RUBillsFan

he's probably still ripping into his players for that crappy performance.

that is ridiculous. one bad loss does not get a coach fired. look at the rest of the year, we've played pretty well. if this starts a losing streak and we end up below .500 then Brad's job will probably be on the line. right now I'll stick with him til the end of the year and let him slide on 1 bad loss.....for now.

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I like to stay optismistic, but this was an awful loss. I don't care if we have to travel to the Austalian outback or the top of mount everest. We should not lose to one of the worst teams in D-1. We need to stop all of the offensive rebounds and turnovers. Lisch had a bad game. He has been hurt for a while and played much better in all of those other games. That is no excuse. We can still get an at large bid if we win out or maybe only lose 1 more game, but in all likelihood we have to win the A-10 tourny now to get to the NCAA tourny, otherwise its NIT (hopefully). My only hope is that this loss is a huge wake-up call to our guys who seem to always come out flat.

Where is Marquee Perry when you need him?

horrible game out of Kevin Lisch so far.

come on....for everyone whining about our shooting we are at 50%, 57% from 3pt. This game is being lost by turnovers and giving up offensive rebounds. makes me wanna puke.

I think SLU could really get some good players from the East Side (see Liddell and Lisch). Mizzou is going to go after good players on the MO side of St. Louis, but Illinois focuses more on Chicago. Therefore I think SLU has a better chance with good players from the East Side of StL.

actually I just found a site that averages a bunch of rankings http://masseyratings.com/cb/compare.htm It has SLU at 55.

RPI = 43 (http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_Men.html) Mike Greenfield = 38 (http://teamrankings.com/ncb/) Jeff Saragin = 50 (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkt0607.htm) Ken Pomeroy = 99 (http://www.kenpom.com/rate.php) Average of all 4 = 57.5 Obviously Pomeroy underrates SLU by a lot. I'm not aware of any other college basketball rankings. If anyone else knows of any please let me know. Thanks

1. I'm surprised at how few current SLU students there are on this board (only 3 out of 49 so far). 2. I guess I'm also a SLU fan b/c "Easy" Ed Macauley is like my 5th? cousin (he's first cousins with my grandma, so I'm not sure what that makes us). Which means I'm also a distant relative of former SLU walk on Kevin Shortal (maybe 7th cousins). 3. bump

I say 13-3 in conference, but we will lose at Houston also so 13-4 the rest of the way. We'll likely lose at Xavier, at Dayton, and at St. Joe's

I added Ian's career stats to his page and updated the record on the 2006 team page. I also added some other SLU players who had been drafted into the NBA on the overall team page. I'll try to do more if I have time.

I think they are all winnable too, but I don't wanna get too excited. Anything can happen and its tough to judge teams head to head until they have actually played. I didn't think St. Joe's would dominate us in the conference tourny last year like they did, but it happened b/c they figured us out and shut down our offense. Pomeroy has us going 10-7 from here on out, so maybe we should temper our expectations a bit.

that is awesome. nice work. are you planning on making profiles for all of the players? check out this wikipedia artile about the bball team. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Louis_U...%27s_Basketball

I'm gonna go with Billiken teams of the last 5 years eventhough I watched Dobbs, Claggett, H, and Highmark I was like 7 or 8 years old so I don't remember it all that well. Probably after Larry Hughes and Justin Love is what I remember best. So here goes... PG Josh Fisher G Kevin Lisch G Marquee Perry F Chris Sloan C Ian Vouyoukas Off the bench Tommie Liddel, Kenny Brown (defense only), Reggie Bryant (shooting), Maurice Jeffers, Luke Meyer, Izik Ohanon, Anthony Drejaj

thanks for the info. that is sort of what i figured with the big guy.

Poplar Bluff isn't exactly local.

I know it might be a stretch a bit this early, but I hope we not only make it to the NCAA tourney, but win at least one game. I don't think its out of the question if we are seeded 12 or better that we can win a game. in fact I hope we sneak in with a 12 seed and knock off the 5 in the first round and then take down the 4 in the next round. How awesome would it be to make it to the Sweet Sixteen. OK OK I'm wayyyy ahead of myself. I do think our best shot at the sweet sixteen would be as a 12 seed though.

Yeah sorry. My dad got me into SLU BBall too. He is a SLU alumn and gets season tickets every year. I would have gone to SLU, but wanted to get away from home a little bit. So I go to games over Xmas break with him.

I'm sure that isn't exactly what Brad said in the locker room. That is likely the radio-edited summary of what he said. Don't knock on Brad's motivational speaking ability at half time. It has obviously worked numerous times this season.

I doubt it would happen. The Pac-10 is one of the best conferences. They wouldn't want to lower their RPI by playing A-10 teams. I would like to see it happen so SLU would get to play some higher quality opponents. They played with Arizona til the end a couple of years ago and only lost b/c Reggie Bryant's toe was on the line.

I probably should have given an option for if you haven't gotten to college yet, but plan to attend SLU. Oh well.

I agree about getting a home game in Chicago every year. That is a smart move. Our best player of recent memory (Marquee Perry) was from Chicago. If we want to be a great team we have to get some recruits from Chicago. Also I'd like to see us renew some of the old C-USA rivalries by getting games against Marquette, Cincy, or Lousville. Games against Missouri and Illinois are good too b/c they attract a lot of local interest. I'm not sure I'd want to play Mizzou though until we figure out how to beat the trap.

I know there has been rampant speculation about Obi Ikeakor being banished from the team, but as far as anything official I have only heard that he is suspended. I read in the PD that he has been suspended indefinately and Brad wanted to talk to his mom before doing anything further. Does anyone know if there has been any new developments or is Obi basically gone?