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Well, we won the first half if not for the zebras. That's really the best you can hope for given our personnel.

Heck, the powers that be will probably having him do a Sweet Sixteen after the job he's doing protecting one of their cash cows.

Anything to help the upper echelon teams save face. You guys know the drill.

From Brad's comments, I think he's interested in signing the best shooter he can in the spring, rather than the best all-around player. For that reason, I doubt Brad is interested in either player.

By honor roll I meant 3.0 students -- at least that's all it took to make the honor roll when i was in high school. If you take a 2.5-2.6 student from a St. Louis Public School these days I can almost guarantee you he isn't getting a passing ACT score.

If we're using the Stanford/Gonzaga model and are targeting honor roll high students then we've really got to start hititng underrecruited states like Wisconsin and Minnesota really hard. There are very few D-1 caliber bigs in the St. Louis area, and the ones the PHL produce are usually going to come with grade issues.

Former Vashon center Curtis Muse made All-Conference Honorable Mention as a freshman at Mineral Area College. Glad to see the kid staying on track academically so far.

Roy, I can pick a four game stretch earlier in the season where his numbers are just as good as the four games he's played off the bench, if you want to compare apples to apples.

I'm not going to condemn a referee for admitting his bias. I just don't want him blatantly giving into that bias during a game.

Versus Eastern Michigan, IO was 9-12 from the field and 5-6 for the field for 23 points. Versus Troy, IO was 5-6 from the field and 2-2 from the line in only 23 minutes. You can't shoot much better than that. He also was rebounding better earlier in the season. And like Thicks pointed out, IO started less than half of the games in his Billiken career before this season. Yet he is putting up the best numbers of his career by far this year, when he STARTED 20 of 24 games.

I admire Brad's loyalty to his players but when loyalty to 1-2 players start outweighing your responsibility to put the team in best possible situation to win, everyone suffers. I'm sure Reggie would have embraced reduced minutes while he recovered from injury rather than getting his brains beat in for his senior season -- if Brad has pulled the trigger on that decision. But the coach has to make that decision -- a competitive player isn't going to volunteer to sit. Like Brehms has said, Reggie's the type of guy who will say "everything's ok", even when it isn't.

From what I've read, Novelly is a very big contributor to St. Louis U. but since he's such a private person Biondi won't disclose how big his contributions are.

IO has been playing off the bench for most of the time he's been here. It was only this season that he was a full-time starter. And he was playing just as well earlier in the season as he is now.

There are a few athletic power forwards putting up those numbers but are there any big-bodied centers, even in the top echelon, who are putting up 14 and 9 on a regular basis?

Roy, how many centers in Division 1 with Ian's athleticism put up 17 and 10 on a regular basis?

Drejaj is a "scrapper" that coach most identifies with on this ball club. I think he's a lock for the rotation the next year, barring injury.

Sloan was probably the 2nd most athletic player over 6'6 (the 1st being JJ) that we had in the last four years. Unfortunately in this program that ain't saying much.

He's playing a bunch of no names, lost his best player and yet Texas Tech is much better than last year. I thought his coaching prowess was a bit overrated considering the pool of talent he had to draw from at Indiana, but the job he is doing at Tech is amazing.

Have we asked Lou Fusz, Jr., Bob Dierberg and Andy Puzder (Hardee's) for a donation yet?

I've read about Miranda having grade issues in at least two newspaper/Internet guru articles.

Don't know anything about him but I'm sure there's a good reason a regional 6'7 post player hasn't been snatched up by a mid-major already -- either grades or he's a project.

I've been rooting for Luke Meyer all along and asserted recently that he needed to pull even with Danny Brown this year if he wanted to be in the mix for the rotation. Going into your sophomore year as an "unproven" player when there are more talented "unproven" freshmen coming in often means a career of riding the bench. Luke's scaled that hurdle now. So the fact remain remains, barring injury, a pretty good guard is going to be out of the rotation next year. The likelihood that it will be Luke has gone done dramatically.

The situation remains the same. There still isn't room for a sixth guard. Luke's recent performance just made Brad's decision harder, that's all.

Seriously, what is the AD supposed to say about her number 1 project? Cheryl's hands are tied until Brad can show that this horrific season is a fluke.

Well I sense that Luke's recent transformation into the player I liked in high school will also get him a blind loyalty ticket. Maybe the two will cancel each other out. Man, am I glad Luke's finally gotten the minutes to show what he can do. He's not just some effort guy, he's a complimentary scorer in the making. If Lisch can be a primary scorer next year we might not totally suck.