SLU_Nick Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 The SLU AFROTC basketball team played in the National ROTC basketball tournament in Notre Dame Indiana this weekend. They had the best showing in the history of the team's inception. The Billikens, knocked off the Flyin Illini Friday night by 7. The Illini started 2 6'6 post players making the play of 6'2 SLU big man Nick Carr ever that more impressive. Wolfgang Weber had 16 points in the 7 point win. Matt Dougherty gave tough minutes off the bench Saturday morning, the Billikens, took care of business against the Notre Dame AFROTC B team by beating them by 45 points. (The playoffs are determined by point differential so running up the score is necessary). It was a complete team effort Next came the Texas A&M Aggies Mixed Corps, three time defending tournament champions. We wanted to avenge the loss that the school gave to our D1 team. Three Players on their front line over 6'6 including a 6'9 postman who had IV like post moves (but more aggressive). We turned into old Soderberg type basketball playing stall ball (trying not to get blown out, because we knew A&M beat the Illini by 27). We are losing at half 12-10. We end up losing by 4. I was later informed that that was the toughest anyone has played A&M in the last 3 years. Next day we get the 12 seed out of 16 playoff teams. First up was the uptempo, tattooed San Diego State. We ran with them and beat them by 15. Tim Lukianovitz led the team, finally being able to post up against someone around his size. Next was the Elite 8, Where Notre Dame Navy 1 team knocked us off behind their 5'8 point guard who would not turn the ball over. After 5 games in a little over 2 days, our legs were gone and the billikens could not score. Kirk Bacon came off the bench with fresh legs to help the billikens' shooting. Lets hope UB has a bench come A10 tournament time. The ND Navy team we lost to beat VA Tech to advance to the final where they found Texas A&M who advanced easily from the other side of the bracket. A&M then won the tournament again by beating ND Navy A by 10 points. I will call us 5th place in a tournament of 40 men's teams. Unfortunately the tradition is in jeopardy as we have 6 players graduating. We represented SLU with pride, and hopefully there will be a summary of the tournament this time next year. GO BILLS Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOPBilliken Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Nice work, fellas. Hope you can get some rookies in there next year to carry the torch. Go Bills! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alameda bob Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 That's the way to represent Nick. How many troops are in the SLU AFROTC program now? It used to be mandatory for all males in their first 2 undergrad years when I was there. Of course I assume it's voluntary now, without a draft (yet). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLU_Nick Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 We have 75 cadets in our Det, but the atheleticism is on its way out when my class graduates. It is still fun every year to go down there and compete though. Definitely not mandatory anymore though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenpais Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Way to go Nick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alameda bob Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Are any of the 75 cadets ladies? Just curious, no reason. Do you still drill in the Armory across Market St.? My best friend was in AFROTC at Mizzou, flew jets, became an instructor at Enid AFB, then went into the airlines. He's forced out @ age 60 but still a check pilot for AirTran down in Atlanta. My point is Uncle Sam set him up for life. Good Luck to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLU_Nick Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 There are about 20% female cadets at SLU. We now drill on top of Olive Compton Garage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLUMS81 Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Great showing, guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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