Pilots at Santa Clara – Thursday @ 7pm

It is expected the Broncos will again be without the services of leading scorer Kevin Foster. As a result of an incident Jan. 21, Foster will be withheld from competition pending the outcome of the University's student judicial process (he also missed the LMU, USF and Pepperdine games).

DoubleDipper wrote:This just posted on the Santa Clara Athletic website:

It is expected the Broncos will again be without the services of leading scorer Kevin Foster. As a result of an incident Jan. 21, Foster will be withheld from competition pending the outcome of the University's student judicial process (he also missed the LMU, USF and Pepperdine games).

Portland Pilots (5-17, 2-7) at Santa Clara Broncos (8-13, 0-8 )
Date: Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012
Tip-off: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Santa Clara, Calif.
Arena: Leavey Center (4,500)
Television: ESPNU
Radio: 800 AM
Overall Series: 28-55
At UP: 20-20
At SCU: 7-31
At Neutral: 1-4
Last: POR 84, SCU 74 (January 5, 2012 at Portland)


COMING UP
• Portland (5-17, 2-7 WCC) looks to snap a six-game losing streak with a visit to the Santa Clara Broncos (8-13, 0-8 ) on Thursday at the Leavey Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. and the game will be televised live on ESPNU with Mark Neely and Mark Adams calling the action
• The Pilots will return home for a Saturday meeting with the newest member of the West Coast Conference, the BYU Cougars. Tip-off for Saturday’s game is set for 7 p.m. and the action will be televised live on BYUtv.
• All Portland basketball games will be broadcast live on True Talk 800 AM, with a 30-minute pregame show. Bill Johnson will call the action courtside and an audio simulcast will also be available on www.PilotsVideo.com.


ABOUT SANTA CLARA
• The Broncos (8-13, 0-8 ) remained winless in league action after dropping a 90-77 home game to San Francisco and 74-62 road contest at Pepperdine.
• Santa Clara has played the last three games without leading scorer Kevin Foster (17.8 ppg) and his status for Thursday is not known.
• The Broncos posted impressive non-conference wins over New Mexico (79-76, OT) and Villanova (65-64), but have dropped all eight league games by double digits.
• Sophomore Evan Roquemore averages 14.0 ppg and is 2nd in the WCC in assists (5.2).
• Sophomore F Niyi Harrison adds 10.7 ppg and a team-high 6.3 rebounds per game.
• Santa Clara won the 2011 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) and was picked to finish fifth in the WCC. SCU suffered a big blow when senior Marc Trasolini was lost for the season with a knee injury during a foreign tour in the summer.
• Kerry Keating is in his fifth season as the head coach and posts a 74-80 overall record.


LINEUP NOTES
• Senior PG Eric Waterford (knee) is out for Thursday.
• Sophomore C Riley Barker has missed the last 15 games (knee) and is also out for Thursday.
• Head coach Eric Reveno has used eight different starting lineups this year.
• Sophomore Ryan Nicholas is the only Pilot to start all 22 games this year, while 11 different Pilots have started at least one game.
• Three different freshmen have started at least four games.

DoubleDipper wrote:Just for fun, I like to see how others rate the teams in the WCC and what odds they are giving:

Pomeroy’s predicted score and % probability/Las Vegas odds: (neither gives odds on fan behavior at BYU)

SCU over UP 77-72 67%/SCU by 5
BYU over GU 75-72 61%/BYU by 3
LMU over PU 64-54 86%/LMU by 9.5
SMC over USD 83-59 97%/SMC by 19

PilotNut wrote:If we are able to pull off the win tonight, and SMC wins at home vs. USD, we would pull even with the Toreros at 3-7, tied for 6th place.

GO PILOTS!

blacksheep wrote:So according to Pomeroy, I should bet SMC! Everthing else is too close.

Rob's Jacket wrote:We scored off an inbounds play!

And won!