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This is what happens when you win a game like last night's. We won at 106 but allowed Chi St. to make 86 pts, we did not go over the spread. The Team Rankings got better for SLU by 2 slots. The Team Rankings got worse to Chi State by 15 slots. If our defense had been better and we had been able to go over the spread we would have gained a lot more in our ranking than we did. Not going over the spread and allowing 86 pts to Chi State hurt us.

Wow! great game, the 3 minute or so period when we made 30 pts or so vs 1 or 2 point for Chicago finished any hopes Chi St. had to win the game. And no, technically we did not go over the spread. BUT we had Holmes and Hutson playing at the end and won this game by 108 over 86! The issue with going way over thee spread is to raise excitement among the viewers. This game generated plenty of it. We will see how much we go up in the rankings after this win.

Tough game very contested. I think we will win but I am not sure we will beat the spread this game.

Team Rankings posted their spread, it is 28.5 pts in favor of SLU winning. They give SLU 5 stars of confidence to win this game. Again two totally different predictive systems coming this close in their results is significant. I have no doubt that SLU will win this game and that they may indeed go over the spread.. Go Bills!

With all respect to the Wiz's predictions, If he says 28 poins, what he is really saying is that we are likely to beat Chi St. by a very large margin. The actual score will be determined during the game. It may be well over 28 points.

@WUH The selection process to the available at large slots for the Dance for schools that do not win their conference tournaments has, in my opinion, much more to do with maximizing the expected revenue or viewership than with NET efficiency results, logic or fairness. Money is king. I think the power schools look at the at large schools chosen the attend the Dance and the winners of lower level conferences as low lying fruit ready to be harvested by them.

After the game, I did not hear what Schertz had to say because FanDuel changed to another game already ongoing. We did fine for the first game of the season. SEMO was a reasonably good team, they went to the Dance last year. We won by 25 pts which is over the spread but not quite by 10 pts. Still nice first game. Our percentage of scoring was better than SEMO's. We clearly outrebounded them, and had more assists. For a first game it was fine. A nice start to the season.

My opinion. We are ahead at the half by 9 pts. Not bad and on line to an 18 pt gain. Otieno is a beast in the court, he sweats a LOT. I would make sure he has a lot of Gatorade and when he seats down. Thames has been doing a great job with no evidence of cramping, I think the therapy works well. Avila is doing fine. I see no sign of Brown having problems with his legs. McCotry has presence and power in couurt. Grey has not done that well, I expected more. From the statts point of view: We are beating them in the % of fieeld goals made, both 2 and 3 pointers, We are beating them in % FG made. We are outrebounding them 21-13, out assisting them 6-4. Yes sure we are having 1 more TO by the half and we had no blocks before the end of the 1st half. I think we are not totally cohesive as a team yer, but this is the first half of the first game. I think we are on our way to winning, not clear by how much,

Team Rankings gives SLU a five star confidence rating to win this game. And we have to win as many games as we can by blowouts, and over the spread to have a chance to go to the dance as an at large pick. Hope Dion and Thames play today with no problems. Go Bills!

Team Rankings posted their spread as of today, SLU is expected to win by 18 pts. TR's spread is almost identical to the Wiz' once more confirming the accuracy of the Wiz's system. When two different predictive systems come to almost the same value, this makes this prediction much closer to be correct. So let's try to beat them by around 30 to make this a really good win for SLU.

I checked Team Rankings still no spread posted for this game. The stats (based upon last year) gives SLU a much better offensive than SEMO. In terms of defense SEMO is better than SLU. Of course these stats mean zip for this season. SLU is Favored to win with a 3 star certainly level.

With a weak OOC schedule we may be able to do this.

Bucephalus is correct.

Cervantes was a pretty incredible man, he was a sailor in the fleet that defeated the Ottoman fleet at Lepanto. He lost an an arm during the battle and was taken prisioner and enslaved by the Turks and made to row in a Turkish galley before been freed. How he could manage to row a galley with only one arm is beyond incredible. How he could manage to write Don Quixote afterwards is a miracle.

OK so, just to check your knowledge of this kind of trivia, what was the name of Alexander the Great's horse?