Old guy

I am certain this will not be the case but if we lose against GM we will drop entirely out of the rankings.

And what tells you that this run ends at 13? We will go further.

Yes Sir, indeed they have improved. And we will beat them if all proceeds the way it should.

I do not mean to be argumentative but keep in mind that oftentimes there are significant differences between the public statements made and the internal needs and wishes of the founding teams.

Disagree David King. Any conference will have good and bad teams in it. Big East had a number of original members that would have won little from forming a new league unless they somehow rose in rank within the new league. Bringing a team to cushion the bottom rank of the league, and particularly a team with name recognition and a reputation of excellence, might have been a goal for them. The addition of Butler to the Big East has provided relief to the likes of DePaul, St. John's and even Georgetown, none of which is doing very well this year. From their point of view at the very least, it is a fine thing to have Butler sitting at the bottom of the Big East. They can claim: "As we all know Butler is very very good, but all of us in the Big East are even better..." As far as some of the original members of the Big East are concerned, bringing Butler in is a success, not a failure.

Moytoy, I would agree with this. Perhaps the Savage injury will make GW less of a formidable opponent to us when we get to play them.

Dr. Gunnie, I could not agree more that there is good potential within the GM team. However it appears that the GM team has to become familiar with the play level intensity within A10 and be able to sustain it for the full game before it can hope to win consistently in this conference. I am confident you will be able to do this but it may take some time.

Spy-das sounds like Boston to me, like in Pahk, and Hahvahd yahd, and biah (beer in translation).

A friend of mine commented on the height disparity between Jett and the Richmond player guarding him. He called him "the itsy bitsy spider."

Looks good

OK, you are right, that is what Ken Pomeroy and Sagarin say. I am not underplaying the difficulty of winning any Div 1 games at all, I just believe we are up to the task. I assure you that I am very aware I can be wrong, and will not take it personally if I am indeed wrong and we lose either one of the Philly games.

I just do not think so. LaSalle has won one and lost one with GW, lost to VCU and to St. Bonnie. They did defeat Duquesne and RI. I do not see them defeating us unless we have an injury or our game is really off that night.

Glad your predictions turn so well, but I hope we do better this year than that. I could see a loss to GW, amd maybe a loss to VCU but no more. I am going for 27-4 by the end of the regular play. Will be delighted if we manage to win another game and end 28-3 in the regular season.

Nice win, we now have 13 wins in a row, going for 14 Saturday.

Back from the game, nice win, very happy to have watched the wonderful first half. I did expect better from Richmond, but they just did not have it tonight.

All of those who are wringing their hands and worrying about the game tonight, obviously you are convinced (as I am) that SLU will win.

Currently BetOnLine and Bookmaker have SLU as favored to win by -9.0. Pinnacle has us favored to win at -8.5. Slowly moving up in the price spreads.

I would add GW to the list of games to be concerned about.

The first point spread for this game published in team rankings (from BetOnLine) is -8.0 favoring SLU, confidence level 4 stars out of 5 for a SLU win.

Thank you AlumniFan, I do not see the fat tails happening but we will see.

Fat tails?

Not if we hit 75% with the same number of goal attempts.

We are not Villanova and Richmond is not Creighton. That said, we seem to go through a period of loss of confidence and hand wringing prior to just about every game. This nervousness was justified before our game with Dayton (Dayton has been doing terrible in conference play, but they did beat Gonzaga, and Baylor in the preseason), and I think this may be justified before we go against VCU. However I am not nervous against Richmond, I think we will win.

Wrong alumni fan, all indications including the betting site projections point to a SLU win. We should win this one.

Stonewall, not meaning to say that Vegas is always right but if you check team rankings projections for this game SLU is heavily favored.