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The two best dunks I ever saw from a SLU player were from Markhi Strickland - he had a nondescript SLU career and of course it was done in garbage time, so few will remember. If there was a dunk contest of former SLU players, my money would be on Strickland. BTW - I just looked him up - he is STILL playing. After two years at Western Michigan, he is closing out his career at North Dakota State this year where he is averaging 14 ppg- what a shock it must be to play there for a kid from Miami.

IMO, the way the NET is calculated is a big problem. Mid majors were cracking the RPI code, so they changed the metric to NET. Also Sun Belt, Manhattan and Abilene Christian are living in a one-bid reality anyway. IMO, they are not “mid majors” they are low D1. And when Gonzaga departs WCC next year, they are looking at the likely prospect of being a one bid league most years. And Temple from AAC, another league that was a multi bid non power conference once upon a time is also being relegated to one bid league status most years. There’s a reason once mighty Memphis in recent years has desperately tried to buy/bribe their way into any multi bid league that will take them.

Thank you sir - appreciate you listening. Thanks for all you do for Billiken nation!

Thanks, that's around what I figured. That's probably about as good as any non power conference team not named Gonzaga can realistically hope for.

He could have told the same story in a different way and it would have been funny, instead Dakich shows himself to be a big d!ck head. He was one of the worst broadcasters too.

Wiz, curious about this line: the computer shows our chances for a NCAA bid are now at 51% I assume that number factors in the possibility of winning the conference tournament combined with probability of an at large? Is there anyway to know what the percentage is IF we do not win the conference tournament? In other words, at large only probability.

JJU, I'm honored you name dropped me in your epic post! As for A-Dud, he's already been defeated. He waved the white towel of surrender a long time by supposedly putting me on ignore

Loyola is going to screw some things up for a few A-10 teams. There is no way they are this bad. They have Rubin and some other decent players and were projected top 4 or 5 team in the conference. With that awful ranking, a loss to them in conference will be a killer for any team.

I include the BE in the P6 - the 6th next year will be the new Pac- 10 (San Diego State, Gonzaga, Utah State, Colorado State, Oregon State, etc). The Mountain West will likely be a one-bid league, along with the AAC and the A-10. The extinction of "mid major" multi-bid leagues is nearly complete. We're almost at a point where it will be 6 conferences that get multiple bids and everyone else gets one. I think it will become clear when next year's Tournament field is announced.

I'm not complaining about SLU at all - they have done an outstanding job, BUT in the current landscape of college basketball, I haven't seen any non power teams rise and sustain success in this new era. Legacy programs like Gonzaga have maintained a high level of success, but they are about to join the P6 with the new Pac 10.

All very logical - however, you may have more faith in the selection committee following logic and fairness on Selection Sunday than I do.

It's not, but it's nearly impossible if P6 schools have absolutely no incentive to play you in the nonconference. NIL and free agency also not exactly helping the non power conference teams either.

The A-10 is typically around the 7th rated conference and has been for quite a while. Joe Lunardi said it well last year talking about why the A-10 is not getting multiple bids... the A-10 hasn't changed all that much, but the college basketball landscape around it has.

I think McCottry is best for iso plays or posting up in mismatches. Bully ball. Get the ball in his hands as close to the paint as possible, the further away from the basketball he is handling the ball, the more it scares me. Have other players do that.

In the case of VCU last year, they won the regular season, had a NET of 31, yet STILL had to win the conference tournament final.