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Dr. Chaifetz is the "Uncle Pennybags" character. This is why I game him a top hat. If anyone has a pic of him courtside, I could swap that for the head shot. Feel free to extract the posts. I apologize for completely hi-jacking the rebounding thread.

Here is the completed board (subject to change if I feel like it): Some explanations: -I used Microsoft Paint to make this whole thing because I do not have ( and do not know of a free) better software. Therefore, I apologize for it being somewhat crappy. -I used the 4 great coaches for the 4 railroads. -Rammer and Earl are the 2 utilities. -"Shot for Cash" is chance and "Scholarship Fund" is community chest. -I decided to use the 4 retired numbers/retired jersey players for the 2 groups of 2 and then group 3 players from the same team/era for the other properties. -I used more recent players because that is what I know and it was easier to find pictures. -I tried to get the best players from the NCAA tournament teams in and somewhat ranked the groups based on how successful they were. I threw in the early Soderberg NIT group to get Marque Perry on the board and the late Soderberg group to get Lisch/Liddell on there. -I used the same placements and $ as original monopoly. I'll probably work on the other stuff (Chance/Community chest cards, money, tokens) if I have time and post additional pictures of them. Edit: Yes, I get bored when there is too much time in between games.

Because SLU has so many easy road trip games this year, I thought it would be a good idea to make a thread for info on these games. I plan on updating this with some additional info soon. Official SLU Pre-game Receptions Homepage Monday 12/30/13 8:00pm CT vs Vandy Tickets (left available: $18 lower sidelines H-J, $18 upper end 2L & 3L) StubHub (multiple sections $3.11 - $90.00) Directions (4 hr 41 min) Billikens.com members attending: Westy03, Kbrew, wgstl, slubilliken09, slu72 fan, NH(?), LouisvilleBilliken(?), eastsidejoe(?), Pistol(?), bills10(?), Crewsorlose(?), Go_Bills(?) Official Alumni Pre-Game Event at Mariott Vanderbilt Saturday 1/11/14 11:00 am ET vs Dayton Tickets (left available: upper sidelines 400s level $20) StubHub (multiple sections $23 - $125) Directions (5 hr 33 min) Billikens.com members attending: Taj79, Jbizzle09, SpencerFilibuster, thetorch, Pistol, cgeldmacher + 12, bills10, b.hayes, Westy03(?), DeSmetBilliken(?) Official Alumni Pre-Game Event at Courtyard (University of Dayton) Sorry Taj I'm going to leave this thread for road games that are less than a 6 hr drive from St. Louis for now. If folks would like I can expand it to include all road games.

Assuming you mean Vandy unless bbtds convinced you to become a Valpo fan.

That's why I went with the Fred Weber VIP Lot. I believe parking is "free" there for the high rollers with court side seats.

This is the latest from Timmerman, nothing new: Brian S. ‏@downtownstlbiz8 Dec @tomtimm Any update on Reggie? Tom Timmermann ‏@tomtimm17h @downtownstlbiz Only that he traveled back with the team and will be monitored during the week. With finals, it's a light week for practice. I don't expect that we will really hear anything until right before the Wofford game on Saturday.

Bump for the last day this is available. (Although, I keep doing this and then they end up getting extended)

This is what I have so far (sorry for the large image)... Also, I'm doing this on a laptop, so the hand-drawing with the track pad looks awful (I'll probably end up scrapping the whole middle area and re-doing it. Still need to add the players in (I might have problems finding good images of the older players) and come up with something for "Chance", "Community Chest", and "Luxury Tax". Perhaps "Shot Attempt", "Scholarship Fund", and "Ticketmaster Fees". I'm thinking of adding Dr. Chaifetz as the Uncle Pennybags character. If I get real ambitious, I may write out "Chance" and "Community Chest" cards. Something like "Ron Ekker takes over the program, lose a turn", "Family member of 5-star local recruit has an illness, collect $25 from each player", "Guy Phillips gets your name wrong, lose $100", etc. The problems is that somehow I don't have an actual Monopoly game at my house and I need one to sort of mirror the actual cards. I'm thinking stars instead of houses and then a 5 stars would be the equivalent of a hotel. The tokens could be a basketball, a hoop, a Billiken, an arena, a seat, etc. I'm thinking a Billiken head on all of the money.

I was thinking the same thing. Those 4 coaches are the railroads and then maybe Chaifetz Arena and West Pine as the two utilities. Then have all of the regular properties as players. You could even loosely group the players by their era such as -Claggs, Highmark H -Bonner, Gray, Douglass -Lisch, Liddell, Vouyoukas Maybe Boardwalk & Park Place could be the Billiken and Dr. Chaifetz. Edit: Okay. I'm putting the board together tonight if I get bored and have some time.

This could actually be a fun exercise. Who/what would be each of the monopoly properties if you did a Billiken themed monopoly? Dark Blue Board Walk - Park Place - Green Pennsylvania Ave - North Carolina Ave - Pacific Ave - Yellow Marvin Gardens - Ventnor Ave - Atlantic Ave - Red Illinois Ave Indiana Ave Kentucky Ave Orange New York Ave - Tennessee Ave - St. James Place - Pink Virginia Ave - States Ave - St. Charles Place - Light Blue Connecticut Ave Vermont Ave Oriental Ave Purple Baltic Ave - Mediterranean Ave - Railroads Reading - Pennsylvania - B & O - Short Line - Utilities Electric Company - Water Works - Not sure how to categorize them, but here some obvious ones: Places: Chaifetz Arena, Kiel Center, West Pine Gym, Billiken Statue Coaches: Rick Majerus, Spoon, Grawer, Eddie Hickey Players: Easy Ed, Bonner, Hughes, Claggett, Highmark, Kwamain

Wins by 20+ so far this season: 11/8 vs SEMO 87 - 64 (+23) 11/13 at SIUE 82 - 58 (+24) 11/23 vs Bowling Green 74 - 47 (+27) 12/3 vs Rockhurst 68 - 43 (+25) SLU has played 10 games so far and won 4 of them by 20+ (also they beat Oral Roberts by 17 on 11/21), but somehow it is tough to see them beating Wofford (kenpom rating 249) by 20+.

Looks to me like he turned his back after Jett left the ground and took a step back / stuck his arm out to shield himself from Jett. IMO should have been a foul because he is not set when Jett makes contact with him.

Doing a little advanced scouting of Wofford... I think the most important takeaway is that they have a player on their roster named Indiana Faithfull.

Highlights of the game: Jett gets undercut, no foul at 0:57. Jett volleyball spike at 1:15. Dwayne should've flopped 1:35 Box someone out, McCall 2:26. "Clean block" at 2:50. Might have gotten all ball with his hand, but both of those guys got Loe with the body. Watch their big guy just completely take Loe out of the play on when Dority ties it at 3:52. I know they would never call that at the end of the game, but come on. And of course, McCall tip in at 4:15.

Video slideshow of the season to date by THERMOSTATT:

11/20/11 SLU beats Washington 77 to 64. Washington out rebounds SLU 40 to 26. http://www.slubillikens.com//ViewContent.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27200&CONTENT_ID=172192 If you play great defense and cause the other team to miss a lot of shots, they will likely get more rebounds because they will have a lot more opportunities.

Grandy going over to give him a five is even awesomer.

It was easy. Just clicked the link and clicked play. As you've noted there does not appears to be a need to register at all. High quality feed.

Yeah. I hope the game tonight is that easy. I guess we will see.

Looks like there is a women's game being broadcast on the Horizon League Network starting at 1pm CT. I'm going to make sure I can watch that as a field test for tonight.

Yeah. Because SLU plays Dayton (and VCU & GMason) twice during conference play, it actually helps SLU for UD to do well in conference as well. I think SLU could survive one more non-conference loss and by okay. A lot of folks were predicting 3 non-conference losses in the pre-season predictions thread. That being said, the rest of the games are ones that SLU should win.

I'm not sure about that. The gym is certainly a bandbox, but the game is tomorrow and if you look at the Valpo ticket website there are still plenty of seats available. The mezzanine level is probably less than 20% full.

The Saintsations will be wearing those holiday outfits with the Santa hats?

See my edit. Great minds.