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@billikentakes You mentioned in your post overhearing one of the Beeth-C people saying that SLU was the best team they had played this season. This is GREAT praise for SLU considering that Beth-C has played significant teams this season. The list of teams they have played and lost to this season includes: Auburn, Miami, Dayton,, Indiana, and Mizzou. If there is truth in what this person from Beth-C was saying, we are in very good shape and could make it to the NACT this season. To emphasize this Beth-C lost to Auburn by 5 and to Dayton by 9. SLU just crunched them tonight

Well with a win at 112 to 53, we sure as heck broke the spread in a most spectacular fashion. Great game, a real attention getter. Now let's go and do the same with New Hampshire! We have had a very very good OOC. Go Bills!

Really good first half, we are on the way to end this game with Beth-C held below 50 and SLU ending the game over 100! The people talking in ESPN+ keep on talking about how SLU is one of the most active and entertaining teams in play this season. Even better we are doing this without Thames who is out sick. Wonderful so far, keep on going Bills! One more point, Dayton played Beth-C and beat Beth-C by below 10 pts.

Honestly, I hope the Bills can repeat or better their score against Bet-C during the 1994-95 season. This will place us in a very visible position before the start of conference play. Go Bills!

Team Rankings released their spread, 23.5 favoring SLU with 5 stars of confidence. Team Ranking stats show Bethune-C with only one category out oof 8 over SLU in offense and 2 categories out of 7 in defense. Regardless of the stats, I vaguely remember watching a Bethune-C home game against somebody early 2024 (2 seasons agio). Their facilities looked like a high school gym but these kids 2 seasons ago could play well enough to give the other team trouble. This coming game could possibly be tougher than what the stats say. I would take them seriously, and not come into the game like we were going to sweep them into a crunching victory with no trouble.

@SLU_Lax The last time I was at the Chaifetz this year, I noticed a really sparse amount of security and other arena personnel present. I wonder if the very limited number of arena personnel would be adequate to manage an emergency evacuation of the spectators, should such a need happened. So, we may add understaffed to untrained and lacking a plan of action to the negatives revealed by this event. I hope they are reading this message board.

As per Team Rankings, after the game last night they lowered our ranking from 37 to 39. San Francisco's ranking was lowered also from 96 to 99. I am posting this for the record, I am very glad our ranking remain the highest in A10 and that we remain in the 30's in overall ranking. k

The second half was much better for SLU than the first half. Good game, fast moving. Now according to Team Rankings the spread was 12.5 in favor of SLU. We won by 10 so we did not make the spread.

I do not gamble.

Tough game, we ended the half up by one point. I think we can win it, not sure about making the spread in this game. Go Bills!

Ready to go, let's go and do our thing. Go Bills!

Finally got the numbers from team Rankings for game against SF. Team Rankings spread is 9 pts in SLU's favor. This spread comes with a 4 star level of confidence. I am not saying it will be an easy game, but I am glad to see the similar spread to the Wiz's and the high level of confidence in our favor. Gp Bills!

If you look at what is going on in finances and the markets, you would understand that the problem all businesses are facing reflects the loss of purchase power of the USD. Go to the supermarket and read the labels of bagged products. Many companies are downsizing the amount of food peer bag while keeping roughly the same price. Droves of people are shopping at Aldi's or Trader Joe's instead of Dierbergs because these stores, despite their limited inventory, sell good quality goods a lot cheaper. Food service is in trouble. Chains like Arby's, Wendy's, and Red Lobster, are not having the level of sales they used to have and are closing stores. The same is true for lots of other businesses. AI is being used everywhere to eliminate jobs with automation. The same kind of thing applies to food service at the Chaifetz, they have less open food service places during games, and the walking beer sellers have been eliminated. You can expect the quality of the food served as well as portion sizes have decreased as well.

For reasons I do not understand today SLU ranks 37 and VCU went down to 44 in the Team Rankings system.. San Francisco is 96 (4th in WCC) as of today. Again, as useless as overall ranking may be for predicting outcomes, it is a feel good number that helps us gain visibility. We will see what happens Saturday. Go Bills!

After we defeated CMU Team Rankings had SLU at 39 in overall ranking and VCU at 38. We are not playing until Saturday but VCU played today against New Mexico and lost (their 4th loss in the OOC this season). After VCU's loss today Team Rankings shuffled our rankings with VCU. Currently Team Rankings has SLU at 36 and VCU at 37. I know the rankings posted by any service do not determine future outcomes, but it just makes me feel good to be considered the highest ranking team in A10, over VCU and Dayton. Go Bills!