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Let's talk about Beth-C for a bit. The fact is that they are in a bottom level conference. However, if they win their conference's tournament they will go to the NCAAT. Therefore they try to schedule a very tough OOC schedule, not to win games but to get to play (and lose) to a whole load of good teams. This results in an OOC that makes the Beth-C teams play better than the other teams in their conference. Of course, the aim is to get the Beth-C team that is likely to beat the other teams in their league, getting them to go to the NCAAT. Now, once they are invited to the NCAAT they are not likely to win many games there, but every game they win wins $1,000,000 (With inflation and all that the amount paid per game played in the NCAAT may have gone up, I just do not know what they are paying per game played nowadays).. As far as SLU's point of view, we are doing as well as we could this year. If we win the A10 tournament we will go to the NCAAT, if not we have to do what it takes to get an at large spot. From my point of view we basically need to beat VCU, Dayton, and GM, and beat them (when we beat them) by a good amount over the spread. If or when we lose to these teams we should do what we can to lose below the spread, and not by many points. Easier said than done.

I hope you forgot to use the blue font.

Anyone knows what kind of sickness Thames has developed? Flu?

I know the rankings do not mean much in terms of probability to get an at large slot for NCAAT but they engender talk and increase visibility for a team such as SLU. So, here it goes, before and after the game overall TR rankings for SLU and Beth-C. SLU before the game 39, after the game 31. Beth-C before the game 244, after the game 262. This was an exciting game well played by SLU which is what I believe the TV people are looking to have at the NCAAT. If we can do something similar when we play NH, we may improve our visibility even more. Go Bills!

@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!