2022-2023 Season

[Fraz]

6 minutes ago, Cowboy II said:

-from? that's a heckuva compliment

https://bustingbrackets.com/2022/08/17/ncaa-basketball-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-each-top-25-team-for-2022-23/amp/
 

Stengths/Weaknesses of top 25 teams, never heard of this outlet but it’s a good read 

[BuiltFordBills]

1 hour ago, Fraz said:

https://bustingbrackets.com/2022/08/17/ncaa-basketball-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-each-top-25-team-for-2022-23/amp/
 

Stengths/Weaknesses of top 25 teams, never heard of this outlet but it’s a good read 

It’s written by Tristan Freeman who is a big Billiken advocate on Twitter and in his writing

[Brighton]

Mizzou will finally play a St. Louis area team for the first time in 10 years in November

 

[Cowboy II]

3 hours ago, Fraz said:

https://bustingbrackets.com/2022/08/17/ncaa-basketball-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-each-top-25-team-for-2022-23/amp/
 

Stengths/Weaknesses of top 25 teams, never heard of this outlet but it’s a good read 

-thanks, let's take the publicity and back it up starting in 12 weeks or so

[RUBillsFan]

I know there will be an adjustment period from the JuCo to D1, but Sincere Parker is going to be a PROBLEM:

 

[HoosierPal]

27 minutes ago, RUBillsFan said:

I know there will be an adjustment period from the JuCo to D1, but Sincere Parker is going to be a PROBLEM:

 

I agree with your comments.  But his defense will determine if he plays 10, 15, 20 or 25 minutes per game.  I, along with many others, expect minutes will be hard to get for most players, particularly when Ford reverts back to his 8 + 2 rotation in conference play.  Just about everyone of our 8, or 10, can score.  Who defends could determine who plays the most.

[RUBillsFan]

54 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:

I agree with your comments.  But his defense will determine if he plays 10, 15, 20 or 25 minutes per game.  I, along with many others, expect minutes will be hard to get for most players, particularly when Ford reverts back to his 8 + 2 rotation in conference play.  Just about everyone of our 8, or 10, can score.  Who defends could determine who plays the most.

Oh yeah.  I'm not necessarily expecting big minutes from Parker this season.  He's a big X factor.  I think I've posted this before - If his defense is up to snuff & his offense is as good as advertised, it raises the ceiling on this team.

Even if he is relegated to the bench, I'm excited to see him to put on a show at the end of blowout wins.

[brianstl]

On 8/15/2022 at 1:28 PM, Pistol said:

It's at Iona's gym.

Isn’t their a third game in the Iona series at MSG or maybe Brooklyn?

[wgstl]

On 8/27/2022 at 6:24 PM, brianstl said:

Isn’t their a third game in the Iona series at MSG or maybe Brooklyn?

The game this season was originally supposed to be played at one of those venues

[Bills By 40]

Oh sweet baby Jesus   I'm not positive I could make 58 layups in a row. 

[HenryB]

 

[AnkielBreakers]

On 8/29/2022 at 12:04 PM, Bills By 40 said:

Oh sweet baby Jesus   I'm not positive I could make 58 layups in a row. 

Oh, sweet 8 lb, 6 ounce newborn infant Jesus, don’t even know a word yet, I’m positive I couldn’t.

[HoosierPal]

Bradley will be a good scrimmage.  They could be 2nd best team in the Valley.

 

[wgstl]

8 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:

Bradley will be a good scrimmage.  They could be 2nd best team in the Valley.

 

5 games against the valley? Maybe we just just move to the valley. 

[HoosierPal]

2 hours ago, wgstl said:

5 games against the valley? Maybe we just just move to the valley. 

Wish we could trade the Mighty Quinn game with Bradley.
Make Bradley count and  the PQ game an exhibition. 

[AnkielBreakers]

3 hours ago, wgstl said:

5 games against the valley? Maybe we just just move to the valley. 

At the rate things are going, The Valley is moving to us.

[bauman]

1 hour ago, HoosierPal said:

Wish we could trade the Mighty Quinn game with Bradley.
Make Bradley count and  the PQ game an exhibition. 

Me too.  I would love to renew our old rivalry with Bradley

[RUBillsFan]

I don't think this deserves a thread of its own, but I wanted to post it here because I know @billiken_roy will be very excited about it.

 

 

[billiken_roy]

13 minutes ago, RUBillsFan said:

I don't think this deserves a thread of its own, but I wanted to post it here because I know @billiken_roy will be very excited about it.

 

 

Add nicole to the hate list.   brenda must have a great set of pictures on the AD's of the Atlantic 10

[almaman]

https://slubillikens.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule

 

new schedule posted

[cgeldmacher]

1 hour ago, almaman said:

https://slubillikens.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule

 

new schedule posted

That schedule sucks for any roadtripping.  What's up with teams not giving us Saturday games?

[Cowboy II]

3 hours ago, cgeldmacher said:

That schedule sucks for any roadtripping.  What's up with teams not giving us Saturday games?

-looking at the ,pdf version on SLU's site I count 6 Saturday games, 1/3 of the games, one more than was on last year's schedule, did I miss a blue font?

[Billikenbooster]

It’s called road games. Only see StJoe’s on NYE and GW 1/14.

[Billikenbooster]

cg, we must have made too much noise at the Duquesne game. 
The word is out…LOL

[cgeldmacher]

20 hours ago, Cowboy II said:

-looking at the ,pdf version on SLU's site I count 6 Saturday games, 1/3 of the games, one more than was on last year's schedule, did I miss a blue font?

I was, in general, referring to games that could be used for a road trip. As Billiken Booster pointed out, we have nine conference road games.  Only 2 of the 9 are on Saturdays.  One of those two is on New Years Eve.  Most people don't want to be out of town on NYE.  The others are 3 Tuesday games, 2 Wednesday games, and 2 Friday games.

As far as non-conference schedule, we have 3 times where we are away from Chaifetz.  They are Auburn (9 1/2 hour drive from STL) on a Sunday, Iona on a Tuesday, and the Mohegan Sun Tournament on the Saturday and Sunday before Thanksgiving.  The weekend before Thanksgiving in tough since many people travel for Thanksgiving already.  Also, the Mohegan Sun arena is an hour from Providence and 45 minutes from Hartford.  Not exactly easy to get to.

So, the only Saturday game on the entire schedule that might be reasonable to travel to is the January 14, GW game.

I will concede that we have 7 home games on Saturdays.  Seems to me that we are making it much easier on our opponents fans to travel to Chaifetz than they are making it on us to travel to their arenas.