Wilder's A10 Power Rankings Week 5
- Davidson (7-1) ... 9-point win at St. Bonaventure after being down 10 at the half. Wildcats have won four straight. Last week: No. 1. Week ahead: home vs. Rhode Island, at UMass.
- VCU (6-2) ... 16-point win at home vs. George Mason. Rams have beaten Dayton and George Mason at home, Duquesne on the road. Last week: No. 3. Week ahead: at George Washington, at St. Bonaventure.
- George Mason (7-2) ... 16-point loss at VCU, first loss in five A10 games on the road. Patriots have beaten Dayton and Rhode Island on the road. Return match vs. VCU at home on March 5. Last week: No. 2. Week ahead: at Richmond, home vs. LaSalle.
- Dayton (7-2) ... 11-point win at home vs. St. Joseph’s, 4-point win at home vs. Duquesne. Flyers have won three straight. Last week: No. 5. Week ahead: at St. Louis, at Rhode Island. After that, home vs. VCU, at Davidson, home vs. St. Louis. Buckle up.
- Duquesne (6-3) ... 3-point win at home vs. Rhode Island after being down 19 at the half, 4-point loss at Dayton after being up 8 at the half. Last week: No. 4. Week ahead: home vs. St. Bonaventure, at Fordham.
- Rhode Island (5-4) ... 3-point loss at Duquesne after being up 19 at the half, 11-point win at home vs. St. Louis. Last week: No. 7. Week ahead: at Davidson, home vs. Dayton.
- St. Louis (5-4) ... 3-point loss at home vs. Richmond, 11-point loss at Rhode Island. Have lost four straight after 5-0 start. Tough to win on the road when you make only two 3s and shoot 6-16 from the line. Then again, the Billikens’ free-throw shooting percentage of 60.8 ranked 344th out of 351 D-I teams as of Sunday morning. Last week: No. 6. Week ahead: home vs. Dayton, at St. Joseph’s.
- St. Bonaventure (4-4) ... 9-point loss at home to Davidson after leading by 10 at the half. Last week: No. 8. Week ahead: at Duquesne, home vs. Fordham.
- LaSalle (4-4) ... 9-point win at home vs. UMass, 8-point win at Richmond. Explorers have won three straight. Last week: No. 11. Week ahead: home vs. St. Joseph’s, at George Mason.
- George Washington (3-5) ... 18-point win at home vs. Fordham. Colonials own a 14-point win at St. Joseph’s. Last week: No. 10. Week ahead: home vs. VCU, at Richmond.
- St. Joseph's (3-6) ... 11-point loss at Dayton, 2-point win at home vs. UMass. Last week: No. 9. Week ahead: at LaSalle, home vs. St. Louis.
- Richmond (2-7) ... 3-point win at St. Louis (go figure), snapping a four-game losing streak, 8-point loss at home vs. LaSalle. Last week: No. 12. Week ahead: home vs. George Mason, home vs. George Washington.
- UMass (1-8) ... 9-point loss at LaSalle, 2-point loss at St. Joseph’s. Minutemen now 6-21 in regular-season A10 play in Matt McCall era, 3-19 in last 22. Thing is, there were legit explanations for their troubles last year, when their 5-13 A10 record felt almost reasonable. This year? Last week: No. 12. Week ahead: home vs. Fordham, home vs. Davidson.
- Fordham (0-8) ... 18-point loss at George Washington. The Rams have now lost 14 straight regular-season A10 games going back to last season. Some numbers: Going back to the 2008-2009 season, Fordham has lost 143 of its last 176 regular-season A10 games. That’s 33-143 (.188). In the seven seasons before Jeff Neubauer’s arrival in the Bronx for the 2015-2016 campaign, the Rams compiled a mind-numbing 14-100 (.122) record in regular-season A10 play. In Neubauer’s first two seasons, they were an encouraging (one might even say miraculous) 15-21 in the A10, but they’re now 4-22 over the last two. So, a combined 19-43 (.306) record in regular-season A10 play under the successor to Tom Pecora, who was 13-69 in his five seasons (.159). Last week: No. 14. Week ahead: at UMass, home vs. Duquesne.
