SLU recruit Cody Ellis’ numbers weren’t quite as good against Spain on Friday, which I figure is the second-best team in their first round group. Ellis had nine points and six rebounds on 4 of 10 shooting in 26 minutes of…

SLU recruit Cody Ellis had 25 points, six rebounds, three blocked shots and got good reviews on his defense as Australia beat Canada 88-77 at the FIBA under-19 championships in New Zealand. Christian Salecich played 26 minutes and scored five points. Here’s the…

 SLU’s soccer schedule, which will be announced in the next few days, doesn’t have the brand names SLU usually has, like Indiana or Connecticut, but it still has some high quality nonconference opponents, such as Akron, which was seventh in…

A lot of summer competitions are nice but not particularly relevant, but it will be very interesting to see how two incoming SLU players, Cody Ellis and Christian Salecich, do at the FIBA U19 World Championships in Auckland, New Zealand. The…

Not that I think it will sell out, but tickets go on sale on Friday for SLU’s appearance in the Chicago Invitational, which isn’t actually in Chicago but in Hoffman Estates, but it’s close enough for our purposes. SLU, Notre…

Terrence Rencher, who spent last season as SLU’s senior graduate manager, has been hired as an assistant coach at Texas State.

He’s the second straight person in that job, which is seen as a coaching development spot, to get a full-time…

Theresa Lisch got an early wedding present from the Atlantic 10, whose athletic directors voted her the league’s female scholar-athlete of the year. UMass soccer player Zach Simmons was the male winner.

Lisch, who is getting married next month, was a…

With Brett Thompson transferring from SLU, it got me wondering as to how common it is for players to transfer from A-10 schools.

It turns out that half of the teams in the league have had players transfer out after the season.…

A few days after the Sports Illustrated story on Rick Majerus came out over a year ago, I said hi to then-recruit Brett Thompson as he sat behind the SLU bench at a game at Scottrade Center.

What did you think of the…

More later, but freshman Brett Thompson is transferring. Thompson started in the starting lineup, then was passed up by Willie Reed and with big guy Cody Ellis coming in, it would have been tough to get much playing time.

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