I don’t believe last year’s team would have lost those games. Against its very weak out-of-conference opponents, it was 10–3. The only bad team they didn’t beat was ETSU (at ETSU). But they definitely kept things close against other bad teams. The losses started piling up once the A10 season began a...

ETSU lists their record as 2–1, but they have four game scores on their schedule. I’m guessing they’re counting their 56–71 loss to High Point as an exhibition. They’ve beaten Newberry and Tusculum, which puts them atop the SAC. They lost by four to Eastern Kentucky in the Hollow Watcher Classic. Th...

Davidson athletics: Catch the fever!

I’d gladly take twenty more wins just like that. Of course, if the team plays like that twenty times, they’re not going to get a lot of wins. The first half looked good. I don’t believe anyone scored on Logan in the first half. It looked like Kochera, Durkin, Blums, and Laput all could be outside th...

X Davidson updates Achille Spadone- not starting tonight in Bucknell vs Delaware live Brizzi not starting tonight for Longwood vs Randolph Macon live Rikus Schulte later tonight UC Riverside vs Oregon Grant Huffman starting Vanderbilt vs Maryland Eastern Shore live Skogman starting for Depaul vs So...

The Bowling Green State Falcons relied heavily on their starters in their 68–77 loss to Southern Mississippi on Monday (box score: https://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://dxbhsrqyrr690.cloudfront.net/sidearm.nextgen.sites/bgsufalcons.com/stats/mbball/2024/pdf/20241104100010-2538127%20(1).pdf&embed...

I thought the “lock” starters looked significantly better than the subs. Kochera is a smart, skilled player and had his way with WPU players who also didn’t enjoy a size or athleticism advantage. Bailey wasn’t especially assertive and played limited minutes but looked good. Durkin got hot for a stre...

I didn’t know things were so bad! So I guess Davidson should fire Chris Clunie for his total failure in navigating these changes. Or fire Austin Buntz for his total failure as “GM.” Or displace the Reigels and their total failure of a collective. Or all of the above. Or maybe we could/should stop ma...

I thought we were talking about men’s basketball.

Davidson was not counting on a fifth year from any of the players who chose to graduate and use their extra year elsewhere. If you heard sadness about Watson’s departure, you heard different things than I did. The extra COVID year increased the total number of players available. Grady’s going to Ken...

Those are extremely silly examples. The extra COVID year is gone, not a permanent feature in the new landscape of college athletics. Watson’s departure was not a disappointment. The current roster has a grad transfer. Look at the teams ahead of Davidson in the various preseason rankings and try to c...

I don’t agree at all. Davidson has yet to lose an important player to a higher-rated program via the transfer portal. Davidson has made use of the transfer portal, including bringing in a non-degree-seeking player. Davidson has booster-funded collectives. Who are the teams beating out Davidson for t...

So perhaps a good/decent-looking W–L record going into January doesn’t mean the team is good.

Here are Davidson’s out-of-conference opponents, along with their 2024 and 2025 Ken Pomeroy rankings. - William Peace (N/A bc they’re D3) - @ Bowling Green (239/264) - ETSU (174/151) - VMI (353/359) - (neutral) Arizona (6/8) - (neutral) Providence (59/60) or Oklahoma (46/40) - (neutral) TBD - Charle...

You all are giving the Pacers a lot of bulletin board material. I don’t know about that given how close some of our non-D1 early-season games have been in recent years.