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Temple leads 61-33, with around 10 minutes to go. I've only caught a couple minutes of the audio feed from URI, but apparently with 14 minutes and change to go, Temple had a 43-33 lead, then URI got a couple of flagrant fouls called against them and Temple has since shot the lights out. If Temple shoots like this beyond this game, they are a very dangerous team in this tournament.

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Yahoo seems to have the game on their scoreboard. Last thing they showed Temple leads URI 43-33 with 13:43 left in the game.

I can't speak for the team, but I think the Band will be at a Holiday Inn in Covingotn, KY, which is right across the river from U.S. Bank Arena.

I think I have a SLU hat that says "Bilkins."

I'll be there with the Band contingent, who else is going to cheer on the Bills?

What Goldwire did was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen on a basketball court. He threw not one, but two malicious elbows, and got the technical foul he deserved. It's a shame that he blew his team's shot at a huge win with such a boneheaded move.

Jimmy Holmes from Priory and Ross Kaufman a goalkeeper from Kentucky. http://slubillikens.collegesports.com/spor.../030106aaa.html

Not sure what would cause them to practice away from SLU today, but I know two years ago they had to practice over at Concordia Seminary for a couple days because the volleyball season wasn't over and the volleyball team had the gym when the basketball team wanted to use it.

Came across these rankings on CBSsportsline. Ian was ranked as the 9th best center in the country. They come up with some kind of formula that produces a score, and Ian's was the 9th highest among centers. http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketbal...n/C?&_1:col_1=1

At this point in time, I think our only possibility at an at-large bid would be to run the table for the rest of the regular season, then to lose in the A-10 tourney after beating GW in the semifinals. Considering that our RPI is in the 90s, we'd probably need help, and the best chance at help would be for Temple to beat the top team in the RPI, Duke. I still think though that our most likely chance at getting into the Big Dance is to win the A-10 tournament.

Game time is at 8 pm Central Time. Look at slubillikens.com if you don't believe it.

>Folks...if you want no band, think back to the game at the >Family arena early in the season when we couldnt be there. >THAT is what you would get. Exactly. Even though the building was pretty well full, there was absolutely NO atmosphere. I wish I could bring up a thread on a Memphis board from a SLU-Memphis game in Marque Perry's senior year. The game was at Savvis, and I can remember Memphis fans who had gone to the game commenting on how great the SLU Band was in that game. They thought it was great how the whole game went by without any canned music being played. I think the best example comes with the canned stuff that is played when the team comes out and right before starting lineups. Now, just to be safe, I'm not suggesting that the Band should take over playing there, but I just want to point out that aside of the Blue Crew, absolutely NOBODY responds to it. At just about every game, while they start the music before the starting lineup for the Billikens, very few people get up, and I end up making some sarcastic comment like "And the crowd rises to its feet". So, basically, I don't want any techno, canned garbage.

I listened to it again after you posted that just to make sure I got everything right, and all the words were right. Chaney was talking about how Robinson and Salisbery were very ineffective, then said that Mardy Collins began to take more on himself because two of his teammates were so ineffective. Then he made the quote that I posted above. Maybe Robinson and Salisbery going the wrong way resulted in a broken play.

Some of you may know this and some may not, but I am a sportswriter for The University News at SLU. During the basketball season my primary assignment is men's basketball, with the occasional commentary. My assignment for this week is to cover the SLU-Temple and SLU-URI games, so I was in the post-game press conference last night. Let me start by saying that I normally try to keep a lot of distance between my role as a reporter and my leisurely posting here at Billikens.com. For that reason I very rarely, if ever, post stuff I hear in the post game press conferences. Well, let's just say that it was interesting to hear John Chaney speak last night after the game. He praised the SLU crowd for the kindness they showed towards him. He pointed out how rare it is to see a crowd that is not hostile, and in fact said that SLU should get a letter from the conference commisioner saying how wonderful the SLU fans were. Chaney also said that he wants to write a nice letter to Fr. Biondi commending him on our nice fans. While I think that there is a clear line between humorous heckling and sheer hostility, and I myself try to heckle humorously, I'm sure some of my fellow Band members as well as Blue Crew might be somewhat insulted, as I was when I heard it at first. Now, for the interesting stuff. Chaney spent much of the press conference criticizing the play of Temple players Antwayne Robinson and Dustin Salisbery, who both started the game and were very ineffective. Robinson scored 0 points, shooting 0-5 from the field and 0-3 from three, while Salisbery scored 1 point, shooting 0-8 from the field, 0-4 from three and 1-4 from the free throw line. Here is a quote that I kind of did a double take when I first heard it, then later listened to several times again to get it right. It was in reference to Robinson and Salisbery. "They had two or three broken plays that we set up for them to shoot and they went the wrong way.[Pause] I don't know, it's like the old days when people throw games. Remember that?" I think he was joking, but still a rather odd thing to say about your players.

Well, since it was so poorly organized, the only way you could tell who was there was to read the scoreboard and just to notice the players. The ones I remember were Erwin Claggett, Scott Highmark, Monroe Douglass, Roland Gray, Chris Braun, Matt Baniak, Joe Wiley, and quite honestly that's all I remember.

Roy is right. slu72, since you might not know this because you don't live in St. Louis, Charlie Tuna is the biggest clown that I can think of in the sports media, though it is a stretch to say he's a member of the sports media. The guy got caught trying to scalp his media credential to the Final Four in St. Louis last year. The only way he gets on the radio nowadays is if Bernie lets him on his show, which I still don't understand because Tuna does nothing but bring down Bernie's credibility imo. He also has the option of purchasing his own broadcast time , which last time I checked he was doing on 1380 ESPN some nights from 10 pm-midnight. I normally try to refrain from doing this, but I'm going to say this anyway. I have seen Charlie Tuna in person, heard him speak, and just seen his overall demeanor. He struck me as probably one of the most legitimately stupid people I have ever seen in my life.

Where were you guys then? I went in there with about 6:00 left in the first half, walked around the place and didn't see the game on anywhere, no did I see any people that I could definitely tell were SLU fans, so I left.

I might try to make it there as well.

Wow, that "quote" from Martelli is bad.

Just to clarify, the guy in the chicken suit prefers to be called "The Chilliken." It is a combination of chicken and Billiken.

It was already mentioned above, but I remembered the PA guy last night as the PA announcer for the Shootout each December.

I've seen Jeremy Sharpe play a few times, and while I thought he was a nice/decent player, I wouldn't really call him a D-1 prospect. Who knows, maybe a low level D-1 school will give him a shot, but honestly the only reason that I think he might look like a player is because he literally looks like a miniature Tayshaun Prince. Now, let me say that his game in no way resembles Tayshaun Prince, but in his build and face, he looks like Prince.

J$ aka Bomble- I figured that one of the following would be your hero: Dubya, Karl Rove, Ronald Reagan, Gussie Busch, Jack Daniels, or for that matter just about anyone else who has some kind of alcoholic beverage named after them.