Lost to Temple last night. Lost to Mass, and barely beat Fordham. And only 6-4 in the Atlantic 10. They’re still 20-5 over-all, but uh-ohs…

PC is miserable. But Brown’s second in the Ivies, and within striking distance. Are they the dark-horse RI candidate to make the tourney?

Also, what’s with Cornell leading at 6-0, with Penn and Princeton in the middle of the pack? The last time neither Penn nor Princeton won the conference was 1988. And the last time before that was 1961.

With Oregon and Xavier losing this week, it’s lookin like there’s a damn good chance the URI men’s basketball team will make the ESPN/USA Today top 25 today for the first time in, like, a while. (Not sure how long exactly, but no NCAA tourney since 1999.) The 11-1 Rams have already beaten four teams from the Big East and ACC, and look like they have potential to rock the A-10 in the vein of George Washington from a couple of years back. Pretty exciting, and doubley so, since the team of my childhood is the pits.I could say all kindsa snarky stuff about the namesake of URI’s home court, the Ryan Center — say, about his relationship to some of the pols who’ve gone down in Operation Dollar Bill, or his advocacy for the capital gains tax cut that’s helping to drive the state’s budget crunch, or CVS’s frequently shoddy treatment of service workers at its Woonsocket HQ. But I’ve got a little too much Christmas cheer inside of me.