Saint Louis-George Washington (Soft Pretzel Logic)

Saint Louis-George Washington

I think I can count the number of Saint Louis fans in the house on one hadn't at the moment. Okay, maybe two. Not as many GW fans as I thought would show up given that it's a Friday.

So far, only four of those oversized foam hats. This is what they look like, by the way.

There's a group of eight GW fans behind me, seven who look of student age and one who looks older. One of the people of student age has one of those stuffed animal horse heads on a stick, but I don't know what it's for.

Saint Louis

F 32 Luke Meyer
F 15 Ian Voyoukas
G 25 Tommie Lidell
G 21 Kevin Lisch
G 00 Dwayne Polk

George Washington

F 42 Dokun Akingbade
F 21 Regis Kouindja
G 22 Damian Hollis
G 33 Maureece "Mo" (in the words of the GW fans) Rice
G 25 Carl Elliot

The hat count sneaks up to five just before tipoff.

Rice opens the scoring with a floater in the lane at 19:19. Lisch answers with a three 19 second s later.

Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald on March 9, 2007 8:57 PM | Permalink

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Jonathan Tannenwald is a producer with Philly.com.

I fell in love with the Big 5 at first sight upon moving to Philadelphia in 2002. At various points in my journalistic career, I've covered all six of the region's Division I teams. During that time, I've eaten many soft pretzels from the Palestra's concession stands, which is how this blog got its name.

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