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Does anyone know where I can get a history of SLU's wins vs ranked opponents?

So essentially Palm is saying that SLU has to win @ Butler to be a lock? If you don't consider destroying Texas A&M (projected RPI 85) on a neutral floor or winning @ Richmond (projected RPI 95) to be quality wins away from home, then certainly GW (132) and Xavier (92) wouldn't qualify either. He is an idiot.

FYI: In St. Louis, ESPN U is channel 216 on Charter, 208 on DirecTV, 141 on DISH, and 605 on U-Verse.

Lindenwood is 16-7 and BT is averaging just 9.6 ppg and 5 rpg. Not terrible, but not very good stats for basically 5th year senior who was supposed to be a top 100 D-I recruit playing D-II. Alex Bazzell (former UMKC player who was with them when SLU played the Kangaroos and KM basically single-handedly beat them) is the leading scorer with 17 ppg. Looks like Sodie's top 4 scoreres (including BT and Bazzell) are all seniors, could be a big drop off next year unless Sodie can grab some more D-I players transferring down to D-II.

I think Barnett can pick up some of the offensive slack when Cody graduates at least the outside shooting portion. Assuming McBroom is good enough, we will still have a solid 8 man rotation next year: RL, GG, DE, JJ, MM, AM, JB, and JM. I think JD and MC will see limited minutes, but might contribute a little bit. That leaves 3 open scholarships and it would be great if we could get a big who can play right away with one of those because we would be thin inside with just RL, GG, and JM. I like DE on the wing, but without adding another big he might be forced to play the 4 a lot next year.

I agree. I wasn't trying to bash Kenny, he was a solid player. He would have been much better on a team that had more scoring options. It was a while ago and I was very young, but I sort of remember him being gun-shy, sort of the Kyle Cassity of big men. He would get the ball in the post and rarely do much with it. I'm not sure if he made any all-defensive teams, but his defense made up for his offensive shortcomings.

Does anyone else remember the guy that used to yell "SHOOT THE BALL KENNY!!!" every time Kenny Brown touched the ball? Kenny was a very solid interior defender, but his offensive game was somewhat lacking.

My wife is going on a mission trip to Zambia, Africa this summer with a group called WISE (Women's Inititaves that Stregthen and Empower). As you can imagine, the cost of the plane tickets to and from Zambia, along with room and board for the 3 weeks they will be there, and other costs make the trip a very expensive undertaking. As such, she and the girls that are going on the trip have organized some fundraising events. One such event is a dining to donate night at the Florissant Applebee's on Lindberg. Given that Applebee's is the celebratory restaurant of choice of the Billikens (or maybe just Willie Reed), I was thinking that some of the board members may want to come out to the dining to donate night to celebrate next week when the Bills are ranked after beating VCU and Butler. Here's how it works: 1. Go the Florissant Applebee's next Monday 2/25 between 4pm and 8pm. 2. Order food and drinks 3. Give the flyer below to your server and 15% of your bill will be donated to fund my wife's group's African mission trip through WISE. Please note that this does not add anything to your bill the cost to you is the same as a normal trip to Applebee's. All you have to do is show the flyer and they will donate 15% of your purchase. The important thing is that you have to have the flyer and give to your server.

Not sure if this has been posted yet or not. Via Twitter here is what the Blue Out shirt looks like: Only students get the shirts (and they have to go to a pre-game party to get them). Therefore, if you are not a student make sure you arrive wearing blue.

There are a number of difference between the Butler game and the VCU game that makes the VCU game a tougher sell. 1. Tuesday =/= Thursday - It is much easier for out of town folks to skip work on Friday and come in, a lot of students don't have Friday classes, etc. 2. Butler was ranked in the top 10 at the time and VCU is "only" #24. 3. Butler is a bigger name (2 championship game appearances vs 1 final four) and closer geographically. They also have a local player (Roosevelt Jones). 4. For the Butler game free shirts were given to everyone, VCU it is just the students. Its just a shirt, but people like free stuff. I will be happy if the announced attendance is over 9,500 and the crowd is a good one in terms of noise.

I don't really want to further this topic along, but I don't think Bernie has written about the Billikens since Majerus passed away. I realize that he was buddies with Majerus and that's the main reason he wrote about them before, but with the great season they are having you would think he would have written another kind of tribute piece to Majerus about how well they are playing after he passed. I don't enjoy Burwell's writing or his new video thing, but he seems to cover the Bills a fair amount. Strass has written about the the Bills quite a bit this year. I wonder how much of that is because he is a huge VCU honk and only cares about SLU because they now share a conference with his team. Surprisingly Jeff Gordon has also given SLU quite a bit of coverage this year in his Tipsheet pieces. Again, I don't like his writing, but I'll take the coverage. Overall, the Post has been fair the past couple years in their coverage. However, I do wish Bernie would do a little more. He seems to no longer care without Majerus.

College BBall Talk, the NBC Sports blog, has a post up about the A-10 action this weekend: http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/15/weekend-preview-who-breaks-loose-in-the-atlantic-10/

FYI: On the Chaifetz ticket website, for the $12, $20, and $32 price ranges only single tickets are available for the VCU game. Groups of tickets are still available in the $40 price range. As far as I can tell the 1/2 price tickets for VCU in the $20 and $32 are still available via the StlToday.com deal. I would assume they would remove the game from the list if these were sold out.

Don't forget the cheerleader who is in remission.

Matt Norlander giving this story some love on his CBS sports blog: http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/21698393/wakeup-call-what-are-kentuckys-new-odds-to-win-it-all "And yet another good story on Saint Louis basketball. The program is the feel-good team of the year."

Seems like Charlotte might be close to a sell out. The Groupon deal for Charlotte is sold out. Poking around on the Chaifetz ticket website, I was only able to get single tickets for the game. I wonder if they will release "obstructed view" seats like they did for the Butler game.

I'm hoping that it speaks more to the fact that the AD wants all of the remaining games to be as close to sell outs as possible than it does to tickets not selling well (ie hopefully they had around 9,000 for the VCU game, but wanted to sell out so they put up the deal). I am optimistic we will see 9,000+ crowds at all of the games from here on out (with the possible exception of St. Joes on a Wednesday).

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Given that this is a Tuesday game, it is not that surprising, but Butler was Thursday and sold out. I suppose Butler being top 10 put a lot more butts in the seats. I will say I am glad the AD is using these deals to try to sell more tickets rather than just sitting on their hands.

Amen. I like watching teams run an offense much more than just seeing the a bunch of 1 on 1 drives to the basket.

The VCU game has been added to the StlToday.com deal: http://upickem.stltoday.com/engine/SplashDetails.aspx?contestid=17232&productid=8315268

And there is another StlToday.com deal up for 1/2 price tickets: http://upickem.stltoday.com/engine/SplashDetails.aspx?contestid=17232&productid=8315268&LID=36 Description Today's Deal is good for: - 50% off a reserved seating ticket to the SLU Men's Basketball game! - Limit (6) coupons per person. - Coupon must be redeemed at the box office and swapped for a scan-able ticket. - Coupon valid only for game listed on coupon when purchased. - Game options include: Saturday, Feb. 16 at 6 p.m. - SLU vs. Charlotte Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. - SLU vs. St. Joseph's Saturday, March 9 at 12:30 p.m. - SLU vs. La Salle - Each game has three ticket options: $6 for upper level end reserved seating ($12 value) $10 for upper level corner reserved seating ($20 value) $16 for lower level end or upper level corner reserved seating ($32 value) March Madness excitement may be quickly approaching, but why wait? Get your basketball fix now! Cheer on the St. Louis University Billikens Men's Basketball team in one of their final home conference games of the season! The Billikens have carried out an impressive season that is quickly coming to a close, and hopefully headed into the NCAA Tournament. Choose from three game options (or just make it simple and go to all three!), including Charlotte on February 16, St. Joseph's on February 27, and La Salle on March 9. Make sure you're part of the action with your reserved seat ticket!

Front the video it looks like Bowers got the best shot in with a shove of the Ole Miss player then as the Ole Miss player is going back at him the ref is pushing him so he lands a sloppy hit on Bowers. Oriakhi blatantly grabbed the guy's foot as he (Oriakhi) was lying on the floor the refs called it intentional immediately. Oriakhi didn't do any real "fighting" other than go into a crouch and put up his dukes, but he was obviously being an aggressor trying to instigate things with another Ole Miss player while Bowers did his dirty work. It looked to me like the refs handled it well. The one ref goes to shut down the Ole Miss player aggressively going toward Oriahki after the foul and the only reason Bowers got hit was because he came over and shoved the guy. IMO, Bowers looks worst on video, then Ole Miss guy. Oriahki is a clown and should also be suspended, but he didn't do much other than instigate everything.

Sure enough. Looks like the Bills have put out another Groupon deal to replace the one that ended (I wonder if these sites have a limit on how many days the deals can go on). http://www.groupon.com/deals/gl-saint-louis-university-billikens-1 This Groupon is only available for the regular price $32 tickets for Charlotte & Lasalle, but for $32, $20, and $12 price for St. Josephs. That means the Charlotte & LaSalle games must be selling better presumably because they are Saturday games and St. Joe's is a Wednesday game.

Bump for the last day to buy 1/2 price tickets on Living Social: https://www.livingsocial.com/events/580724-saint-louis-men-s-basketball-tickets Over 2,200 sold so far, not too shabby.

It is even worse when the teams that share a mascot are in the same conference. There are 3 Tigers in the SEC and 3 Rams in the A-10. That means there are multiple Tigers vs Tigers and Rams vs Rams games each year. How awful is that?