Very cool. My birthday is today too!! Happy birthday Hobbs! 
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GAMES OF INTEREST, JAN 27th
(Posted 9:05 PM)
Saint Louis 74
Davidson 70
Detroit Mercy 77
Robert Morris 85
Yep, first time Saint Louis has won at Belk Arena. Cats 10-17 on FTs negated having five double figure scorers.
BTW, Billiken PG Yuri Collins pretty much right on his season averages of 12.1 ppg and 10.6 apg with 12 points and 10 assists vs the Cats.
Is that SLU’s PG? Have seen him play a couple of times. Damn good player.
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GAMES OF INTEREST, JAN 28th
(Updated 10:06 PM)
WKU 63
#21 FAU 70
Middle Tennessee 74
FIU 82
UTEP 42
North Texas 52
UAB 70
Rice 52
LA Tech 66
UTSA 55
Arkansas State 51
App State 63
Colorado State 59
Boise State 80
Monmouth 79
NC A&T 64
Winthrop 76
Presbyterian 58
Duquesne 79
UMass 87
Coppin State 75
UMES 94
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As of now, this is a one bid league. We are gonna have to beat 21-1 to go any farther
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How about just being able to win on the road against bad teams? Sad yo say since Ron has been here we cant beat hardly anyone on the road. No grit.
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Hey! Beating the dead horse, well that’s my job:).
The team held my interest for a while because we were beating teams that were supposed to beat. I lasted a month longer than I have in previous years posting this but the next game we play that matters will be in Frisco, TX
The main reason I let myself get excited is we were actually beating bad teams by fairly large margins. Felt different than previous years, but it was obviously short lived.
This year is the most we can hope for out of Ron.
GAMES OF INTEREST - JAN 29th
(Posted 7:25 PM)
Detroit Mercy 63
Youngstown State 73
Memphis 80
Tulsa 68
With all the losses within the Top 25 since last Monday, expect #21 FAU to move up in the rankings tomorrow. But before we get the Owls on Saturday, they have to play UAB on Thursday in Birmingham. Outcome of that game is going to depend a lot upon whether or not Jelly Walker (23.8 ppg, 4.3 apg) is available for the Blazers, though UAB did beat Rice easily yesterday in Houston without their star player.
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Detroit Mercy is 8-15 and 4-8 in their conference. I know basketball is about matchups, but it seems like most teams matchup well with them. Why didn’t we? Heck, even at home we had to go to OT to win.
This seems to say something more about our defense than anything else.
THIS.
We really are an extraordinarily average team. That’s why it drove me so nuts when everyone was praising Sanchez and our early season record. Our Non Conference SOS is 333 (out of 363). Why were we so excited to be beating scrubs!?!?
Even still…people are saying we still have a chance at another 17 or 18 win season. Does that really mean anything if most of those wins are hollow and we STILL can’t finish any better than mid-pack in lowly CUSA!?!
If this is the case…Sanchez has NO incentive to change a thing.
Schedule middle school teams next year for our non-conference and go undefeated so he can pad his record even more and get praise for being the first Charlotte coach with an undefeated non-conference slate. Finish bottom half of the AAC. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
SMH
UDM definitely a head scratcher. I did have us splitting with them but didn’t expect the beat down we received in Motor City. Thought Liddell could be a game changer for them in conference play after he became eligible and a surprise double double contributor but that hasn’t happened. Seem to be more focused on the younger Davis catching Maravich, which looks improbable now unless the former starts putting up the latter’s LSU numbers from here on out.
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Such a great team we had in 1997!
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We went 2-5 in January
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Dammit Sanchez 
. Don’t make Mike Hill Healy you.
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Was at that game!
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