UNI Playing Rider in CIT First Round

[DrewDog]

According to Kelly Beaton with the Courier

http://twitter.com/kellyatcourier

[DrewDog]

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Article now up on Courier website http://bit.ly/hLCRBl

[CyCarp]

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I watched part of the Rider/Iona MAAC semifinal game last weekend. They couldn't make shots, and played pretty bad all around. But, they've scored 80+ quite a few times this year, so we'll have to have the D ready. They also run pretty big, I think 4 of their starters at listed at 6'7". We should win, but it may be tougher than we think.

[CF84]

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I watched part of the Rider/Iona MAAC semifinal game last weekend. They couldn't make shots, and played pretty bad all around. But, they've scored 80+ quite a few times this year, so we'll have to have the D ready. They also run pretty big, I think 4 of their starters at listed at 6'7". We should win, but it may be tougher than we think.

Serious question. Why would a team that has lost 7 of 8 be favored over a team who has won 8 of 10? Is their league THAT pitiful?

[JayJ79]

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Serious question. Why would a team that has lost 7 of 8 be favored over a team who has won 8 of 10? Is their league THAT pitiful?

Because UNI fans look at those leagues the same way that BCS-conference fans look at the MVC.

[95UNIGRAD]

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(Team) (Conf. Record) (Overall Record)
Fairfield 15-3 24-7

Rider 13-5 23-10

Iona 13-5 22-11

St. Peter's 11-7 20-13

Loyola (MD) 10-8 15-15

Canisius 9-9 15-15

Siena 8-10 13-18

Niagara 5-13 9-23

Manhattan 3-15 6-25

Marist 3-15 6-27


I don't know....those bottom three look absolutely horrible, and they were one of only four teams in their league over .500 for the year. Don't know much about it at all, but from the looks of the names and the records, it's not shocking at all, considering the rep we built last year.

[95UNIGRAD]

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http://www.gobroncs.com/SportSelect....78&SPSID=96739

Here's a game-by-game rundown of their schedule. They beat TCU pretty handily in a preseason tourney game, thumped USC by 20, and lost to Pitt on the road by 19. This might be interesting come Tuesday. That's more than I thought we'd get from them, and frankly, we can't afford to look down our noses at anyone after the way we finished when Luke went down.

[UNI MadCat]

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I'm just annoyed I followed the Great West conference tourney for no reason.

[LA_Panther]

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I thought we would end up playing the Great West winner, too. I'm surprised and disappointed we're playing Rider. Surprised, because I thought the first round pairings were based on geography. Guess not. Disappointed, because they're one of the few teams I was hoping to avoid.

[Khan4Cats]

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Looks like they may only have 8 bodies available. Their second leading scorer and rebounder had knee surgery following their conference tourney loss for a torn meniscus and they have a guard suspended.

http://www.nj.com/sports/njsports/index.ssf/2011/03/rider_university_mens_basketba_11.html

That leaves 9 players with stats from this year and one of those is no longer on their roster. They have some height, 6-7, 6-7, 6-8, 6-10-the biggest of those weighs in at 215. I am guessing we can guard them with Kerwin/Kwadzo/Sonnen as well as Jake, Chip, and Austin. Their 6-10 guy has only played 20 games and 74 minutes on the year though.

[ProwlingPanther]

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How do you get this as a recruiting rating?

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/recruiting/school/_/id/2520/class/2010

[CyCarp]

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Serious question. Why would a team that has lost 7 of 8 be favored over a team who has won 8 of 10? Is their league THAT pitiful?

I don't know if we'll be a favorite, but I think we should win. Honestly I follow St. Peter's from the MAAC (they seem to cover the spread EVERY game so I got hooked on them) and I like the MAAC, I just think the big difference is that the bottom of the MAAC is a lot worse than the bottom of the MVC. Living in the midwest I haven't seen too many of MAAC games, but from what I've seen most of these teams are run and gun teams and if they get slowed down vs a tough D, they'll turn it over a lot and be in trouble. That's exactly how St. Peter's won the MAAC tourney last weekend (they beat #1 seed Fairfield and #2 seed Iona, who beat Rider the day before by 24) and the way they played reminded me a lot of UNI basketball. If we play our game, one that Rider doesn't see a lot, I think we'll be fine.

[orangetennis]

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How do you get this as a recruiting rating?

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bask...520/class/2010

Haha. I wonder what my rating is?

[OhNewby]

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I'm guessing no, but is there any TV info. yet?

[Khan4Cats]

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How do you get this as a recruiting rating?

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bask...520/class/2010

Looks like the kid is from England, as is their leading scorer. ESPN likely doesn't have anyone who scouts in England to be able to give a rating. They probably can't find a reliable translator.

Anyways, he shot 40.6% from 3 this year (13-32) and only attempted one shot inside the arc with NO free throws. Only averaged 6 mpg in 24 games.