MBB: St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[hopefan]

ok dynasty, if I come, I'll wear my Hope sweatshirt and hat  -  and will come over and hollar where are dynasty and flipmasta!!!!???   But don't blame me for pullin for Fontbonne  (there is a first time for everything).

THEN I expect a little support for Maryville from the craz's in the first game on Thursday....  Curious - who would the craz's rather have their boys play on Saturday, Webster or MU??   From what I've seen written, it would seem like you guys might enjoy a shot at some revenge... 

Seriously, the important thing is to have fun with it  --  which is all I've seen from you guys --  don't let it get nasty...

[hopefan]

ok   the fun is over  let's get down to serious prognastication!!!!!

Tomorrow nite!!

Maryville at Prin  -   I can't find anything serious about this game - MU needs to play hard, get alot of minutes for the bench that could come in handy for the weekend,  and MOST important, NO ONE get hurt.

Font at Blackburn  -  Fontbonne's win on Saturday lets Blackburn know that they can't just show up  -  too bad  -  Blackburn , really,  it was a fluke  -  Fontbonne can't play  - no size, no shooters, no quickness, no freshmen  .. Blackburn starters don't even need to show up - just join the crazies...   AND if you believe that, I have a deed for acouple of bridges over the Mississippi that I'd like to sell you, and oh yeah, give me a quick mill, and I'll give you that winning powerball ticket I bought up in Nebraska....     
Fontbonne has the size and the quickness to give Blackburn a tough game  -  but can they carry their great finish one more game???  AS FC said, this is the Griff's championship game.

Greenville at Webster  -  I'd love to see Greenville win one for pantherpride - he's a heckofa good guy, and I'll sorely miss his fun style at Greenville games in the future.  Except to correct whatever problems occurred vs Font, this game is meaningless for Webster - they finish 3rd whether they win or lose, and will play MU at Blackburn unless Fontbonne scores the big upset, in which case theyll finish 3rd and play Blackburn at MU.
Wonder if Hoggit ever got some guts and called up that young lady that Kevin Slaten set him up with....  I don't know, I hear he's awful shy with the girls.   

Mac at Westmin  -  Another meaningless game as far as the standings go-  I'm sure Westmin would love to get back on line after their horrendous 2nd half at Blackburn.  I'm thinking this game won't be too close.

[hopefan]

ok sliac commish and sliac personnel   --  here's three more questions/suggestions   -  on top of my feelings regarding facility requirements of the host school.

1)  With a four team conference tourney, why not consider allowing the 2nd place team to host the 2-3 game, to give them a reward too?  What sense does it make for 2-3 to go to 1 to play their game.  Benefits - one less team has to travel, no seating problems with 4 teams at one court, more regular season games have the potential to be extremely meaningful.

2)  Why not have the highest remaining seed left host the championship game  -  currently,no sense at all, if, for instance, Westminster upsets Blackburn, that they have to make the long trip to Fulton only to turn around and come all the way back to Carlinville to play MU/Webster.  I realize that Friday's come into play with rotation with the women -  move the first round to Wednesday Thursday so if a surprize host appeared, they have Friday to prepare.

3) Why is the SLIAC the only D3 conference in the Country playing conference games on Tuesday when their tourney is this weekend.  Especially with the possibility of a 4th place tiebreaker game in place.
Can you imagine if Mac and West had finished in a tie - play each other Tuesday in Fulton, Mac gets in at 3 in the morning, comes back to St louis to play tiebreaker game Wednesday, and winner plays in Carlinville thursday, and if they win, go home , come back to Carlinville on Saturday, but to play someone other than Blackburn.  There's got to be a better way   ... need a consultant, I'm available..
   

[flipmastaj]

Personally, as a proud member and one of the leaders of the Jo Co Crazies, i can say that between Webster and Maryville, we would rather see Maryville in the finals.  During the Webster game this year we had a player for the Webster team who needs not be mentioned (COREY! COREY! COREY!)... who tried taunting us during the game, we got our revenge when we won the game.  However, with Maryville, and the completely UNCLASSY fans they have, we would like to exact our revenge in that direction.  However, either way, we expect a good game to be played, and obviously cant wait for our Beavers to hold up their second consecutive Conf. Tourney Title.  (But we do have to show up first, and not let maryville carry over their momentum if they are who we will be playing).

Ill look for ya at the game hope... FLIPMASTA OUT!

[ganno65]

Flipmasta,
As master of the spirit fingers I am very concerned with your comments. Lets not provide any bulliten board material for FU! The conference is full of parody so I don't know that we can chalk up a win just yet. It will take a good game for BC to beat FU! The crazies must get crazy from here on out!!!
Hope,
As far as who I would like to see; I want to see Maryville! The way the fans acted after the game just put a spur in my shorts. I concidered the MU fans good fans but after their actions at the conclusion of the game it made me retract my thoughts about them...
I work in the maintenance department at Blackburn and I will voice some of your concerns for seating to my bosses and see if they can come up with anything to ease some of your fears!!!
Dynasty and FlipMastaJ welcome to the discusion and keep it clean and please no more bulliten board material!!!

[pantherpride]

I'll let you guys battle all this conf. tournament stuff out.  We're not in it anymore.  But, wanted to give a shout-out to the MacMurray Readers out there at I spoke with last week in Jacksonville.   It is nice knowing there are some other people out there reading.... (women.)    Thanks for saying hi.

Thanks for the kind words hopefan.  We want to get one more and go out on a positive note.  We will see what we can do!

[fcnews]

Congrats to FU freshmen Justin Storandt on being chosen SLIAC Player of the week. Two more points going into tommorrows game. Conference scoring title on the line McCoy going heads up against Hammond. Also Storandt needs a productive game to lock up rebounding honors. Two freshmen that will be tough to keep off all conference ballots.

[Gregory Sager]

3) Why is the SLIAC the only D3 conference in the Country playing conference games on Tuesday when their tourney is this weekend.

The CCIW has a regular-season game on Wednesday. The fact that it does not involve one of the four teams in the CCIW tournament (which starts Friday) is merely a happy coincidence.

[dynasty22]

Almost game time.
Go Beavers.

[pantherpride]

Results from Webster Groves, Mo.

Webster 84 - Greenville 78.

This was a great game for the fans at Webster.  Greenville jumped out early behind Matt Greene (25).  Greene had 15 first half points.  The big key in tonight's ball game came down to none other than fouls and free throws.  Here's the line.

Greenville:  29 Fouls (18 in 2nd Half).  9-12 FT. Four (4) Foul Outs.
Webster:    15 Fouls ( 9 in 2nd Half). 33-41 FT. No Foul Outs.

Greenville was assessed with fouls they deserved.  Some ticky tack.  But Webster got away with a TON.  Oh well.

Final Numbers.  First for Webster...

Leading Scorer: Corey Kuhn (24) with 28 points.  Hit three clutch three's to bring Webster back into the game and hit 17-18 FT's.  He scored 26 of his 28 in the 2nd half.  Darin Hoggatt (32) had 15.

For Greenville, Greene (25) was the high man with 24.  Ben Hensold (12) tallied 17, Josh Ream (22) had 13, and senior Bryson Taylor (11) ended his career with 10 points.

Final Score: Webster d. Greenville 84-78.

As for me, i'm also a senior and this was my final game of basketball at Greenville.  It's been a ride.  Three sub-500 seasons and one fantastic season at 19-8.  However, I have to say that this years Greenville team is young and we have had out struggles on the floor, but they are the greatest bunch of guys anyone could ask to work with.

  Thanks to all who contribute to the game I love so, Basketball.

[WebsterWatcher]

Kuhn and Hoggat did play well tonight, a lot of shots from the free throw line, and a bit were tacky. Anyone know of the truth that Kuhn's finger is broken??? I heard some people talking about it in the stands, i noticed it was taped up against Fontbonne and tonight. Hopefully these Gorlocks can get back to there midseason form. After that trip up against the griffins. Good Luck Gorlocks at Blackburn.

[fcnews]

Sorry STL Fans BC by 12 - It was not a good nite for the youngen's.

Hope it was very nice to finally meet you and chat. Sorry for the wasted trip.

[dynasty22]

Great game by the Beavers. They played with a lot of intensity and just kept pushin the whole way.
The SLIAC tourny will be at the Beaver Dome. A place where everyone should fear playin.
Best of luck to everyone, just not when they play us!

Hopefan - It was great meetin you, and don't forget our offer about the shirt!

Go BC

[Beaver_SID]

I work as Blackburn's student SID. To answer some of hopefans questions about the tourny,

1) the purpose for the tourny only being held in one location, Finishing first in the SLIAC grants the team the rights to host the tournament. This also means home court advantage throughout the tourny, not to many teams want to give that up.

2) Again winning the confrence permits you to have homecourt advantage throughout the tournament, this means the amount of travel needed by the schools is not a factor for the SLIAC rules and regulations, home court advantage is home court advantage.

3) Good question!!! SLIAC does need to adress this issue even though the tournament is set, a tie like that would be pretty rough on a team, but by SLIAC regulations the team would have to make the trips. Also, I'm not to sure on the tie breaker rules but I will get back to you on those b/c I think there are a couple other deciding factors before a tie-breaker game is needed.

[fcnews]

Panther Pride we bid you a fond farewell and all the best for you in the future. It was a pleasure meeting you. Your enthusiasm will definately be missed. Best wishes from all at FU.