Commonwealth Power Rankings, January 28th

#1 VCU went 0-2, but it still wasn’t enough for #2 Virginia to take the top stop despite a 2-0 performance this week.

#1 VCU went 0-2, but it still wasn’t enough for #2 Virginia to take the top stop despite a 2-0 performance this week. With the Rams exiting the top-25, the state of basketball in the Commonwealth is looking rough, and things are unlikely to improve. Virginia and Virginia Tech have played the two easiest schedules in the ACC so far, George Mason has played the easiest CAA schedule, and Virginia’s four teams in the Big South will keep beating up on each other. The bright spots are Richmond and Norfolk State. The Spiders are playing quality basketball despite missing junior Derrick Williams (ankle), and the Spartans are dominating the MEAC.

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1

7 PTS

VCU


16-5, 4-2

When VCU isn’t forcing turnovers, they turn into a middle of the pack A-10 team. Aaron Williams

2

8 PTS

Virginia

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14-5, 4-2

Even with two convincing ACC-wins from UVA this week and two bad VCU losses, I’d be playing homerism if I bumped the Hoos up. Brian Leung

3

16 PTS

Richmond


13-8, 3-3

Thursday night’s quality win over VCU was an amazing moment in Spider basketball history that ended in an emotional rushing of the Robins Center court. Sunday’s loss to UMass doesn’t diminish Thursday’s win, but the Spiders need to drastically improve their FG% on the road if they want to contend for the top of the A-10. Joshua Grice

4

21 PTS

Virginia Tech

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11-8, 2-4

The Hokies should just change their name to The Erick Greens because he’s the only one playing consistently night in and night out. He’s still the nation’s leading scorer. Against UVA he scored a career-high 35 points. The rest of the team scored 23. Gary Cope

5

23 PTS

George Mason

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12-8, 5-3

GMU got demolished by Northeastern. This team is too touch and go! Joshua Grice

6

32 PTS

Norfolk State

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12-10, 7-0

Make it six straight wins for the Spartans. Pretty sure they could take The Erick Greens at this point. Gary Cope

7

33 PTS

JMU

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11-10, 5-3

The Dukes are holding opponents to a league-low 56.6 points per game within CAA play. Mark Selig

8

44 PTS

Radford

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10-11, 4-3

VCU transfer Reco McCarter started for Campbell on Wednesday as the Fighting Camels beat former VCU coach Mike Jones. Aaron Williams

9

45 PTS

William & Mary

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8-11, 2-6

A perfectly mediocre week for the Tribe. Brian Leung

10

47 PTS

VMI

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9-10, 4-3

Three straight losses for the Keydets, including a 30-point laugher at High Point. Gary Cope

11

55 PTS

Liberty

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6-15, 2-5

In December it seemed like no one could underperform Liberty. The Commonwealth accepted the challenge. Aaron Williams

12

59 PTS

Hampton

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5-13, 2-3

Any hope that Hampton would win in the soft MEAC died this week after the Pirates went 0-2. Aaron Williams

13

65 PTS

Old Dominion


2-17, 0-7

I’m pretty much going to say this every week: this team beat UVA Brian Leung

14

70 PTS

Longwood


3-18, 0-7

Losers of 11 straight, Longwood would appear in the bottom spot of most state’s power rankings.Aaron Williams

Contributors: Gary Cope (VT; TechHoops.com), Joshua Grice (UR; Richmond Rowdies), Brian Leung (UVA; StreakingTheLawn.com), Mark Selig (JMU; DukesOfJMU.com), Aaron Williams (VCU; RVANews)

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