R-E-S-P-E-C-T?
VCU-JMU LIVE BLOG!When the CAA Preseason Coaches Poll came out in October, it had VCU ranked fifth and James Madison second. The Rams did not have any players on the Preseason All-CAA Teams.
Those rankings were fair, given VCU’s loss of its top two scorers, Quanitra Hollingsworth and Radoslava Bachvarova. However, a something funny happened on the way to March. The Rams ripped off an 8-1 CAA mark in the first half of the league season. Their only loss is a two-point defeat to Drexel, in Philly.
Beginning with tonight’s TeeVee tilt with JMU, we’re going to find out a lot about this VCU team in the next few weeks. Two games with the Dukes, Old Dominion and a match-up with Drexel lie ahead.
James Madison is led by junior Dawn Evans, a 5-foot-7 3-point shooting sparkplug. Evans is second in the country in scoring (25.7 ppg) and is firing more than 11 treys a game.
Contenders or pretenders? We’ll find out if VCU can earn a little respect.
