College conferences typically leave Friday night to HS basketball and the NBA. This Friday, the A-10 has a great showdown between the top 2 teams in the league, Butler & St. Louis. St. Louis travels to Hinkle Fieldhouse owning a 17 point win over Butler less than a month ago at SLU.
Since that game, St. Louis has had big leads in all it's games, I believe 17+ is the number but I'm not absolutely certain. That includes a 14 point win over VCU at home last night. Quite frankly, the score wasn't that close as St. Louis held VCU scoreless from the field for a 10 minute period in the 1st half, outscoring them by 19.
After beating Butler, the Billikens beat Dayton at home by 29, Fordham by 17 at Fordham, Richmond by 10 at Richmond and beat a good Charlotte teams by 18 at SLU.
Be a good game for Marquette fans to keep an eye on since both teams could be conference mates sooner than later.
FWIW, KenPom has Butler by 2 in this game. He also has SLU 27th vs. Butler who is 49th. Brian's last bracket had St. Louis as a 10. That won't hold, they'll move up but if it did, they'd be a team no 2 seed would want.
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