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PostPosted: Mon Nov 18, 2019 7:44 pm 
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019 7:00 p.m.
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Loyola meets IUPUI for only the second time ever on Wednesday night, but the two teams have had more than the usual amount of cross-pollination over the past several years. The first meeting between the two teams in was in 2006, when the Ramblers knocked off Ron Hunter's IUPUI squad 77-74 in the finale of a three-game tournament at Ohio State. I had totally forgotten I was there at that game, it was such a dropoff from the game against the Buckeyes the night before.

But since that last somewhat forgettable meeting, the Jags hired away a Loyola assistant as their head coach in 2014, and he took with him several transfers from Loyola. And when Valpo left the Horizon League to join the MVC with Loyola, IUPUI slipped right into their slot in the HL.

Coach Jason Gardner increased his win total incrementally year over year, but the Indy native was the source of a lot of controversy. He resigned after an incident over the summer, and he's been replaced by the associate coach Byron Rimm III who was formerly head coach at Prairie View A&M.

Coach Rimm began the year with a conventional starting lineup, but after two punishing losses at Butler and Bradley (by a combined 67 points), the Jags made some changes. They smashed Division III Anderson College at home by 17 points, and then thumped South Florida on the road by the same margin, 70-53. The new starting lineup features 6'3" junior guard Marcus Burk, 6'1" junior guard Jaylen Minnett, 5'11" freshman guard Mike Depersia, 6'8 juco transfer Isaiah Williams, and 6'9" graduate transfer from Colorado State, Zo Tyson.

Hometown kid Marcus Burk puts up huge numbers. He's one of those strong, chunky guards (reminiscent of Marques Townes) who can shoot from anywhere on the court. He doesn't drive aggressively to the basket as much as Marques Townes did, but he shoots well and often-- Burk averages 20.8 points, hits 37% of his threes, and collects 4.8 boards per game. He's joined in the backcourt by an even better-shooter from three, Jaylen Minnett out of Terre Haute, who shoots 41% from distance. Minnett is a significant three-point threat, but he's one of those guys who shoots worse from inside the arc. Williams is the third starter who's played every game, averaging 7.0 points and 4.5 boards.

The two new starters are diminutive freshman Mike DePersia and grad transfer Zo Tyson. Both players are defensive-minded. DePersia is an on-ball defender type, not at all a scorer, but a glue guy with a high motor. Tyson, the long 6'9" forward, has trouble staying on the court because of fouls-- a team-leading 14 fouls in only 60 minutes of court time. These two guys replaced the starters in the opening two losses, 6'7" junior forward Elyjah Goss and 6'2" junior guard Grant Weatherford-- they're now the top two guys off the bench.

Loyola is coming off a much-needed 85-68 win over St. Joseph's . Once again, Loyola shot under 30% from three-point territory, as they have every game this season. But thanks to shooting 64.6% from inside the arc and limiting turnovers to only 12, Loyola got the W. This game will probably be won or lost inside the arc, and probably on the strength of defense.


Loyola game notes: https://loyolaramblers.com/documents/20 ... _20_19.pdf

IUPUI game notes: Pending

TV/Streaming video: ESPN+ https://www.espn.com/watch?id=5206959f- ... yola-US-EN

Live audio feed: https://loyolaramblers.com/watch/?Live=6&type=Live

Live stats: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=280001

Vegas odds: Loyola by 12


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 9:10 am 
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I guess this game is lacking pizzazz.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 9:42 am 
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I’m excited to play Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. You throw some commas in there and this looks like great scheduling. If we are victorious, I’m claiming wins against Indiana, Purdue and Indianapolis. Let’s beat these Jags.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 10:59 am 
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I like your logic, Toledo!

It inspired me to create another contest to go along with SWELLA'S TRANSITIVE PROPERTY CHALLENGE.
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2770&start=10

I'm calling it SWELLA'S INTENTIONAL AMBIGUITY SWEEPSTAKES. The object is to construct a nonconference schedule against lesser teams we should beat whose names might conveniently be confused with better teams we could brag about beating.
A couple examples.
Central Connecticut State University. If we beat these "Blue Devils" people might think we beat Duke.

Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado . If we beat this Venezuelan college, we could say we beat UCLA.

Of course playing any directional public school we could always omit any East, West, North or South and just go with the name of the state. Beating Western Illinois becomes beating Illinois. Same with schools with "State" in their names.The possibilities are endless.

The winner is the person who constructs a plausible schedule with the greatest variance in SOS between actual and aspirational schedules.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 11:19 am 
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If we played Loyola Marymount and won, we could say they didn’t beat us, we just beat ourselves.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 11:28 am 
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01grad wrote:
If we played Loyola Marymount and won, we could say they didn’t beat us, we just beat ourselves.


I had a mouthful of sandwich when I read this. Almost spit it out laughing. Luckily I went light on the mayo otherwise it would have slid right out.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 1:35 pm 
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What if I told you our non-conference schedule was:

DePaul
Northwestern
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Xavier
Texas A&M
Georgia
Washington
St.Mary's
St. John's
Miami
Cornell


?????


What if I told you, that schedule really is....

DePauw (in Indiana)
Northwestern College of Iowa
University of Illinois at Chicago
Indiana University (Of Pennsylvania)
Iona (in New York)
St. Xavier (in Chicago)
Texas A&M Corpus Cristi
Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia
Washington College in Chestertown Maryland
St. Mary's College in Indiana
St. John's University - Minnesota
Miami University of Ohio
Cornell College in Iowa


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 4:51 pm 
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I am ending the contest early and declaring Toledo Rambler the winner!!

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 6:12 pm 
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Frank is in uniform tonight. Not sure if we will play, but he is warming up.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 6:31 pm 
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U must re-post my game forecast---lUC 86 Indy 57 No repeat of the COPPIN ST fiasco


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