MBB: St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[fcnews]

Daryl - I'll add FC's Kirkpatrick to that list BC will have trouble with. Beav I can't say it was all bashing, but maybe some hoping that the sliac could send the team with the best chance to win. Last year the would of been WU and their overall size and attack. Again this year, any game at the Beav Dome or with Luka in it, BC has a chance to win. It just seems now that the Beavers will have to be on from the outside every night.

[thebeav]

I will have to agree with you guys on that point. Even with my heart lying with the Beavers a lack of any inside presence will be hard to over come. There was hope in the off season of gaining a 6'8" beast in the post but he choose to not play basketball. I would like to counter the accusation that the only reason BC beat WU in the tourney was because of hot hands...Luka didn't even make the All-Tourney team and Essington was not shooting well either. As I said in the previous post the game vs. Hanover was much different w/ Essington in the lineup for the first 20 mins. The "thumping" took place only after the Beavers lost their point guard (remember BC was +8 at the time of the injury). So if you can say if you took Spinner out of WU lineup against Hanover and they still would've had a better chance to beat Hanover than I concede the point! But enough of last year, BC will have a tough road to haul w/ Bash (even if he's not back to POY level), WU biggins, as well as Fontbonne. However, I will put BC's four guards against anyone elses and see the outcome....only if it was 4-on-4! Haha 

[MU fan]

Hey everyone, just got back from the Maryville game against MO BAP.  MO BAP is ranked #11 in NAIA division 1.  Maryville wins in overtime!!!!  Kind of a sloppy game and poorly officated but Maryville pushed the tempo and played right around 15 guys during the game.  Turpin continued to shoot the ball well.  I think his final stats from the three point line were 7 for 9.  He had to finish with about 25 pts.  Bash played another tough game.  Battled an all-american big man and held his own.  The game was back and forth but Maryville had the lead by 7 with 2 minutes left in regulation. Kind of gave it away with some tournovers and forced shots.  They got it to overtime though and Hebl, Bash, and Turpin were the difference on the offensive end in overtime. 

Maryville showing two games in a row that they can battle with two pretty good scholarship teams.  In both games the Saints did not press at all.  They played tough half court man and pushed the ball off of solid defense and tournovers.  They still created an uptempo game and continue to rotate players in and out. 

Maryville heads off to the Bahamas to play two games and when they come back they play Wash U.  After that they head into conference play.  Should be interesting to see how they play against Wash U.  That could be a big win for them for a region win and could continue to be a momentum builder as they head into conference to play Webster.  I wasn't impressed with Maryville's ability to take care of the ball this game but they were playing against some very good athletes.  They found a way to win against good competition though, something they weren't doing at the begining of the year.   

Mabye the two biggest wins for Maryville since Rogers has been here!!!!!!!!

All has to do with senior leadership.  They have an old squad with young talent.  That can be a dangerous combination.

[hopefan]

Wow -   Wow  -  Wow, Wow, Wow

Maryville 86  Mo Bap 83 in ot

So much to tell about - obviously from the Maryville point of view  -  but first - this was just a great totally intense game for both teams - the officials established that anything goes around the basket, and the game was totally physical, but BOTH teams played clean  -  hard hits, but pick em up and no smart guy talk  -  it was the way two good guy teams should play.

Maryville won with terrific 3 point shooting from Mike Turpin (7 3 pointers) and Ben Hebl, the heart of a lion from Steve Bash -rebounds and hoops around the basket, an unbelievable effort from Tim Elwell aginst Mo Baps very strong point guard, and strong efforts from unsung frosh Aaron Steinke (looking like a real college player for the first time) and soph Ben Arand (experimental point guard).
Note no mention of Ryan Klein and Matt Regan, both of whom were saddled with fouls most of the game.

Mo Bap jumped out to an early lead, Maryville caught em, and Mo bap went back ahead by 5 at half.  Maryville was up 5 by with a minute, but a 3 pointer by Mo bap, and out of control charge by MU, and 2 foulshots tied it with 30 seconds. MU didn't score and Mo Bap had the ball with 4 seconds left, but couldn't get a shot off.  Huge 3 by Hebl, a fast break layup, a couple of crucial Fts by ? and it was an MU win.  Nice crowd in a limited seating situation - great atmosphere.

[fcnews]

Hopefan - How many did Mo Bapt. dress tonite. I know they have had some injury problems. Still a huge win.

[Gregory Sager]

That's a huge win for the Saints, and for the SLIAC as a whole. Congrats, Saints!

[hopefan]

FC  they did seem short of people in warmups- only 9 or 10 dressed  - but I'm not familiar enough with their personnel to tell you who was missing....

[thebeav]

The is a tremendous victory for MU. Congrats, to the Saints. This adds more evidence to the fact MU will be the team to beat w/out question! Sidenote, BC beat Robert Morris by 2 in Springfield. Not nearly the caliber of win as MU but a solid victory for the Beavers!

[hopefan]

The MU win should in no way take awy form Blackburn's win, Beave  -- RMS has a number of wins over SLIAC teams this year (Fontbonne and Mac) and a squeaker over Millikin last week - it's a very solid win for Blackburn -  I'll be anxious to see if Blackburn can compete with UMSL tomorrow.  UMSL is coming in with the best start to a season ever, and have been getting some local pub because local Radio bravado Kevin Slaton's son plays for them.  Don't be surprised if there aren't a few more bodies in the stands than usual.  It's another oppotunity for a SLIAC team to pull off a huge upset.

Note a face in the crowd at the MU -MoBap game last night was Wash U Coach Mark Edwards.  He's gotta think he'll have his hands full come Jan 4 when the Saints play the Bears.
Also looking to see if fontbonne can compete with WASH U..  Mark told me his high scorer Troy Ruths may be held out of that game with a health complication-if so,  that's a big loss for Wash U and could give FC a much better shot at an upset.

[hopefan]

FCnews - I just checked with someone who should know, and MoBap was missing no one -  on the other hand as I mentioned, Regan and Klein played limited minutes due to foul problems, and Rezabek, McCarthy, and Bollinger all were out for most of the game with various injuries, hurting MU's bench depth badly - and MU still pulled it out.

MoBap was missing no one   

[fcnews]

Thanks Hopefan -  Huge win for the Saints and nice one for BC.

[fcnews]

Wash U 104 FC 69

Tonite I wittnessed the best one man shooting performance for a half that I have seen in 40+ years. WU's Scott Stone went off for 31pts in the first half, he went 9-11 from three's and 11-13 total. These were no spot up 19'6 type of shots. These were catch and shoot, no dribble fade aways, with a hand in his face, from 22-23'. Luckly he cooled off in the second half only going 5-10 and finishing with 46. FC tried everyone and everything. It was Stone's nite. Kudos

Neal Griffin did a great job shutting down FC's McCoy, who had a season low 4 points.

Any observer will tell you FC dominated the inside play. Ryan Kirkpatrick had 18 pts and 8 rebs with two blks, one being on a attempted dunk by the WU 7 footer. Ryan was 8-9 from the feild and played well, holding Gunst to 8 points on 3-7 shooting. FC's big three freshmen Kirkpatrick, Storandt and Fogerty combined for 34 points and 19 rebs. FC won the rebounding battle 38-36. Even though Stone did not allow WU to many off. reb attempts. Almany had another very steady nite scoring 12 pts (3-6 3's) and 7 rebs.

It was the Scott Stone show tonite.

[yjacklok]

I saw the game, too. It would have been interesting to see those two teams play without Scott Stone on the floor. Never have I seen one player make so much difference in a game.

[hopefan]

uhhhh, now I know I'm gonna get in trouble for this, but it seems to me that a guard as slow as Scott Stone could have been overplayed and denied the ball  a little more consistently than occurred today.  Seems to me just last week that he only got off about 10 shots  vs IWU, most of which were forced out of frustration due to the Titans extremely aggressive defense... something that I didn't see from Fontbonne today.   Very impressed with Kirkpatrick tho - no frills, right to the basket, very strong..

[fcnews]

Hopefan - u could of put two griffins on him and it would not of mattered. Plus he is not that slow. Yes Kirkpatrick just gets the job done. Will be a pretty good sliac player before he gets through. Nice body just turned 19.