The 2025-26 Season

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VCU is 55th on the list and 2nd best in the A-10 behind SLU at 29th. Should be a good game vs the Billikens this Wednesday at the Stu!

Overall, 5 A-10 teams in the top 100, including GMU. My question there is how is GMU in the top 100 with their weak schedule? Yes, I know they're 14-1 and 2-0 in the A-10. But their OOC was pretty weak! Maybe I don't completely understand how NET is calculated?
 
SteveMM said:
The NCAA NET site (https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-net-rankings) doesn't appear to have updated yet. I cleared my cache. Is this a "me" thing, or is there another place to see more updated numbers?
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northernvatiger said:
VCU is 55th on the list and 2nd best in the A-10 behind SLU at 29th. Should be a good game vs the Billikens this Wednesday at the Stu!

Overall, 5 A-10 teams in the top 100, including GMU. My question there is how is GMU in the top 100 with their weak schedule? Yes, I know they're 14-1 and 2-0 in the A-10. But their OOC was pretty weak! Maybe I don't completely understand how NET is calculated?
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VCU moved to 50
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Mason(sucks)..move up 7 spots in the NET from 84 to 77. If they efficiently beat Fordham then VCU may have 2 consecutive Quad 1 opportunities.
 
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Through 16 games and just past the halfway mark of the season, VCU is 11-5 overall with a 2-1 record in A10 play. NET ranking is 55 and KenPom ranking is 45. Two pretty good wins vs Virginia Tech and South Florida (both of which are currently safe in Q2) and all 5 losses are in Q1/Q2. Unfortunately, 4 of those 5 losses were winnable.

I sort of think what we see is what the team is. A pretty good team that will most likely finish somewhere between 50-70 in KenPom and NET rankings. I never believed a 15-3 record in A10 play was going to happen, but I think a 13-5 or 14-4 record is doable.

With that said, VCU has a tough road game at George Mason on Saturday which is currently a Q2 game and *could* be Q1 if the Patriots play better. After that game VCU has a 6 game stretch where 5 of those games are almost definitely stuck in Q3/Q4. The road Davidson game is currently a Q2 game, but is not far off from being a Q3 game. I can't tell a VCU fan how to fan, but in these next 7 games I'd just suggest rooting for VCU to go 7-0 or 6-1 in those games. VCU has an okay resume now, but outside of getting a solid Q2 win at Mason, there isn't much VCU can do within their control other than avoid landmines and stack some conference wins through the road game at Fordham on 2/3. By the time we host Dayton on 2/6 we'll have a better idea of the following...... whether Virginia Tech or South Florida are actually good wins (like bona fide Q1 wins and not solid complimentary Q2 wins), we'll see if SLU is still top 30 good which means we'd have an opportunity for a high end Q1 road game, and if teams like George Mason, George Washington, and/or Dayton are Top 75 because 4 of our final 8 games are vs those teams. The road Richmond game down the stretch could be a solid Q2 road opportunity too.

Last night kinda sucked, but no one ever claimed following a program from a mid major conference (even a pretty good one like the A10) was going to be easy!
 
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theyaintwantit said:
Through 16 games and just past the halfway mark of the season, VCU is 11-5 overall with a 2-1 record in A10 play. NET ranking is 55 and KenPom ranking is 45. Two pretty good wins vs Virginia Tech and South Florida (both of which are currently safe in Q2) and all 5 losses are in Q1/Q2. Unfortunately, 4 of those 5 losses were winnable.

I sort of think what we see is what the team is. A pretty good team that will most likely finish somewhere between 50-70 in KenPom and NET rankings. I never believed a 15-3 record in A10 play was going to happen, but I think a 13-5 or 14-4 record is doable.

With that said, VCU has a tough road game at George Mason on Saturday which is currently a Q2 game and *could* be Q1 if the Patriots play better. After that game VCU has a 6 game stretch where 5 of those games are almost definitely stuck in Q3/Q4. The road Davidson game is currently a Q2 game, but is not far off from being a Q3 game. I can't tell a VCU fan how to fan, but in these next 7 games I'd just suggest rooting for VCU to go 7-0 or 6-1 in those games. VCU has an okay resume now, but outside of getting a solid Q2 win at Mason, there isn't much VCU can do within their control other than avoid landmines and stack some conference wins through the road game at Fordham on 2/3. By the time we host Dayton on 2/6 we'll have a better idea of the following...... whether Virginia Tech or South Florida are actually good wins (like bona fide Q1 wins and not solid complimentary Q2 wins), we'll see if SLU is still top 30 good which means we'd have an opportunity for a high end Q1 road game, and if teams like George Mason, George Washington, and/or Dayton are Top 75 because 4 of our final 8 games are vs those teams. The road Richmond game down the stretch could be a solid Q2 road opportunity too.

Last night kinda sucked, but no one ever claimed following a program from a mid major conference (even a pretty good one like the A10) was going to be easy!
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I say win every game. Last night was especially disappointing and symptomatic of how we keep letting Big Game opportunities slip away coach after coach.
 
Dr. Len Reid said:
I say win every game. Last night was especially disappointing and symptomatic of how we keep letting Big Game opportunities slip away coach after coach.
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I would LOVE to win every game possible, but I think you missed the point of my post. VCU has a winnable but difficult game in Fairfax this weekend and then 5 of their next 6 games after that will do essentially nothing for our resume (unless we lose). Our resume is already somewhat dull so I'm suggesting Ram fans to step away from thinking about Q1/Q2 wins in January and just focus on winning and getting better. If VCU wins these games, we can revisit our resume and at-large outlook in February.
 
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