Manifest Destiny

UNCW defeated The Tribe of William and Mary Wednesday to open up the conference season for both teams. The Seahawks improve to 6-1 (1-0 CAA), while The Tribe drop to 4-2 (0-1 CAA). No suprise in this part, John Goldsberry leads the way in scoring shooting perfect from the floor going 4-4 from 3pt range and picking up the other 3 points on the charity stripe. Goldsberry also finished with 4 assists and 5 boards. Todd Hendley and Temi Soyebo also posted double figures for the Hawks putting up 14 and 10 respectively. TJ Carter shared the assist prize with Goldsberry putting up 4 himself while Beckham Wyrick matched John in rebounds with 5. All in all we played very well shooting 52% to William and Mary's 44% mark. This is out of character of past Seahawk teams that usually don't shoot well on the road. Calvin Baker led the way for The Tribe with 12 points and 6 assists.

Here is the boxscore.

In other CAA news VCU posted a nice come from behind road win against Houston, and Hofstra did the same against St. Johns. It was nice to see a fellow CAA team take down a Big East opponent.

UNCW and Georgia State lead the way in the Conference rankings standing at 1-0. Northeastern and Old Dominion are 4-1. Georgia State, VCU, Hofstra, and James Madison are all 2-1.

Here are the complete conference standings.

And finally UNCW continues it's conference play finally coming home again to take on Virginia Commonwealth on Sunday at 2:30. This will be VCU's conference opener, and UNCW's home opener for conference play. As stated earlier UNCW is 6-1 (1-0 CAA) and VCU is 2-1. VCU was picked to finish 2nd in the pre-season conference poll while UNCW was picked to finish 5th. However in the last mid-major poll on collegeinsider.com UNCW was ranked 19th while VCU was receiving votes putting them at 36.

However, I forgot to mention that in the AP poll Old Dominon was 45th and Drexel was was in a tie for 54th. And in the ESPN/USA Today poll Old Dominion and VCU were in a tie for 50th.

See you Sunday VCU.

Go Hawks.