Musketeer Madness

I was looking at the A10 Conference record/standings Sunday morning. If the record of each team was correct as of 11-23, it appears that the A10 is not doing very well against non-conference competition at 25-19. This I assume will translate into a very poor conference RPI etc. The A10 appears to be very weak. I know it is still early in the season,but this may translate to one, maybe two A10 teams getting into the NCAA tourney.

Whereas, the ACC has lost 2 games (Xavier was there first), the Big East has lost 4, the Big 10 has lost one, and the Big 12 has lost 2.......the best conference records so far.

And, other than our wins over Missouri and VT, I'm not sure if the A10 has any wins that will catch the selection committee's eye in March.

I am not making any excuses for the amount losses, but a good amount of them have been to some good teams. The one team that makes no sense is Charlotte, how in the hell do you lost to Old Dominion by 1, to App. St in overtime, and Clemson by 1. Hopefully the A-10 picks it up here a bit with some more wins. I have no doubt that X will be fine regardless.

Charlotte disappoints in the pre-season is sad because they did better last year with a less experienced team.

along with this, everyone should brace themselves to hear the term "mid-major" being thrown around again, merely because of our conference. Fran Fraschilla said it himself at the beginning of tonight's game, that he'd have to bite his tongue and refrain from using that term in the same sentence with Xavier.

Most of the A-10 have not gotten into all of their guarantee games. I suspect they will add a few victories.

UD's win over Bethune Cookman is going to stand out on their resume come March.