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Was just watching College Basketball Final on ESPN. Andy Katz was asked which if the 6 NCAA hopefuls in the A-10 was the most dangerous. His answer: "Actually its St. Louis." Katz says all of the A-10 coaches tell him they are more afraid of us than anyone.

Earl says kicked ball.

With this particular small and poor-rebounding team, BC could be a real factor on the offensive end.

I don't really like to say it, but that sounds right to me. Though I could see us taking Dayton at home and choking at UMass.

People said that slow-paced play would Richmond's downfall when they played Mizzou earlier this year. We all saw how that turned out. If you have a pace or style of play that suits your team you can win, so long as you impose that pace on the other team. Casual b-ball fans love to assume that slow-paced defensive-minded teams are bad just because they are "not as fun to watch". They saw the same things in football, baseball etc etc etc. However, this premise has been proven to be flawed again and again and again. It is not about your style, its is about how well you execute.

St. Joe's v St. Bonnie game has been rescheduled for Sunday. Maybe the same will happen to the SLU game.

As recently as December I heard RM say "Porter is really a co-coach.". He really seems to make a distinction between what Porter is an a regular assistant coach.

Oh and did anyone else hear Guy say, "WIIIIILLLLIIIIEEEEEE......................................SMMIIIIIIIFFFFFFF F!"? Now that's an audible.

I believe the CS finished the game with 8 fouls. I also believe at one point #44 pulled a knife on KM for which KM was giving a technical. As bad an officiated game as I've seen. However I agree that it is at least the THIRD time this year OUR scorer's table has screwed up.

Others schools I have seen suggested as Big East targets (either as a replacement for Pitt or as whole new group of members who would replace the basketball schools): ECU Marshall UCF Florida Atlantic And even Southern Miss TCU Houston There seem to be a lot of Big East football fans and pundits who insist that the league has to get up to 12 football playing members and have a championship game to compete with the other BCS conferences. That doesn't mean it is going to happen, but if the league ever decides to go all-in on football.....I'd say the bball only schools become the redheaded stepchildren.

I think you could easily make a case that this team could go 7-3 or 2-8 from here on out and not sound crazy. There is just no way to know which team will show up each night. What worries me is that is seems like Richmond was scoring on us using the same kind of attack that GW used during their comeback on Wednesday. I hope the A-10 is not figuring out the "book" on how to beat this defense. That being said, I think it's pretty clear that the defense, while worse than usual, was not the real problem yesterday.

I don't see how Pitt jumping in any way decreases the odds of a "Papal conference". As is, the basketball only schools in the Big East will never leave on their own, they would stupid to in fact. Even with the addition of a Temple or a Memphis, there is still the possibility that the football schools in the Big East will be tired of sharing some of their football revenues with the nons and send them packing.

@SLU_Billikens reporting that there are around 300 people in the arena less than 5 minutes before introductions.

A lot of bars seem to have satellite instead so if you go to one with DirectTV remember the game is on channel 642.

Rosie O'Donnell has really let herself go.

Anyone else get the feeling that if we can get the lead to 10-12 GW will fold?

SLU Billikens on twitter reporting that Biondi is at the game in DC. He is in town for meetings of some kind.

OK let's see: Fescoe = dumbest man in STL sports scene (well formerly) Strauss = baseball writer, anyone seen hms at a game this year??? Maracek = let's face it, he's not even really a member of the media.

I love that story!!!!!

There was no SLU programming on 101 tonight.

Doesn't change the fact that he's never said the quality of ball was better in the MVC.

DE has to work on his shooting but is otherwise the complete package.

Keep in mind, he's said he likes the quality of ball in the league. He hates the travel because the kids have missed something like half their classes to far this semester.

RM mentioned on ESPN 101 earlier that some of his conflicts are due to charity work. Let's see if that is what he is talking about on WGN.

Three possessions in a row Willie chokes.