Bay Area Billiken

No one that claims to be a SLU fan should ever, and that means literally ever, root against the Billikens. Period.

The WCC should have two good semifinals Monday night in Las Vegas: #4 Seed Santa Clara vs. #1 Seed 23rd ranked St. Mary's; #3 Seed USF(CA) vs. #2 Seed 19th ranked Gonzaga. NET's: Gonzaga 16, St. Mary's 17, USF(CA) 63, Santa Clara 104. Re the NET, SLU's big, unexpected Win at St. Bonaventure improved SLU's NET by 21 spots to 196. The Bonnies fell 8 spots in the NET to 82, which puts Bona squarely on the NIT bubble.

Indiana State's NET is 26, which should be IN irrespective of today's result. Plus, Indiana State is the Regular Season MVC Champ. Except there is precedence for snubs of mid-majors - Missouri State and St. Bonaventure. And one of the talking heads on CBS Sports Network yesterday dubbed the Valley as a "one bid league." As for Drake, the Bulldogs had best win today. Drake's NET is 47, which puts Drake squarely on the bubble for an at large if it doesn't snare the Valley's Auto Bid. The bubble is not a good place for a mid-major to be in this new Power 5(6) dominated era.

ISU-Blue, Schertz and Avila vs. Drake and DeVries x2 for the MVC's NCAA Auto Bid.

14 Seed SLU plays Tuesday at 4:30 pm Eastern vs. 11 Seed Rhode Island. SLU beat URI 94-91 a week ago Sat. in Kingston, RI.

SLU outrebounded Bona 43-26.

It's great to be the amoeba Bonnies. Their fans love Travis so much.

This loss has to put a huge dent on Bona’s NIT hopes. Good!

It was a really good Win, a long way from home in a tough venue with the audibly booing home Bona fans and those floor to ceiling high school level walls at both ends. Travis coached a very good game vs. Schmidt.

Good Win. Best defense and rebounding in a long time.

Down go the abominable snowmen. Down go the amoeba Bonnies. Billikens Win!

Ball goes into paint, whistle blows. Pavlov’s dog.

That T is absurd, an A10 special.

I just said don’t foul a 3 point shooter. Ezewiro did. 5 FT’s?

Obvious goal tending. Why a review? Gives Bona a timeout.

That clock is running slow, frozen in the woods.

10 point lead down to 3 in a flash, 4 Bona FT’s on SVB Fouls. 4:08 left.

Falling apart.

Get SVB out of there.

The high school gym walls of Bona.

I was at that game at Dodger Stadium. Tatis hit 2 grand slams in the same inning off the same pitcher, Chan Ho Park. I'm confident that will never happen again.

Pepperdine Waves crash the Pacific Tigers 102-43. But the 20 lives.

Pepperdine 56 UOP 9 at Halftime in Las Vegas. But I am not holding my breath. UOP actually beat Cal in Berkeley 87-79 very early in the season, 11/10/23.

Yes! And let's play Year 1 in Stockton.

So that is not Gerry Pollard in that picture with Stu Durando. Those are the other two refs. Pollard is a big time ref, has reffed the Final 4. I've seen him this year reffing in the PAC-12.