We should keep moving up.
Marquette barely beat something called Saint Thomas last week. I think they are overrated.
Marquette barely beat something called Saint Thomas last week. I think they are overrated.
Providence about to upset Marquette
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See that Dennis Felton is an assistant at Providence. Did not know he was still coaching. Also didn't know that Rick Stanbury was on the Memphis bench with Penny.
Honestly I think it will soon be the norm if it isn't already. The transfer portal and NIL make it harder to keep teams together and parity seems to increase every year. We're seeing more double digits upset top seed in the tournament and more crazy double digit runs into the Elite 8 or Final Four. Gone are the days where you can look at a top team struggle against a no-name school and call that top team overrated. It just comes with the territory now. No matter how good you are you'll play a few games where you struggle immensely with bad teams or straight up lose.
St. Thomas was a D3 school who has moved up to D1 in the last 2 yrs. They play in the Summit League I believe. Located in St. Paul, MN and have some of the hottest coeds you'll see. At one point they were in top 10 hot coed list in the United States. UVA took their best player from them too-Andrew Rhode. They gave a scare for majority of the game to Creighton last year too before Jays pulled away late and won by about a dozen.
I’ve said it and will say it again, the top four seeds in March will be lucky to have less than 5 losses. It’s going to be a weird and unpredictable season.
You can take the kid out of a Cal practice, but it looks like you can't take Cal's coaching out of the kid.
Hot coeds in St. Paul? Gonna need some visual evidence.
St Thomas received a waiver to jump directly from DIII to DI because their conference kicked them out for being too dominant. I think the other conference members were going to disband the conference if the NCAA didn't allow them to move up.
It's tough to tell much about some of these early season games. 2 of Marquette's best wins were in a tournament. Teams get hot and in a rhythm and results are sometimes funny. This Providence loss is their first TRUE road game, so it doesn't mean too much, either. I'd say they're a good team but probably not a top 10 team. More like top 25.
Won a nice chunk of change last night on a Providence/Western Kentucky moneyline parlay!
Did you think of this yourself, or did the 6 other people who post the same message over and over help you?
Too many clothes this time of year in St. Paul to make a reasonable determination.
Marquette is very solid, we will have to see how they finish but I like the makeup of that team.
They always find a way to keep coaching somewhere and get paid. It’s a great profession once you make it. If you get to head coach at any decent school your set for life.
Have great memories of Felton at WKU. Unfortunately he could never recreate that success anywhere.
