{"id":1688,"date":"2017-03-08T07:38:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2017-03-08T07:39:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:39:20","slug":"2017-atlantic-10-tournament-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/2017-atlantic-10-tournament-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Atlantic 10 tournament forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Atlantic 10 Conference<\/strong>\u00a0(conference rank: 8th)<br \/>\nMarch 9-12<br \/>\nAll games at Pittsburgh, Pa.<br \/>\n<strong>kPOY:<\/strong>\u00a0TJ Cline, Richmond<br \/>\n<strong>Regular season champ:<\/strong>\u00a0Dayton (preseason #37 \/ 2nd\u00a0American, current #34)<br \/>\n<strong>Overachiever:<\/strong>\u00a0George Mason (preseason #171, current #115)<br \/>\n<strong>Underachiever:<\/strong>\u00a0Saint Joseph&#8217;s (preseason #99, current #173)<\/p>\n<p>Here are the national leaders in assist percentage\u00a0for players listed at 6-8 or taller (minimum 40% of team&#8217;s minutes):<\/p>\n<pre>1. Cline, Richmond          39.2\r\n2. Gettings, Cornell        24.7\r\n3. Taylor, Toledo           24.5\r\n4. Davenport, North Florida 24.3\r\n5. Happ, Wisconsin          24.0<\/pre>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Richmond&#8217;s TJ Cline ranks 11th overall in assist rate and at 6-9 blows away the field for assist rate honors among very tall people. Such are the possibilities playing the post in the Chris Mooney&#8217;s Princeton-ish offense. Although it&#8217;s taken time for Cline to get here. His first season in Richmond, he assisted on just 18% of his teammates buckets which rose to 28% last season.<\/p>\n<p>But TJ Cline is a footnote to the 2017 A-10 season. Dayton overcame a tragic offseason to win the regular season title and VCU looks like it will join them in the NCAA tournament regardless of what happens in Pittsburgh. Rhode Island could possibly play its way in without winning the conference tournament, but the Rams have good reason to believe they can get the auto-bid, too.\u00a0Richmond is the fourth team with a bye to the quarterfinals and the Spiders have an outside shot at a title, too.<\/p>\n<pre><b>                       Rd1  Qtrs Semis Final Champ<\/b>\r\n 1 Dayton              100   100  74.1  45.2  28.8\r\n 2 VCU                 100   100  76.8  54.3  28.2\r\n 4 Rhode Island        100   100  71.1  36.0  20.9\r\n 3 Richmond            100   100  65.0  25.6   8.9\r\n 9 Davidson            100  64.1  19.2   7.9   3.5\r\n 5 St. Bonaventure     100  67.4  22.6   7.8   3.3\r\n 7 George Mason        100  66.4  17.9   8.4   2.5\r\n 6 George Washington   100  67.4  27.2   8.5   2.4\r\n 8 La Salle            100  35.9   6.7   1.9   0.6\r\n10 Fordham             100  33.6   5.4   1.7   0.3\r\n14 Duquesne           68.0  25.2   6.7   1.3   0.2\r\n12 Massachusetts      54.3  18.3   3.6   0.7   0.2\r\n13 Saint Joseph's     45.7  14.3   2.7   0.5   0.1\r\n11 Saint Louis        32.0   7.4   1.1   0.1   0.009<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic 10 Conference\u00a0(conference rank: 8th) March 9-12 All games at Pittsburgh, Pa. kPOY:\u00a0TJ Cline, Richmond Regular season champ:\u00a0Dayton (preseason #37 \/ 2nd\u00a0American, current #34) Overachiever:\u00a0George Mason (preseason #171, current #115) Underachiever:\u00a0Saint Joseph&#8217;s (preseason #99, current #173) Here are the national leaders in assist percentage\u00a0for players listed at 6-8 or taller (minimum 40% of team&#8217;s minutes): [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}