First off, a short apology on not having any player quotes in this morning’s game story. This happens when Majerus keeps the team in the room for a long time after a game. He was in there with them for…

Not that it should come as a surprise to anyone who’s paying attention, but Rick Majerus thinks Luke Meyer is his team’s MVP.

“As a first-year coach,” he said, “with a new group of guys, he’s been a guy with an…

I quit.

I know the A-10 is unpredictable, but the SLU-St. Bonaventure game on Saturday should have been the most predictable game of the weekend. (Though, as I think I warned in an earlier post, SLU needed to take care of…

The question for SLU when it faces Fordham on Wednesday night is, who guards 6-8 Bryant Dunston? Husak? Eberhardt? Meyer? Brown? (He did OK playing the 5 spot at UMass.) Do they try to stop him with size or quickness?…

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. — I really shouldn’t be here right now, but, for the second straight weekend, I’m stranded on the road on a Sunday night. Last week, my flight out of Richmond was cancelled, keeping me in Virginia overnight.…

Late in the second half of the SLU-Richmond game, some of the lights went out in the Robins Center at Richmond and John O’Connor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch turned to me and said, “They forgot to pay the bill.” Actually,…

I don’t know that the plus-minus stats mean much off this game — the final numbers in a case like this are very much a function of time on the court – but here they are, upside down:

Liddell -22

Meyer -20

Polk -19

Brown…

So the day for me started with learning my flight to Columbus — it’s cheaper than flying to Dayton, there are more options and the drive isn’t that bad – had been cancelled and I was going to have to connect…

Dayton coach Brian Gregory noted this morning that Luke Meyer was giving SLU “senior leadership and has been playing the best basketball of his career the past two or three weeks.”

 Meyer’s past four games have been pretty stellar. Against Dayton,…

PHILADELPHIA-ATLANTA-ST. LOUIS — I’m working my way home from Philly as I write and compile this, so this will have a touch of Americana to it.

La Salle is the poor sister of Philadelphia basketball and, with Temple and St. Joe’s…