I just wanna add one thing. It seems that Maynor has had some of his highest scoring games when VCU ended up losing. I don’t know the circumstances to those losses, but perhaps that can be key to beating them on Thursday?

Remember when just$C beat Texas a few back when Kevin Durant was there? $UC just kind of let KD loose but ended up winning anyways, IIRC.

Umm just so you know that was from VCU vs. GMU game 2 years ago. That is the year we beat Duke and barely lost to Pitt in OT. This year we beat GMU in the CAA final game by 21 points. Just to clear that up for you.

Haha I know I know I just wanted to make sure. And yes you would think there would be more than 2 teams in the CAA but it mostly comes down to us, VCU and Mason in the finals. Maynor is much better this year in my opinion. He is just much more of a leader as a senior. You are right though he is generally the same player. He is our main guy but you guys may want to watch out for Sanders. He is our Sophomore center who was player of the game vs. GMU this year with 18 points, 20 rebs., and 7 blocks. He is our other probable NBA talent down the road. I believe, don’t hold me to it, has the longest wingspan in the NCAA…I will be honest I do not know too much about UCLA this year. I know about Collison and he is one awesome player. That should be a great match-up if he is matched against Maynor. I also now about yall’s amazing history and that’s what gets us excited here at VCU to play a team that is held in such high regard. Should be a great game…Yes, we would have played yall if we had beaten Pitt. We were so close. That would have been a great game. Granted you guys had the better team, I think we could have made a game out of it as that year we were loaded with guards. This year we are more of a balanced team but not as deadly from the guard position besides Maynor and we are very young as Maynor is our only senior. Sorry if it’s against edicate to come onto your boards but we are just so excited at VCU to have an opportunity to play such a prestigous basketball program. Thanks guys!

Other than VCU’s upset for Duke, I didn’t really know much about the team or anything about Maynor.

I should apologize, though I didn’t say it, I was thinking maybe you were just some smart alec with a “drive-by flame-throwing crap” remark (good one). There are too much information about this team in this blog, going through some of them should give you a good idea how our team’s been. I know I’ll be checking in on VCU blog.

to fear VCU. I think they are, in fact, an 11 seed. Studying their record and considering the overall quality of their league, giving Maynor his due, and conceding that they will be highly motivated, the Bruins should still be favored by 7 points or so. If we play hard for 40 minutes, the game is properly officiated, and we have no key injuries, we should win by even more. We have the better team. It is not inconceivable that we can handle Nova as well. But one game at a time.

Thanks for the kind words on showing respect for our program. I am learning a bit more about UCLA this year and am becoming more fearful (not that I wasn’t before). I just realized yall were ranked #3 in the begininning of the year (I know some people say rankings don’t matter in the early stages of the season but it still says something). I personally would take Eric Maynor over Curry but I am biased but the things he can create can seem surreal at times. Larry Sanders is long and pretty athletic but is very thin and can find himself in some major foul trouble that screws things up a lot for us. It took our team just about now to start playing as the team we should be. We struggled to find our identity but at this point we are clicking. We have recently brought our press back. We couldn’t run it in for a long time due to injuries. Our press is pretty much the reason we beat Duke and were able to come back and make a run at Pitt. I don’t see you guys having to much problems with our press if we run it because of your amazingly good guards…Thanks again guys for showing some respect for us. Yall should definitely be favored 7+ points as you have pointed out. Should be a dog fight though as I feel both teams play with a lot of heart and that’s what it’s all about. It’s fun seeing the front page of our papers mentioning VCU playing a team such as your UCLA Bruins. I think some of our guys like Maynor will handle it but being young I fear that just those 4 letters U-C-L-A might be a little intimidating. Good luck guys!

Oh I understand. I want us to beat you guys badly (if we win I am sure it would have to be close though). Every Bruin fan that we have run across on our boards seem like good people. So I can’t hate on yall either. If yall beat us I am rooting for you guys against Villanova as well. Did they luck out with venues or what?