{"id":6126,"date":"2013-03-12T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2013-03-12T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:48:59","slug":"jmu-to-the-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6126","title":{"rendered":"JMU to the Tournament!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/JMUlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-6127\" title=\"JMUlogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/JMUlogo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Non Baseball post.<\/p>\n<p>Just a quick shout out to my alma mater James Madison University, who <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/james-madison-beats-northeastern-caa-013424236--ncaab.html\">won the CAA tournament<\/a> on 3\/11\/13 and returns to the NCAA tournament for the first time in nearly 20 years. \u00a0 To say that JMU has not been an impact school in the basketball world is a slight understatement; they hadn&#8217;t even made the CAA tourney final since 1997. \u00a0They only managed to win the CAA tournament in 1994 by virtue of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UStuRYHKFmY\">last-gasp 3-pointer<\/a> to win the game 77-76 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,627809,00.html\">star-turned-states&#8217; witness<\/a> <strong>Kent Culuko<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Since JMU last was in the NCAA tournament, they fired <strong>Lefty Dreisell<\/strong>, who was brought in to revolutionize the program with his reputation and give it national credence but managed just one appearance in his 9 years at the school (he clearly could recruit better than he could coach, a statement many old-school University of Maryland fans probably agree with too). \u00a0Since Dreisell&#8217;s departure JMU has gone through a series of medicore coaches with even more mediocre results. \u00a0They are also in the midst of a horrid stretch against their biggest CAA rival, George Mason, who have won 9 straight versus JMU and an astonishing 18 of the last 19 meetings. \u00a0This is nearly a complete reversal of the series outcomes for the first decade or so of this rivalry and does a good job of stating just how far the two teams&#8217; fortunes have diverged.<\/p>\n<p>The CAA has grown up in the last decade without JMU&#8217;s involvement, with Mason and VCU making final fours and teams like ODU, UNC Wilmington and Richmond (now with the A-10) routinely reaching the tournament and getting marquee wins. \u00a0JMU was a great team in the early 80s, making three straight NCAA tournaments AND winning a game in each of those tournaments, but has just one NCAA appearance (in 1994) since. \u00a0That&#8217;s 30 years, one tournament apperance.<\/p>\n<p>Lets hope they get a decent seeding and can take out a #3 or #4 seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non Baseball post. Just a quick shout out to my alma mater James Madison University, who won the CAA tournament on 3\/11\/13 and returns to the NCAA tournament for the first time in nearly 20 years. \u00a0 To say that JMU has not been an impact school in the basketball world is a slight understatement; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1581,1582],"class_list":["post-6126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonbaseball","tag-kent-culuko","tag-lefty-dreisell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6129,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions\/6129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}