Since stumbling out of the COVID delay gate with a pair of losses, all but erasing the goodwill built up during a succuessful non-conference run in late 2020, SLU has rebounded with a pair of home wins to even their conference record at 2-2. They travel to New York on Saturday to take on lesser set of Rams, those of Fordham. These Rams forewent (?) a non-conference season entirely and now sit at 2-10 in the conference. Oddly, their only wins have been against the teams SLU recently lost to – Dayton and LaSalle. Outside of the Eric Paschall year, the Fordham Rams have dwelt in the basement of the A-10 for quite some time, buttressed by Saint Joseph’s recent struggles.

The Rams are young and small and not deep. Lone big man Joel Soriano stands 6’11” and is a formidable rebounder and shot-blocker, continuing a string of such matchups for Hasahn French and his cohorts Martin Linssen and Jimmy Bell Jr.

SLU is gaining reputation as the hardest team in the field for the committee to judge. A loss at Fordham will make it easy, the hard way. The slate of must-win games continues.