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2024/25 Data

+/- and other summaries of exhibitions

Through both exhibition games

Game +/-, PPM
LeTang30.12
Mousa-1-0.04
Conner-1-0.04
Simon-2-0.12
Santos-3-0.06
Bennett-4-0.08
Jack-8-0.38
Key-11-32
Alexander-12-0.3
Smith-13-0.27
Cheeks-17-0.27
Defensive +/-PPM
Conner1.62
LeTang1.64
Simon1.76
Cheeks1.85
Alexander1.9
Bennett1.91
Mousa1.93
Santos2
Jack2
Smith2.02
Key2.09
Offensive +/-PPM
Santos1.94
Mousa1.89
Bennett1.83
Key1.76
Smith1.76
LeTang1.76
Simon1.65
Jack1.62
Alexander1.6
Cheeks1.58
Conner1.58
EfficiencyPPM
LeTang0.6
Smith0.571
Jack0.571
Santos0.549
Key0.5
Mousa0.407
Alexander0.25
Simon0.235
Cheeks0.2
Bennett0.17
Conner0
Scoring EffPPP
Jack2.105
Key1.744
Santos1.5
Smith1.221
LeTang1.186
Simon1.071
Mousa0.942
Bennett0.67
Alexander0.625
Cheeks0.551
Conner0

Coaching Changes

Seems there is a Twitter/X account called Coaching Changes. Well, they posted something this afternoon that they were told that Anthony Grant will likely retire at the end of the year.
Don't know who the they is that has the account and also don't know who has this inside information about Grant leaving.

2025/2026

Not to excited about the NIT. We won’t have a home first game anyway with the First Four in town.

This won’t happen but assuming we keep everyone that doesn’t graduate (Bennett, L’Etang, Connor, Jack, Mousa, & Simon) with playing time this year, what position players do we need to recruit or pickup in the portal for next year (Mali if he stays to play and Marvel Allen being wild cards)?

I know Friery will help at forward and center & McKie at guard, but what pockets need filled for a complete team next year?

Would like to know everyone’s thoughts of what’s missing and what we need to most on the floor at any given time.

UDWBB 24/25

While some are calling for Coach Williams-Jeter to be fired, for several reasons, that's not going to happen- at least not in the immediate future. Although in many ways she has earned much of the criticism being thrown at her. She has yet to prove she can recruit impactful payers whether they be from high school or the portal. As of this date five new players will join the program for the 24/25 season; three from high schools and two transfers. The high schoolers are obviously unknown talents but do have good credentials, One of the transfers was the 6th player on the Ivy league champs, and has one season remaining. The other is from Boston College where due to injury, she missed her first year, and should have four seasons remaining. Most of the returnees have yet to prove anything other than they know how to turn it over. One of the returning players, Eve Fiala, is a good example of the uncertainty that surrounds this program. Eve from Pa. was hyped as a 6.6 recruit that had offers from many schools in power 5 conferences. However, when she arrived on Dayton's campus, she was referred to as a project, and unfortunately played that way. As usual, time will tell for this staff, but time could be running out.

  • Poll
That School Down South First Four Survey.

Do you want Xavier to get a bid to play in the First Four?

  • Screw X, No!

    Votes: 15 83.3%
  • Yes, I want to see the X fans have a melt down with all the Dayon fans rooting against them.

    Votes: 4 22.2%
  • Yes, I want soak X fans when I resell my tickets.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

A little late but what do you think? I was hoping Mason would win A-10 Tourney and VCU would play against X in the First Four. But we can still root against X whoever they play.

A10

I've been reading and listening to experts” bloviating about how this loss to Dayton bumps VCU out of an at-large bid. I look at the SEC, Texas in particular. They played one F-ing Quad One game in OOC and lost. They played 13 Q1 games in conference and lost 8 of them. They are 6 and 11 in the SEC and lost 13 games in total. Arkansas was 1-1 in OOC Q1 games, Vanderbilt 0-0, Georgia 1-1, Missouri 0-2. Dayton was 2-3.

It’s true that at the top of the SEC is very good, but the rest of the league gets rich for beating each other and not playing anyone worth a damn outside the SEC. The A10 is never going to match the SEC, B10 or B12 but the league can be a helluva lot better. We don’t do our part in our own way and that’s been brought up countless times on this board. However, only UD, VCU, SLU, Davidson, SBU and Mason have publically said they are opting into the House settlement. There are a few posters on the A10 saying that they have heard as many as three schools may opt out and then later posted that they heard that they heard that at least one of these three will opt in. The deadline for non-defendants in the settlement was extended to June 15th, but why haven’t the other seven schools (not including UMASS) made an announcement. If they are committed it should have been an easy decision to make before March 1st - why push it out to June 15th?

The A10 shouldn’t allow schools to be in the A10 if they don’t opt in. Allowing schools to operate at the bare minimum needs to end as well. I’m going to call out George Washington. It’s a large nationally recognized school with a lot of money. They have teams that can on any given day beat anyone in the league, but they do only enough to be at that level. I can say the same thing about Davidson, and then go on about the other 12 programs in the conference. The A10 needs leadership that can affect change.
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