The Wiz Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 nm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bay Area Billiken Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 UOP is 3-6 and has lost 3 straight. UOP lost at Sac State in OT 74-72 and lost at home Sat. night to Santa Clara 67-49. This is a winnable game for SLU if SLU can handle the travel and time change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealisticBilliken Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 I WOULD HOPE SO!!! Pacific is garbage - 3-6?! Come on, this better be a blowout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 I always like the predictions - they seem to generally be pretty accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quality Is Job 1 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 It's a game for the team to try to get well at home. By no means can we be confident the Bills will win, let along blow Pacific out. They'll have to play (and defend) a whole lot better than they did Saturday to win. Don't expect the Bills to get favorable officiating, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRaginCajun Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Pacific is down this year and we need to take care of business tomorrow night. This is another one of those games that we need to win if we expect to be a tournament level team. Pacific graduated the majority of the productivity from a 24-8 tournament team and we should win this game no doubt about it. We cannot afford to lose tomorrow night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealisticBilliken Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 i agree with you that we shouldn't be confident that we will win, God knows we almost lost to Western Illinois!! And you are right, we will have to defend and play alot better then Saturday. Its a game we should win, and agame we should blow them out, but I've learned not to expect anything of that sort with this team. Regardless, a win is a win is a win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bay Area Billiken Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Agreed that this is a dangerous game and will be a tough game. Also as noted by thicks, we cannot expect favorable officiating. The West Coast is notorious for calling touch fouls, hand checks, etc. The game is more of a finesse game out here. We will see if the refs allow the rough stuff against IV. Otherwise, I don't think UOP can contain him. Isn't this an odd time for this game? SLU finals are Dec. 13-19, and the team is coming all the way to California to play a Tuesday night game on Dec. 12? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Santa Clara beat them handily in their house. Missouri State beat Santa Clara handily...if we lose to Pacific, we should hang our heads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealisticBilliken Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Excellent point BayArea. I have been pissed about the scheduling of SLU basketball for 5 years now and people on this board continue to defend the athletic department in these matters. Once again, our scheduling department makes mind-boggling mistakes. Its so frustrating that all of our biggest games are over breaks when students won't be there. Its clear they don't have the student athlete's best interest in mind when they schedule these games as evidenced by the point you just brought up. Then again it is a free trip to cali and who can complain about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 It's also kind of surprising that we would go all the way out there for one game - you'd think we could have scheduled another one against Santa Clara, USF, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billikan Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 I have talked many times to Cheryl about the scheduling and this year was particularly difficult--believe it or not you cannot just dictate to any team that you want to play that they will play you when you want, where you want to play and who you want to play. There are many negotiations, discussions, and give and take propostions. We did not fill out this schedule until late because many teams did not want to play us because they thought we would be a very good team. We have to balance that against the very few days that we have available at Scottrade and that has been a massively difficult set of discussions. We had several teams that had nice names who were able to play us only on certain dates and they were not available at the SC so we had to pass. With so little information, I am amazed that you consider yourself such an expert! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompeytir Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Only lost to Texas A&M by 12. Hope the defense is better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NH Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Slu 79-65 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tseugnekillib Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 I believe it is exam week at SLU. I'm surprised they took the one game at Pacific, let alone two games on the coast. Academically, I don't think the players could miss a week of exams. If they are not on a chartered flight, I suspect the team may be taking a red-eye flight back to St. Louis. Scheduling won't gey easier until the SLU Arena is up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealisticBilliken Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Um isn't that what she's getting paid for?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Good point - I hadn't thought of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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