MBB: St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

fcnews · February 02, 2006, 02:30:21 AM

Fontbonne Beats Greenville 75-63

First Props go to Panther Pride - My vote for all-sliac 1st team as a 6th Man, nice meeting you Panther. I wish I had half your energy.

Second Props - What a Great atmosphere for basketball. Attendance 600. In the H.L. Long gym that is a big crowd. The Panther Prides pulled a "white out" for the game. Pretty Cool. And Vocal.

Major Prop - FU's Freshmen Class. With Almany not making the trip due to a neck injury. The FU coaching staff went with 7 freshmen and they did not disappoint. Kirkpatrick 23 and 8 rebs. w/ 5 steals, McCoy 20 and 5 assists, Fogerty 14 and 5 rebs., and Storandt with a monster game on the boards 16 with 14 defensive.

First Half was a game of runs. Kirkpatrick had 2 monster dunks in the opening minute and FU jumped out to any early 12 point lead. GC made a late run off turnovers caused by a smothering press. Halftime 35-29. Second half. GC has an early run and ties the score at 48-48. FU has a 10 - 0 run at about the 8 minute mark with 3's from McCoy and Fogerty and 2 off. put backs by Storandt and Kirkpatrick. This run pretty much took the home crowd out of the game. FU played a very good def. game holding Turner 2-12 from the field and Conquest 3 for 13, the two combined to 1-10 from the 3's. Bryson Taylor was 5-11 from the field but the Griffins chose to contest each of his penetrations which resulted in him going 2-8 from FT line. Hensold and Greene both had nice games and kept GC close.

fcnews · February 02, 2006, 12:24:49 PM

Just a tidbit of trivia - With last nights win, FU becomes the first sliac school to post 150 conference wins. BC now stands at 149, so FU may not hold the top spot for long. FU's overall conference record stands at 150-87.

hopefan · February 02, 2006, 12:46:00 PM

fcnews out of curiosity could you share the overall historical win - loss record of each team with us? I have no idea how the trend has been...

Good to see those frosh rise to the occasion vs Greenville- just so it doesn't carry over to the Maryville game.....

When a team comes in with a number of good freshmen like Fontbonne has, it's good for the league, whether it means Fontbonne is going to rise to the forefront and represent the league in the NCAAs in the near future, or if it means that other teams will find a way to improve themselves to try to match Fontbonne's efforts. Let's hope all these young guys see the promising future and don't get down over the wins and losses this year. Every quality frosh that has a good experience at a SLIAC school will have a good story to tell - and hopefully that generates more good kids coming to more SLIAC schools, and year by year, a better level of Basketball.

fcnews · February 02, 2006, 02:23:59 PM

I couldn't agree more Hope! I'll do some research on the other question.

pantherpride · February 02, 2006, 02:40:14 PM

First, here is Greenville's SLIAC Record (as of last night) is 78-71 (.523). I keep all that information. We are 768-811 (.486) as a program dating back to our first season of 1943-44. Anyone give me that info on your school??

I'm just trying to look intelligent. I'm not trying to show anyone up.

Second, fcnews. It was great meeting you and thanks for the props on last night. I have been in the business of announcing for about 10 years (dating back to my 8th grade year.) I use to do the same thing at Springs Valley HS (French Lick, Ind.) only I had a wireless mic. It was good times. I will admit that last night's crowd was the loudest and biggest since the 2003-04 Maryville/Greenville SLIAC Championship game where HJ had about 1200 people there. Remember that hopefan???

I was definately tickled to death to see the crowd come in white and support the team.

ON TO THE GAME: We just couldn't by a shot if we tried. Both Turner and Conquest had awful nights. The other guys played well. Just wished we could have hit a few more shots. We also could not get over the hump. As fcnews said, we got the game to 48-48 and hit the ice cubes. Not a thing from the team. Crowd was in it until the final horn.

I'm also going to give props to the FU ladies and crowd that was there to stay behind your team even with our crowd being really loud. Also must appologize to those who seen me yell at Coach McKinney. There was a mix up on the score and everyone was yelling at our score keeper of 5 or so years and he was as well. I did yell at him to quit yelling at her as I did other around. In the heat of the game and all that was going on, I got upset. So to those who seen me and heard me yell, i appologize to you. I also personally appologized to Coach McKinney and the coach staff.

So, where does that leave me? It leave me with a team in between a rock and a hard place. Six games left and the top four are really running away with it. I hope we can pull out a few more before the season ends.

fcnews · February 02, 2006, 04:09:40 PM

Panther Pride - That incident was forgotten when the final buzzer sounded. When your 6-13 you just fight for every bucket. Class act with the apology. The FU v. GC games have always been heated affairs, back to the Coach Faulkner days. But there is nothing but mutual respect and freindships between the two schools and staffs.

The Roop · February 02, 2006, 06:13:08 PM

I don't know anything about this conference but I wanted to post just once so I could have 4 posts in the new header at the same time. "The Roop" out.

fcnews · February 02, 2006, 06:15:31 PM

You need to get a life.

The Roop · February 02, 2006, 06:18:13 PM

And your conference needs to get a team capable of winning an NCAA game.

Daryl L Lloyd · February 02, 2006, 07:37:27 PM

You have to be able to come up with a better comeback than that "The Roop." We accept anything from calling people pedophiles to overweight playstation addicts. Just please come up with something better than calling out the conference when FC hits you with a personal insult, its not the conferences fault after all.

The Roop · February 02, 2006, 07:40:26 PM

Good point Daryl,

So anyway fcnews, does your wife still talk in her sleep

fcnews · February 02, 2006, 08:15:28 PM

She did when I divorced her 6 years ago.

fcnews · February 02, 2006, 08:17:19 PM

Daryl what was the problem with the score last nite. Heard something about a discrepiensie.

The Roop · February 02, 2006, 08:23:02 PM

6 years ago, hmmmmmmmmmm. Nope, not her, but I still like that joke anyway. LOL.

Daryl L Lloyd · February 02, 2006, 08:23:48 PM

FC: I dont know about the men's game, I was only able to watch the first half before something came up. I do know that in the women's game they played with a mens ball for a good part of the first half, thats the only incident that occured last night as far as I know. I believe hopefan was there, so perhaps he can shed some light on this.