MizzouMarv wrote: ↑08 Jan 2026 14:18 pm
I'm a one team guy. I've lived in STL for over 40 years & as a Mizzou grad have always been vexed at the media attention for the Billikens over Mizzou here. For example, the SLU/VCU game got first billing over Mizzou's win over KY last night on all the TV sports segments. Granted SLU is here & Mizzou is 125 miles away, but SLU is a private school that just happens to have the same name as the city & Mizzou is the state university.
SLU is good this year & could win the A-10. I'll give them their props, but to the STL press they're always just about to win the NC. Winning at VCU isn't exactly like winning at Rupp!
I would like to see a regular scheduled game with SLU (I'd get to catch a Mizzou game without the 250-mile drive). Maybe they'll meet if both make The Dance, but there's a long way to go (for both teams) although SLU's path through the A-10 is a bit easier. Good luck to both.
The A-10 is a joke. The Billikens have played one P4 team, Stanford, and lost.
Following SLU was a lot more fun when Spoon was coach and they were in the old Metro Conference with Marquette, Memphis and Cincinnati, etc. Very competitive conference. I don't dislike SLU now. I just don't care.
MIZ!
Don't blame them for the conference they are in and trying to climb doing it. Again, the hill to climb. You might be watching it now.
If Schertz stays, I think you are.
And btw Stanford is no joke...they beat Louisville and it took a miracle play to beat Slu at the buzzer at home.
Don't blame them for the conference they are in and trying to climb doing it.
Actually, wouldn't they be better off in the Valley? Much less travel, play teams that we know, fans of conference opponents would travel to games in STL bringing in $, conference tourney down the street & the A-10 doesn't usually get any more teams in The Dance than the Valley.
MizzouMarv wrote: ↑08 Jan 2026 14:18 pm
I'm a one team guy. I've lived in STL for over 40 years & as a Mizzou grad have always been vexed at the media attention for the Billikens over Mizzou here. For example, the SLU/VCU game got first billing over Mizzou's win over KY last night on all the TV sports segments. Granted SLU is here & Mizzou is 125 miles away, but SLU is a private school that just happens to have the same name as the city & Mizzou is the state university.
SLU is good this year & could win the A-10. I'll give them their props, but to the STL press they're always just about to win the NC. Winning at VCU isn't exactly like winning at Rupp!
I would like to see a regular scheduled game with SLU (I'd get to catch a Mizzou game without the 250-mile drive). Maybe they'll meet if both make The Dance, but there's a long way to go (for both teams) although SLU's path through the A-10 is a bit easier. Good luck to both.
The A-10 is a joke. The Billikens have played one P4 team, Stanford, and lost.
Following SLU was a lot more fun when Spoon was coach and they were in the old Metro Conference with Marquette, Memphis and Cincinnati, etc. Very competitive conference. I don't dislike SLU now. I just don't care.
MIZ!
Don't blame them for the conference they are in and trying to climb doing it. Again, the hill to climb. You might be watching it now.
If Schertz stays, I think you are.
And btw Stanford is no joke...they beat Louisville and it took a miracle play to beat Slu at the buzzer at home.
2 A-10 teams made the NCAAT last year. And SLU has not played 1 ranked team this year. Wake me up when they beat a good team. Stanford's NET ranking is 69.
