PREFERS TEMPLE'S OFFENSE TO PRINCETON'S
The Atlantic 10 has announced the league opponents for the 16-game conference basketball season.
Each team will face every school once and three schools twice.
Saint Joseph’s will face Temple, Massachusetts and St. Bonaventure home and away. The Hawks also host Dayton, Fordham, La Salle, Richmond and Saint Louis and visit Charlotte, Duquesne, George Washington, Rhode Island and Xavier.
Temple faces St. Joe’s, La Salle and Rhode Island home and away. The Owls also host Dayton, Duquesne, George Washington, UMass and Xavier and visit Charlotte, Fordham, Richmond, St. Bonaventure and Saint Louis.
La Salle meets Temple, George Washington and UMass home and away. The Explorers host Charlotte, Rhode Island, St. Bonaventure, Saint Louis and Xavier and visit Dayton, Duquesne, Fordham, Richmond and St. Joe’s.
Dates and times will be announced at a later date.
The top 12 teams will advance to the conference tournament, with the top four seeds receiving byes and the the next four seed hosting games at campus sites.
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FRAN DUNPHY, Temple
He begins his third season on North Broad with nearly 350 career victories after a long tenure at Penn. The Owls won the Atlantic 10 Tournament last season and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
BRUISER FLINT, Drexel
He begins his eighth season with the Dragons after returning to the city where he played collegiately at St. Joe’s. The Dragons have advanced to the postseason in four of the last six years and have won at least 17 games four times under Flint.
DR. JOHN GIANNINI, La Salle
He begins his fifth season at the school after successful tenures at the University of Maine and Rowan, where teams made two trips to the Division III Final Four. At LaSalle two seasons ago, he engineered an 18-win season and third-place finish in the Atlantic 10, the school’s best finish since joining the league for the 1995-96 season.
PHIL MARTELLI, Saint Joseph’s
He begins his 14th season on Hawk Hill, having won more than 250 games. He is a four-time Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year and has taken the Hawks to the postseason in seven of the last eight years.
GLEN MILLER, Penn
He begins his third season at the school after moving within the Ivy League from Brown. In his first season, he led the Quakers to an Ivy League championship and their third consecutive NCAA Tournament bid.
JAY WRIGHT, Villanova
He begins his eighth season at ‘Nova, having amassed 148 wins at the school. Villanova has made the NCAA Tournament for the last four seasons, including three trips to the Sweet 16 and an Elite Eight appearance. Wright came to Villanova following his tenure at Hofstra and has 270 career victories.
