SLIAC

[HCACBBALL]

I have always loved the if situations.  It looks Knight shot and score more than usual.  She must of picked up the slack for Greger.  I am sure Knox still wins with Greger playings.  Lets see how Eureka does on conf play.

[y_jack_lok]

Webster beats Fontbonne 82-76 in OT. Not a very good game by either team, really, in spite of the number of points scored. Started out quite slow, as if all the players had just rolled out of bed and were trying to wake up. Nor was it a good game by the officials, although it was what I'd call equal opportunity poor officiating in that I don't think either team got more benefit.

jdoug, I think Lauren is starting to get back into a groove. She didn't play alot and looked rusty her first couple of times on the floor, but late in the game she played well.

[hopefan]

Prediction - Webster will quickly become next year's conference leader with the departure of Maryville  -  they have a very good frosh class, with quickness size and athleticism  -  if this year's recruiting class can come in with a pure perimeter shooter and perhaps one athletic rebounder, they will have ALL the components including great depth....   Really had fun watching them last night, and 9 of 12 players were FROSH

[NO RESPECT]

All I can say about this comment is....WOW!!!!

[y_jack_lok]

Hey coach. hopefan hasn't seen your team play, and really doesn't follow the women's teams very closely, so he hasn't seen many of the others, either. In fact, I expect other than that WU/FU game the Eureka/ Maryville game is the only other time he's seen all or most of two SLIAC women's teams playing against one another. But he has fun making these kinds of statements and if it stirs up conversation on the board, all the better. So I like it when he crosses over to the women's side and helps start a conversation, which there is too little of.

[hopefan]

Hrrrummph...  While I have not seen much ladies hoops this year, I saw everyone last year, and I make my staement more in a comparative mode to the talent level last year than in any comparison to this year's teams. 

1) I haven't seen any player in the SLIAC like Myrtie Reilly - she's 6'3", she knows how to play with a background at St Joe's, and she has outstanding shooting form.   If she lifts a little, and plays more aggreesive,and smarter defense - she will be a dominant force. 

2) Point Guard Courtney Brown - quick, aggressive - on the out of control side, but gets alot accomplished, and could be coached to tone it down

3) Small forward Ayrica Locket - offensive minded, aggressive around the basket, jumps

add to that the leadership of to be senior Julie McGirl, a pretty decent soph forward in Katie Meyer, and several other Freshman who all showed talent, and it's a pretty good nucleus  -   to me, a slightly better talent level than I've been watching the last several years from all but Maryville.....

[sully309]

Blackburn beat Eureka 64-49 Wednesday. BC started the game shooting very well and led 13-0.  Eureka never got closer than 5 the rest of the way, but never fell behind by more than the final deficit of 15. A 10-0 run by Blackburn to close the 1st half really killed the Red Devils' chances I thought.

Shipley hurt EC with 19 points, which is impressive since she only took 11 shots and mostly scored off offensive rebounds. EC did a decent job of keeping the ball out of her hands. Johnson had 15 in the 2nd half for Blackburn and finished with 21. She has a nice outside touch and is a good addition to the Blackburn team.

There was a lot of standing around by both teams in the second half, which made the game a little difficult to watch. It should be noted that BC played the game without Hawkey. From looking at the stats, she is a key player for Blackburn, but they didn't seem to miss her much.

Eureka was led by Byard with 20 and Crum with 15. EC didn't do a very good job of taking control of the paint with their size advantage thanks to too many missed shots in close. Most of them were contested, but by shorter players.

EC plays Principia, who lost to MacMurray, but came back to beat Knox Thursday (despite Knox having beaten Mac by 14 earlier this season).

[furbug]

furbug's fearless forecast - fired-up Webster Lady Gorloks win over Maryville Wednesday night.

[y_jack_lok]

Very cool. I got hopefan riled up. Hrrrummph yourself, hopefan.

I agree with your observations about the Webster players. And in fact, Courtney Brown has already toned it down a bit from earlier in the season.

Still, there are several teams you haven't seen play, and all schools will be bringing in new players next year. So I think it's very bold of you to make the prediction you did in the first post which kicked all this off.

[hopefan]

reminds me of a soap  -  the bold and beautiful......

[hopefan]

speaking of bold - let's not overlook furbug's prognostication........  At least I didn't say they could play with No 1!!!!

[gottaluvhoops]

Not to burst any bubbles but I have seen a few conferences play and the SLIAC is not a very competitive league (outside of Maryville).  All of the other teams would finish near the bottom of the more competitive conferences in the Midwest (i.e. CCIW, WIAC, MIAC, IIAC, etc.)

[hopefan]

not to burst YOUR bubble, but the knowlegeable fans that post here are well aware of that fact, no matter how stupid we may apear to be...

[gottaluvhoops]

Sorry!  Didn't mean to come across like that at all.  I was just saying in general from games that I have seen over the past two years.  I really enjoy reading your posts and am glad to see so much support for your conference.  Best of luck to all the teams the rest of the way.

[hopefan]

just giving the tease love hooper - Friday afternoon with games coming up over the weekend do that to me.....