2025-26 American Basketball ๐Ÿ€

https://x.com/trillydonovan/status/1998423171633189105

FYI - GC is a D2 Catholic school in NJ. Like the previously discussed Mercyhurst of Erie, PA, founded by the Sisters of Mercy order.

https://x.com/GaryParrishCBS/status/1998209916868407664

Georgian Court???

Who are these programs?

Why are our conference mates playing them?

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I mean, we played Shaw.

I had at least heard of Shaw.

How in the hell is this school D2? I was expecting to read that they were one of those divisions that no one has heard of. Like NCCAA.

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Davidson is playing Mercyhurst. Sounds like a hospital?

Mercyhurst is a pretty good school. I was enrolled there for 2 years. Canโ€™t really honestly say I โ€œattendedโ€ regularly haha. I am thankful that transferred classes are rated as pass/fail rather than carrying over the grades.

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Interesting that you mentioned hospital. The Sisters of Mercy founded what is now Atrium Health Mercy in Charlotte. First Catholic hospital in North Carolina when it opened in 1906. The mother of a friend of mine from high school was the director of education at the hospitalโ€™s school of nursing.

Also as an Irish Catholic school, Mercyhurst offered multiple free scholarships to Irish students each year. Made some really fun Irish friends during those years. I wish there was a way to keep up with them - social media didnโ€™t exist back then.

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https://x.com/RoccoMiller8/status/1999923234725306850

https://x.com/CBB_Central/status/1999974584658055507

Mixed results though a complete meltdown by Arkansas State allowed AC to pick up an additional OOC win and make up somewhat for the Wichita State debacle.

Just over an hour ago I was wondering if ECU would go ahead and fire Michael Schwartz before conference play begins instead of waiting until the end of the season. Pirates trailed 47-28 at halftime to visiting Buffalo in which UB hoopster Daniel Freitag by himself outscored ECU with 29 first half points. Fast forward to now and #123 UB goes home with second loss of the year after #321 Pirates rally for the 73-70 win in Greenville. In a down year for the American, gotta take every D1 OOC victory ya can get - even the 3 by EZU!

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https://x.com/American_Conf/status/2000642766267732260

https://x.com/American_Conf/status/2000642011645222987

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2025-26 NET RANKINGS - 12/15

40 Tulsa
75 USF
95 Wichita State
106 FAU
120 Memphis
124 UAB
183 North Texas
194 CHARLOTTE
200 Temple
234 Rice
263 Tulane
306 ECU
307 UTSA

American is #10 among conferences, which places it between #9 MVC and #11 WAC.

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2025-26 NON-CON SOS - 12/15

21 Memphis
48 CHARLOTTE
59 ECU
66 USF
75 FAU
81 Wichita State
104 Tulsa
109 UTSA
171 Rice
231 Tulane
249 Temple
276 UAB
305 North Texas