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I have the A10 winning one game in my brackets. Does anyone have them winning any more than that?

VCU and George Washington. At GW, Mike Lonergan is a good coach. When he looks across to the other bench, he's going to see Josh Pastner leading a team of similar ability. Enough said.

Bill Marsh wrote:I have the A10 winning one game in my brackets. Does anyone have them winning any more than that?

Just VCU for me.

bmorex wrote:

Bill Marsh wrote:I have the A10 winning one game in my brackets. Does anyone have them winning any more than that?

Just VCU for me.

Same here.

I could see VCU getting to the sweet 16. Tough matchup there with Florida...

I kind of like UMass to beat Iowa or Tennessee.

GW/Memphis is a good matchup for GW I think.

The game that will be interesting to watch from a fans perspective is the St Joe's/UConn game.

The A-10 bias is blinding you guys. I don't have any going far but to say all but one will go down in the first round is foolish.

All have decent match-ups, and all 5 that got in last year won at least one game.

I have trouble seeing Dayton getting past Ohio St. although Dayton has been playing very well as of late and St. Louis has been looking very beatable lately but I think the rest get out of the first round.

VCU and GW are the only teams I have getting out of the round of 32 though.

stever20 wrote:I could see VCU getting to the sweet 16. Tough matchup there with Florida...

I kind of like UMass to beat Iowa or Tennessee.

GW/Memphis is a good matchup for GW I think.

The game that will be interesting to watch from a fans perspective is the St Joe's/UConn game.

I might have ridden VCU to the Sweet 16 as well if not for the injury to Melvin Johnson. Hard to imagine them winning without him. His absence is probably why they lost to St. Joe's. I hope for their sake that he's back for the tournament, but it didn't look good.

hailjesus wrote:The A-10 bias is blinding you guys. I don't have any going far but to say all but one will go down in the first round is foolish.

All have decent match-ups, and all 5 that got in last year won at least one game.

I have trouble seeing Dayton getting past Ohio St. although Dayton has been playing very well as of late and St. Louis has been looking very beatable lately but I think the rest get out of the first round.

VCU and GW are the only teams I have getting out of the round of 32 though.

Who's being blinded by their bias?

St. Joe's needed help from an injury to beat VCU. Expecting them to beat UConn, another top 25 team, seems unrealistic to me. They won't have the emotion of the conference tournament to help them. If anything, they may have a let down. GW faces another AAC opponent, who will confront them with a talent level that they haven't seen in the A10. UMass has been in a slide, losing 3 of their last 5 and struggling to get by Duquesne and URI in the 2 games they did win, while Tennessee has been red hot winning 5 of their last 6 with the only loss coming to Florida in the SEC tournament. VCU is dealing with a key injury, so I'll be surprised to see them beat UCLA in the 2nd round. Frankly, Stephen F. Austin is likely to give them all they can handle.

Bill Marsh wrote:I have the A10 winning one game in my brackets. Does anyone have them winning any more than that?

Yes.

Bill Marsh wrote:

hailjesus wrote:The A-10 bias is blinding you guys. I don't have any going far but to say all but one will go down in the first round is foolish.

All have decent match-ups, and all 5 that got in last year won at least one game.

I have trouble seeing Dayton getting past Ohio St. although Dayton has been playing very well as of late and St. Louis has been looking very beatable lately but I think the rest get out of the first round.

VCU and GW are the only teams I have getting out of the round of 32 though.

Who's being blinded by their bias?

St. Joe's needed help from an injury to beat VCU. Expecting them to beat UConn, another top 25 team, seems unrealistic to me. They won't have the emotion of the conference tournament to help them. If anything, they may have a let down. GW faces another AAC opponent, who will confront them with a talent level that they haven't seen in the A10. UMass has been in a slide, losing 3 of their last 5 and struggling to get by Duquesne and URI in the 2 games they did win, while Tennessee has been red hot winning 5 of their last 6 with the only loss coming to Florida in the SEC tournament. VCU is dealing with a key injury, so I'll be surprised to see them beat UCLA in the 2nd round. Frankly, Stephen F. Austin is likely to give them all they can handle.

GW will handle Memphis. Josh Pastner is a horrid coach, and his teams play streetball. I think that's the A-10's best bet of somebody winning 2 to 3 games. I just don't see a real deep run out of the league this year (as of this moment).