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SLU shouldn't consider any kind of reseating scenario until attendance improves significantly and stays at those improved levels for a few seasons. When you have never had a season at Chaifetz when you have averaged over 85% capacity and have gone almost a decade since you last averaged 70% capacity, you can't risk pissing off what exists of your consistently paying fan base.

I don't believe moving a student section in Chaifetz will entice better student attendance, unless it is to an all inclusive suite. The one factor I do believe would entice better attendance is a consistent winning program that participates in the NCAA Tournament nearly every year.

She seems like the exact backup PG type player that the men's team needs.

applause applause. insteady of trying to entice our non paying (albeit necessary fans - the students) why not concentrate on enticing our paying fans, finding more corporate sponsors (preferably attending ones).

Guarantee is a strong word...remember we are talking about the NCAA Selection Committee that has it's favs to take care of. While I wouldn't say guarantee, I would say it improves the A-10's chances of getting extra bids. I have written in previous posts about how the NET is calculated. I know people like to talk about the quad wins. Quad wins are an important factor in determining bids BUT they are not the most important factor. Margin of victory is the most important. ...what I referred to as the Colgate factor. In a years earlier thread, I talked about how Colgate finished 9th ITN in the NET...Not many Q1 opponents ...not a great SOS... but they won the vast majority of their games (in a weak league) by 10 pts(the threshold ) or more. Margin matters. Bottom line...A tourney with 3 of the 4 top teams (in future years all 4 teams) in the 1st round playing a weaker opponent not only adds another win to the resume...but a good chance for a 10 pt win which will help the NET score which will increase the chances for more bids.

See last season. L's in big games and no tournament without JP. I used to be a Pollyanna. The last few decades have drained that from me, I'm thinking we go 11-7 this year in Conference.

For top-20 schools, maybe not much. But for those outside that, gunning to make the tourney, the Bills are expected to be a tourney team and a Q1 team. Plenty of reason to do a two-year H&H deal.

The official roster has been updated. Returning: Warren, Martinez, Gul, Bess, Kennedy, Lazar, Flowers Incoming Transfers: McMakin, Calhoun, Tillett, Johns Freshmen: Liber, Connor, Nicastro That's 14 scholarship players, and I think Flowers is the only one who doesn't count against the total so I'm guessing the scholarship roster is set (someone correct me if I'm wrong). Unless I missed it, I don't think the Bri Johns transfer was ever announced. She's another one from Longwood, listed as a 5-11 G/F. Started out at SEMO but had 5 brief appearances that season, all late in the year. Averaged 18.1 MPG, 4.5 PPG, and 3.3 RPG this past season at Longwood and started 24 of 34 games. She's listed as a junior on the roster so maybe she didn't qualify for a redshirt at SEMO - just didn't play as opposed to being hurt, I guess. Anyway, I think this team can be fairly competitive in the A10 this season. Harbison is obviously a big loss but McMakin takes over that role. McNeal is really the only other significant loss from last season's roster, given that the rest of the departures were hurt or didn't play large roles. Assuming they stay relatively healthy, it's automatically a deeper team.

That total is deceiving. Most of those numbers are not undergraduate. You can’t expect I person working on their MBA and working a full time career job to be a a crazy. Not sure what the undergraduate total is but probably closer to 2500 but only a guess

I think Thames will be the player that we thought Nesbitt would be.

TF said Thames would be a superstar on the radio. I think today. Can’t find a link. Start the freshmen summer hype!

Pistol, if I understand your post it seems like you are giving the Women 13 scholarships, like the Men. Actually, unless it has been changed in the last year or so, the Women have 15 scholarships available each year.

I would like to propose an idea for the upcoming A-10 tourney... Have a 15 team , 4 round tournament with the A10 champ drawing a first round bye. Make it meaningful to win the A10. As for league officials who may argue about the lost 5th game PIG revenue, I say that revenue and then some will be made up in the better 1st round games which will now feature 3 of the 4 top A10 teams. For those who don't want to say bye to the double bye , I say get ready to say bye to all byes. Once the A-10 adds 1 more team (this is a when not if proposition) there likely will be no more byes. It will be just a straight 4 round 16 team tourney. Why not start the transition to that 4 round tourney now.

\ Isn't another reason to do it this way simply logistics? I like the idea, but a 15-team format with only 1 bye or 16-team format would result in either 7 or 8 games on day one or multiple first-round days, neither of which seem practical.

Not if as inefficient as Perkins was that first half, shot 26% from 3 and 35% FG

Parker is more of a 3-point shooter than Perkins, which should help him transition a little more smoothly. Defense may actually be the most challenging part of the jump for Parker.

Looks solid

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The Euro trip should give us a good indication if Parker is a "Perkins" and if Perkins is back near 100%. I'll wait on the Euro trip to make my very uneducated assessment of season possibilities.

I am just leaning more towards a "past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results" perspective. Our players should be better than last season, with the added continuity others won't have, along with a couple new contributors. I'd also suspect closing out these games is at the top of Ford's off-season fix list.

I think you're looking at this all wrong. First of all, there's a very real chance that Perkins is at or around 100% to start the season. It's more likely that he's brushing the dust off the skillset than regaining physical abilities IMO, because it will have been over a year by then and ACL injuries aren't what they used be. If Perkins isn't at 100% then he will be used conservatively in early games. We kept big games close without him last see (See: Auburn) and that was with a weaker supporting cast than what we have now, even without Perkins. If Perkins is at, say, 80% of his former self, but he plays limited minutes and is still fresh in those late-game situations, we're still good. So my question is - Do you not trust Yuri, Jimerson, Parker, Thatch, Hargrove, Forrester, Okoro, and the gang to not hang in those tough games early in the season?

I feel like this would do the opposite because giving only the A10 winner an advantage with a 1st round bye makes it more likely that they would go on to win the tournament as well. That would very likely happen more frequently than it has in the past with the new format Wiz proposed. In that scenario, you'd end up with the A10/tourney winner being the only bid in certain years. I prefer a format that gives an advantage to the top X number of teams, but no special advantage to the top 1 or 2 to make it more likely a team below 1 or 2 wins the tournament. I think this makes it more likely for the A10 to wind up with 2 or more bids. Honestly if the A10 was smart, they should wait until later in the season to announce the tournament format that year. Adjust the format accordingly to try to maximize the # of bids by making it easier for a team unlikely to get an at-large to nab the auto-bid.

no it was just a comment about wgsl's claim east st louis is a big school. just talking size. nothing about talent.

The Billikens should be able to beat a team with let's say a net ranking of 72 on the road with Perkins at less than 80% in November. The Billikens should be able to beat a team with a net ranking of 49 at a neutral site in November with a less than 80% Perkins. Those would all be Q1 wins. Will they have a chance against a top 10 team in November even at home with a less than 80% Perkins? No, but the Q1 games you can win in November with a less than 80% Perkins involve a wide range of teams.

3 star i keep hearing parker is the real deal and the equal of perkins. of course havent seen for myself, but let's not be so quick to pin our hopes just on perkins yet.

I think that view dismisses Picket. Picket gives us a big guard who plays tough D with a lot of quad 1 experience.

“The facts are the facts” (no facts offered)

If Perkins isn't at least 80% on day one, we'll be hard pressed to win a Q1 game in November. And none of us knows what his condition will be.

I’m willing to bet they’d still buy tickets if the first 10 rows of the camera side were all inclusive.

He played well at the Edwardsville Live Period event this weekend with Vashon. Vashon's depth is overwhelming and as of now them and Staley are the two best MO HS teams. Staley's two studs are definitely one to keep an eye on. Kayden Fish just got an offer from Xavier after mainly low major interest and Kyan Evans is a dynamic point guard. Jordan Pickett from Belleville East, Iziah Purvey from Webster Groves, and Bradley Longcor III from Quincy were other guys who stood out.

Kind of an apples and oranges comparison with Indiana, Rutgers, and ND. Using IU as an example, they played 1 Q1 and 2 Q2 games in non-conference play. Their high total is mainly a product of being in the Big 10, where between regular season and tournament play they got 16 Q1 or Q2 games. SLU has put together a great non-conference schedule, arguably the toughest in the conference. By virtue of bigger conferences going to a 20 game schedule, this is about as good as it can get in OOC. To get more Q2 games, the A-10 needs some organic improvement.

Predictions are fine, but last season SLU played 14 Q1/Q2 games. Teams in the Last Four, Indiana played 22, Wyoming played 15, Rutgers played 20 and Notre Dame played 18. I don't want to rely on the NCAA Selection Committee to give us a break. I want SLU to be safely in the tourney at the highest seed possible. Give me Purdue over Evansville. If you want to rely on the Committe, so be it. If we can't win our fair share of Q1/Q2 games, then we don't deserve to be in the NCAA Tourney. It is hard to win Q1/Q2 games that you don't play.

1) Let's be blunt - our winning percentage in Q1/Q2 games has been horrible. Next season we have more projected Q1/Q2 games than I've seen in many years. We have plenty of Q1/Q2 opportunities. The challenge is to finally go .500 in those games. 2) I don't see a meaningful difference in competition between securing a 6 seed over a 10 seed. Early tournament games involving such teams are toss-up. In fact, it's often the underseeded mid major team that goes on a run.

we have to bribe the students every game with gifts and food now to get decent turnouts. plus selfishly, i have been a loyal fan for years and paid thousands of dollars to sit in my seats and now i would just give those seats up and sit in lesser location so students can have my seat and then not show up half the time? nah

I think it would help the student support, but I think it would make the fetz look tackier. When you do the students behind the bench, theres a drop off so students standing do not interfere with GA behind them. This would look ugly compared to what it looks like now. You see what Penn state is doing more and more with outdated arenas, or ones built brand new and designed for that. Here is Auburns, try and picture what that would look like here. -And while I say it would help student support, I don't trust our students involvement enough to make it worth it.

i wasnt talking about van fleet peaking in college. it's his progress with the rapters that has been amazing imo. when i watched him in college i thought he was good, but now he is a star with toronto. yuri isnt van fleet rapter good at this time.

Having followed KenPom for a long time I remember a blog post of his that explains his thinking on home court advantage. He broke it down in a two-part post. If you are a subscriber to his site: How to measure site-specific home-court advantage, part one | The kenpom.com blog How to measure site-specific home-court advantage, part two | The kenpom.com blog His blog is actually pretty interesting (though not very active). He also has a lot of posts with Majerus mentions, including dedicated posts about how great of a coach he was: rick majerus | Search Results | The kenpom.com blog