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Ken Pomeroy has his first rankings out for this season. He has the Dukes at #173 in the country (out of 351 D-1 teams). He is projecting the Dukes to finish at 13-16 and 5-11 in the A-10, which merits a 12th place finish. A couple of other points: Looks like he's not buying the URI hype. Not a lot of love for LaSalle either. Dan Hanner does a projection of all D-1 teams for ESPN. Although not as statically driven as Pomeroy, Hanner uses player stas, team defense rankings and runs 10,000 computer simulations for each team. He has the Dukes at #203 in the country. He also provides a best case ranking (115th) and a worst case (254th).
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Pomeroy - First Rankings for 2013-2014
• He has us winning our season opener vs. Abinene Christian (#327) by a score of 78-64
• Projects our offensive rating to be #128 in the country
• Projects our defensive rating to be #230 in the country
• Projects our tempo (# of possessions) to be #36 in the country
Here are the Pomeroy rankings for all A-10 teams:
VCU 21
Saint Louis 31
La Salle 55
Massachusetts 60
Richmond 66
Dayton 68
Saint Joseph's 74
George Mason 89
George Washington 120
Rhode Island 132
St. Bonaventure 146
Duquesne 173
Fordham 198
Doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot, but it's good to see the pecking order that Pomeroy has assigned for now.
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He has the Dukes' offense scoring 104.4 points per 100 possessions, but giving up 106.6 points per 100 possessions.
VCU 22
Saint Louis 24
La Salle 43
Richmond 64
Dayton 66
Massachusetts 75
Saint Joseph's 86
George Washington 90
George Mason 114
Rhode Island 140
St. Bonaventure 154
Duquesne 203
Fordham 231 •
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