Crewsorlose

Loser talk. Just schedule like Dayton and VCU but actually win a couple of those games.

I hope you're right. I secured 6 free tix and will be there with my 3 regular tickets so I'll be doing my part.

We may as well start charting it now. There's no mincing it: A-10 left a lot on the board with the OOC. Only 1 team top 50 in NET. 4 teams are sub-200. Not much is going to change before league play. Latest Bracketology has SLU as an AQ and a 10 seed. The 10 seed line bodes well for getting an at-large bid. VCU is listed as "next 4 out." My sense is that a regular season championship along the lines of 14-4 or 15-3 probably puts either of those teams in line for an at-large. Dayton & GW blew too many chances. Mason didn't do enough with a putrid schedule. SLU needs to root like hell for Stanford and Santa Clara. LMU just out of the top 135 (141), which would give us a Q2 road win. https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/bracketology/ncaa-bracketology-2026-march-madness-men-field-predictions

That's paid attendance. Crowd closer to 3000-4000

With all due respect, this is a joke. There won't be more than 6,000 people there. The 1500 SLU undergrads who live within 45 minutes of campus and can go for free aren't showing up. Fat cats who never give away their tickets aren't coming. There won't be more than 300 faculty and staff who take advantage. Youth CYC coaches can get four free tickets, which I took advantage of. People will stay home to watch Michigan-Texas and to get ready for the OSU-Miami game. Nobody's showing up before 1/14 and 1/17 Lasalle, when if the team is 14-1 and ranked, people will turn out.

SLU no doubt hurt by disappointing A-10 showing in the non-con. But that just means the conference isn't that goo and it should be easier to win. A-10 has mostly the bed in their big chances. Let's hope the next two weeks yield as many wins as possible

All of the talk about how unfair NET is goes away by winning and winning by margins. Excited for 12/31.

Amen. Swallow the pride and take a road-road or road-neutral series at Mizzou. You have nothing to lose.

SLU is ranked 28 in NET, 41 in KenPom, Lunardi has moved us up to a 10 seed, and is tied for 33rd in the coaches' poll. Whatever coaches have been voting for us will most likely keep doing so until we lose. I don't know what counts as "buzz" given that 50% written about the college basketball season has to do with the top five freshmen, but by many metrics we're generating buzz.

That's something to build on. With only terrible games coming up, not much to move the needle. But on the radar and probably ranked by 1/5, definitely 1/12 if they win out. Cannot be complacent like fans who count wins before the games though

What's up with the secondary ticket market? Do people just hope that there will be a massive overpay? Who's paying $70 to sit in the upper deck?

In my only convo with May I told him I was a longtime season ticket holder and I coached a CYC team. Could I get the whole team in for a game? He told me to email him, which I did. Never heard back. Last final exam is tomorrow. Students will be gone. Get some locals on campus over the Christmas break. Yuri, TJ, and Goodwin brought people out because they were local HS stars. It's Saint Louis. Robbie Avila puts fewer butts in the seat than a local kid would. Schertz made a huge mistake not recruiting Zyree Collins.

I agree entirely. But year one of Schertz felt too much like a late Ford-era season.

SLU teams have basically disappointed since 2019, which was also a disappointment until March. Plenty of games were near sell-outs. Team lost almost all the big games. Preseason top 25 buzz resulted in NIT seasons. Schertz brought Robbie and Swope but the team sucked. And fans like continuity. Say what you want, 4 years of Yuri, 5 of TJ, and 6 of Jimerson was a continuity that we don't have with only Robbie, Amari, and Thames from last year. There's no good vibes. We had cheap season tix since 2018. I will maybe get a 6-pack. Anything beyond end zone upper deck is way overpriced.

The whole point of being in the 6th vs. the 14th ranked conference is that we get those Q1 games in conference.