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I want us to be favored every year. If we want to be a consistent top 25 team we need to embrace being the A10 fav

After what happened this season, I'm content with flying under the radar for the time being. I still don't get why people continue to hype up Richmond year after year, though.

Katie Shields joins the podcast to talk about her teams season and their NCAA Tournament Draw Men's Soccer: A10 Tournament Review Baseball and Softball Update View the full article

Good stuff.... I would make 1 footnote. When looking at individual player stats, sample size is important. You would not want to rate a player who has only taken and made 1 FG , one 3P and 1 FT and comes up with a score of 300.Here is what is generally considered a qualifying sample size in D1. 100 FGM 25 3PM 50 FTM So based on those sample sizes the only player qualifying is Perkins ....well above the 163.5 for an A+. Also, a number of Bills players qualify on individual parts of the slash without qualifying for the whole line. For instance , Jimerson's 39.4% from the arc gives him an A+ .

But its two sides of the same coin - SLU gets "punished" for Goodwin and French leaving but don't get "credit" for having two (former) top 75 recruits to replace them. (I know it isn't that simple but my point stands)

This got me interested in how our players fared last season: Javonte Perkins: 170.70 Gibson Jimerson: 166 Terrance Hargrove: 162.80 Demarius Jacobs: 161.40 Fred Thatch: 156.20

I wanted to add the Youtube option for anyone who wants to watch our interview with Coach Shields. I think my reaction after the interview speaks for itself but man, Katie Shields just has IT. The interview runs about 38 minutes at the beginning and really is worth watching.

Frank just said Anthony Bonner's 6th grade son is 6-3 and he's got excellent perimeter skills.

Frank said on his show today that Antony told him that doctors are projecting Brock will end up being 7’1”. After spending so much time playing in Europe, Anthony wants to teach him guard skills as he continues to grow.

The simple answer is yes. Here is the long answer..... In the chart below, we will look at how 2 and 3Pt shots have been affected by moving the arc back. I particularly want to focus on 3 P shot value. 3P shots are more valuable shots than 2P shots. Exactly 50% more. The questions are... when is it worth taking the 3P shot ....who is taking it ...how has the extra distance affected the 3....and most importantly for this thread, who should we be looking for as a transfer. Let's look at the numbers....These will be team stats from all D1 schools....note that these numbers are pretty close to individual player numbers. First let's look at the elite teams....A+....3 seasons will be shown for all charts....The 2018-2019 season is the last season with the shorter 3P line. A+ teams .................2P%...........3P%......3P value ( 3P% x 1.5).......Difference (3P value-2P%) 2019.........55.7%..........39.1%............58.65............................+2.95% 2020........54.7%...........37.5..............56.25..............................+1.55 2021.........55.2..............37.7...............56.55..............................+1.35% C teams (average) 2019..........50.3.............34.2...............51.30..............................+1.0% 2020..........49.4..............33.3..............49.95...........................+0.55 2021..........49.7................33.5..............50.25...........................+0.55 The Bills 2019............46.6.............30.4................45.6.............................-1.0% 2020............49.7..............34.2................51.3.............................+1.6% 2021............51.3...............34.8................52.2............................+0.9 A few take aways....Again the answer to your question is ...yes , moving back the line did affect shooting. These charts show how much. Overall it cut the value of 3P shots by about half....exactly what the NCAA was trying to do. And the affect was pretty much across the board. You will note that the elite shooters value % were about 3x the values of average shooters...before and after the change. EXCEPT in the bizzarro world of the Billikens....When the NCAA moved the line back our numbers got better. Because our shooting was so bad in 2019 even though the line was closer for 3s, we should have only been shooting 2s because of the negative value. Another strange twist is our 3P% went up this year but our 3P value dropped because of better 2P shooting. That all means that last year it was more valuable to take a 3 than this year despite higher 3P stats this year. Finally, with these numbers in hand ....who should we be looking for in the transfer portal. The easy answer is take a 37.7%+ 3P shooter. The correct answer though would be to take at least a 35.2% guy who has made a minimum 25 shots this past season. That would give us true A+ value based on The Bills numbers. Bottom line.... It is still a good idea to shoot 3s as long as you are not terrible at it. For The Bills, the minimum shooter would have to be 34.3% and ideally at least 35.2%.

What separates the Bonnies and our program is Schmidt's best teams consistently win on the road. We're still figuring that part out.

If Nesbitt and Okoro come as advertised, I am not scared of the Bonnies. They are all Seniors but they lack talent. We beat LSU when we weren't worn down by Covid and Bonnies got blown out by LSU when they faced them. You can say what you want about our performance in the A-10 semifinal, but we were still not the same team as Ford created and fielded at the beginning of the season. The match up at the end of 2019-20 season is more indicative of what would have happened if two healthy teams played last year. 72-49 final IIRC

That was great, well done all around!

She's super impressive, and so is the team. Definitely check this interview out.

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/bracketology/ncaa-bracketology-projecting-2022-march-madness-men-field Stubby Joe with his early bracket for next year. For the A10 its: Bonnies - 5 seed VCU - last four byes(11 seed) Richmond - last team in(12 seed) ------------------------- Auburn - 8 seed Memphis - 5 seed San Diego st next four out. Agreed on the Bonnies, VCU I disagree big time with, Richmond will be Richmond.

It was 180....RM use to say he would take a 180 player ....sight unseen. For a comparison ...on my system which rates all D1 players and then grades them on a curve ...an A+ player (D1) during the RM years while at SLU was 162.8. ( 47.6 / 39.1 / 76.1 ) which explains why he would take a player sight unseen. A 180 player would be like a AAA. Again for comparison ....adjusting for the new 3 pt line ...an A+ player in 2021 would be 163.5 ( 47.8 / 37.7 / 78 ). Overall in D1 ... FG% about the same.....3P% down and FT% up since the RM years. Btw...The upcoming season will be the 10th anniversary of RM's best and last full season as SLU's head coach.

Thanks for posting and for all the info you have been providing

I don’t want either one out shooting 3’s . Linssen was a very effective scorer in the paint. Jimmie just needs to finish. His footwork is good for a big man but just didn’t finish.

This is awesome.

-he took a verbal swipe at Coach K so he's at least okay in my book