Getting Ready for the A10 Tourney

Its the most wonderful time of the year. Conference tourney week.

Where even the Charlotte 49ers, after a decent non-conference slate with wins over Clemson, Wake Forest, Davidson, Southern Illinois, etc… and where twenty-one of 30 games have been decided by seven points or less; 11 by four or less points, have a legitimate shot at the NCAA tourney. Sure,  the season might end in an NIT bid, but that is good ending for a team that lost everyone last year and gained 8 new players.

Charlotte woulda coulda shoulda beat Monmoth and Richmond in OT where they would have boasted a 20-10 record and a Top 50 RPI… they had Maryland, Hofstra and Xavier beat… until the final shot which would have given them a 23-7 record and then they had Georgia Tech, UMass and Dayton to the final seconds… which would have given them a 26-4 record.

But the shot to win the game in each of those contests circled in and fell out and the Niners are where they are at.

18-12.

Taking on the Rhode Island Rams for the 2nd time in 5 days. Beating them decidely the first time.

Good luck Charlotte! However it turns out, it will be exciting.

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