MBB: St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[J-Kidd]

Eh, whats up with everybudy.  I figured I would fill everybody in on the greenville game tonite.  Greenville played Logan Chiropractic, and Logan showed up to the game with seven players and no coach.  One of the players on the team was doing the player/coach thing.  haha.  Greenville started out the game killing Logan with their press defense but then G-ville started to get sloppy with it and went into halftime with only a 5 pt. lead.  Then, in the second half, G-ville started to do their thing and ended up winning the game about 105-65.  Scott Foster was his usual self, puttin up good scoring numbers.  Ben Hensold did a nice job shooting the ball, and Bryson Taylor was dishing out assists all night.  Freshman Matt Greene did a nice job off the bench and is a good shooter to watch out for.

[hopefan]

Please J-Kidd  I'm sure that most of Greenville's frat teams, or if they don't have frats, their dorm teams, could beat Logan chiropractic.  That Greenville would schedule a game like that is an embarrassment to the SLIAC teams who have upgraded their schedules in the search for respectability. 

[hopefan]

As I was looking for scores, I notice that while the D3Hoops site shows the Fontbonne Rockford game as being on the 29th, both the schools' web sites show the game as being tomorrow, the 30th.  Glad i decided to stay home and watch UNC-Illinois....an empty gym at Fontbonne would have been diappointing.

[Daryl L Lloyd]

I noticed that Prin dropped another one, this time to STL Pharm.  Any takers on a Prin not winning a single game this year bet?

[J-Kidd]

Please Hopefan.  haha.  Why do u think i said that logan showed up to the game with 7 players and no coach.  that should tell u sumpin about the team.  U think i dont know that G-ville would have been better off playing a high school team. 

[fcnews]

FC plays RocKford, in what should be a competitive match up, tonite at 7 pm. If you have nothing else to do on a cold St. Louis wednesday night. Come see a young FC team that I beleive will make some noise in a couple of years.

[fcnews]

Halftime FC45
              RC42

[Daryl L Lloyd]

FC: Think those frosh will be around long enough to make some noise? 

[fcnews]

Final Rockford College 86 FC 81
Tale of the tape RC 19-24 from the line the second half, FC 1-1.
FC scored 7 more fgs. made 3 more 3's. FC 45 total rebs. , RC 28 rebs., FC 10 turnovers RC 8. Total fouls FC 21 RC 11, FC never reached the bonus the entire game.

It's starting early. These sliac referees will never get a check from the NIIC conference. We will never get calls like that in Indiana. Why ? Does the sliac home team get screwed by our own conference referees. This is the last time I'll mention the sliac refs. this year. They are just the most pitiful bunch in the nation. And for what they are getting paid we deserve better.

I am done with this we're a lower teir D3 conference and with officiating like this we deserve to be. Something has to change.

For FC Patrict McCoy had 22 pts. (6-12 from 3's) Justin Storandt had 15 pts. and 10 boards.

I'll be glad to go back on the road.

[Daryl L Lloyd]

With the SLIAC refs its same crap different day.  Its been a problem since. . . well forever.  I dont see it changing anytime soon, ive given up complaining about it. 

[fcnews]

Daryl- This bunch will remain intact. All quality kids, good students and no Dad's.

[hopefan]

Better news from the west side of town as Maryville defeats McKendree 77-68.
And don't ask the McKendree fans about the officiating - they didn't seem too pleased.
A game like tonite is what keeps you coming back - I said earlier that MU's best players had to begin to play their best if they were going to beat anybody that was GOOD - well, their best players really played well.  It reminded me of some of the great games they played 2 years ago when they won conference.  They really pushed the ball tonight and it benefitted both Matt Regan and Ben Hebl - they need to flow to be effective rather than setting up the offense....   they owe it to Tim Elwell who constantly was beating his man to the middle with the ball, forcing the defense to adjust, and leaving the wings open for Regan and Hebl.  Bash played solid in the middle - he's nowhere near where he was offensively -  but he plays so hard around the basket - kept MCkendrees all NAIA big man Strobe from dominating.  Klein played great around the hole for a half, but started shooting jump shot clangers in the second half - Regan Hebl Klein - all at their best going to the basket.  Another positive was we limited our turnovers - 13 wasn't bad against Mckendree's superior athletes, and at least half of them were from bench players - we've got to get better minutes from our underclassmen, though I will say frosh McGrath makes things happen.
   So anyway, it was fun.  Tough games coming up with Mo Bap and two good teams in Nassau, Wash U after Christmas, then conference.  Let's hope this makes believers out of the guys and we get a couple more wins before conference.
   

[Daryl L Lloyd]

Hope:  MU with Bash back and playing good ball can be a scary thing for other SLIAC teams right now, especially in this apparent down season of SLIAC ball. 

FC: I was just bustin your chops.

[hopefan]

So Fontbonne, Webster and Mac all lose close to decent competition tonite.  I was really hoping tonite would be a turnaround for the conference  ....  Unfortunately those were exactly the kind of games the SLIAC has to win to earn any respect.   

Sadly Darryl, this may be as down of a year as can be imagined.  It's all the more disappointing because I thought the conference was pretty decent last year - Webster, Blackburn and Prin were all good and Maryville and Fontbonne were capable of beating people, though they rarely did.   and I'm sure Greenville beat chiro last year.....

[fcnews]

Daryl - if you got any elgibility left FC could use a guy to get his moneys worth with the five fouls allowed. I'm starting to think if their going to call them anyway, punish them. Knowing you, you'd make a great hatchet man.

By the way how's your brother and Steve doing.

Kudos to MU. That could be the biggest sliac win since FC's women stopped WU women's streak of 85 wins. Good job saints. As much as I don't look forward to facing him, I'm extremely happy for Steve Bash.