Old guy

This is not the time to exchange bad words among ourselves guys. We closed the season today. It was a very tough season, made a lot worse by unfortunate events and and suspensions that eliminated a lot of our team's strength. The kids left behind, the "Magnificent Seven" did a great job and learned a whole lot about giving their all and facing adversity. They are a tough team which is very good but which cannot do miracles. To the team thank you very much for all you did this year and for the way you faced playing against sometimes much better opponents. To Ford and the coaching staff, thank you for your achievements in getting our team to achieve what they did this season. We did better than a lot of us expected back in January. Next year will be better. Go Bills!

I envy your confidence and hope you are right.

St. Bona wins.

St. Bona up by 4 with 0:14 to go. Looks tough for Rich.

Richmond has made a magnificent effort and is coming within reach of winning this game. All right for Richmond!

I am referring to it as "Blue" because at the time of the Senior ceremony, Ford expanded the concept of Team blue to "Blue" which includes the athletic staff, and the fans. Yes you and I are part of "Blue" and proud to be part of it, as we should all be.

St. Bona came into the 2nd half making 100% of all of their FG attempts and 3 pt attempts, this lasted several minutes. Nothing can beat a streak like that. St. Bona ahead.

At the half Rich and St. Bona are tied at 32. Rich is out rebounding and out shooting 3 pointers when compared to St. Bona.

OK you may well be correct Roy, but if he is not eligible for any additonal play there is no point. I agree we have a tough bunch that sticks together and believes in "Blue." Ford is a great leader as well as a great coach.

Looking at St. Bona vs Rich, they are basically even with about 2 min left in the first half. Richmond is playing for all it is worth it seems.

It is an interesting situation, St. Joe playing RI in the semifinals. St. Joe did trounce RI this year, and RI is probably going to go all out to beat them. St. Joe knows they can beat RI so they will go all out to do so too. Both teams will be pretty wasted by the time of the finals Sunday. On the other hand Rich is playing St. Bona today and the winner of this will play the winner of SLU vs Davidson. I think we can beat Davidson. Not so sure we can beat St. Bona. At any rate I hope to see us play St. Bona tomorrow. If we win that game we will be equally exhausted as the winner of the other semifinal. But we have an advantage of sorts, our kids have been playing close to 40 minutes per game with a few spells here and there. We may be more prepared to deal with this kind of constant play exhaustion than most of the other teams are. At least, I hope this is the way it plays. Again, these are just dreams and what ifs. What I am driving at is that if we get to the finals we can win the tournament, it is a long shot but it is not undoable.

St. Joe beats George Mason by 19 pts and will go on to play RI tomorrow.

I am sure this is correct, anyway it is nice to dream at times.

Watanabe is a Senior at GW. Maybe he could be interested in doing a grad transfer to SLU? Just raw speculation, but wouldn't it be nice?

St. Joe is 1 point ahead over Geo Mason at the half, neither side is scoring well, fair amount of TOs. RI beat VCU by 9 pts.

Team rankings gives Davidson an 8.5 pt advantage and 3 stars of confidence (it was 4 stars last night)

Yes!

I watched the game with some dismay up to the half, and then the dismay gave way to happiness and enthusiasm in the second half. Hooray for the Bills!, a new team came out of the locker room to play the second half. Loved it. A very nice win, a bit messy and uneven, but that is the way it was, we won. Now on to play Davidson.

Teamrankings has us ahead by 1.6 tonight, confidence level 1 star.

Agree that we can have two wins, maybe three in DC.

Agree we did better than we did in the prior game with St. Bona.

I was there with my wife. I thought the refs were particularly bad this time around, particularly one that appeared to constantly screw us up. Anyway we lost. Still it was a hard fought game and we did reasonably well and shut down Adams most of the game but we lost. As far as the senior night goes, it was very nice. Roby was definitely emotional, I am not sure if there were tears in his face when he was speaking or not. Really enjoyed the senior night part of the program. One item that both the players and Ford mentioned repeatedly was the concept of BLUE. BLUE being the team, with its coaches and managers, the people in Chaifetz (including fans) and the Athletic Dept. I fully believe our guys have bought into the concept of BLUE and that it is important for them. I just hope this feeling of union among the team is maintained in the coming years. Now, like Ford said, we go to DC to see how many more wins we can get. I honestly feel we are heading for the Dance, not this year, but soon. Ford and the kids are doing a great job, and the returning players will be strengthened by a year of adversity and constatnt LONG times of play per game. I think our returning kids may have learned something invaluable facing the odds they have faced this year. Next year will be a lot better. It was a very nice night despite the loss. To all of you that were there and stayed for Senior night, thank you, the kids deserved it.

By TeamRankings, the Vegas implied score for this game has St. Bona 2 points over SLU.

We will be there tonight, can't wait. We can win despite all the negatives.

So Adonys Henriquez is playing professionally in the Dominican Republic. That is nice you have to start somewhere