League play is like a cross country race,,,everyone jockeys for position...and with a third of the way to go everyone knows what everyone needs to know.....maybe the stragglers start to shut it down..but those runners that can see the leader are starting their final push strategy. For us everyone has seen us enough now to know what strategy they want to use...they have seen their team enough to know what their best line up is (seems ISU has made some changes.) Plus on the road crowds will be bigger cuz we are #1 and everyone wants to beat #1. My point is as well as we are playing we are going to need to continue to play our best. Lets hope we do not hit the well....especially our freshman.
My main concern is that opposing teams are going to try and take the ball out of Custers hands....I think there are going to be games where Jackson, Skonka and Satterwhite are going to have to come through.

I can see that being the case, it will be interesting to see how they respond to some different looks in the second half of the season. That being said, I think they have been through their toughest stretch. Second half of season includes a 5-4 home/road split and the games at Mo. St and Drake are already behind them. It all lines up pretty well if they can keep the intensity and keep getting better. Also, for the first time in ever no one is getting killed playing 35+ minutes a game so the worries about fading down the stretch should be alleviated some. I think the announcers said on Sunday that Loyola had no players in the Top 10 of minutes in the league. That is good news!

The next 2 games may be the toughest on paper.

Bradley on the road. The 2nd best MVC & overall records after us.

Missouri State. The only team in MVC that we haven't beaten.

We will have to hustle.

For John Go Joe et al including me, we HAVE come a long way to get to this point--Over the years we have said if only or maybe etc. We are now at the cusp of being what we were, A GREAT TEAM led by a great coach. Two years ago I sat not ten feet away from him and his team at Kent St--I saw him work--He had each players attention CONSTANTLY-- They were learning --he was teaching. He and his team won that night and then proceeded to win the CIT--They and we have arrived at this--WE are good and will get even better--We are better than Bradley--We have gotten better than MO ST. We have a powerful bench in Skog Satter Jackson soon to be augmented by another--I do not mean Avarius or whatever his name is--He is useless so forget him as he has forgotten HIS TEAM apparently.
Our team is led by General Custer--would that his name was SHERMAN--but it is what it is !!

We have work to do and we have the talent and leadership with which to do it !! NIU was overrun late==They were gassed --WE were not !! That is the story of this team to date

GO RAMBLERS !!

Bradley (83) & Missouri State (93) are currently the highest rated MVC teams after LU (52).

https://www.teamrankings.com/ncb/rpi/

To be the best you must beat the best--We are THE BEST WE shall now validate this--OUR length as well as Coach will now prove it--OF course there IS our starting five !!

We also lost to Indiana State, and haven't played them since. And we have to play there. That's 4 games out, which extends this tough stretch.

Love to look at the teams we are ahead of in the rankings.....for some reason being ahead of St.Louis gives me great pleasure.....These Midwest teams that skip the region for supposedly greener pastures......St.Louis, DePaul, Marquestte, Creighton......we have topped two of them and are closing in on Marquette....maybe we can get Creighton in the Tournament and lay them to rest.

I am just trying to enjoy all of this. Six weeks from Sunday the season will almost definitely be over (baring a Sweet 16 or long NIT run).