White Pelican

You just made me do a deep dive into the play by play record of the game. I could have sworn Tillett made her two points on free throws and was looking for that. Evidently, I'm thinking of the previous women's game. The play by play shows her with a layup (assisted by Koerkenmeier) with 1:22 left in the second quarter. So the box score is probably correct, plus I think I now remember the play as I was sitting at that end for the first half. Another thing about Bel, she played quite a bit yesterday, handled the ball a lot and had no turnovers, so there's that. And she does play hard. And I didn't check, but I was pretty sure that Mark Twain is the UMSL gym's name when I saw that error. I just wondered WHO would have made a mistake like that on the official box score.

Just getting around to my thoughts on the women's game today. We absolutely suck at shooting a basketball. And for the most part it's been that way since Tillett took over. And I know, we went to the NCAA and won the WNIT. Stone never got to the Promised Land here, but she could recruit shooters. Today's game featured Coach Tillett arguing and "discussing" things with the refs like I have never seen since she's been here. And frankly, they were worse than the average women's refs that I've seen for the last several years. There was no way we were gonna win the game today anyway, but the refs still sucked. I don't see how playing Bel instead of any other guard will make a bit of difference. This team ain't going nowhere so I don't think it matters who is out there. But as mentioned above, that half court foul with .5 on the clock was funny stuff. As was her mother asking for a review on the out of bounds play with a minute and change left. (By the way, she apparently called a timeout FIRST and THEN asked for the review. And then because she lost the review, she lost ANOTHER timeout. I'm trying hard to think of a way to avoid that in the future. I'll let you know if I come up with something.) The box score on the SLU website says the game was played at the Mark Twain Building in St. Louis MO. Did Mark Twain rise from the dead and wrest the naming rights away from Dr. Chaifetz? Looks like a LOOONG season for the gals. Oh, and that 6'10" Spaniard is the tallest female basketball player I've ever seen. She didn't appear to be very good, but you can't teach height.

I didn't get my men's ticket scanned as I was already in from the women's game. Does doing that hurt the attendance numbers or is it like MLB where they count tickets sold even if no one shows up??

Thanks for all the updates Lord Elrond!

How much time?

Soccer can be so random. Hopefully get em in the 2nd half.

Wow, your evening is getting better and better.

Yep he seems to be at every game of every sport while giving lots of updates. Super fan!

Almost mentioned the precip while conversing in the womens thread but I figured you’d find out for yourself. Try and stay warm and dry but most importantly bring home a winner! Go Bills!

You’re a better man than me. I can’t sit through two soccer games even in perfect weather.

Lord Elrond, thanks for the updates. I was at the WBB meet n greet today and would loved to stay and see a laugher but am dog sitting this weekend and couldn’t stay away that long.

Well, that WAS some cute trolling but...Illinois 79, Maryville 60. So ends the "streak".

Had to look it up. The name is Bucephalus. And Lord Elrond is correct, it is indeed Greek for ox-headed. Being we're talking about a horse, I would have figured the name stood for Bodacious Phallus.

It's things like this that keep me tuning in!

Well, apparently ICE has put the kibosh on the venerable streameast which seemed unstoppable. (and I haven't checked lately, but I wouldn't bet on them being out long.) Anyway, "theoretically" I may or may not have , uh, I mean a friend may or may not have watched the baseball playoffs on allstream.cc and it worked pretty well. Uh, so my friend says. There is a button for basketball, but it has not yet been tried, so not sure if college games will be on there, or NBA, or both. Your mileage may vary, all items sold separately, batteries not included. Void where taxed, prohibited, and in parts of Utah. Good luck, me matey!