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The Bills have blown double didgit leads in all of them.

Check your stats before a dumb post:

Biggest lead at LMU - 9

Biggest lead at NM - 7

Biggest lead at Dayton - 8

Biggest lead at Temple - 7

Biggest lead at UMASS - 3

Biggest lead at RI - 13

Pretty easy stat to check as ESPN lists the largest lead by both teams on their box score.

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The Bills have blown double didgit leads in all of them.

Yes and Mizzery was up 19 yesterday in the second half and lost. Syracuse was up 17 with under 10:00 to play and escaped with a 2 point win. We got down 20 at Umass and still had a chance in the last 4 minutes to steal a win. What is your point?

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Just to follow up...we have actually had a double digit lead in all of our wins except for LaSalle (8pt lead). So, we have lost exactly 4.5% of our games where we have had a double digit lead. If you were going to take a shot at the Bills, you could probably say that we've gotten out to some big leads and given them back before winning, but that is about it.

Actually, looking back, it's pretty impressive to see the leads we've had in our wins: 36, 27, 29, 15, 14, 22, 26, 25, 14, 37, 24, 37, 22, 13, 27, 14, 27, 11, 12, 8, 16, 26. (bold are conference games).

The rough part in looking back at our 6 losses is that we had leads in all of them (some early on) and could have won all of them but didn't execute. Pretty frustrating, but no one has blown us out of the gym yet and only one double digit loss.

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Just to follow up...we have actually had a double digit lead in all of our wins except for LaSalle (8pt lead). So, we have lost exactly 4.5% of our games where we have had a double digit lead. If you were going to take a shot at the Bills, you could probably say that we've gotten out to some big leads and given them back before winning, but that is about it.

Actually, looking back, it's pretty impressive to see the leads we've had in our wins: 36, 27, 29, 15, 14, 22, 26, 25, 14, 37, 24, 37, 22, 13, 27, 14, 27, 11, 12, 8, 16, 26. (bold are conference games).

The rough part in looking back at our 6 losses is that we had leads in all of them (some early on) and could have won all of them but didn't execute. Pretty frustrating, but no one has blown us out of the gym yet and only one double digit loss.

Thanks for the stats. Basically it comes down to we win by a lot and lose by a little. Some of this comes down to strength of schedule but we can only play who we can get on the schedule and the leads in the A10 and on the road in the A10 are very impressive.

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Not too bad.

3 of the games were letdown and/or sandwich games: LM, UMass, RI, it happens to good teams.

@ NM and RI we were hosed by homer refs.

NM is solid club and their place is amoung the toughest to play.

Dayton was playing well at the time, it was a tough road game, and the loss was in OT.

U Mass can play.

Only true bad loss is RI.

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SLU led by 12 points, 28-16, at LMU. I was at the game, remembered it, and just rechecked it.

Interesting. Looks like you are correct. ESPN says 9 per their team stat comparison, but then in the story it says: "The Billikens got untracked from long range, hitting four 3-pointers in a 16-3 run that gave them a 28-16 lead"

Either way, I don't think that we were down double digits in all our losses.

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We have not matched up well to the type of player Jim Barons recruits. Our guards played even or better but it looked like they had at least three guys playing post or forward and we had Conklin and one helper.

In all of our losses we put up a lot of bricks as was the case yesterday. Our bench usually out scores the opponents but after the first minute of the game Loe, Jett, and Cassity were shut down or hurried. I realize Loe starts and felt the blocking out by Rams in second half coupled with a zone of 2-3 was really smart. When we were playing well in first half we were mugged with few calls on lay ups.

We didn't play like we could beat theses guys by 25 and we didn't.

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Why do we put up so many bricks because we do not have a legitimate big guy, we do not attack the basket we just settle for the jumper. Majerus needs to learn the word adjustment! THe inside game should open up the outside game.

Check your stats before a dumb post:

Biggest lead at LMU - 9

Biggest lead at NM - 7

Biggest lead at Dayton - 8

Biggest lead at Temple - 7

Biggest lead at UMASS - 3

Biggest lead at RI - 13

Pretty easy stat to check as ESPN lists the largest lead by both teams on their box score.

Wrong it was 12 at Dayton, and 12 at NM check your stats.
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Why do we put up so many bricks because we do not have a legitimate big guy, we do not attack the basket we just settle for the jumper. Majerus needs to learn the word adjustment! THe inside game should open up the outside game.

Wrong it was 12 at Dayton, and 12 at NM check your stats.

Could be wrong, pulled them from ESPN and they call out the largest lead. How about Temple and UMASS...did we have a double digit lead in those too or was your original post still incorrect?

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What's your point? If a team does NOT blow a lead it will likely win? Maybe Yogi Berra said that. Or was it Yogi the Bear? We blew a doubledigit lead at Xavier and won that one as I recall.

Great teams annihilate teams like Rhode Island anywhere. This is not a great team. It has holes. Mizzou blew it on the road. Ohio State blew it at home today. Syracuse blew it at Uconn but came back to win. Xavier shut out Richmond for 11+ minutes to start last night and still was in a nailbiter. Temple chunked one.

The sad thing is thta we have lost four games we could have/should have won --- Loyola, Rhode Island, Dayton and Umass. I blame on the foibles of youth ---- we still have some learning to do.

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Agreed, but he'll just come back. I'm pretty sure he's on his 3rd or 4th iteration of the garybleedsblue username.

Do you know anything about basketball? Just wondering you never seem to have a point just your usual sophmorish public school mentality. You could think and you could talk if you only had a brain!! Just don't stand up if you do I don't want it to get cold!!!
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Do you know anything about basketball? Just wondering you never seem to have a point just your usual sophmorish public school mentality. You could think and you could talk if you only had a brain!! Just don't stand up if you do I don't want it to get cold!!!

No, i'm an idiot. FIRE MOYTOY12!!!!!!

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Why do we put up so many bricks because we do not have a legitimate big guy, we do not attack the basket we just settle for the jumper. Majerus needs to learn the word adjustment! THe inside game should open up the outside game.

Wrong it was 12 at Dayton, and 12 at NM check your stats.

Official SLU box scores say it was 7 against NM and 8 against Dayton

http://www.slubillikens.com//ViewContent.dbml?SPSID=632634&SPID=93215&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=27200&CONTENT_ID=178776

http://www.slubillikens.com/ViewContent.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27200&CONTENT_ID=178794

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