Game 18: Saint Louis University, Saturday, January 14th, 2:30 PM, NBCSN

[Washingtonian]

16 point favorite according to Vegas Insider.

 

[MasonFanatic]

Bishop is the guy who killed us in the PIG last March.

 

[Cedric Dempsey]

I'm getting a bit nervous with some of the upsets this week in the A10. LaSalle as 12 pt underdogs won AT URI by 12 tonight and UMass beat Dayton last night. With us favored by 16.4 (rpiforecast) to 17 (kenpom), it's making me think that this is nothing is a sure thing. SLU, as the only team in the league without a conference win, is having a terrible year, but according to someone on their message board (posted by Pablo in this thread), they've started playing somewhat better.

Maybe I'm taking the wrong view on this. The A10 may be more wide-open than we've (or at least I've) thought. vcu and Richmond are the only 2 teams undefeated (4-0) in conference. Are they really that good?

My money is on DP's prep over a message board blogger from SLU. Defense first and run the offense with crisp ball movement.

 

[Washingtonian]

Now 14.5 point favorite, 135 over/under on Vegas Insider.

 

[smccart5]

There is no "Q&A" write up for this game, so my bet is we win. And on that note, i think we've lost every game we've done a Q&A on. It seems like a nice thing, but every time i see it i cringe because i know it's a death sentence

 

[JimP]

Bishop is the guy who killed us in the PIG last March.

Went back and looked - Bishop killed Mason in Fairfax. A guy off the bench named Bartley went for 24 while Roby scored 18 in the PIG game. Bishop actually didn't do much that game. Whatever - Mason needs to take care of business today.

 

[Pablo]

https://twitter.com/MasonMBB/status/819937358586007552

 

[jmckend1]

http://www.billikens.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27426-gm-over-the-bills-by-16/:

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"Well the good news is our trend line seems to ne pointed up. TOs are down ...we have improved by about 4 pts/gm. The bad news is as you can see by the spread ...4pts isn't enough. If we have another "good" game then we will lose by 12. We need to step it up a little more. To me this means 40 min of b-ball.Yesterday, was another good example. We played 36 min of good b-ball ( for more detail ..see post game analysis of Duq thread) Part of that issue is depth . When you have a number of good players it is easier to play 40 good min. Unfortunately, we don't have that luxury...which means either those who are playing well need to give another 10% or someone who is not doing much recently needs to step up.

The Bills (F+ ) will have a tougher opponent in GM ( B- ) than Duq ( C- ). GM like always, brings good guard play...led by their leading scorer Moore who also leads in assists and rebounds....coupled with Livingston their 2nd leading scorer and team leader in steals One thing different this year is that GM can't shoot 3's. They really only have 1 player who comes off the bench that can hit from the arc (Kier) But GM makes up for it with strong rebounding on both sides of the court especially on offense ( A ). GM strong suit is good defense especially on the 3 pt shot (A- ) We will have a tougher time putting up good numbers from beyond the arc after facing teams that don't defend the 3 very well. GM will have 13 TOs... if they wind up in single digits or a differential of 5 or more it will be ugly. Again I would like to see some games where we have less TOs than our opponent. As I pointed out in an earlier thread we have had only 1 game where we had less TOs than our opponent.

Bottom line...40 min of b-ball...TO differential needs to be even or better...and we need to keep shooting like we have recently."

I think we wear them down early in the second half and run away with it. Cuz I mean, seriously, Paulsen......

 

[Pablo]

Alan ‏@MasonFanatic 1h1 hour ago
Mason fans, we dodged the worst of the freezing rain, that means you have no excuse not to pack EagleBank Arena at 2:30pm! #SquashSLU

 

[Washingtonian]

Bishop is NOT going to play.


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[TweederGMU]

Goodguys 76
Elephant Insurance Mascot 63

 

[Bricker]

This is the worst thing I have ever seen in my entire life so far. What sport is this?

 

[Mason2005]

So bad right now

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[Bricker]

And it gets worse. I don't even recognize this team.

 

[MasonSAE4]

This is a joke

 

[GMU_DCU]

This team doesn't play well as a favorite. Was worried when I saw the line was so big. Moore picking up those two quick fouls really drained all energy out of this team.

 

[Bricker]

18 total fouls called so far. How many have been legit?

 

[Bricker]

This team doesn't play well as a favorite. Was worried when I saw the line was so big. Moore picking up those two quick fouls really drained all energy out of this team.

They all look like they don't want to be there. Just standing around with blank looks on their faces-- at least that's what it looks like on TV.

 

[Haxormax]

the ol' go down early to build up STL and break em down. I like it.

 

[GMU_DCU]

Double digit turnovers in the first half