{"id":379,"date":"2010-02-24T22:33:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T03:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2010-02-25T07:13:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:13:19","slug":"put-a-fork-in-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Put a Fork in &#8217;em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dukes lost to VCU this evening by the score of 76-62. We can always hope for a shocking upset at the CAA tourney, but I think that most folks would admit that the Dukes are done. The regular season wraps up with a game this Saturday against Drexel, a team that stomped the Dukes by 21 up in Philadelphia last month.<\/p>\n<p>There is some good news though. JMU now holds a one-game lead over Delaware in the conference standings with only game remaining. The Dukes also won the head-to-head matchup against the Blue Hens, which gives JMU the tie-breaker should both teams finish with the same record. The bad news is that I just had to create an\u00a0unnecessarily complicated way to explain that JMU clinched an 11th place finish tonight. Out of 12 teams. Not good.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think anyone can objectively claim that injuries and a depleted roster didn&#8217;t have a big impact on the Dukes this season. I also don&#8217;t think that means that the Dukes didn&#8217;t fail to play up to their potential anyway. Depleted roster or not, JMU was good enough to finish better than 11th. Plain and simple a team that splits the season series with VCU and William &amp; Mary, shouldn&#8217;t be losing to UNCW, Towson, or Georgia State. Although, now that I wrote that I just saw that Towson knocked off William &amp; Mary tonight, so apparently my logic is flawed at best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anyway, you can find the AP write-up about tonight&#8217;s loss <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncb\/recap?gameId=300552670\">here.<\/a> Todd and I are going to let this one sink in and then come back next week with a regular season wrap up\/tourney preview. In the meantime happy belated birthday to our buddy Priz!<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D379&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dukes lost to VCU this evening by the score of 76-62. We can always hope for a shocking upset at the CAA tourney, but I think that most folks would admit that the Dukes are done. The regular season wraps up with a game this Saturday against Drexel, a team that stomped the Dukes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10253,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=10253","url_meta":{"origin":379,"position":0},"title":"JMU Women Went Next Level This Weekend","date":"April 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"ICYMI... it was a great finish to the regular season for the Dukes! #WeAreUnbreakable pic.twitter.com\/Nziljq1CSl\u2014 JMU Lacrosse (@JMULacrosse) April 28, 2018 JMU Lacrosse ended it's regular season with a huge clash at Towson on Saturday. 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