SLU at Dayton preview: 2021-02-19

The Billikens take to the medium lights, medium city tonight on ESPN2 at Dayton. This continues Revenge Week as the Bills look to atone for their two straight stumbles leading off conference season. Since starting 0-2 the Bills have taken care of business, reeling off four straight including a commanding win over LaSalle on Tuesday.

The first matchup between these two was a Flyer victory on January 26th, the Bills first game in a month. Goodwin and Jimerson in particular struggled for SLU, while Crutcher did a decent impression of Obi Toppin for a night and they got a boost from Brea.

SLU seeks revenge over Dayton and relief from the bubble watch, and are catching Dayton on the downswing. The Flyers have lost 3 of 4 coming in.

Red dots show production from the last time these two met on Jan 26th.
Blue dots show production from the last time these two met on Jan 26th. You can’t see it very well but steady Freddy was right on his usual production. JBJ and Hargrove were DNPs.

References

Data from Basketball Reference and Ken Pomeroy and the NCAA

Game Score metric created by John Hollinger detailed here: http://www.basketball-reference.com/about/glossary.html

Plot format by Aaron Baggett: https://baseballwithr.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/conceptualizing-the-mlb-strike-zone-using-pitchfx-data/

Inspiration from Ken Pomeroy: http://kenpom.com/

Inspiration from Rock M Nation: http://www.rockmnation.com/missouri-tigers-basketball

Team colors courtesy:

Benjamin S. Baumer and Gregory J. Matthews (2020). teamcolors: Color Palettes for Pro Sports Teams. R package version 0.0.4.

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=teamcolors