Box and Won Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Last night got me thinking about the worst Billiken games I've ever seen. #1 has got to be the debacle against GW in Majerus' first year. #2 may be the Georgia Tech game on ABC under Romar. Not sure where the Santa Clara game ranks, but it's definitely up there. The team looked listless and completely incompetent in every facet of the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUBillsFan Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 I nominate the losses to terrible Duquesne (at home) and St. Bonaventure (on the road) teams during Brad's last year as head coach to open up conference play and essentially sink any hopes of making the NCAAs that year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 atleast the LMU game you could say it was after a great weeks performance and a longggg trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OkieBilliken Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Didnt we open up a season with a loss to Tennessee-Martin one year? That had to be worse. We were missing important players and led by a terrible coach and Santa Clara will be pretty good this year. At least we have some excuses for last nights debacle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiken Rich Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 When was the last time your saw a Billiken team play this kind of defense? Brad couldn't recruit at all but his teams played better "d" than we saw last night. I'm confident Brad would've won last nights game in the most plodding excruciating way possible..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted November 15, 2012 Author Share Posted November 15, 2012 Didnt we open up a season with a loss to Tennessee-Martin one year? That had to be worse. Yep, Brad's first year. But that wasn't at Chaifetz, wasn't a blowout, and was with a team that had nowhere near the expectations of this year's team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NextYearBill Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Borderline Top 25 team, playing at home, favored by 13 points. Losing a game during the CBE classic before we even got to the real CBE classic.... "Why are you guys here? Where's SC" - KU, A&M, Wash St. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 romar had a game vs cincy the week before we won the miracle in memphis conference tourney that i think we lost by 307 points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted November 15, 2012 Author Share Posted November 15, 2012 romar had a game vs cincy the week before we won the miracle in memphis conference tourney that i think we lost by 307 points. Oh yeah, I remember that beatdown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMM28 Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 That TN Martin game was my very first Billiken game as a student. Terrible. But that team went on a tear at the end of the year starting with the win over #2 Louisville. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NextYearBill Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Didnt Nebraska double us up a few years ago? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moytoy12 Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Given the expectations for this team, this is the worst loss loss I can remember since I started following the bills. The GW game is a close 2nd, but that team didn't have many expectations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Bonaventure game 08 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUBillsFan Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 I nominate the losses to terrible Duquesne (at home) and St. Bonaventure (on the road) teams during Brad's last year as head coach to open up conference play and essentially sink any hopes of making the NCAAs that year. Both of these games were in January 2006. The Bills started the year with NCAA hopes the team featured 3 eventual 1,000 pt scorers with (sophs) Lisch, Liddell, and (sr) Vouyoukas. The Bills wrapped up conference play with a 9 - 3 record with the only losses to top 20 rpi UNC, SIU-C, and Texas A&M. NCAA hopes were still (somewhat) alive when they traveled to Olean on 1/3/06 and lost 69-74 to the Bonnies (rpi = 279). If that didn't do enough to kill any NCAA hopes the Bills came home on 1/6/06 and lost 63-73 to the Dukes (rpi = 223). The Bills finished the year 19 - 13 (or 20 -13, I think there was a Div-2 game that the rpi website doesn't show) and Brad was fired shortly thereafter. This was possibly the most disappointing week of Billiken basketball I can remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbizzle09 Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Both of these games were in January 2006. The Bills started the year with NCAA hopes the team featured 3 eventual 1,000 pt scorers with (sophs) Lisch, Liddell, and (sr) Vouyoukas. The Bills wrapped up conference play with a 9 - 3 record with the only losses to top 20 rpi UNC, SIU-C, and Texas A&M. NCAA hopes were still (somewhat) alive when they traveled to Olean on 1/3/06 and lost 69-74 to the Bonnies (rpi = 279). If that didn't do enough to kill any NCAA hopes the Bills came home on 1/6/06 and lost 63-73 to the Dukes (rpi = 223). The Bills finished the year 19 - 13 (or 20 -13, I think there was a Div-2 game that the rpi website doesn't show) and Brad was fired shortly thereafter. This was possibly the most disappointing week of Billiken basketball I can remember. It was actually January 2007 when those two games happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westy03 Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Didnt we get absolutely clobbered at the University of Pacific one year during the Soderberg era? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BACKHANDtheRICAN Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Backhand brought his younger brother to his 1st Billiken game last night. Wow, we suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billboy1 Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 In reality did anybody think there would be a thread like this just two games into the season? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wccfan Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Holy Cow! Another loss to a lowly WCC team and at home to boot. Last year it was the tired team, tiny arena, bad refs excuses in the loss to LMU.Could it be that this year the Santa Clara loss coupled with Gonzaga's thrashing of West Virginia might indicate the WCC is rising in the ranks of good conferences? Santa Clara was voted in the bottom half in the pre-season coaches' poll with Gonzaga, BYU and St.Mary's in the top three. LMU, who visits you later, is #4 but that position is not warranted - should be more like #7 or #8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 wcc, i didnt see any post today that ripped santa clara. they indeed have a nice team and very well are better than the billikens at this point, i think the consensus though is that the billikens didnt give them their best effort and the game last night should have been a little more balanced than it was. but i really appreciate your efforts to straighten us out. my gosh we need help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Almost every game at Southwest Mo St was an awful game regardless of who was coaching. We have had some terrible losses to LaSalle and the Bonnies at home over the last few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Pelican Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Holy Cow! Another loss to a lowly WCC team and at home to boot. Last year it was the tired team, tiny arena, bad refs excuses in the loss to LMU.Could it be that this year the Santa Clara loss coupled with Gonzaga's thrashing of West Virginia might indicate the WCC is rising in the ranks of good conferences? Santa Clara was voted in the bottom half in the pre-season coaches' poll with Gonzaga, BYU and St.Mary's in the top three. LMU, who visits you later, is #4 but that position is not warranted - should be more like #7 or #8. Hey dude, no one is making excuses for this game. I was very impressed with Santa Clara and most of us knew that last year's team had issues and that they'd be better. I don't know if they'll do it every night, but they pretty much shot the lights out here last night. We are mostly crying about the suckitude of OUR team last night and apparent lack of coaching. That said, why don't you go hang out on your own team's fan forum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clock_Tower Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Don't forget some of those terrible road games (and there was more than one!!) against UAB during Spoon's tenure when the Blazers ripped our Bills (H, Claggs,Highmark, etc.) by nearly 40 points while shooting an unbelievable percentage from the floor - including from three point range. Frequently we would beat them by less than 5 points here at home while losing to them at their place by 35 to 40 points!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizziken Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Bonaventure game 08 Tyler mother######ing Relph! What a ######...I hate that piece of sh!t... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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