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Wednesday, February 22, 2017 7:00 p.m. Gentile Arena, Chicago, Ill.
If you made a movie about Drake’s 2016-17 season, no one would believe it could really happen. The Bulldogs have been through an odd coaching change and have been the streakiest, most unpredictable Jekyll and Hyde team in the MVC this year-- perhaps in all of college basketball. Drake began the season 1-10, their head coach resigned after the first seven games, they lost to non-D1 Alaska Anchorage, and their only win came against non-D1 Simpson College. Then they won two D1 games in a row, scoring over 100 in each, while kicking off a 6-4 stretch which saw them rise to third place in the MVC. They’ve followed that stretch with their current seven game losing streak.
Loyola began the conference season with a totally uncharacteristic, mystifying, insane 102-98 loss against Drake in Des Moines, in which the 2-10 Bulldogs beat the 10-3 Ramblers, who had up until then allowed the opposition an average of just 63.5 points per game. Loyola should be favored to win in the rematch, as a little frustration/revenge for the early season loss might be evident. The Bulldogs are also a terrible road team. Drake is 1-10 on the road this season, with their only win a 72-71 squeaker at Missouri State, and their average road margin of loss at 12 points per game. The Ramblers should have a large and energized crowd for the final home game of the year, and have much more to play for than Drake, who is all but already locked into a Thursday game.
Wednesday night’s game is the annual Jesuit Jam, a Loyola tradition dating back to the mid 1990s, in which students and fans can interact with and cheer/talk hoops with Loyola's Jesuit community. The event begins at 6:50 pm at Gentile Arena. Students who arrive early receive a free Jesuit Jam Shirt (first 100) or bring $10 (cash) to purchase a Jesuit Jam Shirt and support their charity effort. There will be another legendary Jesuit Jam After-Party Celebration at the Damen Den, in the Damen Student Center for free pizza and prizes.
The Jesuits will also help honor senior Milton Doyle, who will be playing his final home game as a Rambler, and enters the game with 1572 points (10th in Loyola history), 473 rebounds, 443 assists (6th all time), 135 made three pointers (8th all time), 141 steals (8th all time), and 75 blocks (8th all time). Cheer loud for a Rambler who helped introduce Loyola into the MVC with class and excellence, and has helped to re-establish Loyola as top option for local hoops talent.
So there you have it—a big game for the Ramblers, one that they should be favored to win handily, the Jesuit Jam, Senior Night honoring one of the best players in Loyola history, a 4th, 5th, or 6th place conference finish on the line, and temperatures expected to be around 60 degrees in February. It would be nice to get a good, energized crowd given those circumstances.
I am infallable when speaking of matters relating to Church doctrine and Rambler basketball.
RAMBLERS WILL BEAT DRAKE 79-64.
As Yul Brynner said: "So it is written, so it shall be done."
_________________ The Mike Madigan of the Vatican. Voted 2013 POY (Pope of the Year) by his peers. Four Year Letter Winner at The College of Cardinals. Record Against the Spread: 2,416,791 - 0 - 0.
Each Game we play IS IT !! Drake game is no exception--Our Coach knows this --our team knows this --The Rambler Board knows this--And almost as important , the Fand and RAMBLER JAM kids know it !! What is truly exciting is that this JAM should really increase our student crow from the usual fifty or so to upwards of 120 or so !! YAY !!! After all the get agame and FREEBIES !! YAY AGAIN !!
This team will come out blazing and win by a score of -----87 to 68 !!
I am infallable when speaking of matters relating to Church doctrine and Rambler basketball.
RAMBLERS WILL BEAT DRAKE 79-64.
As Yul Brynner said: "So it is written, so it shall be done."
I am with the Pope on this one, but I think he transposed his numbers. Probably just a typo. He's out of practice.
Ramblers 97 - Drake 46.
Idcirco eum cum universis complicibus, fautoribusque suis, judicio Dei omnipotentis Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, et beati Petri principis Apostolorum, et omnium Sanctorum, necnon et mediocritatis nostrae auctoritate, et potestate ligandi et solvendi in coelo et in terra nobis divinitus collata, a pretiosi Corporis et Sanguinis Domini perceptione, et a societate omnium Christianorum separamus, et a liminibus sanctae matris Ecclesiae in coelo et in terra excludimus, et excommunicatum et anathematizatum esse decernimus; et damnatum cum diabolo, et angelis ejus, et omnibus reprobis in ignem aeternum judicamus; donec a diaboli laqueis resipiscat, et ad emendationem, et poenitentiam redeat, et Ecclesiae Dei, quam laesit, satisfaciat, tradentes eum satanae in interitum carnis, ut spiritus ejus salvus fiat in die judicii.
Fiat. Fiat. Fiat.
_________________ The Mike Madigan of the Vatican. Voted 2013 POY (Pope of the Year) by his peers. Four Year Letter Winner at The College of Cardinals. Record Against the Spread: 2,416,791 - 0 - 0.
That was me excommunicating ahunte for his impertinence in suggesting I made a typo.
_________________ The Mike Madigan of the Vatican. Voted 2013 POY (Pope of the Year) by his peers. Four Year Letter Winner at The College of Cardinals. Record Against the Spread: 2,416,791 - 0 - 0.
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