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I saw McCormack at the game last night, and I wasn't seated too far from where he was. I was in about the second row directly behind the DeSmet bench. My freshman year was Coach Ross' last year teaching at DeSmet, and he was my Honors Algebra teacher for a little more than a semester that year. You are definitely right on the crowd. I graduated from DeSmet in 2002 and student support was pretty good most of the time while I was there, at least from the standpoint of support from the senior class, but it seems that there has been a significant drop-off in the quality of the DeSmet student section since. I think it's pretty safe to say that the younger alumni outnumbered the current students in quantity and quality. As to the buzzer beater by Chaminade to tie it up, all I saw on that play was the clock and the ball go through the net. The DeSmet players on the bench blocked my view. One little story to add to that is that before Chaminade inbounded the ball, a friend of mine said that 3 seconds was more than enough time as the DeSmet clock is slower than actual time. Sure enough, the 3 seconds were enough.

Great game won by DeSmet in OT. I was very impressed with Jared Leonard tonight, as he scored 16 points tonight on 6-9 shooting from the field and 3-4 on free throws. He made a huge play late in regulation with DeSmet down by 2 as he was able to secure a rebound in a crowd and put the ball back in, drawing a foul in the process. He made the free throw to give DeSmet the lead. Let's hope Brad and his staff continue to monitor his progress. After Mike Kalicak made 2 free throws to widen DeSmet's lead to 3 with 3 seconds remaining, Chaminade was able to get the ball down the court for Bobby Keaney to drill the game tying 3 at the buzzer. DeSmet proceeded to emerge victorious in overtime as they won 56-51.

I'm a sophomore at SLU and am a Marketing major. I agree that it would be fantastic if Marketing majors (and from the numbers I've seen there are plenty of us) could be involved in the marketing of SLU athletics as well as the school as a whole. I have my first marketing course this coming semester, and once I have some class experience, I would hope to do something like this.

No, I'm pretty sure that there was no announcement during games or anything on the Jumbotron. At the most recent Tip-Off Club meeting there were flyers for the trip to Springfield as well as the Billiken Club Christmas party. Both flyers were also mailed out to Billiken Club members.

First of all, while I think that while St. John's is probably better off firing Jarvis, I don't think that it was the right decision to can him during the season. After the season would have been much better. As far as Pitino goes, while I would be surprised if he left Louisville, some things could be said for why it could be a good move. First, Rick is from that area, as he grew up either on Long Island or somewhere around NYC. He has coached in the northeast at Providence as well as in the NBA with the Knicks and the Celtics. Second, I see St. John's as a VERY attractive job because they are the only major D-1 school(Fordham and Manhattan don't count) in NYC, which probably has the most basketball talent of any other city in the nation. They play in Madison Square Garden, the most famous arena in the world, and with a successful team New Yorkers will pack that place to the gills. The third and most frivilous reason is that it would give me the chance, as a person who is a fan of Pitino, to actually be able to root for a team he is coaching since I can't find it in myself to want him to win as long as he is at Louisville.

DeSmet won 71-56 over Parkway South. David Ward led with 22, Mike Kalicak had 15, and Jared Leonard added 14. Actually I was not there. I am no longer a student at DeSmet as I graduated there in 2002 and am now a student at SLU. Since I've graduated I've only made it to a couple of games.

This was my first Shootout and I really enjoyed it. Let me just say that Roy hit everything pretty much on the nose, so there is no need to repeat it.

I think Roy's already there, slufanskip sounded like he was going, and I'm just about ready to head over.

Where is anyone else that is going sitting? I'll be in section 117, row J. I'll be the 19 year-old with a SLU hooded sweatshirt. I have brown hair, but I might be wearing at hat.

I'm pretty sure that I've read posts by Billiken Law either here or at the Marquette board where he has referred to Mizzou as the University of Mi$$ouri or something like that. While this anecdote has yet to come up until now, he has shown before that he believes that Mizzou is dirty.

At home I probably still have a shirt that with the "St. Louis Basketball is life. The rest are just details." slogan.

Thanks Nate. I was at the DeSmet-Vianney game the other night, but since I am a graduate of DeSmet(2002) I was seated a little bit to the side of the student section. I was in the second row just to the right of the DeSmet bench and just to the left of the scorer's table. When I had been a student, I had never sat as close to the floor as I did Friday night, so I got to see the game from a different viewpoint. The highlight of that came when after a questionable call one of the refs went over to Coach Steiner and said to him, "Bob I know it was a bad call, but I can't overrule it." I found it rather funny.

I remember that at the last Tip-Off Club meeting there were tickets to the shootout available. Does anyone know if they will still be available at tommorow night's meeting? If they aren't, is the Savvis Center ticket office best place to get a ticket? Thanks.

You deserve credit too, The Band, as I understand you were rounding up anyone you could find to drive the Band members back to campus after the shuttle didn't show up. Thanks.

Yeah, that was terrible. All members of the Band who didn't drive to the game spent probably 45 min-1 hour standing around outside of Savvis. There are definitely some angry people about this. Did the Blue Crew and the rest of the students get a ride back? I heard that you guys were packing as many people as you could nto cars to get to the game.

I'll be there Nate. By the way, for anyone else who plans on going, I'd suggest getting there early because Vianney's gym is small and tends ot fill up quickly.

I played in some pretty bad weather when I was in grade school. One time the field was practically covered in ice. Last week at the SLU-Binghamton game I heard Bill McDermott tell an interesting story about the 1967 national championship game between SLU and Michigan State, which Bill played in. The game was called due to inclement weather and iin the end both teams were declared co-champions. Anyway, Bill said that the game should never have been started because of the weather, as there was standing water all over the field and chunks of ice floating in the standing water. The game was called when I believe a Michigan State player slipped around the top of the penalty area and slid a long way until he crashed into the goal post.

I'm in Band myself and didn't know that.

Not that I'd expect Arkansas State to be a place that the local media cared about, but can anyone else see the St. Louis sports media lashing out at SLU if this happened at SLU with Slaten? I just remember Bernie complaiing about how SLU should have been recruiting Troy last year, even though we were in demand of post players.

First of all, let me say kudos to Tom Timmermann on an excellent article. As far as tickets to the College Cup go, they aren't sold out yet, and looking at the attendancnce from the past few College Cups, it looks like the semifinals get good crowds, but it drops off in the finals, which could be understandable considering that some fans would leave after their team loses in the semis. Looking at the prices, if you plan on staying for the whole thing I would suggest buying the package for all three games because it is a few bucks cheaper than if you buy them individually. Tournament packages run at $32, $36, $40, and $50. Semifinals and finals separately run at $18, $20, $22, $32 if you buy in advance and $20, $23, $25, and $35 if you buy on the day of the game. If the Bills win over Maryland (fingers crossed while knocking on wood), it looks like I'll have my finals done by Thursday, which would allow me to travel to Columbus for the College Cup.

Remember, WVU was the team that Izik lit up last season. Hopefully he will be able to have another good game against the Mountaineers which will jumpstart his season. They seem to be rather worried about us dominating inside.

As a DeSmet grad who has seen his share of DeSmet basketball, let me say that the system centers around team play, so don't get discouraged if Leonard doesn't put up gaudy numbers. From what I've heard, he has a chance to be a very good player at DeSmet for the next few years. Also, sophomores don't get significant playing time at DeSmet unless they are really good. To give you an idea, Blake Ahearn, now at SMS, came off the bench as a soph and put up quality but not spectacular numbers. The next year as a junior he averaged over 15 ppg.

Yet another overtime win for the Billikens. Vedad Ibisevic scored two goals for the Bills, including the winner, and Cooper McKee tallied the other goal. Troy Ready scored both goals for UW.

I was there and have a few responses on some of the comments that have already been posted here, so I decided to put them in one thread. While the official attendance given was around 2500, I thought that was way off. My guess was around 4000-4500, but it wouldn't have surprised me one bit if it was 5000. I was stunned to see on the scoresheet that only 2500 were listed. As far as parking and entrances are concerned, traffic was stop-and-go heading into the Olive-Compton Garage basically from the garage to Grand Ave. Since most people parked in that garage or on the street, most people did use the same entrance which was near that garage. As far as I know, people could have parked in the Laclede Garage or on the street around there, and they would have been able to enter the stadium at the main entrance. I personally didn't have any trouble with the entrances, except waiting to get in the garage, but then I didn't have to pay to get in either. When I read this morning that the BU coach said they were trying to take it to a shootout, I didn't like that. While I understand that you should do what needs to be done in order to win, I thought it was a bush league strategy. But then I think that a game shouldn't be decided on penalty kicks, it should be decided on the field in actual play. I watched the game from the press box, and everyone thought Matteson had scored for SLU in the second half. I actually wrote "SLU goal" in my notebook, then had to change it to reflect that we hadn't scored. One little interesting tidbit, one of the photographers was showing me some of his pictures from the first half, and one was a very good picture of DiRaimondo's free kick late in the first half that just went over the goal. In the picture you could see that the keeper got a finger on it, which would have given SLU a corner kick instead of a goal kick for BU. Finally, to those complaining that SLU picked a bad time for the next game since the Rams are also playing, let me say that you are dead wrong if you are blaming SLU for it. SLU thought that the game would be Saturday night and as I understand it had planned for that, but then to their surprise the NCAA told them to schedule the game for Sunday at 1 pm. If you look at the schedule for the third round, all games are being played on Sunday afternoon. All in all, great game by the Bills. I'm excited to see them play again on Sunday.

I don't think there are any rules. I originally had Quitman Dillard because he was my favorite player during his time there, which one of the years coincided with when I was in 1st grade, so I would routinely tell my teacher that he was my favorite player. Well, whenever my 1st grade teacher sees my either my mom or I, she asks us how Quitman is doing. Anyway, I thought that worked, but then the idea came to me to sponsor my fellow DeSmet alums.