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Sounds like someone who needed a story about why he had to stay in Vegas two more weeks.

I'd take EWR over LGA or JFK seven days a week and twice on Sunday but my sample size is probably smaller than yours. Too close to Christmas to attend Vegas Drake game in person but I may call Perennial Lockwood to see if they carry Flo Hoops if anyone is down to watch. If not, @Box and Won said he'd host at his house.

I gotta say.. when I saw the title of this thread, a part of me thought it might be S3

When are you going to realize that having the vaccination isn’t going to keep you from getting Covid? 80% of those who are contracting the Omicron variant have been vaccinated. That’s why this vaccine mandate is ridiculous and completely worthless. https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20211213/what-the-cdc-report-says-about-the-first-omicron-cases-in-the-us

Priority #1 for every program should be making sure every player, coach, manager, trainer, and any other person around them gets a booster shot. Best chance at stopping this wave of cancellations before it gets out of hand.

If you see a moppy haired 6-5 kid behind the SLU bench at the Auburn game, this is him. Show him some love, SLU fans. He's not just a @Box and Won all-name team priority recruit. Kid can play. He's also a 4.0 student so, you know, be smart.

I looked this up and with 83 games, we have played Drake more than any other team, ever. Pretty cool. Next on the list is Cincy at 78, Tulsa at 74, and Bradley at 70. Louisville is next with 67 games, followed by Dayton with 66 meetings. Playing the Flyers twice per year will raise them up the list. It would be great to resume the rivalries that have died.

Anyone else heading to Vegas for the Drake game? I’ll be there, along with a few others. For consideration: $78 STL-LAS round-trip flights are available, arriving 21st, red-eye back on the night of the 22nd leaving at midnight. (Full disclosure, it’s Frontier)

Please do not hijack this thread. There is nothing you can say that hasn't already been said. There is no one who will change their mind over what you post. All you will accomplish is getting another thread locked. Please don't. This goes to all of the MBM's who desire to express their opinons on Covid. Please take it elsewhere. The Post Dispatch has forums no one locks. There are basketball games being canceled left and right. Let's keep this thread about basketball.

Just to piggyback on what you've said, both guys have legit court vision. Steffe, according to the Texas recruiting gurus, is a pure shooter who can create his own shot. He also has a nose for rebounds, despite being an average leaper. Bizjack, while still a very good shooter, is a notch below Steffe. He's also smaller, quicker and and more adept at breaking down defenders. Either guy would be a great fit.

Please lock this thread

coach havent seen you for awhile. good to have you back on the board.

Sounds like it should be a great game. Haven't had a chance to watch Auburn yet.

SLU's record book lists Oklahoma A&M and Oklahoma State separately. If you add SLU's all-time records against each - 11-23 and 19-32, respectively - it's 85 total games. So we've technically played OSU more than Drake, although this meeting will bring it to a 1-game margin of 85 to 84.

He goes to Byron Nelson High School? They name schools after golfers now?

Especially our guys. All of our guys who were here last year have had it as well

That group of Drake, Cincinnati, Tulsa, and Bradley were all fellow members with SLU of the Missouri Valley Conference. Cincinnati and SLU remained conference mates in the Metro, Great Midwest and Conference USA. The Missouri Valley Conference was once a Top 5 conference, Louisville, Cincinnati, Memphis State, Bradley, Tulsa, Wichita State, SLU and others, in the earlier days powerful Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State). I remember reading Street & Smith's as a teenager in the early '70's about the Valley outposts, as the Valley had expanded all the way to the then West Texas State (now D-2 West Texas A&M in Canyon, Texas in the Texas Panhandle, which spawned Ron Ekker) and New Mexico State in Las Cruces, NM, and the bigger media markets in the new Metro, many of which were once MVC schools. Then SLU AD Larry Albus was the first Metro Conference Commissioner. The Missouri Valley Conference Game of the Week came on the air on KTVI, Channel 2 in St. Louis, then the ABC affiliate, at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoons, right after American Bandstand, with Billiken great Easy Ed Macauley providing the commentary. The later Metro Game of the Week had the then KSD (now KSDK) Channel 5's Ron Jacober on play by play and former Cincinnati and NBA great Oscar Robertson on the commentary.

I think we can all probably agree that we don’t want to be tested everyday, especially if we’re vaccinated, and I’d bet that the players feel similarly. I’m no expect on this but my understanding from talking to some people in the field is that it’s more to do with setting collective bargaining precedent than it is to protect the specific demands of the current players.

Something very familiar about this writing style......

Not sure if you were genuinely wondering the answer or not, but I do think it’s an interesting question. I’m confident that if it were up to the owners of those NBA, NFL and NHL teams they would take a similar approach to college or the average person’s workplace (testing only when symptomatic). All they get from the increased testing is lost games, postponements, scheduling issues, etc. I think the main reason why we have daily testing is because the leagues you mentioned all have much stronger employee bargaining power via their unions than other industries (or college sports, where they aren’t even employees). Health and safety for players is a critical bargaining tenet for players associations. Anything they can do to increase the burden on the owners to ensure health and safety protocols, they will do (and I’m not trying to argue that it’s much safer to test everyday, just saying that falls in the bargaining category that the union will pursue). Ironically, this is also why you haven’t seen vaccination and boosters required in these league, but you do in college. The pro players unions has a duty to its membership to try and prevent the employers from mandating medical treatments and procedures. They do not want to set a precedent that the league can say players must do an additional medical requirement to be employed. So the end result is college players who are required to be vaccinated and likely boosted, but don’t test very often versus pro players who have less strict vaccine mandates but do test more frequently.

Exactly. This is why there have been far fewer cancellations of games in college or stories about players not being able to play. The NBA, NHL and NFL are all testing players that feel fine to see if they have the virus. Colleges aren't. If you really stop to think about it, it makes you wonder why the NFL, NHL and NBA are doing what they are doing when the vast majority of the rest of America isn't. Most people only test when they feel sick and I don't believe the CDC is pushing for the testing of vaccinated individuals that aren't exhibiting any symptoms like the NBA, NLF and NHL are doing. These are self-inflicted wounds from these leagues.

https://nvhealthresponse.nv.gov/travel-visitors/ I don't see anything about COVID testing for domestic flights. I think your buddy got some bad info. Either way it's probably best to double-check all COVID related rules before you travel or attend an event. They are always subject to change.

Good job guys

I thought it was Valley talk.

I know it’s early but this has got to be about as much as a must win non-con game as SLU is going to have. The A-10 could round into form but right now it is a weak conference so it’s going to be tough to pick up a lot of Q1 wins, this SLU would do VERY well to win here for a nice resume building win.

Yuri….”Good grades are like playing defense”. I love it. What a great representative of Saint Louis and SLU.

Listening to the podcast, Rammer states Yuri should be 3 or 4 to 1 ass/to ratio. It just kills me how many people think that’s not out of the ordinary or should be expected from a great point guard. I did a little research and used the top 40 assist per game leaders ( 40 because it was the 1st page in the ESPN stats I used. ) Over the last 3 seasons 40 per season so 120 possibilities only 8 times has a player had over a 3-1 ratio and 0 in the top 10 in any of the 3 seasons. You have to go back 5 seasons to find a player in the top 10 with over a 3-1 ratio and that was Lonzo Ball at 3.06 -1. On the other end out of those 3 seasons 50 had under a 2-1 ratio. Finishing in the top 10 is an amazing accomplishment. Finishing in the top 10 with over a 3-1 ass/to ratio is beyond elite. Can we please quit judging Yuri as if he should have 8 assists a game and then act like 3-4 turnovers is a problem that needs corrected. It’s not it’s the norm for someone with his exceptional passing skills. When he’s at 6 assists and 5 t/o’s it’s not a good game but for every top assist man a season with a 2.5 -1 ratio comes with some games at 1-1, some at 3-1, and for Yuri some at over 9-1

Imagine a Billiken program with, at a minimum, twice the talent of our current squad. Imagine that program being a perennial NIT team. That coach would be a laughingstock.

I personally can't see a scenario where we lose this game

Thames is averaging 28.5 points through Pattonville's first two games, with a slashline of .559/.500/.765. He's also averaging 6.5 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals, and 2 blocks. Pattonville blew out Hazelwood West in the opener but lost by 29 to Pewaukee (Wisconsin) in the Washington (IL) Tournament of Champions this weekend. They host St. Charles a week from today. The box score from SLUH's only game, a 57-53 win over Tolton, has not been posted online. I saw a Tweet listing three other SLUH players in double digits, so it stands to reason that it wasn't a big scoring game for him. Although another poster did point out that he hit some clutch baskets late, and the game also featured 2025 SLU recruit Aaron Rowe for Tolton. SLUH hosts Cardinal Ritter tomorrow in what should be a great matchup. Parker has started 9 of 10 games for Moberly. He's averaging 20.3 points on a slashline of .491/.369/.852 and adding 6.9 RPG, 1.0 APG, and 1.5 SPG. Moberly is now 8-2 on the season and hosts Mineral Area College on Wednesday. Per their current schedule, they play two games in St. Louis - vs. John A. Logan at SLCC on 12/5 and at SLCC on 2/15. I'm assuming it's the Forest Park campus for both of those. Apologies if any of this is redundant, but thought this was a better thread to keep up with what these guys are doing than in the recruiting thread.

Man William Tecumseh Sherman has some amazing quotes. My favorite other than the above is: "If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast" Love the guy........

well we cant have a team on the floor with everyone having a bad cold.

Will there be proof of vaccination at the game??? If not, I would recommend not attending, much too dangerous.. all Billiken fans should already know this...

Memphis is not in Auburn’s league. They could very well return to the Final Four. I’d be pleasantly surprised if the game is close.