After having played five games and winning four of them in 10 days, No. 23 Rhode Island was anxious to get back to business as usual before hosting Belmont on Friday night.Im proud of the guys and happy, obviously, coach Dan Hurley said after his Rams lost to No. 1 Duke in the final of the Hall of Fame Tip Off Tournament in Connecticut last Sunday.We would have loved to have won today or least have a chance in the last minute or two, but the reality of it is, five games in 10 days, thats like an NBA schedule and then add into that ... we played a war, Cincinnati (in the semifinals) probably took a little bit from us today.Not to make any excuses at all, but that was a taxing war we played with a high-level team and then to turn around and face the No. 1 team in the country; that was a tall task for us but, man, we learned a lot about ourselves this weekend about what we can be and weve got to kind of get cleaned up the next time, hopefully in March that we face somebody like this.The Rams started the season ranked 23rd, moved up to No. 21 and then dropped back to 23 after the loss. They now face a 1-2 Belmont team at home before a tough week next week -- at Valparaiso and at local rival Providence and the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence.Just proud of the way the guys play(ed) the whole weekend, Hurley said Sunday. I think today was a tremendous learning experience for us that we can move on from.Belmont, picked preseason to win the Ohio Valley Conference, has lost to Vanderbilt and Florida and defeated Western Kentucky.At Florida, the Bruins, who are led in scoring (20.7 per game) and rebounding (8.3) by 6-foor-7 forward Evan Bradds, the OVC preseason player of the year, didnt score for the first 5:13 and fell behind 24-4 before making a game of it.A 3-point shooting team, they went 25-for-75 from behind the arc in the first two games but were just 7-for-27 against Florida.Now, theyre on to URI.Rhode Island presents a number of challenges for any opponent it faces, coach Eric Byrd said Wednesday. 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That put him three tenths up on Ferraris Sebastian Vettel and a further four tenths up on teammate Max Verstappen.Asked if that 0.6s gap to the lead Mercedes was genuine, he said: I would say it is pretty genuine. If we are close on Friday it sort of doesnt change too much on Saturday. So I would say that today is probably quite representative.But Ricciardo was much more optimistic about the battle behind the Silver Arrows cars, with Kimi Raikkonen finishing a whole second behind the Australian in the other Ferrari.We are looking pretty good. Obviously wed like to be a bit closer to the Mercedes, but at the moment we are sitting second best.dddddddddddd A bit quicker than Ferrari today, so I think we are more or less where we expected to be. We knew it would be close with Ferrari, and if we can keep our nose in front that would be nice.Ricciardo is hoping to reverse Verstappens momentum after his recent purple patch of form and thinks the Hungaroring, where he claimed a memorable second career win in 2014, is the perfect place to do it.It is the way the sport goes, sometimes you get a better run and sometimes you dont. For me this track has been good, it has been good in the past. I still have a lot of confidence in the way I am driving and everything, so I know if I keep just working and doing what I believe I can do, then the result will come. So I hope that is this weekend, that would be a nice time [to return to the podium]. ' ' '