Chicago Billiken Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 With conference play beginning tomorrow, I thought it would be interesting to see how the Billikens will fare in confernece. I think we go 13-3 with a loss to XU, Dayton and losing the UMass game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NH Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 14-2 with losses at templae and at x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLUDrew Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 I would agree that this team has the ability to go 13-3. However, we are still a little too inconsistent. (By the way, before some jump all over me for bing negative, Coach said the exact same thing after the Ole Miss game) I think we have been trailing at halftime for 8 of our 10 wins. We need to turn in complete game efforts. If we can do that, there is no reason we can't go 13-3. If I had to bet I would go 12-4 or 11-5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillikenTX Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 12-4 loses to: @ XU @ St Joe @ UD @ UMASS Should give us a 2-3 seed in the conf tourney. I'd be shocked if we are not in the conference tournament championship game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alonzo P Hawk Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 16 and 0, the Bills will go! ------------------------------------------------------------ *Official Billikens.com sponsor of Mike Beczkala Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milwaukee Billiken Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 This team has the ability to run the table in the conference. Realistically, I think they'll lose 3 games. @UD @XU 1 more loss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiken Rich Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 I'd say 12-4 if I was a betting man. Sweeping Xavier and Dayton? I don't see it. Umass, will be tough also. Who knows? Fordam might get us on a bad night. Anything is possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUBillsFan Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 I say 13-3 in conference, but we will lose at Houston also so 13-4 the rest of the way. We'll likely lose at Xavier, at Dayton, and at St. Joe's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF1 Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 As an occasional reader to your board, I was surprised when I read this thread and saw such lofty expectations for conference record. While the A-10 is admittedly not what it once used to be, I think many SLU fans often underestimate it. One should always keep in mind that it is never easy to win road games in college basketball, regardless of conference. My brief exposure to SLU has led me to believe that SLU typically does very well at home but has its struggles on the road as do most away teams. I therefore thought predictions of 13-14 A-10 wins was a bit high. 10-12 wins is more the norm for upper tier teams in the league most years. The exceptions to this have been the VERY GOOD teams such as some of the Temple and UMass teams and the GW team of last year and SJU team of 3 seasons ago (Elite-8) and this year's SLU team is not in their class. It seems to me that many SLU sports fans (basketball and soccer come to mind) expect that their team will dominate the league. That is not usually the case with any team. While SBU is far from a great team this year, the Riley Center in Olean, is usually one of the toughest venues in the conference. Last night during school break in a down season was not really indicative of the typical RC atmosphere. That place can really get wild for Saturday games in Late January and February. It is a very small and tight building (seats less than listed 6,000). The fans are right on top of the players. There have been many crazy incidents there over the years at A-10 games like the cookie throwing at Chaney, Hawk mascot assault, and Martelli having a shouting match with a middle aged femaile SBU fan. SLU fans should not be shocked by a loss there. Get used to it as it will happen more over the coming years. The SBU team ha sbeen playing much better now in the last two games. The Bonnies played Syracuse pretty tough in the Carrier Dome a week before the SLU game. It is kind of ironic that many SLU fans, after only one full season in the league, have been openly advocating that the A-10 dump teams. The most mentioned team always seemed to be SBU. Now SBU, with its low RPI rating, beats SLU. Any fan talk about dropping teams and expecting a cakewalk through conference play should stop given what transpired last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schasz Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Very good post as I was also amused by the banter of dropping teams. We are in our 2nd year in this league and have yet to show any dominance in it...yet we have folks openly talking about teams to drop??? What a joke!!! Let's start beating all of these bottom feeders on a regular basis before we intimate it is time to whack any of them. As shown last night our program is not so high and mighty, and didn't we almost lose to SBU last year in our own crib. After last night I will take 10 wins in this league this year...gladly!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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