MBB: St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[hopefan]

wow...+1 Denny for letting me know early..

So far. 3 of 5 games postponed... Mac at Westmin, Fontbonne at Iowa Wes, Blackburn at Spalding

2 games still listed as on.. as of 1 AM
Webster at Prin
Greenville at Eureka

Safety is no 1 consideration.. now I'll have to debate going over to Prin if that game is still on...

[y_jack_lok]

Safety is no 1 consideration.. now I'll have to debate going over to Prin if that game is still on...

If you go, don't get lost in a snow drift on the campus.

[hopefan]

Safety is no 1 consideration.. now I'll have to debate going over to Prin if that game is still on...

If you go, don't get lost in a snow drift on the campus.

Started the day off by forgetting my phone as i left for work... so I'm not going.. 

[hopefan]

Other two games ended up postponed too

[hopefan]

Thursday shows a full slate of 5 SLIAC games... 4 of them are intriguing matchups..

Not so intriguing is Blackburn at Mac.. though one could say that it will be a good warmup for Blackburn to prepare for their game with Principia on Saturday... likely the best shot that BC has for a win the remainder of the season...  those of you who follow the undefeated and winless room on this site know I'll be rooting for Prinicipia in that matchup...   but this game, Mac by 25... more except Coach Creal is a good guy...
 
Eureka takes the long trip to Spalding...  at their best Eureka beat Webster, at their worst they got manhandled by Westminster... which is the real Eureka?  Spalding's narrow escape over Fontbonne shows thay are not invincible, even at home... would love to see Eureka score the upset, just to keep things interesting...

Prin at Iowa Wesleyan....  1st place or last place... I love even games... This is a great opportunity to gain a little pride in the season for each of these teams... I was surprised when Iowa Wes beat Blackburn... curious how this one will turn out, but gotta root for those Prin seniors who've worked so long... they deserve a couple more wins

Greenville at Fontbonne... at first glance this might be an obvious Greenville win.. but like I've been preaching, i'm thinking the spalding game may have signalled the beginning of something new for the Griffs... a stability we hadn't seen... hope it continues... you know Greenville and coach Barber are favorites of mine, but in this one.. GO Griffs!!!

Westminster at Webster... Game of the night.. Webster got it handed to them in the 2nd half vs Wash U, but they looked very good in the 1st half... the step back to SLIAC competition, plus the home court, has to make them favorites... how can Westmin deal with the Miller/Huskey duo... can Westmin match Webster's depth? Does their personnel match Webster's?   BUT BUT BUT.. i consider Matt Mitchell one of the premier coaches in the conference... more often than not, he finds a way...
AND by the way... should be a pretty darned good ladies' matchup too in the first game..

If you're reading this... Get to a Game!!!!

[Joevegas]

Hopefan,   It's great u are positive about Fontbonne.  That they can still turn some portion of the season around.  I hope so too but I just don't see it.   Losing a 15 point lead like they did was just devastating to the kids.  Like I said from a previous post, there is to much fighting with the program and just no one to lead these kids out of this losing funk they are in.  Most the blame has to go on the coaching.   But I am like you I only hope it can turn around.  The feedback that is coming back to vegas coaches from  a fontbonne team  that has five vegas kids isn't positive.  But even without the vegas kids this team has the youthful talent to win.  They just need to know they can win.  That's the coaches job.   I also say go griffins and go get that win tomorrow. 

[y_jack_lok]

New schedule to deal with making up Tuesday's postponed games: http://sliac.org/Releases/2013-14/snow14

[hopefan]

  The feedback that is coming back to vegas coaches from  a fontbonne team  that has five vegas kids isn't positive.

I'd be curious about WHICH Vegas kids are giving negative feeback...and what that negative feedback might be... then I'd give my opinion whether it's justified or not....

[hopefan]

In the mean time... weather is nasty again... hope tonight's games are all able to be played.. could be tough travelling... roads in St Louis range from snow packed to at least slushy, and it is snowing currently....

THANKS Yjack, for posting the article on the rescheduling... good move by the commish to move the Wednesday games to Tuesday to allow a slot for Thursday makeups, .... rather than random scheduling...

[Denny McKinney]

JoeVegas - I don't know if you plan on responding to Hopefan's request for names and reasons. BUT, if you do. Please do it by Private Message! That is not the kind of thing you put on a public forum. The request would just be selling the Kids out. I think that is easy to see!!! There are a lot of coaches that read this site. It would be a death nail for those Kids that aren't happy, at this time. Don't take the bait. Use the PM!!!!

[Joevegas]

Denny,  I had no intention on naming any players. You are so correct that it would be the death nail for the players that may have said something    But what I heard was directly  from coaches in our area. Not directly from any kids. 

[hopefan]

JoeVegas - I don't know if you plan on responding to Hopefan's request for names and reasons.  Don't take the bait.

Denny, saying i'd be curious to know who and what is NOT asking for a response of JoeV... I'd be curious to know a gazillion things about SLIAC hoops, but I wouldn't expect direct posted answers...

What I am inferring is that I would defend Coach Shafer and Fontbonne basketball if I did know.....

[Denny McKinney]

Hopefan - Curious or whatever. You inquired WHICH, before you would give your opinion. I know Mr. Joe is a new contributer to this board and I just wanted to head off a bad situation. From Joe's previous posts it pretty clear who he is speaking of. That's All.

[Denny McKinney]

Well I got a +1 and -1 Karma today? I guess 50/50 ain't bad.

[hopefan]

3PM and no cancels... looks like we're playin'!!!!