MVC games Tuesday 12/2

[Da Coach]

There are 3 games tonight involving MVC teams--

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/scoreboard?d=2008-12-02&c=mvc&refresh=60

Mississippi Valley State at Creighton at 7:05 pm CST

St. Louis University at SIU at 7:05 pm CST

SIU-Edwardsville at Evansville at 7:05 pm CST
in a game that matches coaches Lennox Forrester against Marty Simmons. They both played at Evansville, and have known each other for a long time and worked together at Evansville under former coach Jim Crews.

http://www.bnd.com/sports/story/562195.html

[tornado]

SIU is an 8 point favorite over Saint Louis
Illinois is a 2 point pick over Clemson

[SaintLouBrave22]

On paper, it looks to me like 3 Valley victories.

[Da Coach]

Here are the results from the 3 MVC games Tuesday night-

Evansville 89 SIUE 58

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=200812020193

Creighton 82 Mississippi Valley State 58

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=200812020133

SIU 64 St. Louis 48

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=200812020528

[tornado]

The Saint Louis fans were quite upset and felt they had been homered...
A lot of fouls were called but about 40% more were called on the Billikens, and the Saluki's shot a simliarly higher pct. of T's than the Billikens, making 10 more. Plus several key charging fouls looked to be able to go either way and cost SLU baskets.
The fact that four of the Billiken starters spent time on the bench with foul trouble, may have helped SIU a bit.
Here are a few fun comments from the fans of both teams...

http://www.billikens.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=15931

http://www.billikens.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=15929

http://salukitalk.net/st/viewtopic.php?t=24584

http://salukitalk.net/st/viewtopic.php?t=24587

Still...with a long time regional rival, how does SIU still only draw about 6000?

btw-- how come some of the observant SIU fans only NOW seem to notice Chris Lowery is about 50 pounds slimmer?
We were discussing it here a month ago!!

http://salukitalk.net/st/viewtopic.php?t=24591