A10 Basketball: 3 reasons why the conference can receive multiple 2019 bids

1. Davidson is still for real. “At-large” real.

I’m not going to act like losing Peyton Aldridge helps Davidson in any way.  He was their leader and rock in clutch situations. Co-player of the year in the conference. I get all of that and I won’t say it doesn’t matter.  Here’s the thing though: Kellan Grady is so good that it almost doesn’t matter. Read through a mock draft for 2019 (such as this one from Bleacher Report) and you will probably see his name appear in the 1st round.

There’s a good reason for that, a reason you know if you watched Grady drop 30 against your team and repeatedly take it to the rack like a polished veteran in a teenager’s body. He’s that good, and he’ll only have that many more opportunities with the rock sans Aldridge.

Outside of Grady, Davidson returns one of the more consistent and poised back court threats in the league in the form of Jon-Axel Gudmundsson (13/5/6 line as a sophomore). Sure, Davidson isn’t incredibly deep behind those two, but I trust head coach Bob McKillop to fill out the complimentary roles accordingly. He usually does. If he can just get them a just little bit of help, Grady and JAG are good enough to get Davidson back in the dance again, even if it’s not via cutting the nets at the A10 Tournament.