Quote Originally Posted by KPSUL View Post
I was at the JMU @ Richmond game. It was an excellent game, maybe the best CAA conference game of the season. However, the championship did not come down to that one game. Richmond ended up 5-3 in the conference. Even if JMU had lost that game they still would have won sole possession of the championship at 7-1. Had they won, U of R would have been in a 3 way tie for 2nd rather than tied for 4th with Maine.
At that point in the season, the mentality was very much the game was for the conference championship. UR was a 1 conference loss team and a win by us would have placed us ahead of JMU and Villanova (also only a conference 1 loss team at that point) us owning both tie breakers. A win there and Lauletta not getting hurt (or having any sort of realistic backup by Rocco) and we've got a 7-1 record. It didn't end up that way, but at that moment in time that was the championship.