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Fellow message board morons, I’m currently drinking a frozen Red Bull and Vodka at one of Frisco’s finest brunch spots. Let’s all have a day!

Sometimes us high school fanatics are in a better position to see late season explosions before everyone else. Those of us who follow high school ball saw Yuri coming way before SLU made an offer.

Bringing the Jesuits into now. Look, I get you want to have your look at me moment here so instead of just reporting the post which would have got the quickest response, you have to claim the board administrator is somehow culpable for your emotional baggage and then are scummy enough to use his job as a threat. Sorry that a guy that devotes hours of his time to keep this site running for no pay didn't act quickly enough or exactly in the manner you wanted. It takes an absolutely crazy and misplaced sense of entitlement to make the posts you have in this thread.

Having lived in Ohio for a number of years I can say OSU fans are some of the most obnoxious you'll ever meet. They got the greatest band in the land, the greatest all time Football God, Woody, they got the greatest campus bar scene, High ST, and on and on and on. If they don't win every friggin game, it's because their best player let them down. EJ should come home if he wants to feel real sincere love. All that said, when we played MSU in the 2012 dance in Columbus, I think every OSU fan was pulling for SLU. Probably because MSU beat them in the B10 tourney that year, and they're inbred hatred for all schools up north.

As someone who has had some truly vile sh!t said to them on this board: If you want a board that’s more heavily moderated, this isn’t the place for you.

Wow. Presenting the board's deeply appreciated moderator with ultimatums. That's bold.

It’s gonna be like a brand new team every year. Even if your team doesn’t change much, the other league teams are bound to, changing your league position and competitive circumstances. I’m not a fan of the transfer rule change.

@SluSignGuy probably time to shut this thread down or delete it entirely. Nothing good can come out of it.

Loss sucks... it hurts. Season over and a disappointing one in that. But all I can say is major thank you and kudos to all the student athletes and specifically thank you those with the most scrutiny - our men’s basketball program. All of these kids have been kept from going home, poked and prodded daily for tests, and haven’t been able to be normal college kids. Every parent I know who sent their kid to college this year said their kid got covid within the first week or so. I see photos of their kids out on the town and enjoying their lives, as they should. Our boys were locked up and focused on basketball. Easy to judge and blame but also, if you give a little grace, easy to understand all these crazy results (the Ohio state losing to an old Robert’s that lost to Mizzou by 30, Purdue crumble, 20 point comebacks, Louisville losing by 50 to UNC, etc.). These guys ran out of gas, and I can’t blame them. I understand pointing fingers at the coaches who are PAID, but I think this season was hard on them too. We’ve already seen a “great coach” in Izzo underperform, and I’m sure we will see many examples of “great coaches” have teams that falter this March. Hard to coach players that have had their lives flipped upside down for a year. I for one can’t wait for next year’s season. So thank you to our men’s team for putting up with media BS and thank you to every SLU athlete making a sacrifice to perform at the highest level and entertain us fans.

About 7 Busch lights deep since the NCAA started at 11. Got a three TV set up in our family room (wife loves it as you can imagine) and the smoker rolling with a ribs on! Let’s go Bills!

I could not agree more...

Just to throw in my 2 cents..i think rich is the biggest fool on this site and he is just a flat out jerk. Glad some justice was felt. However, lets get back to the games. 4pm tomorrow lets go.

Boom, roasted.

God damn!t lando, wrong thread.

I think it’s pretty clear now for all to see that the Mountain West conference is a joke. Hope the committee takes note going forward into the future

Heck I’m expecting a Billikens.com party at the lake house.

Soul Crushing. I agree.

Good post. Some gave all, all gave some. Kudos to the athletic department staff through a year of tumult and frustration. The end result may not have been what we wanted - but then again - we may not have even had basketball.

Let's wait for the where do we go from here thread which will surely start pretty soon. I'm just too bummed to give my thoughts right now. I got a little single malt brain fog going right now.

Team did great defensively the offense just couldn’t finish it. Looking forward to what next season brings

Live with Goodwin; die with Goodwin. Time to move on. Let’s see what the transfer portals holds —- in or out.

All these delays are hurting SLU’s momentum.

Slu should be the buzz killingtons instead of the billikens

Switch up the D coming out of this time out My advice

Down 7 after that half? We got this

I’m excited for Okoro next year. Need a bigger body.

Summit League all the way. Just think of the rivalries we would have with the Roos, Jackrabbits, Bisons and Leathernecks. And of course think of the game with the Golden Eagles-not just any ole eagle, but the Golden Eagles.

This board is stifling discussion, let’s fuoking get this GDT rollin’!

Bonnies are dead cold. Announcers are babbling.

I would love for them to hold on. the only thing better than OSU losing is Kansas losing Rock Chalk is battling Eastern Washington and Covid so the upset is possible!

To put a twist on a classic joke: how do you know someone from Columbus is in the room? Just wait, they’ll tell you!

The Sloan charge never gets old. And some people say the Billikens never catch a break.

Just gonna drop this link here, Liddell was attacked by OSU fans on Twitter: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/31097748/ohio-state-ej-liddell-responds-disgruntled-fans-ncaa-tournament-loss And, in case anyone was wondering, no one does this to a hometown hero.

The mountain west was only league that managed to lose to the terrible ACC. 0-4 outside of cuse

Make sure you’re following @midtownmadpod on twitter. Will be posting stuff all day tomorrow.

Then why all the Loyola talk? Sir, this is a NCAA tournament thread and SLU is not in it.

Sir this is Billikens.com

At least stick around to see how the NIT turns out!

Wow, just logged on for the 1st time today. Looks like I missed a lot. Just my 2 cents: @TaLBErtIS a troll! He says things intentionally trying to get under people’s skin on this board. That being said, he doesn’t deserve to be told to kill himself. I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that @Billiken Richdid NOT mean it literally. People absolutely do say stuff like that sarcastically all the time. The reason things like that make me uncomfortable is because I suffer from mental illness, I’ve had a few acquaintances commit suicide. I know that @Billiken Rich didn’t mean what he said, but you never know how the other person is going to take it, or what they might be going through. Now, it’s the first day of the tournament, can we all move on now?

I am opening up my cabin at the lake and missed Ohio State going down to Oral Roberts. Your post made me check ESPN holy crap my bracket got busted. Big 10 over rated! Go mean green I love it

Purdue going down to North Texas

Depends on whether your coach stays or not. If your coach is a lifer, you'll dominate for a long time. If he leaves for the big money, you're stuck in a crap conference.

Aw c'mon. We have so little fun on here. I've been laughing through this thread. The owner never bans trolls (or "guests" from other teams) and that's his right. So it's nice to see some pushback once in a while.

As most people know SLU WBB has never been to the NCAAs. Prior to today I believe they had only won 3 NIT games in history as well (all under coach Stone during the Jackie Kemph era). Make it 4 NIT victories now. Best part about the WBB NIT experience is that all of the players getting run should return next season. Getting some single elimination experience is very good for a team that will be looking to make the first ever NCAAs next season, but likely needs to win the conference tournament to do so.

I know the Big 10 is a tough league but should a 2 seed really have nine losses in a shortened season prior to the tournament? Feels like there aren't four teams qualified to be a 2 seed this year.

People have no right to not be offended by what someone writes. You got offended by a comment made in bad taste. Get over it, report the post, block the user and/or leave the board. The board doesn't revolve around you or your feelings. IMO, the board doesn't need people trying to cancel other posters.

Oh, I totally agree with why it is happening, I'm just of the opinion it's not a good thing to enable that mindset. And I believe an unintended consequence is that it will chip away at fan interest. Hypothetically, if Mitchell and those underclassmen are patient and stick together, I think they have a good chance to become a "successful" program as upperclassmen. Pretty tough to build a successful mid major program when everyone is so quick to bail. The good mid majors in recent years have hard continuity and experience. It will become much more difficult now to follow that blueprint.

Why does it matter if they are "successful" programs or not? If Tre Mitchell or Battle, as examples, stay at their respective schools as upperclassmen, they are that much more likely to turn those into "successful" programs in their final two seasons. Now that task becomes that much more difficult for mid major coaches. We're going off on a tangent now, but my primary point was a theory that a further lack of continuity will slowly erode fan interest in college basketball - agreeing with a point cd was making in his post.

I read his MVC post. I don’t agree with his take but it was thought out and made some logical points. The problem with message boards is people see a name and go into attack mode regardless of what they say. I don’t know if Talbert is a “troll” or just someone with different ideas than you. I do know his post on that thread was a reasonable take even if most of us disagree with it.

SLU 1 St. Bonnies 0 F 2OT Hannah Larson wins it on a goal with 5 seconds remaining in double overtime: