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A-10 just needs to stack wins. Today is going great. 4-0 with Bona's up 15 in the 2nd half. Richmond can pick up a nice win against E Carolina tonight. Stack, stack, stack.

https://www.spotrac.com/nba/player/_/id/74333/jordan-goodwin J-Good has made more than I've made in my life after working for 25 years. Granted, it's not long-term generation wealth-nobody-to-work-ever-again-money, but if he's smart and he should be able to provide a very nice life for his hypothetical partner and children and own a very nice house in the nicest suburb in Saint Louis.

I don't think the Suns have their pick in 2026. They're 3-4 and trying to see what they have. I hope J-Good plays more.

Great night for the conference.

On KenPom SEMO is #259. Chicago State is #362! (When I was a kid, there were only 300 D1 teams). Let's hope SEMO ends up above #200. Last night I saw a team with some jitters, some butter fingers, but a lot of contributors. Tough whistle in the 2nd half. Green was awful to start the game but settled in. Dion Brown has intriguing physicality. But the standout to me was Otieno. Oh my! Unlucky with one or two foul calls but way more skilled than I was expecting. The next two games should be boring blowouts. Grand Canyon will be a real test. Run the table through Palm Desert and they'll be ranked in the top 25 by the end of the month.

Annual reminder that the A-10 can be the #1 ranked conference in the country if they win all of their OOC games. On a more serious note, the conference can really help itself if it cleans up against Q4 teams and gets some good licks in against power conference teams. Time to root for the whole conference, even Dayton.

Basketball has different rules than football. You can only keep the redshirt after playing a few games if you're injured, not if you're benched. Anya apparently is red-shirting. I think that's a great sign. Will always lament Anya playing entire halves of basketball while Warlick and McCotry sat on the bench last season. It seems like Schertz is intent on playing more guys and correcting this tendency.

Maybe he's been following the discourse after the secret scrimmage. Gotta think we're at least above Iowa.

I think he's in the Suns camp. Yuri signed some kind of deal with the Nets.

Last year was a dud but how can anyone not be impressed at the talent Schertz has brought in this year and the recruits he's getting to campus for 2026, with a top 100 player already in the bag! To my mind he has to go to 9-10 man rotations to keep players fresh (it's not 1983 anymore; the movement on offense and the exertion to cover a spread floor on defense means that players run 2x as much as they did in a game from 30 years ago), prevent injury, and keep players invested in the program. The OOC is a steaming pile of doo doo but if you want an at large bid win (almost) all of your games, especially in the OOC. That will help the rest of the A-10 with their SOS. All boats rise.

Sort of a dumb question. Of course things aren't as good as they were then. The only real question is whether they'll get good again.

Rim-protectors and finishers: Otieno, Diakite Two-way wings with unreliable outside shots: Thames, McCottry, Hutson Drivers of offense & shooters who may need some help on D: Avila, Dunlap, Sharma? Glue guy bangers/defenders who drive winning: Anya, Warlick, Dion Brown? (he could be in the two-way wing category) Ball-handlers who can shoot and defend the point of attack: Trey Green, Quinten Jones Frosh who can stroke it but probably won't play: Kerr, Lackowski My sense is that the bolded-groups probably only ever have one of those guys on the court at the same time. Schertz wants his offense to click. What do people think?

Warlick was hurt the whole summer and fall. That was the reason for the redshirt talk. If they redshirt him now and ahead of the four frosh, they're sending the message to pack their bags. I suspect instead that Schertz is thinking of 2-3 of the freshman.

I logged back in today to find out my post was deleted and I didn't get the fun of reading everything that followed. I love Billiken basketball, have been a season ticket holder since 2018, have a little bit of insight into local STL hoops because my kids play select. I also work in higher ed. & can brink a lot of perspective to those issues. I don't think I wrote anything inappropriate but maybe an admin can send me. a DM on this site or someone else can tell why filling in the picture on SLU enrollment (which definitely affects basketball; heck, we've got a longtime thread on local development) is inappropriate.

So is the ranking on how many total minutes they have played or how much they play this season? Either way, I don't see Warlick here. For me the real issue this season is how many guys play, not the amount of minutes they play. We saw several A-10 games where Schertz didn't sub once in the 2nd half. In a season with literally nothing to play for after the Thames injury. I decided not to renew based on what I saw last season. I like Schertz as a coach and a guy but rotating guys and keeping them fresh may be his kryptonite. I certainly hope McCottry is playing more than Anya (max 15mpg on a good team). Dunlap should be better than both of them if healthy.