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5 Keys for Success: SLU Conference Tournament Preview

The Saint Louis University Billikens come into Washington D.C. as a team that at times has looked like one of the best squads in the country, but one that has also struggled mightily to put together a full 40 minutes of good basketball against a good team. If the Billikens want to go dancing, they …

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The A10 Tournament Preview

Here we go. It’s tourney time! The Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament starts this week with all 14 teams fighting to get that coveted automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. This is the first time that the conference tournament will be back to normal after the 2020 cancellation and the 2021 social spaced out event in …

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A10 Bracketology Update – 2/24/22

It’s been a cool nine days of games since the last bracketology update. If you want to review what I wrote last time out, you can check that out here Since then, the games have been played, but not much has changed. We have four clear bracket-chasers in the A10, but no less until …

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Just Win Baby: Dayton Heads to Hawk Hill on Saturday to face Saint Joe’s

The Haunted House of Hagan Arena Brian Gregory never won there. Archie Miller never won there. Anthony Grant has won there once. Before Grant won there, the last Dayton win at Hagan Arena was in the 2001-2002 season, during the time of head coach Oliver Purnell. That’s a span of 18 years and 7 games. …

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Analyzing the 2022 Player of the Year Candidates

Player of the Year in the Atlantic 10 is always a fun subject to talk about. There are so many factors to think about and discuss pertaining to this award. Who led the league in scoring? Who was the most important player on their respective team? Who dominated the league from start to finish? We …

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A10 Bracketology Update – 2/15/22

It hasn’t been the greatest season for the Atlantic 10 thus far. We have pretty much seen enough to call it for the teams that have a chance at an at-large berth and who just has no shot. Let’s take a look at the teams who are in the hunt for the NCAA Tournament and …

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Dayton is Building Momentum at the Right Time

The Dayton Flyers are playing their best basketball at the right time. Dayton took care of business last week, dominating Duquesne and George Washington, both by 20+ points. The Flyers got the job done, and better yet, moved up greatly in an analytical standpoint. As of this writing. the Flyers are #53 on KenPom, which …

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Bonnies to Face Red-Hot Billikens in St. Louis on Friday

ST. LOUIS – Back on Oct. 27, two weeks before their first game, the season seemed to be over for the St. Louis Billikens (17-6, 8-2 Conference). On that Wednesday evening, in an exhibition game against Rockhurst University, Javonte Perkins, the star of this St. Louis squad, suffered a torn ACL in his left knee …

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SLU Exorcises its ArchBaron Cup Demons

In 1949, Jesuit priests from Saint Louis University performed an exorcism on a thirteen year-old boy. There aren’t a lot of concrete details known about it, but it forms the basis for the novel and the movie The Exorcist. On Saturday afternoon, a different sort of exorcism took place, in front of 10,000 people in …

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Yuri Collins Went Supernova

There’s a perception in some corners that Yuri Collins is overrated, that doesn’t get why Saint Louis Billikens fans won’t shut up on social media about this undersized point guard who can’t shoot very well, has middling advanced stats, and doesn’t score much. The nation’s leading assist leader, Collins was even left off the Cousy …