College Basketball Season 2024-2025

[MHettel]

I grew up there, and I'd disagree with you. Yeah Cardinal baseball is one and Soccer is 2 especially at the youth level, with hockey and bb at 3 but people care about basketball. The amount of high d1 college basketball players and NBA players recently that have come up there is pretty strong.

Yeah I grew up there too. And I’m saying it’s not a basketball town. That’s relative to cities like Cincy, Indy and Louisville.

Soccer is a HUGE deal in STL. It has displaced basketball in a sense.

Interest just isn’t broadly high in StL about basketball. The fact that Tatum and Beal and a few other guys are from there doesn’t just translate to excitement for SLU. This discussion is about why SLU is t more successful and it’s at least partially due to general apathy about the sport in St. Louis

[drudy23]

Het and Ville are oil and water

[Xville]

Yeah I grew up there too. And I’m saying it’s not a basketball town. That’s relative to cities like Cincy, Indy and Louisville.

Soccer is a HUGE deal in STL. It has displaced basketball in a sense.

Interest just isn’t broadly high in StL about basketball. The fact that Tatum and Beal and a few other guys are from there doesn’t just translate to excitement for SLU. This discussion is about why SLU is t more successful and it’s at least partially due to general apathy about the sport in St. Louis

To me more importantly is that I think SLU has made a lot of bad coaching hires in its past that has kept them from what I think they should be able to achieve, especially vs who they are currently competing against.

Since joining the A-10:

Brad Soderberg? Yikes.
Rick Majerus---started to really get some traction and would have really kept it rolling...
Jim Crews---horrible hire. Kept it going with Majerus' talent for a bit but then the bottom fell out.
Ford---mediocre as they come and held onto him for way too long.

[X-band '01]

So what you're saying is that St. Louis has had more NFL teams move away than good coaches.

And Xavier did get swept by a Soderberg-coached team, BTW. That was definitely a lowlight in the 2005-06 season.

[xubrew]

Dayton loses to umass hahahaahahaha. Way to peak in November. They suck as well. Nit for everyone!

Dayton is to November what Reggie Jackson was to October!!!

[X-band '01]

I'm just hoping X didn't peak in October with wins against Dayton and Notre Dame that don't count in the standings.

[Xuperman]

Someone only a mother could love.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...t-blowout-loss

What a tool. This could be an all-time low.

[GoMuskies]

Cronin got tossed, and UCLA came 2000 miles to get murdered tonight.

[xubrew]

Cronin got tossed, and UCLA came 2000 miles to get murdered tonight.

That is a LOOONG bus ride!!

[Xville]

Uc 0-4 in conference. I predicted they’d start out 0-5… one more to go lol. They suck