After a 12-day layoff and coming off the worst outing of the season in a terrible loss at Radford, the Good Guys are back at home tonight against Charleston Southern. This is the next-to-last game before the CAA schedule starts up as the Dukes head to NYC to face Fordham Friday night before a week-long break for Christmas and hosting Hofstra & Northeastern on the 28th and 30th.

I usually get in the Convo about 20 minutes before tip. The first game after fall exams I normally count the number of players in the layup lines to see if all are accounted for (in hopes none have transferred out) as this is prime time for all programs across the country to potentially experience some attrition - that is, after fall semester is officially over. Hoping not.

The guys have had almost 2 weeks to steam over their performance at Radford. And, hopefully work on defense as it has been non-existent in the last 3 games and was particularly awful at Radford. Really interested to see tonight whether our guys are going to take pride in defending regardless of how we do offensively or even win (or lose) for that matter.

If no improvement in defensive effort is evident, this is going to potentially be an even worse season than we've seen in Rowe's first 3 years (pity the thought).

Hoping.