have. How many pros do they have? At least 3?
We got whipped tonight, hopefully our team responds in a big way the rest of the season, but Miami came out of the gate and took it to us. Kadji for some reason tends to light us up. If he could consistently play like that, he'd be a solid NBA player. Miami looks to be a top 3-4 ACC team, so the loss isn't that bad, but I thought we'd put up a better fight.
Still, 9-1 this far into the season is still nothing to be ashamed of.
Blah - I wish I hadnt been expecting this all week, but I have. Still no fan of those charge calls, but we got manhandled and exposed for our lack of shooters.
This Miami team can be beat, but not by a team that tries to play them straight up and pound it inside. I am trying to come up with 3 teams in the country that matchup with them like that... struggling to find any.
Here's hoping they dominate like their talent warrants and make this look a little better.
That was brutal, but I think it illustrates that Charlotte has a pretty clear ceiling for this year. More athletic and teams with sound defense will force charlotte to hit jumpers no matter how hard they try not to, and it will get ugly.
The charlotte D wasn't that bad. Had trouble with the screens, but they have huge post players and the refs were letting them set the moving screens out top and Miami was hitting 3's with a hand in their face (or their 6'10" post player Kadjii was hitting them). That said, it's pretty clear that Miami just had players at almost every position that were better defenders but really a level above on offense.
Not sure where this leaves Charlotte for A10 play. Clearly not at the top, but how far down? Middle or lower of the league? Will be interesting to see.
I think this at least gave us a realistic look at what to expect from Charlotte this year. After that powder puff schedule they have played so far, last night's game showed us they are pretenders. I hope I'm wrong, but if you are a top 5 team in this league, you don't get best by 30+ points to a middle of the road ACC team
Disagree with this assessment. Miami was a solid team last year and returned all 5 starters from that team. Even great teams get blown out sometimes. I don't think Charlotte is a great team, but I also don't know that they are pretenders yet either.
I do think Miami is a tournament team this year and will finish top 4 in the ACC.
Miami appears to be a really good team if they play like that most nights. But losing by 30+ does raise some questions. I think the benches got cleared before the end of the game, so it may be a little misleading. But Miami was on cruise control after their spurt midway through the 2nd half, and I don't think the top teams in the A10 are letting that happen most nights (except see St. Joe's at Creighton).
It depends on what you mean by "pretenders". If you mean will Charlotte finish top 5, I think that's unlikely. But most people picked Charlotte somewhere between 10 and 14 in the league. I think Charlotte is probably better than that, especially given how soft some of the other teams are looking that were expected to be better.
We'll see, the Niners' OOC sched won't reveal much more, so we'll have to wait until conference play, and especially the February stretch, to get a better read on Charlotte.
College basketball is a game of matchups. That matchup favored Miami in every aspect of the game. And oh, yeah, Miami is really good, especially at home. Watch what they do there to ACC teams. They're going to destroy UNC. Duke may beat them by negating all that size with the 3 ball.
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