This Year vs Last

[iona05]

Just to do a mid season checkpoint, at this point in the season last year, we were:

12-7 overall
6-2 in conference
Tied for second in conference with 2 other teams (Loyola, Rider)
RPI of 95
OOC wins against Georgia, Bonnies, Denver, Wake Forest
Road wins against Georgia, Bonnies, Siena, Marist

This season we are:

10-8 overall
6-2 in conference
Tied for first in conference with 2 other teams (Canisius, Manhattan)
RPI of 134
OOC wins against George Mason, Florida Gulf Coast
Road wins against Florida Gulf Coast, Fairfield, Siena


Similar resumes between the two teams with the slight edge going to last year's squad at this point. Let's hope this year's team can avoid the mid-season funk that last year's team had, but can give us an equally as happy ending.

[iona05]

Sorry, should say 7-2 in conf.

[Joebird]

Last year around this time AJ got hurt, this year with IW we are a much better team than without, couple those two factors and this years team may be better as of this date compared to a year ago.

[iona05]

Figured we should update this thread to compare this year to previous years:

At this time last year we were:
10-8 overall
7-2 in conference
Tied for first in conference with 2 other teams (Canisius, Manhattan)
RPI of 134
OOC wins against George Mason, Florida Gulf Coast
Road wins against Florida Gulf Coast, Fairfield, Siena

At this time in 2012-13 we were:
12-7 overall
6-2 in conference
Tied for second in conference with 2 other teams (Loyola, Rider)
RPI of 95
OOC wins against Georgia, Bonnies, Denver, Wake Forest
Road wins against Georgia, Bonnies, Siena, Marist

This year we are:
14-6 overall
7-2 in conference
Tied for first in conference with 1 other team (Monmouth)
RPI of 62
OOC wins against Wake Forest, Cleveland State, Indiana State, Florida Gulf Coast
Road wins against Wake Forest, North Texas, Drexel

Seems like the progress continues year after year...

[ic59]

iona05, your review of Iona's recent past has Crown Jewell written all over it.

[java]

Nice illustration 05.

Thanks for putting this together.

[Joebird]

RPI up to 55 with OOC's going 4-1 this afternoon. Let's enjoy it while we can because upcoming games against the weak sisters of the Maac will send our RPI tumbling even with wins. Side note Lunardi just bumped us for Monmouth on his seeding list (not in bracket yet- but on Twitter- will show up Monday in bracket unless we are alone in first), he either thinks Monmouth is a half game ahead of us or this late in the year he starts using conference tiebreakers instead of RPI (probably the latter).