2025–26 opponent tracking

SFspidur said:
Speaking of which, time for a daily check-in!

Southern Virginia's season came to end in their conference semis, as a late 19–4 run got them a one-point lead with 14 seconds to go but NC Wesleyan responded with a bucket to retake the lead with 8 seconds to go and then a couple of foul shots after a Southern Virginia miss made the final margin as a desperation three missed.

Overall not a great day for our opponents, though Charleston Southern had a decent win over Winthrop. Gardner-Webb is now 1–26 against D-I competition, but their final regular-season game on Saturday is against USC Upstate, the one team they've beaten this year!

2/26

Non-conference (2–4, 2–3 D-I vs D-I)
- NC Wesleyan (D-III) 84, Southern Virginia (D-III) 81
- W&M 84, Northeastern 77
- Samford 80, VMI 61
- UNC Asheville 77, Gardner-Webb 71
- Towson 58, Elon 56
- Charleston Southern 86, Winthrop 84

A-10
- Bona 94, Rhode Island 76
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I can’t recall ever seeing as many collective losses by our opponents since you started tracking this. Egad.
 
Eight Legger said:
It's basically those two, Self, Jones at Yale, Kampe at Oakland, and Mooney. The first three have winning percentages at or above 70%. Jones is like 57% but dragged down by some bad years early. He's probably closer to 65% or better in the last 12 years or so. Kampe is at 57% but transitioned his team to D1 years ago and that's not easy.

Mooney is such a damn outlier. Just an average coach allowed to stick around forever, like a squatter in an abandoned house.
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It's actually worse for Moon than you list.

Few at Gonzaga and Bennett at St. Mary's as well. Few is at 83% win % and Bennett at 72% win %.

Bennett - 1 losing season, his first and 1 .500 season, his second. The last 20+ seasons have all been winning seasons, most of them big winning. Nineteen 20-win seasons and 1 30 win season.

Few - my god. 27 seasons, all winning seasons, all 20+ wins, only 2 seasons with fewer than 25 wins actually . 30+ wins 8 times. Seasons with even 10+ losses: two.

These are coaches who are legends at their schools and deserve to have the compliments showered upon them for their sustained longevity and success. The latter point being the key.
 
For those who may not know and just to put this out there in the wild, unlike Bennett (Moon's best comp IMO) or the other coaches at their schools for 20+ years, here are Moon's stats as UR coach.

20 seasons coached (with this season incomplete being 21st season.)

Chris Mooney has 8 total losing or .500 seasons (6 losing seasons and 2 seasons at .500). This is 40% of his seasons as UR coach.

He has 8 seasons of 20 or more wins, also 40% of his seasons at UR. Two of those seasons were 25+ wins (26, 29 wins) and were with the same group of players, the last of those two seasons being in 2011.

He has 4 seasons of just over .500. All these fall between 51% and 59% win percentage (16, 19, 19, 14 wins, respectively) which neatly fall in line with his historical win % of .550.

This season will likely fall in the last category above.

He's the outlier among these long-employed coaches. He wins just enough to not get fired, but never sustained big success like Bennett, Few, or the others.
 
Yep, as has been shown ad nauseam on these boards over the years, Mooney is the kind of coach who gets fired years ago at most every D1 school in a top-9 league...except, apparently, this one. And when you give an average coach 21 tries, he will get things right a few times. Unfortunately for us, he always seems to do that just when his ineptitude is about to end his career here.

So I guess, be excited for our trip to the Final Four next year!?
 
Dayton opened up a big lead over GW, but it was down to just three at the half. The second half went back and forth, but Castro missed two crucial free throws with 20 seconds left and GW up one that led to Dayton going to the line and L'Etang sinking his to put the Flyers ahead. GW was unable to respond in a final flurry, and the Flyers move to 11–5 in A-10 play.

2/27

Non-conference (1–0)
- ODU 81, Georgia State 73

A-10
- Dayton 68, GW 66

Bonus exhibition opponent (0–1)
- Coastal Carolina 69, JMU 68
 
SFspidur said:
Dayton opened up a big lead over GW, but it was down to just three at the half. The second half went back and forth, but Castro missed two crucial free throws with 20 seconds left and GW up one that led to Dayton going to the line and L'Etang sinking his to put the Flyers ahead. GW was unable to respond in a final flurry, and the Flyers move to 11–5 in A-10 play.

2/27

Non-conference (1–0)
- ODU 81, Georgia State 73

A-10
- Dayton 68, GW 66

Bonus exhibition opponent (0–1)
- Coastal Carolina 69, JMU 68
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Caputo setting up to be a lifer unless he gets canned eventually.
 
SFspidur said:
Dayton opened up a big lead over GW, but it was down to just three at the half. The second half went back and forth, but Castro missed two crucial free throws with 20 seconds left and GW up one that led to Dayton going to the line and L'Etang sinking his to put the Flyers ahead. GW was unable to respond in a final flurry, and the Flyers move to 11–5 in A-10 play.

2/27

Non-conference (1–0)
- ODU 81, Georgia State 73

A-10
- Dayton 68, GW 66

Bonus exhibition opponent (0–1)
- Coastal Carolina 69, JMU 68
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Dayton had one awful week this season - lost to Lasalle, Saint Joe's and URI - but other than that have played well and all their other losses are kind of the expected variety, even Liberty who is 23-5 and first in CUSA.

They're 20-9 and want to can Grant over there. Funny how expectations matter when you have a program with ambition.
 
brooklyn brownstone said:
Dayton had one awful week this season - lost to Lasalle, Saint Joe's and URI - but other than that have played well and all their other losses are kind of the expected variety, even Liberty who is 23-5 and first in CUSA.

They're 20-9 and want to can Grant over there. Funny how expectations matter when you have a program with ambition.
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Leaving us and our struggles out of it, I am not sure giving Dayton credit for wanting to can Grant is a good argument for expectations. This is his 9th year there and he has been to the dance once (twice counting their great 2020 season). If expectations really mattered, it could be argued he would have been fired already because Dayton certainly expects more than 2 dance teams in 9 years, but they have stuck with him. So, in a way, Dayton compares to us with their coach still there, not differs. No question Grant has done way better than Mooney, but that is not the debate.
 
vt4700 said:
Leaving us and our struggles out of it, I am not sure giving Dayton credit for wanting to can Grant is a good argument for expectations. This is his 9th year there and he has been to the dance once (twice counting their great 2020 season). If expectations really mattered, it could be argued he would have been fired already because Dayton certainly expects more than 2 dance teams in 9 years, but they have stuck with him. So, in a way, Dayton compares to us with their coach still there, not differs. No question Grant has done way better than Mooney, but that is not the debate.
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Close to what I was going to say. Definitely done better but 1-1 in NCAA in 9 seasons is the same as Mooney…
 
Right, but they want Grant gone in midst of a 20+ win season, for the reason that he doesn't win big enough. And, realistically, it may happen. There is real pressure there.

At Richmond, Moon would be in line for another extension if he were 20-9 this year on way to 22 or 23 wins.

This is the difference.
 
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