The mighty C-A-A
Forget ACC for a moment. How about the CAA? As VCU alum/N&R reporter Robert Bell gets all fired up for tonight's VCU-George Mason showdown, it should be noted that the Colonial Athletic Association has five teams in the RPI's top 63 -- the same number as the ACC -- according to collegeRPI.com. The CAA's conference RPI, good for 10th, is its highest in at least 10 years.
If UNC Wilmington (10-3 CAA, 17-7 overall) is going to make the NCAA's, the Seahawks will have to get through first-place George Mason (11-2, 17-5, #32 RPI), as well as Hofstra, VCU, Old Dominion and Northeastern. They're all within two games of GMU in the league standings.
ODU has junior Drew Williamson, the former two-sport star at Cummings High, running the show at point guard, by the way.
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Don't forget about former Chatham Central star Jason Thompson, who also plays for ODU. Give the Bears some love!
And then there's former Duke guard Jeff Capel, who is in his fourth year as the head coach at VCU, I believe. Oh, and he's two years younger than me. Boy, is that depressing.
Posted on February 10, 2006 6:02 PM
Marsharee Neely, a Page Pirate and one of the best players in the area, will be joining Williamson next year at ODU.
Posted on February 11, 2006 8:20 AM
Besides a couple of great NCAA tournament games by the Seahawks (and others, I'm sure), the league also gave us one player from then-member Navy -- David Robinson.
If my memory serves me right from UNC Wilmington basketball camp in seventh grade, current Miami head coach Frank Haith and Radford head coach Byron Samuels were coaches on then-UNCW head coach Kevin Eastman's staff.
Posted on February 13, 2006 11:21 AM
Most definitely on David Robinson. My dad (a Navy man) took me to one or two George Mason-Navy games when I was in high school to see The Admiral, when he was merely an ensign, cadet, plebe or whatever academy enrollees are called.
Posted on February 13, 2006 7:11 PM