Day 5 of 20-21 prelim rankings: A10 (trigger warning, UMass optimists)

T1
1 Richmond
2 SLU
3 Dayton

T2
4 Duquesne
5 Bona
6 Davidson
7 VCU
8 URI

T3
9 George Mason
10 UMass

T4
11 GW
12 La Salle
13 St Joe's (assuming no Daly)
14 Fordham

To get ahead of the UMass uproar - without a Fernandes waiver, creating quality shots is a major problem following the East transfer. Team led by sophs is still a year away from a major leap IMO

I'm usually cool on junior-to-senior continuity being a huge deal, but with the crazy complex offense that Richmond runs (modified Princeton - tons of reads and instinctual cuts), five guys who are comfortable running it together is huge

VCU and Rhode Island cling to Tier 2 largely as a nod to program success and stature, both teams were gutted by departures. And I'm waiting for @matty_cox to come in beating his Bonnies war drum (never finished higher than 60th in KenPom since 2000!)

Coach ranks:

1 McKillop
2 Schmidt (ultra consistent)
3 Grant
4 Rhoades
5 Dambrot
6 Mooney
7 Christian
8 Paulsen
9 Ford (reels in talent tho)
10 Cox
11 McCall (still scarred from the Nooga debacle - has yet to change my mind at UMass)
12 Howard
13 Neubauer
14 Lange