White Pelican

Always liked Huggins. All he ever did was win. Never understood the dislike for him on here.

Agreed. I'm still trying to figure out why we had to have George Mason. And there is obviously some other dead weight but they've been in longer than SLU.

As I said above, 51-52 appears to be the first year without those numbers, at least at SLU. I have to assume it was the same for every other team, i.e. an NCAA rules change. It was so that refs could indicate the player who committed the foul with the fingers on one hand.

I realize you're only commenting on the numbers of current players but I've wondered about some of the numbers on the historic 1948 NIT team. From online pictures I see players wearing 48, 66 and 88. I've often wondered when digits higher than 5 were outlawed. (They are now legal again.) So, thanks to your mentioning that the roster numbers go back to the the mid 40s, I did a little research. I never thought to look on the website and run the years back that far. Anyway, it appears that the 1951-52 season was the first year without digits above 5. Just a bit of trivia I guess. While doing this research, I saw that in the 54-55 and 55-56 seasons, there was a forward/center named Sam Stipanovich (#15) from Youngstown OH. Would I be correct in assuming he is the father of Steve and grandfather of Sadie? I know that Sam S. is a funeral director here but did not know he played basketball at SLU.

I thought alcohol killed germs. So what's the problem?

My shirt came today. I was courtside for the big win at SIUe over Minnesota so this makes a nice souvenir. Looking forward to the new season for both the men and the women. Go Bills!

That is nice. I replied to the email that i wanted one but it's been so long I figured they lost me somehow. Still waiting for mine, maybe today?

I think you have it. I remember (supposedly written on the board or maybe painted on the wall) "To win, defend and rebound."

That's what I thought he meant too. Wouldn't surprise me that spell-check once again tripped someone up.

Yep, locked. But TIL that the NY Times owns The Athletic.

I thought Metz was back with a handle that starts with a T. Am I wrong?

His "whole buncha guys" never gets old.

Is that a minor league hockey team?