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Taking all the points you guys make, and assuming the same is true for SLU's own games, I have never seen a similar percentage of SLU's student body in attendance at the Chaifetz. Principia kids and their families are our guests at the Chaifetz for this basketball game. It is very poor form for SLU alums, students. etc. to humiliate them. Just beating them soundly should be enough.

You can check the numbers out for yourself. Principia has a student body count of 345 students. To have an attendance of 115 is about 1/3 of their student body. I do not recall any SLU games with 1/3 of SLU's students in attendance. Principia is a tiny school.

OK guys, I do not know how your life's experiences have developed over time. As far as my long life has gone, some of the best opportunities I ever had developed after chance encounters with people I did not know. People that I just met by chance knew other people who were looking for someone like me. Huge crowds watching a basketball game may not be needed to reach our goals. If someone that knows someone watches this game in ESPN+ the effect might be significant for the Bills. I have learned that minor things like a chance meeting or a comment made during a meeting may significantly impact important events. The mob does not rule, people that are connected without your knowledge of their connections may have a very important impact where you least expect it.

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Let me say this about the Principia game: it will be carried by ESPN+. Do you want to hold off all of our best players and come out with a so so win in a broadcast that will reach everywhere in the US? If we need a win over 100 to keep whatever image we have of being a great team, then play everybody and do not let them score a single point. Forget the NET, look for image and buzz.

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.

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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.