Midtown Madness: S3E15 Missed Free Throw Meltdown in Alabama, Tim Ream Shines on World Stage; WBB Faces Gauntlet at Gulf Coast Showcase

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On This Episode

• Tim Ream has been nails on the US Soccer back line at the World Cup, Billiken fans should be watching with pride.
• Men’s Basketball
• What is there to say about Paul Quinn?
  • Auburn Review - Did missed free throws cost Billikens a quad 1 road win
  • Tennessee State Preview
  • SIU Carbondale Preview
    • Peter will be in town!
  • Billiken Trivia!
  • Around the A10
    • What is happening in Ohio?
    • Is Davidson good?
• Women’s Basketball
  • Gulf Coast Showcase Gauntlet
    • Baylor
    • Belmont
    • Air Force

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[Pistol]

Who can name all 14? Honor system, of course.

[Matty Light]

Iceland, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Greece, Canada, France all come to mind but I will be darned if I can recall the others. How many years back is the first foreign player?

[Old guy]

We have had a number of players from Africa, Okoro is from Nigeria, cannot remember the others but there have been more.

[SLU_Lax]

1 hour ago, Matty Light said:

Iceland, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Greece, Canada, France all come to mind but I will be darned if I can recall the others. How many years back is the first foreign player?

Who was from France?

[wgstl]

55 minutes ago, Old guy said:

We have had a number of players from Africa, Okoro is from Nigeria, cannot remember the others but there have been more.

Reggie 

[HoosierPal]

25 minutes ago, wgstl said:

Reggie 

Wasn't Reggie A from Buffalo NY?

Diarra was from Africa, I believe.  Not sure which country.  And MoMo is from Senegal.  I read that on every Game Day Notes.  Traore also is from Africa.

[BrettJollyComedyHour]

2 hours ago, Matty Light said:

Israel

Call me a dummy, but who was from Israel?

[Matty Light]

57 minutes ago, SLU_Lax said:

Who was from France?

Hasahn! Lol

I think I was recalling one of our Francophone African players, so France may not be on the list.

[Matty Light]

Just now, BrettJollyComedyHour said:

Call me a dummy, but who was from Israel?

Wasn't Isak Ohanon?

[willie]

5 minutes ago, Matty Light said:

Wasn't Isak Ohanon?

yes

[dennis_w]

44 minutes ago, Matty Light said:

Wasn't Isak Ohanon?

H? i know he played inf israel post grad

[Pistol]

3 hours ago, Matty Light said:

Iceland, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Greece, Canada, France all come to mind but I will be darned if I can recall the others. How many years back is the first foreign player?

I'd have to confirm who the first-ever foreign player was but the longest gap between an individual country producing a player for SLU and today is 30 years. Every other country is represented at least once post-2000.

[wgstl]

1 hour ago, HoosierPal said:

Wasn't Reggie A from Buffalo NY?

I thought he was from Ghana, but just played prep in NY, I could be way off. 

[Pistol]

H Waldman is from Vegas. He is Jewish, just not from Israel.

Izik is indeed from Israel. I had an Israeli roommate for my last semester and Izik would come over and hang out with him. They'd speak almost exclusively in Hebrew.

Agbeko did not move to Buffalo until he was about 15. He went to HS there for a couple years and finished up at South Kent School in Connecticut. His country of origin is on our list.

[thetorch]

28 minutes ago, Pistol said:

I'd have to confirm who the first-ever foreign player was but the longest gap between an individual country producing a player for SLU and today is 30 years. Every other country is represented at least once post-2000.

I thought we had one in the 80s. I think we had a couple walk on types at least one with Spoon. I think Latimer was the first foreigner to play real minutes.

[billikenfan05]

13 minutes ago, thetorch said:

I thought we had one in the 80s. I think we had a couple walk on types at least one with Spoon. I think Latimer was the first foreigner to play real minutes.

We had one in 94. PF from a usual suspect nation.

[CenHudDude]

3 hours ago, HoosierPal said:

Wasn't Reggie A from Buffalo NY?

Diarra was from Africa, I believe.  Not sure which country.  And MoMo is from Senegal.  I read that on every Game Day Notes.  Traore also is from Africa.

Reggie came from Buffalo, but was originally from Ghana.

[Box and Won]

56 minutes ago, thetorch said:

I thought we had one in the 80s. I think we had a couple walk on types at least one with Spoon. I think Latimer was the first foreigner to play real minutes.

Paul Nondas.  Lost him to mandatory military service.  As Spoon said, "I always figured I'd lose a player to the draft.  I just didn't know it would be the Greek army."

[Matty Light]

49 minutes ago, Box and Won said:

Paul Nondas.  Lost him to mandatory military service.  As Spoon said, "I always figured I'd lose a player to the draft.  I just didn't know it would be the Greek army."

Did Ian have to do mandatory military service? I know he went back to Greece after SLU to play professionally but I don't know if he was a reservist or they changed the conscription laws in the time after Nondas.

[HoosierPal]

We had another Greek back in the spoon days.  Name escapes me but there weren't many vowels.  Psmitis, or something like that.

[BrettJollyComedyHour]

1 hour ago, Matty Light said:

Did Ian have to do mandatory military service? I know he went back to Greece after SLU to play professionally but I don't know if he was a reservist or they changed the conscription laws in the time after Nondas.

I don't think he did, but don't quote me on that.

[brianstl]

1 hour ago, HoosierPal said:

We had another Greek back in the spoon days.  Name escapes me but there weren't many vowels.  Psmitis, or something like that.

Marco Psmitis was actually Majerus.

[brianstl]

I don’t think Mali and Sweden have been mentioned.

[thetorch]

Paul Nondas is not in the Billikens All time roster.  He did play in at least a few games.

He was supposed to be good.  6'9 and could shoot the three.  Never was ready to play.  He went on that Hawaii opener trip where Johnson torched LSU for 30 points and then we lost to Hawaii.  While the team was gone Harris & Macauley's room was burglarized and their NCAA tournament rings were stolen.

Apparently you could get a waiver from the Greek Army if you went to school.  Greece didn't accept Nondas' time at JUCO as advancing his education.  He was labeled a deserter and wasn't able to come back to the country unless he went into the military so he went back after his JR year here.

Nondas was Bernie's favorite player to rip.  He mentioned him in columns multiple times as an example of poor recruiting by Spoon.  Easy target as he wa a foreigner I guess.