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9 minutes ago, dlarry said:
With this signing Thor just took over the top spot on my favorite things about iceland list. It now reads
1. Thor
2. Glaciers
3. Bjork
4. Hot Springs
It also upped the odds of me booking a 150$ flight to Iceland via Wow Air by 72%.
You left off the Northern Lights!!!!
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Market Watch from the Wall Street Journal had the top 5 most inconsistent teams in the tournament. Maybe this will help your picks. Here is number 3:
3. Virginia Tech
Inconsistency Rank: 12th
nERD Rank: 35th
You can make the case that for a bubble team (although they were considered by most pundits to be a relatively safe pick to make the tournament), no team has better wins on their resume than the Virginia Tech Hokies. Virginia Tech beat the North Carolina Tar Heels by double digits, vanquished the Duke Blue Devils when they were rolling with their zone defense, and even beat the Virginia Cavaliers on the road, something literally no other team can say. Two wins against teams ranked in the top 5, plus a top-10 win, is quite an impressive feat.
So how then did the Hokies drop one to Saint Louis Billikens? Why did it need overtime to beat non-tournament teams like Boston College and Mississippi? Virginia Tech’s inconsistency makes them a threat to beat just about anyone in the country on any given night, but at the same time, if they go cold, they could easily play just one game in this tournament.
The other most inconsistent teams are:
5 Purdue
4 Arkansas
2 West Virginia
1 Creighton
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The print post today had all Mizzou on the front page, 3 articles, Cardinal articles, and some basketball scores. No mention of SLU until the 5th page. Of course that is what is the norm these days.
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I have 3 tickets for tonight's VCU game.
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4 hours ago, Westy03 said:
Ordered the PAC12 network on unverse and the rep I talked to said just cancel within 30 days and I won't be charged.
Dish has it on 409
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On 12/10/2017 at 10:01 AM, courtside said:
I need 3 to 4 extra tickets for the Murray St. game Tuesday. Thanks.
I've got 2 if you still need them
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1 minute ago, kappy96 said:
I do. How much do you want for it? Is it a hard ticket or are you able to email it or transfer through your account?
You don't owe anything. It is a hard ticket so I guess I would have to meet you before the game. I should be at the stadium around 6:40
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2 hours ago, kappy96 said:
Anyone have an extra single for tonight that they'd be willing to part with?
I have an extra ticket for tonight if you still need one.
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Monmouth over UCLA
11-26 update: Monmouth claims another big name scalp knocking off Notre Dame 70-68.
Notre Dame shot 47% from the free throw line.
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I'm not sure what time warp the NCAA is using here, but a team has/had/used to have 5 time outs, one of which had to be used in the first half or else was lost. So a team could have as many as 4 to use in the second half. So I'm guessing they'll give a team 4 total next year (or some year, when/if they figure out what year it is.) BTW I don't know how the 30 second time outs work.
If they're trying to turn college ball into the NBA they'll soon lose me. 6 fouls?
That's where I am. As this gets closer and closer to the NBA, I will begin to lose interest. Soon we'll be playing the William Tell overture, or whatever, as our team brings the ball down the court.
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hornsdigest.com (the scout site) says they are close to a deal citing 2 un-named sources. So take that for what it's worth.
What about Brad Stevens? See this link:
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No one pulled for Tanner to succeed more than me. I thought he should have played more last year. This year, he was a big reason why I predicted we would win 18 games. But then he just kept shooting the 3 -- and missing the 3. I have not seen anything like it. Even bad shooters or guys with a tough year have their moments or games where they have success - Tanner did not. I just kept waiting for him to make a 3, then another, then another and the confidence returns... but it never happened. I also was shocked that he never tried to get his interior game going while his perimeter game struggled. A big mystery.
He truly has to be a better player than he has shown us this year and I thank him for his 2 years and wish him the best in the future.
Amen. I kept hoping one of his threes would go in, and they never did. He seemed to avoid the interior game, waiting for his threes to start falling. I always hoped he would be another Chris Sloan.
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They were not very solid before the Kansas game. They lost to some weak teams.
Temple has two transfers who were playing in only their second game since becoming eligible. One of them had 17 points last night. That may explain some of their earlier losses and why they were playing better against Kansas.
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Anyone who thinks Strauss has it out for SLU doesn't read his tweets consistently enough. Not only was he very pro-SLU the last couple of years, but he trolls Mizzou with a passion.
Want proof, search twitter for "Haithcrime".
In the end, if a local team is playing like crap Joe will mock them, no exceptions.
Didn't he also tweet that UMKC has yet to get a quality win? Lighten up. I have no problem with his tweets.
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Billikens play at 330 tomorrow afternoon, vs the winner of St. Joes & Richmond.
That should be 3:30 today, Friday
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It is ancient history but I knew a lot of these individuals personally and those that had business and / or legally savvy parents and resources that pressed hard got a lot more than the ones who just accepted it. It was a different world back then. I have more details but not going there.
Maybe some got more than others, I don't know about that. I do know that my brother-in-law was satisfied with the support SLU offered and he was in no way connected to "legally savvy" parents or relatives.
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It was abrupt.
Strategically, it was announced the day that students could no longer withdraw and get their tuition back.
Sure, if your Daddy knew a good lawyer, they would, then, assist with the transfer, yes.
If not, then "good luck", it was not like today with social media and press, many didn't challenge it and just moved on and that was that.
IMO, it made no sense to close The School of Engineering at that time.
I won't argue that it was abrupt. However, SLU did provide a good bit of financial assistance to the students affected to attend another school.
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They abruptly closed the School of Engineering in early 1970, right when it was too late to withdraw and get a tuition refund. They abandoned the engineering students, told them to transfer somewhere else.
That's not true. They provided assistance to students with their transfer. I don't know all the details, but they paid at least a good part of the tuition at another school. My brother-in-law was in IT when they closed it.
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When was that? Did engineering have its own separate IT dept.? Back in the card-punch days, all the computer stuff was in Despair Hall and the major was called "mathematical computer sciences." (And they taught several programming languages for which they had no compilers, so the profs graded your programs by hand.)
Sorry, IT = Institute of Technology, in those days. We didn't take any classes that required a computer back then, just a slide rule. We didn't even have calculators. Things have changed a little.
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Yeah, there have been a few misses - 20 North, Bullfeathers/Marina Building, the old stables on Locust - but lots more hits.
Back when the Continental (Superman) Building was renovated, the old Wagoner Funeral Home was demolished to make way for a parking garage. The building's facade, however, was preserved. I'd love to see it incorporated into a new building in Grand Center.
You left out the most important detail about this building. I spent 4 years of my life in there as an engineering student at SLU. This was IT. It was off the main campus, but it was across from Garavelli's. There was many a card game in the lobby behind those two big windows. The dean's office was on the second floor on the right. There was another building just west of this one which was connected and which housed many of the labs. It was set back from the street, as I remember.
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One of the coupons expired in December, one in March. I see no problem with that.
Each of my season ticket packets had only 1 hot dog coupon along with 2 drink and 2 popcorn coupons. So are you saying that the dates on the hot dog coupons changed from packet to packet or do some packets have 2 hot dog coupons with different dates?
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Yes, of course, it's the customer's fault to read "One (1) free hot dog during any...game during the 2013-2014 season" and not expect that the expiration date would explicitly contradict that statement. My bad. (For the record, I just paid for the hot dog. But anyone who would possibly claim that this wasn't some sort of managerial incompetence has no business standards.)
I guess I lucked out. I did not see the expiration date and assumed they were the same as the drink and popcorn coupons. I used three hot dog coupons for my grandchildren on Saturday, and they were accepted.
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7 spots is a bold prediction, I see us settling at 16-17th IF Ohio State and Umass fall far enough. I could see them being 17th and 18th right behind us. Big loss at home for the Minutemen. About as big as the notorious Santa Clara loss we're all trying hard to forget. Once we pummel GM and Richmond we'll move up to 12-14?
UMass lost on the road, not at home.
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They're NIT bound. That's enough.
I doubt they make the NIT.
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