St. Louis

Looks like St. Louis has found it's way into the AP top 25 this week. They have some nice wins on their schedule, Washington, Villanova, Boston College and Oklahoma and just took home the 76 classic crown. Interestingly, their leading scorer and rebounder, Brian Conklin is from Eugene. This could be a tough matchup for us. They play LMU tomorrow, and maybe on Saturday we can knock them out of the unbeaten ranks and the top 25. I'm really looking forward to finding the hotel Majerus lives in and heckling him all night long!

You better make the trek or take the flight to St. Louis this year; it looks like the closest your Pilots will get to La Crosse next year is Lexington, KY and Athens, OH.

Are you going to wear a KFC bucket on your head while you heckle him? That's what the WSU fans did back in the day.

450 miles, 8-1/2 hours, piece of cake!

mattywizz wrote:Looks like St. Louis has found it's way into the AP top 25 this week. They have some nice wins on their schedule, Washington, Villanova, Boston College and Oklahoma and just took home the 76 classic crown. Interestingly, their leading scorer and rebounder, Brian Conklin is from Eugene. This could be a tough matchup for us. They play LMU tomorrow, and maybe on Saturday we can knock them out of the unbeaten ranks and the top 25. I'm really looking forward to finding the hotel Majerus lives in and heckling him all night long!

Well, they are no longer unbeaten: LMU 75 St. Louis 68 in LA last night

Congrats to LMU for beating SLU in LA last night.... A big win for the WCC for sure!!

Hopefully we can make it 2 in a row on Saturday, but playing them in St. Louis, after them losing last night, is not an easy task... they will be anxious to bounce back.

IronLions, are you around? Any insight on how you were able to beat them?

Let's show the A-10 why they were too scared to step into the A10-WCC challenge. At least that is why I am assuming it never happened (even if it never was an option). Very much looking forward to my first live Pilots game in far too long.

Just read the write-up in the Post Dispatch, doesn't say much about the game. Mostly about how the SLU players are happy to be home after being on the road for about a week. Ten hours to tip. Goooooo Pilots!

Having dinner at a small brewpub surrounded by Bilikens and enjoying a tasty black IPA. Even more excited to see my (our) Pilots than I expected!

Warmups looked good. I think we're ready!

Bilikenjust touched rim in warm ups. Game should start with Nem at free throw line.

Is Nem our best FT shooter?

Kevin Bailey and Ryan Nicholas are both shooting a higher percentage while taking and making more FTs per game. But Nem is still over 80% so it wouldn't be a bad move at all.

I just hope we shoot a high percentage in the game. We´ve been outrebounding our opponents consistently, but, we need to shoot better...

Whatever happened to mesapilot1? Was he finally involuntarily committed?