goramblers2011 wrote:
How are St. Joe's and Richmond supposed to be next year? Last year, St. Joe's finished .500 and Richmond finished 12-20. Hopefully both teams are improved next season.
I think Maryland will be ranked when we play them in late December. BC will also be pretty good next year.
The A-10 had its worst season as a conference in recent memory last year, finishing as the 11th conference in RPI (behind the MVC, Mountain West, and MAC). Usually they're in the 7-10 range. Richmond played a really tough schedule, facing 6 top 100 teams on their non-con schedule, but they lost all 6 games. Richmond had a 9-9 record in a weaker-than-usual A-10, and they have 64.4% of their minutes from last year returning. They have a 3-star recruit coming in. Bart Torvik's early projection has them ranked at 128.
St. Joe's had a similar year. They were 1-4 in their non-con games against top 100 teams, and finished 10-8 in the A-10. They have 59.3% of their minutes returning. They have a pretty good incoming class, with a 4-star point guard and a 6'11" 3-star power forward coming in. Bart Torvik ranks them at 141 for next year.
Torvik has Maryland ranked at 38. They have one of the best incoming recruiting classes in the nation coming in, with two Top 50 national prospects and five newcomers ranked at 3.5 stars or above.
Torvik's early ranking has Nevada at #8, and Boston College at 89.
If it holds true, this might be our strongest non-con schedule since maybe the early 2000s (
2002-03), possibly since the early 1990s (
1992-93).
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