MBB: St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

WUPHF · June 23, 2021, 04:13:10 PM

Quote from: WUPHF on June 18, 2021, 03:04:44 PM
Maybe we will see another Webster-Rust College match-up soon enough.

I wonder where he came up with that idea, lol.

hopefan · June 24, 2021, 01:02:28 PM

Quote from: WUPHF on June 23, 2021, 04:13:10 PM
Quote from: WUPHF on June 18, 2021, 03:04:44 PM
Maybe we will see another Webster-Rust College match-up soon enough.

I wonder where he came up with that idea, lol.

Wrong... ha ha ha.... didn't note your previous post... I had a great time going to Holly Springs to see Webster at Rust back in the day.... historical campus, very friendly students at the game.... and the real south town of Holly Springs was a pleasure to see.... one of the best D3 road trips I ever took...
Personally, I am totally against adding Mississippi Womens College to the SLiAC.... the lengthy trips involved are beyond reasonable for a D3 student athlete....I see nothing wrong with an 8 team conference, there have always been 8 team conferences in D3. I don't get it....

Gregory Sager · June 24, 2021, 01:38:37 PM

Quote from: hopefan on June 24, 2021, 01:02:28 PM
Personally, I am totally against adding Mississippi Womens College to the SLiAC.... the lengthy trips involved are beyond reasonable for a D3 student athlete....I see nothing wrong with an 8 team conference, there have always been 8 team conferences in D3. I don't get it....

Insurance. The SLIAC has already lost MacMurray to closure and Iowa Wesleyan to the NAIA. And who knows how healthy the remaining schools are?

I doubt that Mississippi University for Women plans to make an extended sojourn in the SLIAC. It's probably just a marriage of convenience for both MUW and the SLIAC. Then again, I said the same thing about Spalding, and yet that school is still in the league a dozen years later.

WUPHF · June 24, 2021, 05:57:50 PM

The SLIAC would be wise to add any school they can.

GU1999 · July 08, 2021, 05:41:17 PM

GU has posed a partial schedule. The already scheduled non-conference looks great. Love challenging your team early. This will be a huge challenge. Not 4 d1 schools on the road in 8 days in 4 states like last year, but...

Nov. 5 vs. Whitworth @ Spokane Wash.
Nov. 6 vs. Pacific @ Spokane Wash.
Nov. 13 @ North Central (Ill.)
Nov. 17 @   Loras
Nov. 20 v. North Park
Dec. 14 @   Wis.-Whitewater
Jan 1 @ Millikin

WUPHF · July 28, 2021, 08:14:16 PM

Fontbonne, Principia and Westminster have posted schedules.

Interestingly, Fontbonne, Principia and Webster all play former SLIAC rival Maryville as exhibitions.

Principia hosts Grinnell which is their first visit to the St. Louis area in quite awhile (I think) as does Westminster. Probably a good way to prepare for Greenville.

Fontbonne and Westminster both play at Washington University.

y_jack_lok · July 29, 2021, 09:35:57 AM

^^^ I went back to the archives. Grinnell came to St. Louis to play Fontbonne on January 31, 2010. Grinnell won 121-98. Lee McKinney was still the head coach at Fontbonne. That's the only time I can recall Grinnell coming here. But my memory for these things isn't the best.

WUPHF · July 29, 2021, 01:09:57 PM

Thanks for that!

I may have to go to this Fontbonne game just so I can check Grinnell off my #d3hoops bucket list, though Greenville has surely become the more interesting System team.

hopefan · July 29, 2021, 01:23:56 PM

I remember the Fontbonne-Grinnell game of 2008-9.... Grinnell came out and shot uncanny the first several minutes... built a big early lead and Fontbonne could never get close.... But what a shootout.. 163-145... This was the very good Fontbonne team, McCoy, Storandt, Fogerty

Grinnell also played Principia in 2010-11...Grinnell won 150-90... Prin Current Coach Todd Zimmerman played in that game......I would expect this year's game could be even worse, if Prin elects to put a team on the court..... With the Covid number rising again, I could hardly blame them for sitting a second season out....

y_jack_lok · July 29, 2021, 07:29:20 PM

My mistake. My research was too hasty. I was looking at the game Fontbonne played AT Grinnell in 2010. I, too, was at the game in Saint Louis on January 5, 2009.

WUPHF · July 30, 2021, 04:38:00 PM

And speaking of things that have not happened in a while...

The Washington University schedule includes 5 games against SLIAC opponents including Fontbonne, Westminster and the previously mentioned home and away against Webster, along with a road game at Blackburn. The Bears have not played Blackburn since 2015-2016.

I have been in the Blackburn gym but have never seen a game there so road trip.

https://washubears.com/sports/mbkb/2021-22/schedule

Ralph Turner · July 30, 2021, 09:29:38 PM

Quote from: Gregory Sager on June 24, 2021, 01:38:37 PM
Quote from: hopefan on June 24, 2021, 01:02:28 PM
Personally, I am totally against adding Mississippi Womens College to the SLiAC.... the lengthy trips involved are beyond reasonable for a D3 student athlete....I see nothing wrong with an 8 team conference, there have always been 8 team conferences in D3. I don't get it....

Insurance. The SLIAC has already lost MacMurray to closure and Iowa Wesleyan to the NAIA. And who knows how healthy the remaining schools are?

I doubt that Mississippi University for Women plans to make an extended sojourn in the SLIAC. It's probably just a marriage of convenience for both MUW and the SLIAC. Then again, I said the same thing about Spalding, and yet that school is still in the league a dozen years later.

Done.

My suggestion for MUW is to move to the D2 Gulf South Conference when they can.

y_jack_lok · July 30, 2021, 10:45:04 PM

Quote from: WUPHF on July 30, 2021, 04:38:00 PM
And speaking of things that have not happened in a while...

The Washington University schedule includes 5 games against SLIAC opponents including Fontbonne, Westminster and the previously mentioned home and away against Webster, along with a road game at Blackburn. The Bears have not played Blackburn since 2015-2016.

I have been in the Blackburn gym but have never seen a game there so road trip.

https://washubears.com/sports/mbkb/2021-22/schedule

Blackburn's gym is the second smallest that I've been in for a college basketball game. The smallest -- Alumni Gym at Randolph-Macon my freshman year. It's still there, physically connected to Crenshaw Gym which opened my sophomore year and is still in use with plans for another renovation in the works.

WUPHF · July 31, 2021, 07:28:16 PM

Quote from: y_jack_lok on July 30, 2021, 10:45:04 PM
Blackburn's gym is the second smallest that I've been in for a college basketball game. The smallest -- Alumni Gym at Randolph-Macon my freshman year. It's still there, physically connected to Crenshaw Gym which opened my sophomore year and is still in use with plans for another renovation in the works.

If schedules align, I'll bring you along.

Otherwise, I'll see you at least twice this season, hopefully.

y_jack_lok · July 31, 2021, 11:56:55 PM

Quote from: WUPHF on July 31, 2021, 07:28:16 PM
Quote from: y_jack_lok on July 30, 2021, 10:45:04 PM
Blackburn's gym is the second smallest that I've been in for a college basketball game. The smallest -- Alumni Gym at Randolph-Macon my freshman year. It's still there, physically connected to Crenshaw Gym which opened my sophomore year and is still in use with plans for another renovation in the works.

If schedules align, I'll bring you along.

Otherwise, I'll see you at least twice this season, hopefully.

That would be fun. I've always liked Blackburn because my father-in-law taught there. Been to games there many times, most recently for a men's/women's double header vs Webster a couple of seasons ago. Not sure about the virus, though, and how it might affect fan attendance at various campuses and if I want to spend multiple hours in that type of environment, even being fully vaccinated. Time will tell.