We know the major conferences are setting the policy, which means they get the lean when it comes to Selection Sunday. I’ve resigned myself to that fact, and so should you. Complaining is wasted emotion.
That said, I would like for you to keep your ears open all weekend and Monday for the double talk. I’ve [...]

Lots of good points in the comments, and let’s try to address them. I’ve tried to quantify them all to keep this from becoming a raging inferno of random bullet points, so if I don’t hit on an item you’d like to discuss, bring it back up.
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As for the whole attendance argument, here’s what I [...]

Note–This is from one of the smart guys I speak to regularly, in response to my post yesterday about keeping the tournament in Richmond. These viewpoints belong to him and him only and as such I’ve left them unedited, except the parts where he quotes me. Those I set off using the quote function for [...]

The argument is as tired as it is silly. We hear it every March, and this year it began in December: move the CAA Tournament out of Richmond.
That would be a stupid thing to do.
Let’s get this unassailable fact out from the get-go: other than NCAA tournament credits, there is no bigger revenue generator for [...]

Part of the “Tuesday Following Monday” routine for me is cranking out a CAA piece for the Blue Ribbon Postseason Tournament Guide. (Heck, I did preseason, so it makes sense, right?)
Sleep would be nice, but that’s for another day. Right now I need to figure out who this Gerald Lee guy is. I hear he’s [...]

We’re a tad exhausted ’round these parts, and have a couple interviews to do today. Life doesn’t stop–even when it’s 65 degrees, sunny, and you have a new set of golf clubs you’re dying to try out.
Congrats to Old Dominion–it isn’t easy to be predicted first, finish first, and then win the tournament.
We’ll catch up [...]

Just finished with Blaine Taylor and Tony Shaver. Full video to come, but the short version: both coaches talked about the importance of rebounding, Taylor likes “the other guy” when Gerald Lee commands attention, and Shaver says Quinn McDowell is banged up but a gamer and they will try to get him into a rhythm.
Seven [...]

The two meetings in the regular season produced 115 total possessions: 59 and 56.
Last night, William & Mary didn’t have a double-figures scorer in its victory over Northeastern. The Pugs were led by Danny Sumner’s eight points (”Congratulations Danny,” said David Schneider in last night’s press conference.)
Tony Shaver used this fact to say that his [...]

Much more on the way. Consider this the appetizer.
The two teams played twice during the regular season.
Old Dominion 58, @W&M 55 (1/23)
@Old Dominion 61, W&M 42 (2/3)

William & Mary has defeated 10 of the other 11 CAA teams this season. The lone holdout: Old Dominion.
ODU outrebounded W&M 88-57 in the two games.
W&M 15-55 threes in [...]