Quote from: hasanova on Yesterday at 01:14:03 PMHuge road win for the Quakers last night.  In a 12-team conference where only the top 8 make the tournament, even #8 is still a pretty good team.  Raise your hand if you want your team to play Guilford in the first round.

I don't know how the coaches and players might feel, but I'd accept that challenge for RMC since it would be a home game for the Jackets. A semi-final or final round game in Salem is another matter.

Guilford gets a win at Roanoke last night, separating them by two games from Shenandoah and EMU for the 8th spot in the tournament. EMU kept its hopes alive, though, by downing W&L in OT. They'll likely have to win out vs Lynchburg, Averett, and Shenandoah (with whom they are currently tied at 4-9). It now seems less likely that there will be two or more teams tied at 6-10.

RMC got off to a fast start last night and Shenandoah got off to a slow start. The Jackets had an 18-point lead after seven minutes. From that point on it was a pretty competitive game, but RMC was able to add a bit to its lead the rest of the way. Only one Jacket played more than 18 minutes. All 17 players saw action and 13 of them scored.

The next two games, both at home, give RMC the opportunity to go 1-1 on the season vs Averett and VWU and lock up the #1 seed in the conference tournament.

Quote from: hopefan on February 11, 2026, 08:02:09 AMSo here is the ugly truth..

Webster is running away with the conference championship...they could finish 23-2, 16-0

BUT... what happens if they get upset in the conference tourney... highly unlikely that they will get a NCAA tourney bid

Webster is currently at #75 with an NPI of 57.953, so pretty close to a zero chance that they will get an at-large if they don't win the SLIAC tourney. Also, going 16-0 in conference is still going to be tough with three of four games on the road to conclude the season, and the home game being Greenville, who they were lucky to beat earlier. The final two games are at Lyon and MUW, who are #2 and #3 in the standings and who played the Gorloks tough in Grant gym. And I'm not overlooking tonight's game at Eureka. Anything can happen.

^^^ Thanks for sharing that. I've been wondering how those low and mid level D1 schools fit in to what's happening. I also wonder what the NCAA as a whole is going to look like as time goes on.

Re: Guilford. Three of their four remaining games are against teams above them in the standings. I think you are right, that the final team in the tournament, whoever it is, will finish at 6-10. And I think there could be a tie-breaker involved.

^^^ Great analysis there. With no mention of Bridgewater or EMU, are they mathematically out of the picture for sure? Bridgewater sure surprised me with their win at Averett. The do have tough games ahead -- home vs VWU and RMC and on the road vs EMU and W&L. But four wins (cough, cough) would put them at 7-9. EMU is home vs W&L and Shenandoah and away vs Lynchburg and Averett. A slightly easier slate than Bridgewater. Winning out (clears throat) would also put the Royals at 7-9. Is 7-9 likely to be the worst record of a team that qualifies for the tournament? I'm asking because figuring this stuff out is too big a challenge for me.

Quote from: y_jack_lok on February 07, 2026, 10:17:27 PMwith Liam Joyce receiving some nifty passes and having a perfect shooting game (9-9 fgs, 6-6 fts) for 24 points.

This seems to me like a D3hoops.com Team of the Week caliber performance. I hope whoever needs to do something to make that happen takes notice and acts on it.

A good game in Crenshaw. I hadn't seen UMW play except for the end of their game vs Yeshiva and brief look-ins on a couple of random games. So I wasn't familiar with them or their players. They are a good team and it's easy to see why they are ranked so highly. Robinson, their leading scorer, had early foul trouble and only played eight first half minutes. He did play all 20 minutes in the 2nd half but wound up with only seven points, all from the free throw line, going 0-10 from the field for the game. Kudos to the Jacket defense, limiting a 25ppg scorer to so few shots.

UMW's defense made it tough for RMC to get inside looks in the first half, but that got corrected in the second half, with Liam Joyce receiving some nifty passes and having a perfect shooting game (9-9 fgs, 6-6 fts) for 24 points. Overall RMC hit on 15 of 24 two-pointers and 12 of 21 threes making 60% of their fg attempts along with 85% of their free throws. Tough to beat a team when it shoots so well, even with the Eagles taking 10 more shots than the Jackets.

-- VWU ties RMC for first place in the conference with its win at Randolph.
-- Roanoke gets a road win at EMU.
-- Bridgewater hands Averett a rare home loss by a surprising 13 points.
-- W&L squeaks out a one point home win over Guilford.
-- H-SC, still short-handed, handles Shenandoah in Farmville 73-64.
-- Lynchburg had the day off.

Quote from: y_jack_lok on February 02, 2026, 06:49:23 PMD3 Datacast has Mary Wahington at Randolph-Macon on Saturday as its game of the week, with RMC as a 10.5 point favorite. Seems to me that their computer needs tweaking. They seem to agree. They were surprised to see such a huge spread and both picked UMW to at least keep it to a single digit game, though neither mused about the possibility of the Eagles actually winning. But I'd just call it a tossup.

But, that's getting ahead of things. First the Jackets have to get past H-SC on Wednesday.

RMC by 11. 

^^^Thanks for that info. Sorry you had that experience for such a meaningful game.

I do see that the platform is back to functioning.

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You should request that Flo extend your subscription for a month at no cost to you. I might, also, though I was not inconvenienced nearly as much as you were.

Was anybody else having a problem connecting to an event via Flo Sports tonight (Friday February 6, 2026)?

Quote from: Tigerfan on February 06, 2026, 08:04:21 PMAverett kept their ODAC home game streak going today; they finished off their suspended game with VWU 61-56.8

That loss ties VWU with RMC at 2 losses in conference, but puts them 1/2 game behind the Jackets who have ten wins to VWU's nine. That can change tomorrow as the Marlins travel to Randolph while RMC hosts non-conference Mary Washington.

One of Eureka's best players in '24-'25, Miya Webb, transferred to Webster for her senior year and leads the Gorloks in scoring at 10.9 ppg. https://websterathletics.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/miya-webb/5787

^^^ The middle of the game is where the Jackets played their best -- last few minutes of the first half and first ten minutes of the second. In the final five or six minutes, when they should have been trying to really put the game away, they made some uncharacteristically sloppy and unforced turnovers. That, coupled with increased defensive intensity from the Tigers which netted a couple of steals, gave the Tigers some momentum and enhanced incentive, but some of their shots just didn't fall, or it could have gotten really interesting. Interestingly, RMC only had one player in double figures (#5 Hammonds with 16). The other 53 points were spread among nine players. Definitely an unselfish team with lots of options. Antinori has really come alive this season. Hodges plays with a lot of energy and intensity, though can get a bit out of control when handling the ball.

RMC was the only road team to win tonight. W&L downed Roanoke. Lynchburg beat Averett. VWU over Shenandoah  EMU over Bridgewater. Guilford walloped Randolph.

On to Saturday vs Mary Washington, who lost at CNU tonight.

D3 Datacast has Mary Wahington at Randolph-Macon on Saturday as its game of the week, with RMC as a 10.5 point favorite. Seems to me that their computer needs tweaking. They seem to agree. They were surprised to see such a huge spread and both picked UMW to at least keep it to a single digit game, though neither mused about the possibility of the Eagles actually winning. But I'd just call it a tossup.

But, that's getting ahead of things. First the Jackets have to get past H-SC on Wednesday.