UAB

[Bay Area Billiken]

The schedule proceeds Saturday to UAB, an old foe from the Great Midwest and Conference USA.

On its 15 man roster, UAB (6-2) has 11 transfers, including 2 JUCO's.  UAB starts 4 transfers.  The leading scorer is Jordan Walker, 5'11" JR guard, two time transfer (Seton Hall/Tulane), who averages 16.6 ppg and shoots .465 from 3, 20-43.

UAB's starting lineup is 6'4", 6'4", 6'7", 7'0" and 5'11".

UAB has double digit home wins over UNC Asheville, Morehead State, Rhodes, Alabama A&M and East Tenn. St., a 13 point neutral court win over New Mexico, a 2 point neutral loss to still undefeated USF-CA (8-0) in Las Vegas, and a 3 point road loss at South Carolina.

SLU is only 7-17 all-time vs. UAB, 6-5 in St. Louis, 1-10 in Birmingham, 0-2 neutral.

Sagarin has this one as SLU by 4.65, rounded off to 5 points, mostly due to Sagarin's 4 point home court advantage to SLU.

Ratings as of reviews today:

SLU:  NET 52, RPI 76, ESPN BPI 49, Pomeroy 85, Sagarin 44, Massey 44, Average of the Six:  58.3.

UAB:  NET 83, RPI 30, ESPN BPI 52, Pomeroy 51, Sagarin 50, Massey 86, Average of the Six:  58.7.

This game looks about as dead even as possible.  Hopefully, the Billikens will protect the home court and win this one.  It is an important game potentially down the line when the NCAA Committee separates the sheep and the goats.

 

[mrjoelabs]

Looking at those ratings that is some real disrespect from KenPom.

Being a home game, this is pretty much a must win

[A10Ref]

Should be a really tough game... would love a rocking Chaifetz as it seriously could be the deciding factor

[TheA_Bomb]

Sadly Chaifetz won't be rocking for UAB.  Creep into that top 25 get in the sports ticker and people will show and get a louder environment. 

[SLUMedBilliken15]

I worry that casual fans (or fans without social media) may not have heard about the time change and miss the game...

[VeniceMenace]

44 minutes ago, Bay Area Billiken said:

The schedule proceeds Saturday to UAB, an old foe from the Great Midwest and Conference USA.

On its 15 man roster, UAB (6-2) has 11 transfers, including 2 JUCO's.  UAB starts 4 transfers.  The leading scorer is Jordan Walker, 5'11" JR guard, two time transfer (Seton Hall/Tulane), who averages 16.6 ppg and shoots .465 from 3, 20-43.

UAB's starting lineup is 6'4", 6'4", 6'7", 7'0" and 5'11".

UAB has double digit home wins over UNC Asheville, Morehead State, Rhodes, Alabama A&M and East Tenn. St., a 13 point neutral court win over New Mexico, a 2 point neutral loss to still undefeated USF-CA (8-0) in Las Vegas, and a 3 point road loss at South Carolina.

SLU is only 7-17 all-time vs. UAB, 6-5 in St. Louis, 1-10 in Birmingham, 0-2 neutral.

Sagarin has this one as SLU by 4.65, rounded off to 5 points, mostly due to Sagarin's 4 point home court advantage to SLU.

Ratings as of reviews today:

SLU:  NET 52, RPI 76, ESPN BPI 49, Pomeroy 85, Sagarin 44, Massey 44, Average of the Six:  58.3.

UAB:  NET 83, RPI 30, ESPN BPI 52, Pomeroy 51, Sagarin 50, Massey 86, Average of the Six:  58.7.

This game looks about as dead even as possible.  Hopefully, the Billikens will protect the home court and win this one.  It is an important game potentially down the line when the NCAA Committee separates the sheep and the goats.

 

Good info here, thank you for posting. Agree, dead even. NCAA NET rankings listed above are from last April and are not current, so they should be thrown out when compiling averages.

[Bay Area Billiken]

7 minutes ago, VeniceMenace said:

Good info here, thank you for posting. Agree, dead even. NCAA NET rankings listed above are from last April and are not current, so they should be thrown out when compiling averages.

Deleting the NET, the average of the five ratings is:  UAB 53.8, SLU 59.6.

I watched on TV UAB's game vs. the USF Dons.  UAB was primarily a half court team that night, did not shoot the ball particularly well.  Based upon watching that one game, albeit through my blue tinted glasses, call it the BAB Eye Test, totally objective and unbiased, as always, I thought SLU is a better team than UAB.  I also think SLU is better than undefeated USF-CA, having also seen the Dons play in person at the Chase Center in a 65-60 USF win over Davidson.

[Compton]

32 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:

Sadly Chaifetz won't be rocking for UAB.  Creep into that top 25 get in the sports ticker and people will show and get a louder environment. 

It has the ingredients for a great crowd: First home game in two weeks, Bills are 7-1, UAB's an old foe, the most competitive home match-up yet, 9 days until finals start, Blues are away and play at noon, I think fans can stay after the game for a Men's soccer watch party (not entirely sure about the details on that though).

[TheA_Bomb]

I hope you're right but no one cares about UAB.

 

Remember when UNC-C was pretty good?

[wgstl]

I dont want to be that person, cause im happy they moved it up still, but why were they unable to get a start time of 5pm? 

[wgstl]

1 minute ago, TheA_Bomb said:

Remember when UNC-C was pretty good?

No but im also only 31

[billikenfan05]

 

1 minute ago, wgstl said:

I dont want to be that person, cause im happy they moved it up still, but why were they unable to get a start time of 5pm? 

Yeah I tend to feel the same way. I'm gonna chalk this up as a win and accept it without question.

[TheA_Bomb]

Well they were in CUSA with us had a coach Bobby Lutz who had sweet hair and mustache

[CenHudDude]

1 hour ago, Bay Area Billiken said:

The schedule proceeds Saturday to UAB, an old foe from the Great Midwest and Conference USA.

On its 15 man roster, UAB (6-2) has 11 transfers, including 2 JUCO's.  UAB starts 4 transfers.  The leading scorer is Jordan Walker, 5'11" JR guard, two time transfer (Seton Hall/Tulane), who averages 16.6 ppg and shoots .465 from 3, 20-43.

UAB's starting lineup is 6'4", 6'4", 6'7", 7'0" and 5'11".

UAB has double digit home wins over UNC Asheville, Morehead State, Rhodes, Alabama A&M and East Tenn. St., a 13 point neutral court win over New Mexico, a 2 point neutral loss to still undefeated USF-CA (8-0) in Las Vegas, and a 3 point road loss at South Carolina.

SLU is only 7-17 all-time vs. UAB, 6-5 in St. Louis, 1-10 in Birmingham, 0-2 neutral.

Sagarin has this one as SLU by 4.65, rounded off to 5 points, mostly due to Sagarin's 4 point home court advantage to SLU.

Ratings as of reviews today:

SLU:  NET 52, RPI 76, ESPN BPI 49, Pomeroy 85, Sagarin 44, Massey 44, Average of the Six:  58.3.

UAB:  NET 83, RPI 30, ESPN BPI 52, Pomeroy 51, Sagarin 50, Massey 86, Average of the Six:  58.7.

This game looks about as dead even as possible.  Hopefully, the Billikens will protect the home court and win this one.  It is an important game potentially down the line when the NCAA Committee separates the sheep and the goats.

 

Thanks for your research on this BAB.  Certainly points to a tough matchup.

[Bay Area Billiken]

8 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:

Well they were in CUSA with us had a coach Bobby Lutz who had sweet hair and mustache

T him up, Bobby Lutz!

[billiken_roy]

7 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:

Well they were in CUSA with us had a coach Bobby Lutz who had sweet hair and mustache

HAHAHAHA  was close to him at cusa tourney a few times i always marveled at how perfect his hair was.   incredible.  

[wgstl]

UAB's signature win took a big L last night.  South Carolina lost to Coastal Carolina (#209) by 24

[Matty Light]

12 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:

Well they were in CUSA with us had a coach Bobby Lutz who had sweet hair and mustache

We had some interestingly dressed coaches in the conference then. Denny Crum with his old red suits and Clyde Drexler with the GQ versions.

[slubillikens43]

14 minutes ago, wgstl said:

UAB's signature win took a big L last night.  South Carolina lost to Coastal Carolina (#209) by 24

UAB lost to South Carolina

[wgstl]

6 minutes ago, slubillikens43 said:

UAB lost to South Carolina

Oh snap. You right. 

[thatskablamo]

Win one for Rick Majerus, who passed away on this day 9 years ago. Hard to believe. 

[CBFan]

This game should have the largest attendance of the season I am hoping for at least 7000 because the bills have only lost one game and it’s a Saturday.

Anyone that likes division 1 college basketball in the area knows who UAB is and I hope those fans come out with their kids it’s a good value for kids night out.

[HoosierPal]

Old guys please help me out here.  If I recall, UAB at home, Feb 1994, ALMOST was the worst loss ever.  Bills up 4 in OT, Blazers have the ball with maybe 3 or 4 seconds left.  A Blazer (can't remember his name) is hauling downcourt, and Carlos McCauley is hounding him hard.  CARLOS, we are up 4!!  Get the heck away.

Anyway, the Blazer heaves one from half court and sinks it.  From my vantage point in the Arena, McCauley fouled him.  FOULED HIM - WE ARE UP BY 4! Luckily the refs wanted to go home. 

@billiken_roy, @slu72, and any others who were there, please correct my memory.

[Bay Area Billiken]

1 hour ago, billiken_roy said:

HAHAHAHA  was close to him at cusa tourney a few times i always marveled at how perfect his hair was.   incredible.  

Lutz was like a banty rooster on the sideline, reminded me of Billy Tubbs, but with slicker hair, of whom Norm Stewart once said, "Billy doesn't lose.  He just gets cheated."

[Bay Area Billiken]

When I was an undergraduate student at SLU, during the Ekker Era, I remember SLU playing this new team, Alabama-Birmingham.  We wondered why we were playing a brand new team, but that team was coached by Gene Bartow, of whom we were all familiar from his stints at the then Memphis State, Illinois (one lost year) and UCLA.