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Obviously, we define reaching one's full potential on the court differently. Paul Pressey, a great player that Tommie Liddell closely resembles, never averaged 20 ppg in college or the NBA. But I never remember anyone insinuating that Pressey was an underachiever.

Well remember, 40 is just a ranking. If we continue to win, teams like Rice and UTEP fall behind us because of the RPI dogs they have left on their conference schedule. Teams, like Missouri, Georgia, and Colorado could eliminate themselves by losing multiple games down the stretch against tough opponents. Of course, the same could be said for us.

Depaul blew any chance this conference had for six bids based on regular season performance, not that I'm complaining. Our guys or their guys need to make the CUSA finals to get off the bubble.

"if vashon only beat east side by 1 point, then i guess that ends the question of who is the best area team(s)." No it doesn't. Vashon shot an uncharacteristic 8-23 from the line and 2-19 from three point range, Tommie played lights out, and Vashon still won. If Vashon had brought their "A" game instead of their "C" game, the Wolverines win this going away. Mater Dei isn't better than Althoff simply because they won the head-to-head matchup, are they?

"Jeez, give me a break what does it take to get just a little national recognition from these guys?" A winning tradition.

East Side was doing just fine with Tommie just letting the game come to him. The only reason that the 10 point lead dissolved, as you alluded to, was because the coach kept letting the other guards bring up the ball against Vashon's full court-pressure instead of Tommie and they couldn't handle it. Tommie is a point forward and a great one. If Brad tries to transform him into a 20 point a game scorer at the next level, he may regret it. That's not Tommie's mentality. Meyer is the scorer, Polk is the speed demon. They should all complement each other wonderfully.

Ian may never be able to guard 6'10 jumping jacks like Andre Brown straight up. Fortunately, we'll only face 2-3 guys like that in any given season.

"Great effort by all but this game showed that Ian is not going to be the answer" No offense, but your coming to this conclusion 13 games into Ian's college career made me chuckle.

Love the shimmy Reggie did in the corner after being fouled on his spinning layup in the lane. You could see the air coming out of Depaul.

Our guys did what they needed to do a perimeter, but shooting 70% from three and isn't something you can really rely on. JJ has to continue playing against the athletic teams and achieve some time type of comfort level offensively. Hopefully, Brad has a little more faith in him now.

The only chance we had of winning this game was to get red-hot from the perimeter and that's what happened. It's about time we caught a break -- our guys are working their tails off!

If Brad plays his cards right, he'll never have to leave the St. Louis metro area to sign a wing. If he's out of town on a recruiting trip, we'll know Brad's looking for a big man :-)

Check it out: http://prepsports3.stltoday.com/basketball...vent176531.shtm

http://scout.theinsiders.com/a.z?s=169&p=8&c=1&nid=450239

Izik drives down the lane, draws two defenders and kicks it to JJ for the two-handed jam. I can already see it.

Apparently Brad is using the Mr. Miyagi technique on JJ. JJ is ready to learn karate but Brad wants him to "paint da fence" and "wax on, wax off" to test his character.

I'll be glad when the new kids get here. Driving these guys to overachieve is going to give Brad a stroke.

Desmet is one of the classiest posters on these boards. If this story wasn't true, he wouldn't have posted it.

When the football schools get together after the next TV contract expires, we may see Marquette and Depaul in the A-10 anyway. But until then, they'd be remiss if they didn't at least give the "big-time" a try.

Cinci, Louisville, Memphis, UAB and Charlotte have done enough to get in. The only way this league gets a sixth bid is if Depaul keeps on winning. We're too far back to make a move at this late stage.

"He believes the refs either don't like him or doesn't respect him." The refs in this conference don't respect the Billiken program as a whole, not just Reggie. The guys just have to play through it and Brad has to coach through it.

That's the norm. My score only changed one point after taking it multiple times. The reality of the situation is Tommie is probably going to prep school. If he is as close to his family as we think he is, he'll be back.

They didn't count his block at the end either. I think the stat tracker had an off night.

I think I understand the problem now. To take advantage of the lower test scores afforded by partial qualifier status, you need higher than a 2.5 GPA. See the link: http://www.ncaa.org/eligibility/cbsa/academic.html To be a full qualifier, you need a 17 on the ACT no matter what your GPA. But you can score a 15 on the ACT and be a partial qualifier -- if you have a 2.7 GPA. Tommie's chances of raising his ACT score by 2 points are actually better than raising his four year GPA by .2 in only one semester.

What I can't figure out is why he isn't just coming in as a partial qualifier. A 2.5 GPA is all you need to be a partial qualifier.