stmdragons Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 1 hour ago, BrettJollyComedyHour said: I'm so tired of Dayton always being at the top of these damn things. I think their fans are tired of it, too. BrettJollyComedyHour likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 SBUnfurled has long used a U-Rating to evaluate players. Here is his ranking of all A10 players who played D1 last season. He ranks Meadows as our #2 player. This list is for last season, not a prediction of the upcoming season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 jimerson being rated that low going into the season is a joke. imo that makes this list useless for player evaluation. nice reference for names. not rankings. OkieBilliken, AGB91 and Bay Area Billiken like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Top 144 has Dayton coming in at #53, 2nd in the A10 and destined for the NIT. Recapping A10 teams on their list: 126 St. Joseph 112 St. Bonaventure 79 Loyola 73 Fordham 53 Dayton I wonder how much influence Joe Bamisile's inclusion on VCU's roster had when they obviously picked VCU to win the A10. Wonder if they a mulligan now. https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/article/22077 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnbj14 Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 55 minutes ago, HoosierPal said: Top 144 has Dayton coming in at #53, 2nd in the A10 and destined for the NIT. Recapping A10 teams on their list: 126 St. Joseph 112 St. Bonaventure 79 Loyola 73 Fordham 53 Dayton I wonder how much influence Joe Bamisile's inclusion on VCU's roster had when they obviously picked VCU to win the A10. Wonder if they a mulligan now. https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/article/22077 I bet they are picking Duquesne. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Elrond Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 48 minutes ago, HoosierPal said: Top 144 has Dayton coming in at #53, 2nd in the A10 and destined for the NIT. Recapping A10 teams on their list: 126 St. Joseph 112 St. Bonaventure 79 Loyola 73 Fordham 53 Dayton I wonder how much influence Joe Bamisile's inclusion on VCU's roster had when they obviously picked VCU to win the A10. Wonder if they a mulligan now. https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/article/22077 So the A10 is projected to be a one bid league again? I guess they’ve gone about as low as they can go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 5 hours ago, johnbj14 said: I bet they are picking Duquesne. Ooo. I forgot about them. Then VCU no better than 7th? This was all written a few months ago. Strange anyway you look at it. Both Duquesne and VCU are better than 7th place this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taj79 Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 No way it's Duquesne. Gots ta be VCU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted Tuesday at 03:37 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:37 PM On 9/15/2023 at 3:05 PM, Taj79 said: No way it's Duquesne. Gots ta be VCU. https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/mens-basketball/top-144-previews Duquesne comes in at #43, tops in the A10. Recapping the College Madness Top 144, with 6 A10 Teams on the list: 126 St. Joseph 112 St. Bonaventure 79 Loyola 73 Fordham 53 Dayton 43 Duquesne. I have no problem with Duquesne coming in as the top seed. But VCU no better than 7th doesn't cut it. They will be in the top 3d of the league, even without Bamisile. I'm not sold on Fordham replacing Quisenberry and Moore successfully for a 3rd place finish, but that is why they play the games. Loyola can be found in the top 3rd, middle 3rd, and bottom 3rd in various polls. Spin the wheel! If you look at the list to date, Memphis is slotted at 47th, and 2nd in the AAC. But this list has them in the NIT, meaning the AAC is looking at a One Bid League according to this source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted Tuesday at 04:40 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:40 PM Preseason rankings....Who caaaaayyuuuuuuuhhsss? gabriel, BrettJollyComedyHour, billiken_roy and 2 others like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiken Rich Posted Tuesday at 08:45 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 08:45 PM 4 hours ago, billikenfan05 said: Preseason rankings....Who caaaaayyuuuuuuuhhsss? ......................Well Dayton of course................... majerus mojo and brianstl like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted Wednesday at 02:10 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 02:10 PM I took a look at four preseason polls and looked for a consensus. Blue Ribbon, Almanac, Rothstein, and Jablonski. Here are the average of the predictions. 1) Dayton 2) VCU 3) St. Bonaventure 4) Duquesne 5) St. Joseph 6) Fordham 7) SLU 8 ) George Washington 9) Loyola 10) George Mason 11) Davidson 12) Richmond 13) LaSalle 14) UMass 15) Rhode Island Loyola and LaSalle both had the largest 'spread' of 6 positions. SLU's spread was 6 to 10. Bottom line, after the top 5, your guess is as good as anyone's. wgstl likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted Wednesday at 02:21 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 02:21 PM 9 minutes ago, HoosierPal said: I took a look at four preseason polls and looked for a consensus. Blue Ribbon, Almanac, Rothstein, and Jablonski. Here are the average of the predictions. 1) Dayton 2) VCU 3) St. Bonaventure 4) Duquesne 5) St. Joseph 6) Fordham 7) SLU 8 ) George Washington 9) Loyola 10) George Mason 11) Davidson 12) Richmond 13) LaSalle 14) UMass 15) Rhode Island Loyola and LaSalle both had the largest 'spread' of 6 positions. SLU's spread was 6 to 10. Bottom line, after the top 5, your guess is as good as anyone's. The more I think about it, I agree with the composite above, and perhaps should be above Fordham. HoosierPal likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUBillsFan Posted Wednesday at 05:23 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 05:23 PM Welp...we're all a bit down on the program, but if Brian Conklin is hyped about the season starting then I'm hyped too. LETS F*CKING GO!!! Adman, HoosierPal and BLIKNS like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted Wednesday at 05:24 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 05:24 PM Just now, RUBillsFan said: Welp...we're all a bit down on the program, but if Brian Conklin is hyped about the season starting then I'm hyped too. LETS F*CKING GO!!! Or someone asked him to tweet it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgeldmacher Posted Wednesday at 06:00 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 06:00 PM 35 minutes ago, RUBillsFan said: Welp...we're all a bit down on the program, but if Brian Conklin is hyped about the season starting then I'm hyped too. LETS F*CKING GO!!! Before any season, I'm excited about the Billikens until they give me reason not to be. When they give me reason to no longer be excited that this is going to be a great year, I still go to the games and support my team. Let's Go Bills. HoosierPal, Billikenbooster, CenHudDude and 2 others like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adman Posted Wednesday at 07:54 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:54 PM 2 hours ago, RUBillsFan said: Welp...we're all a bit down on the program, but if Brian Conklin is hyped about the season starting then I'm hyped too. LETS F*CKING GO!!! They need him officially involved in the program. Somehow, some way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billikenbooster Posted Wednesday at 08:45 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 08:45 PM 2 hours ago, cgeldmacher said: Before any season, I'm excited about the Billikens until they give me reason not to be. When they give me reason to no longer be excited that this is going to be a great year, I still go to the games and support my team. Let's Go Bills. Well said. Billiken Rich likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crewsorlose Posted Wednesday at 08:54 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 08:54 PM I'm excited to see our athletic young guards and to see what they can do. When you have high expectations, greater chances of disappointment. I want to see if Ford can coach this group to play hard and as a team. I'd be more excited if Brock Vice hadn't de-committed, but who knows what we've got with the foreign bigs and Dalger. Bound to be less frustrating than watching a former top 100 HS big fumble every third pass and miss every other bunny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVBilliken Posted Wednesday at 08:56 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 08:56 PM 6 hours ago, HoosierPal said: I took a look at four preseason polls and looked for a consensus. Blue Ribbon, Almanac, Rothstein, and Jablonski. Here are the average of the predictions. 1) Dayton 2) VCU 3) St. Bonaventure 4) Duquesne 5) St. Joseph 6) Fordham 7) SLU 8 ) George Washington 9) Loyola 10) George Mason 11) Davidson 12) Richmond 13) LaSalle 14) UMass 15) Rhode Island Loyola and LaSalle both had the largest 'spread' of 6 positions. SLU's spread was 6 to 10. Bottom line, after the top 5, your guess is as good as anyone's. Now if a certain transfer center from Georgetown gets approved; ok not likely ..... then where does SLU finish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Elrond Posted Wednesday at 09:18 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 09:18 PM 14 minutes ago, WVBilliken said: Now if a certain transfer center from Georgetown gets approved; ok not likely ..... then where does SLU finish? Your guess is probably as good as anyone’s at this point. Far too many new players to say, both at SLU and in the conference at large to do anything but guess as far as I can tell. They could (a) win the A10, (b) they could come in somewhere between 13-15, or (c) somewhere in between those two. I honestly don’t know whether to pick a, b or c. I’ll read other people’s opinions, but I don’t know if anyone really knows with any great certainty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juniorbill76 Posted Wednesday at 09:22 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 09:22 PM 4 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said: Your guess is probably as good as anyone’s at this point. Far too many new players to say, both at SLU and in the conference at large to do anything but guess as far as I can tell. They could (a) win the A10, (b) they could come in somewhere between 13-15, or (c) somewhere in between those two. I honestly don’t know whether to pick a, b or c. I’ll read other people’s opinions, but I don’t know if anyone really knows with any great certainty. I guess that's why no one has started the traditional season record prediction thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted Wednesday at 09:40 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 09:40 PM There is a video up of Coach Ford addressing the Media today. It wouldn't copy over, but go to the St Louis PD, it is there. Highlights, TJ and Gibson are co-captains. Coach obviously wants them to lead by example. No word on Brad Ezewiro's waiver request. He has lost 30 pounds since he came to campus. Stef vB hasn't been on the floor yet, due to a foot injury. Coach hopes he can start practicing in 3 weeks. He did include Abou in his grouping of bigs, so I'm guessing he is 6'9". Zhan has a great basketball IQ but so far has been having trouble adjusting the the physical nature of the game. Meadows and Medley are handling the point. Hughes, who has looked good the past few weeks, is playing off the ball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted Thursday at 02:56 AM Share Posted Thursday at 02:56 AM A link popped up for the Ford media session. https://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/videos/video-travis-ford-on-new-slu-basketball-players/video_2fe00d3e-6a6b-547c-9990-51e760e174f9.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy II Posted Thursday at 02:09 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:09 PM 16 hours ago, juniorbill76 said: I guess that's why no one has started the traditional season record prediction thread. -I will post a question thread that includes record after the exhibition games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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