[Segun]

Try not to get into sub-nicknames.

Best - Back of the Yards, Sleepy Hollow, Heart of Chicago, Wrigleyville
Worst - Anything with "neighbors" in it, The Island

here's a twist, mention what you thought about other cities also. Isn't this so fun.......doesn't this just provide you with hours and hours of non sexual diversion and perversion. - Stone Cold Steve Austin

St. Louis
Best - Soulard
Worst - Creve Ceour: I think its a city, but I still gotta mention it. How the ffffffffffffffffffffffffffunk do you pronounce it?

NY
Best - Pleasantville
Worst - Spuyten Duyvil: You just picture Curly from the Three Stooges saying this.

SF
Best - Fillmore
Worst - San Jose

LA
Best - Compton - Where you from fool!?........
Worst - South LA - Bring back South Central!

[Dan]

NYC

Some of my favorites are:

Tribeca (Triangle Below Canal)
DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass)
Soho (South of Houston)
Chelsea
Brooklyn Heights
Morningside Heights
Red Hook
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Kew Gardens

Worst:

Clinton
Turtle Bay

[village person]

Jacksonville:

Best -- Ortega, Mandarin, Timuquana, Cosmo (:nuts: ), Grand Park

Worst -- Durkeeville, Goodbys, Plummers, Talleyrand, Larsen

Out of those, only Ortega, Grand Park, Durkeeville, & Tallyrand, are part of the old city. The rest are newer suburbs-within-the-city.

[KarLarRec1]

LA

Best: Echo Park, Los Feliz, Sawtelle, Palms, Tarzana (gotta represent!! haha), Pacific Palisades, Miracle Mile

Worst: All the 'woods, they sound so suburban (Westwood, Brentwood, Hollywood...although Hollywood rolls off the tongue really nicely), Harbor Gateway (sounds so manufactured), Winnetka

[jmonkey]

Salt Lake City:

Best: Sugarhouse, People's Freeway (god, it sounds like there's been some kind of revolution here, doesn't it?), Liberty Wells.

Worst: Central City (snore)

[giovanni sasso]

... the hell are y'all talking about? schuylkill and delaware are rivers, not neighborhoods. (although there is a very tiny section near the naval home which is technically called "schuylkill.")


best philly hoods names: fishtown, strawberry mansion, society hill, northern liberties, brewerytown

worst philly hoods names: graduate hospital area (cough), bella vista (made up in the 90s), east falls, art museum area

[J Church]

Worst - San Jose :haha:

san francisco best: the mission, tenderloin, western addition, vis valley, diamond heights, st. francis wood, cow hollow, dogpatch
worst: excelsior, OMI, cow hollow, dogpatch

i've always really liked ...

silverlake, LA
wash park, denver (just b/c *no one* calls it 'washington')
pill hill, oakland (hospital district)
hell's kitchen, NYC (who doesn't?)
the loop, chicago (just so distinctive)
back bay, boston (it's about the alliteration)
queen anne, seattle
georgetown, DC

the absolute worst-named hood anywhere:

dinkytown, minneapolis

[FLAplaya]

Just a few of Ft. Walton Beach.....

Best- Shalimar*, Lake Lorraine, Carson, Sylvania Heights/Love Joy, The Island, Mary Esther*, Poquito, Green Acre's, Carmel, Destiny, Miramar, Indian Trail, Hollywood, Holiday Isle, Ocean City.

Worst- Kenwood, Longwood, Cinco Bayou*, Wright

*- seperate municipalities

[alex1]

i like the mission for sanFran. pill hill is a classic.

ny - tribeca
chicago - wicker park (liquor park), ukranian village
boston - beacon hill

[Comrade Reynolds]

Salt Lake City has some stupid neighborhood names, but it also has some original ones as well.

Some of my favorites:

Liberty Wells
Rio Grande
Arcadia Heights
Indian Hills
Yalecrest
Rose Park
Sugar House
Poplar Grove

Some that need work:

West Salt Lake - SO original!
State Fairpark - A neighborhood named after a FAIR?
West of Lower Foothill - (W.O.L.F)
People's Freeway - People's FREEWAY?
Welfare Square - That is REAL nice!

[destroybananas]

Bellevue WA: Beux Arts Village
Seattle WA: Queen Anne, Belltown, Capitol Hill, First Hill, U-District, Fremont, Alki Beach, Pioneer Square, Green Lake, Madison Park, Madrona, Leschi.

Hate: Ballard-the name only.

[Segun]

I forgot Philadelphia.

Best - Manayuk - because it rhymes with "Ante Up!"

[Cotuit]

Providence
Best:
Upper South Providence (yes there is a Lower South Providence)
Valley (it's not the Valley, just Valley)
Olneyville (sounds funny)
Federal Hill (I like to call it Mafiaville)
Fox Point (Fox is a good word)

Worst:
Silver Lake (Zzzzzzzz)
Elmwood (how original, was Elmhurst taken?)
Elmhurst (yup, on the other side of the city)
Hartford (isn't that in Connecticut?)

Boston
Best:
Leather District
Savin Hill ('cos it's nickname is Stab n' Kill)
Jamaica Plain (JP)
Readville
Maverick Square

Worst:
Longwood (sounds like it's in California see KarLarRec1's post)
West Roxbury ("This is West Roxbury, we're almost in Newton!)

[DruidCity]

A few neighborhood/subdivison/area names in Tuscaloosa, all of which I like well enough:

NorthRiver,Indian Hills, The Downs, Guild's Wood, Wellington,
Alberta City, Audubon Place, Pinehurst, Alaca Place, Newtown, The Highlands, Buena Vista, Crown Pointe, Druid Hills, Rivermont, Taylorville, and Jerusalem Heights.

[hauntedheadnc]

Some of the best Asheville, NC neighborhood names:

Albemarle Park/the Manor Grounds -- gorgeous neighborhoods of big houses and big trees on very steep mountainsides, adjoining one another and centered around the Manor, a gigantic historic house featured in a couple of movies filmed here. More or less the same neighborhood, but just different enough and far enough apart to be separate districts. Wouldn't it be a rush to lord it over the folks in Albemarle Park that you live in the Manor Grounds and they don't?

Emma -- arguably Western North Carolina's most diverse neighborhood, both economically and racially. A middle-class area of older homes. A name like this is kind of neat because you know it had to come from someone -- but who was Emma? A place with a hint of mystery is good.

Shiloh/Azalea -- poetic names for two mostly African-American neighborhoods that adjoin one another in the southern part of town.

Eagle Street/the Block -- one neighborhood, two names. The Block is a name so simple it's beautiful. This is the historic center of Asheville's African-American business district.

River District -- another name so simple it's elegant. An old industrial neighborhood alongside the French Broad River. Artists are moving into old mills and factories here.

Chicken Hill -- like the "Cabbagetown"s of other cities like Toronto it's a neighborhood that has grown out of its humble beginnings to become a fashionable area, while still keeping a quirky moniker with a story to tell. It's an area of old homes and bugalows from the 1920's painted squint-inducingly bright shades of red, blue, and other cheerful colors.

Town Mountain -- an upscale area of big houses and historic, bona fide castles like Zealandia and Seely's Castle. It overlooks downtown from a lofty perch.

Head of Montford -- a neat name for a neat area at the head of Montford Avenue -- go figure. A revitalized area of Victorian homes adjoining the Montford neighborhood, which was once its own city before annexation by Asheville in the early 1900's.

Newbridge -- a lovely name for an ugly area, unfortunately. It's centered around a disgracefully aging old strip shopping center and consists of low-end neighborhoods and trailer parks.

And some of the worst? I can't think of any Asheville neighborhoods that I don't really like. I don't like the way Leicester is pronounced "Lester," however, even if that's the correct way to say it. It seems like a terrible waste of letters.

[Terminus]

Atlanta's Neighborhoods

Worst

-BLANDTOWN (sounds exciting, heh?)

-Tampa Park (you'd think it was a mobile home area)

-Green Acres Valley

-Penelope Neighbors


Best

-Just Us (maybe not the best, but it's very crazy)

-Rebel Valley Forest (who says Atlanta isn't Southern?)

-Tuxedo Park

-Terminus (of course)

-Fairlie-Poplar (home ;))

[MayDay]

The best names don't always reflect the best neighborhoods.

Cleveland

Best: Collinwood, Edgewater, Ohio City, Industrial Valley (sounds so Blade Runner-esque, and is!), University Circle, Old Brooklyn, Detroit-Shoreway

Worst: Cudell (Kuh-DELL), Brooklyn Center, Kamms Corners, Corlett, Hough (rhymes with tough)

See them all here http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/around_town/map/neighborhood/neighborhood.html

[Enzo]

Some of the best Asheville, NC neighborhood names:

Albemarle Park/the Manor Grounds -- gorgeous neighborhoods of big houses and big trees on very steep mountainsides, adjoining one another and centered around the Manor, a gigantic historic house featured in a couple of movies filmed here. More or less the same neighborhood, but just different enough and far enough apart to be separate districts. Wouldn't it be a rush to lord it over the folks in Albemarle Park that you live in the Manor Grounds and they don't?

Emma -- arguably Western North Carolina's most diverse neighborhood, both economically and racially. A middle-class area of older homes. A name like this is kind of neat because you know it had to come from someone -- but who was Emma? A place with a hint of mystery is good.

Shiloh/Azalea -- poetic names for two mostly African-American neighborhoods that adjoin one another in the southern part of town.

Eagle Street/the Block -- one neighborhood, two names. The Block is a name so simple it's beautiful. This is the historic center of Asheville's African-American business district.

River District -- another name so simple it's elegant. An old industrial neighborhood alongside the French Broad River. Artists are moving into old mills and factories here.

Chicken Hill -- like the "Cabbagetown"s of other cities like Toronto it's a neighborhood that has grown out of its humble beginnings to become a fashionable area, while still keeping a quirky moniker with a story to tell. It's an area of old homes and bugalows from the 1920's painted squint-inducingly bright shades of red, blue, and other cheerful colors.

Town Mountain -- an upscale area of big houses and historic, bona fide castles like Zealandia and Seely's Castle. It overlooks downtown from a lofty perch.

Head of Montford -- a neat name for a neat area at the head of Montford Avenue -- go figure. A revitalized area of Victorian homes adjoining the Montford neighborhood, which was once its own city before annexation by Asheville in the early 1900's.

Newbridge -- a lovely name for an ugly area, unfortunately. It's centered around a disgracefully aging old strip shopping center and consists of low-end neighborhoods and trailer parks.

And some of the worst? I can't think of any Asheville neighborhoods that I don't really like. I don't like the way Leicester is pronounced "Lester," however, even if that's the correct way to say it. It seems like a terrible waste of letters.

Hi hauntedheadnc! I grew up in Asheville, haven't been back in years though....sadly. What's your neighborhood?

I lived in three hoods as a kid-maybe you can tell me what the first one is called-Kimberly Avenue, across from the Grove Park golf course. We just called it "Grove Park" back then (70's/80's). I also lived in Biltmore Forest-technically not a part of Asheville but a very nice suburb with a nice name to boot. After that, Fairview-also not a part of Asheville but a very idyllic rural "suburb". Back then it was mostly horse farms but I imagine it's changed quite a bit since? And yes the "Liecester" thing is funny. "Lester" is indeed correct since I've been to the one in England, but not with a thick, NC accent! LOL

Asheville hood names I liked-
Kenilworth
Bat Cave (well, technically a small town outside Asheville)
Mars Hill (same as above)

For NYC?-It's a shame "Hell's Kitchen" was replaced with "Clinton" but most people I know still call it HK.

"Alphabet City"-technically part of the "East Village" but still in use. And "East Village" was made up by realtors back in the 70's to differentiate the area from the Lower East Side, of which it is technically still a part-and not Greenwich Village.

"Carnegie Hill"-Part of the UES, home to Woody Allen, named for a Carnegie mansion on Fifth Ave.

"Spanish Harlem" or "El Barrio"-right above me in the E. 90's/100's.

I also like "Far Rockaway", "Flatbush" and "Astoria" as names.:D

[STLgasm]

Best St. Louis 'hood names:

Covenant Blu
JeffVanderLou
Wells/Goodfellow
Skinker/DeBaliviere
Boulevard Heights
Bevo


Worst:

Kosciusko
McRee Town
Tiffany
Patch

[David]

Vancouver:

BEST: Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Fairview, Strathcona

WORST: Downtown Eastside

[hauntedheadnc]

Hiya, Enzo.

What's my hood? These days I find myself living in Edneyville, over the mountain from Fairview in Henderson County, but I'm an Asheville man to the core. You really ought to come down for a visit -- you wouldn't believe how much better the city will have gotten since you were here last! Asheville's hit the big time and it's without a doubt one of the coolest, hippest small cities in the country.

That neighborhood you grew up in is actually called Grove Park, so it wasn't just you calling it that. It's been that ever since Edwin Wiley Grove built his inn (Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa -- you did know they've opened a world-class spa there, didn't you?), and named all the streets nearby after his family members. And you're right about Fairview, while we're on the subject. They've run a major road through there, so it's suburbanizing fast, but at least the good news is a good bit of Asheville's suburbanization comes in the form of smart growth. One of the biggest smart growth developments in the area, Edgewood Village, is in Fairview.

If we're going to bring nearby towns into it, there are some places with wonderful names near Asheville, including Bat Cave, like you mentioned. Then again, all the little villages in Hickory Nut Gorge -- Gerton, Bat Cave Chimney Rock Village, and Lake Lure -- have nice names. But the best, far and away, anywhere near Asheville has got to be the little community of Mathilda's Folly in Henderson County. Mathilda's Folly! It doesn't get any better.

And how did the area get its name? It seems a woman named Mathilda (or Matilda -- not sure of the spelling) had a child out of wedlock. The child was either stillborn or died shortly after birth and was interred beneath a gravestone with that incription and nothing more. The surrounding area takes its name from that gravestone, and the rugged forests and treacherous rivers nearby are called the Follies, partly because of that and partly because they eat campers and hikers for breakfast.

Lots of WNC mountain communities have deliciously morbid or spooky names or name origins. Mathilda's Folly is just one example.

[Enzo]

What's my hood? These days I find myself living in Edneyville, over the mountain from Fairview in Henderson County

Beautiful area indeed! We lived off Cane Creek Rd. (northside) with a hundred or so acres not far from where it intersects 74 headed your way. By the time my parents left the area many large swaths of land like ours south of the road were being gobbled up by suburban developers-it broke my heart to see it.

But I have heard Asheville has grown up quite a bit so I'm not suprised, as long as it's smart growth. It was an awesome place to be a kid.;D

Another town outside Asheville with a great name is Tuxedo!

BTW-are you originally from there? I almost attended my HS reunion this summer.....ACDS-it's called Carolina Day School now. Maybe we know eachother!?! Ok, Ok, Asheville's not that small.:D

[hauntedheadnc]

Am I originally from here? You bet. I'm a 7th generation resident, in fact! We've been planting Blythes (dad's side) and Nixes (mom's side) in WNC mountain dirt since at least the 1770's -- probably longer but the tombstones are too worn away to read beyond that point.

But... we wouldn't know each other, unfortunately. Didn't have the bucks to attend Carolina Day School and had to attend public school with the rest of the riffraff. :haha:

[Enzo]

LOL!

Well, I ain't no elitist.;) The only reason I went there was because my parents (European immigrants) moved us there from NYC when my sis and I were very young. They wanted a school with a strong foreign language curriculum and had heard (falsely in retrospect) that NC Public Schools were quite lacking.

We discovered later that NC has great public schools but I already had my friends, etc. so....

So many great memories, Shining Rock Wilderness, Sliding Rock, Mt. Pisgah.....ahhhhhhhhhhhh-that's a whole other thread.

7th generation? Wow. The history of the area is fascinating to say the least.

[ColDayMan]

Cincinnati-

Best, I've always loved Tusculum. Worst, definately Cumminsville.

Dayton-

Always loved Belmonte Hills or Five Oaks. Worst, ugh...West Roosevelt.

Columbus-

Victorian Village sounds cheesy but I like it :). Worst....East Side ;)

[Grimm]

"I forgot Philadelphia.

Best - Manayuk - because it rhymes with "Ante Up!" "


it's "Manayunk", you idiot.

[Cirrus]

DC - Good:
Near Northeast (unoriginal, but somehow cool)
Foggy Bottom (hey, you gotta name a swamp something)
Georgetown (all colonial sounding and shit - like we cared about the king)
Palisades (sounds impressive, don't it)

DC - Bad:
Pleasant Plains (cheesy!)
Friendship Heights (cheesy!)
Belleview (doesn't everyone have a Belleview?)

[kool maudit]

Montreal - Good:

The Plateau (Many a hand...)
N.D.G
Mile-End
Griffintown
Little Burgundy

Montreal-Bad:

Westmount
Rosemont
Ville-Emard

[UglymanCometh]

Arlington, VA - Best:

-Rosslyn
-Ballston
-Clarendon
-Courthouse
-Tara/Westover
-Arlington Ridge
-Fort Myer Heights

Worst:

-Pentagon City (sounds like some hidden "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" level)
-Crystal City (see Pentagon City above)

Detroit - Best:

-Delray (sounds hardcore, and it is! :))
-Lower Woodward
-Indian Village
-Woodbridge (where's the bridge at? ;))
-Old Redford
-Morningside

Worst:

-any neighborhood ending in "TOWN" or "FARMS" (Detroit is basically a conglomeration of suburban towns outside of the Grand Blvd. loop - and we haven't seen farms since the late 19th century)
-Brightmoor (there's nothing bright about this neighborhood)

[grasscat]

CINCINNATI:

BEST:
Queensgate
Camp Washington
Over-the-Rhine
Columbia-Tusculum (I second Chris's motion)
Mt. Airy
Mt. Lookout (LOOK OUT!)
California

WORST:
Cumminsville (I second Chris, again)
Fay Apartments (yes, this is an actual city-recognized neighborhood)

[lupo]

Philadelphia

Good:
Brewerytown
Germantown
Holmesburg
Port Richmond

Bad:
Bella Vista
Nicetown

Weird, old, obsolete neighborhood names:
Good Intent
Goosetown
Grubtown
McNabbtown - no, Donavan does not live there
Moyamensing - "unclean place" or "place of pigeon droppings"
Point-No-Point
Shackamaxon - "place of eels"
Tenderloin

[UglymanCometh]

you Philly heads are forgetting about Fox Chase and Bustleton :)

[MTL-514]

Montreal - Good:

The Plateau (Many a hand...)
N.D.G
Mile-End
Griffintown
Little Burgundy

Montreal-Bad:

Westmount
Rosemont
Ville-Emard


other Montreal neighbourhoods/boroughs/suburbs:

COOL:
-The Ghetto (the neighbourhood adjacent to McGill University)
-Hampstead (named and modeled after the London UK suburb)
-Multimedia City (Cité de la multimédia)
-La Petite Patrie
-Lachine (orig: La Chine, and actually it's NOT our chinatown)
-Beaconsfield
-Golden Square Mile
-The Museum Quarter (Sherbrooke Street W., near the Mtl Museum of Fine Arts)
-Parc Extension
-Deux Montagnes (Two Mountains)
-Kahnawake
-Town of Mount Royal (a.k.a. TMR)
-The Lakeshore
-Ahuntsic
-Rosemère
-Monkland Village
-Point St-Charles (a.k.a. The Point)
-Roxboro
-Otterburn Park
-Pierrefonds (translates as "rock bottom"...gotta love it!)

and I gotta slip in the neighbourhood I grew up in:
-Côte Saint Luc (transl: St. Luke Hill...a.k.a "The Luke") !

WEAK:
-Longueuil (good luck pronouncing it if you don't speak French well)
-Montreal West, Montreal East (Montréal-Est) and Montreal North (Montréal-Nord) -- not very original at all
-Saint-Laurent
-Saint-Léonard
-Saint-Eustache
-Saint-Pierre
-Saint-Jerome
-Saint-Michel, etc, etc, etc,
(and the many, many other Montreal neighbourhoods and suburbs named after saints which have no particular link to the history or character of the neighbourhood whatsoever, except for Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue which kindof has a nice ring to it)

[Enzo]

Always sounds better in French!

[Matthew]

I ran into a tourist or transplant once who asked me for directions to Leicester Road, only they asked me in French? I didn't know what they were asking at first. It was only afterwards, while trying to figure out where this odd road was, that my mom said: oh, you mean Lester. :D

In Asheville, Town Mountain is the neighborhood I wish I lived in. I have a number of friends with homes up there and the view is amazing! I've taken endless skyline photos from a good friend's backyard deck. It's a real mix of old and new homes. They are still building new homes there. It's also close to shopping and downtown attractions.

Arden is nothing to write home about. We have a big sub-division that is nice. It's designed to fit-in with it's surroundings. The area where I live in Henderson County is very rural. It's not even in the city. It's just a 28704 zip code, so that makes it Arden. Development is closing in though. It's nothing to wake-up to the sound of hammers and large trucks in the morning.

[SoulBrotha]

Favorite Louisville hood names:
Parkland
Smoketown
Parkhill
Southwick
Butchertown
Creasant Hill
Highlands
Shawnee
Chickasaw
iroquois
Little Africa
Baxter

Don't like:
Portland
Hurstbourne
Glendale
Dixie Highway
Newburg
Shively

[Llyod Banks]

My hometown Longview,east texas(not to big little big city)

Best:
Foxhill
Pine Tree
White city
Lakeport
Ware acres
Wild Wood
Tatum


Worst:
Hallsville
Kilgore
Spring Hill
Easton
Gum Springs
Judson

[CTroyMathis]

San Diego worst:

Bay Ho


(I never had much of a disdain to many of the other neighborhood names, no matter if some were overly 'ordinary' or 'off' - which was far and few between.)

[Hillis]

No ones done T.O. yet? hehe I'll give it a crack.

DOWNTOWN TORONTO: (Someone else can do the rest of the city)

Bad-
Godderham & Worts - Historic Area
Cabbage Town - Derived from Scottish Immagrants way back, when they could only efford cabbage and the area smelt like cabbage :)
Chinatown East - Origional
Portugal Village - hmm...
St. James Town - hmmm...
Parkdale - Origional
Rosedale - Look Above
Korea Town - ^^^

Good-
Chinatown - Somewhat origional...
The Beaches - SOunds nice, eh?
Corso Italia - lol, sounds cool
The Danforth Aka. Greek Town
Kensington - Sounds cool :)
The Annex - hmm
Little Italy - Nice Name
Forest Hill - Canada'ish :P Gotta have trees

[AjeFromDBlock]

my favorites in phrysko [san francisco] would have to be Dub V, [visitation valley] hunters point, tenderloin, bay view, and i live in the excelsior, but i really dont like the name, excelsior, wtf were they thinking?

[deehrler]

SoulBro... you forgot Pleasure Ridge Park (ah!) and Pewee Valley (ooh). I always thought those were funny when I was a kid. I guess that they may be part of the city now.

[theodore]

GOOD-

Le Plateau - Montreal
Wild 100's - Chicago
Alphabet City - Manhattan
Over the Rhine - Cincinnati
Northern Liberties - Philadelphia
Tenderloin - San Francisco
Elephant and Castle - London
Bed-Stuy - Brooklyn
Back of the Yards - Chicago


BAD-

DUMBO - Brooklyn

[grasscat]

We had a "Northern Liberties" back in the early 1800s. That's where Liberty St., the old northern boundary of Cincy, came from. It was called Northern Liberties because all land past it was out of the city jurisdiction, so it naturally became an area of lawlessness and vice.

[DeBaliviere]

St. Louis:

Best:
DeBaliviere Place (I'm a little impartial here)
Dogtown
Soulard
Lafayette Square
The Ville
Benton Park

Worst:
Peabody-Darst-Webbe
The Gate District
Jeff Vander Lou
Marine Villa
Forest Park Southeast (why not just call Skinker-DeBaliviere "Forest Park Northwest or Dogtown "Forest Park Southwest"?)

STLGasm, I actually kinda like Patch. I think it used to be called Kerry Patch, which is a lot more Irish-sounding. :)

[grasscat]

BTW...(this is entirely based on your comment under your username, DeBaliviere) I'm intrigued by the SLU/UD game tonight. UC beat the shite out of UD by 20+. I'm not sure how good the Billikens are, but I know they gave Arizona a scare. UD is a good team, so I'm looking forward to this game to gauge both UD and SLU. I know that Xavier has been playing sub-par ball, but the A-10 West is going to go through Xavier and Dayton. C-USA is going to go through the Ville or UC (though there are several good teams in the Ghetto Conference).

OK, sorry to change the thread. Back to regularly scheduled programming (actually, go SLU. I want Dayton to lose.)

[Jared]

Vancouver

Best:

Coal Harbour
Strathcona
False Creek
Kitsilano


Worst:

West End
East Van
Kerrisdale
Shaughnessy

[Prahaboheme]

Orlando:

Best: Windermere, Parramore, College Park

Worst: Celebration

[grasscat]

I don't understand how "West End" (or insert any directional) could be considered so bad by people. It's just an indication that the place is close to the city but is west of it.

I mean, damn, I'd understand if it was "Dirtville" or "Shitesboro" or something that may denigrate an ethnicity, but....

[DeBaliviere]

Grasscat,

I think SLU will have trouble with UD's front line. They are arguably the best we've played so far. We are fairly deep at the guard positions, but can be dominated by teams with athletic big men.

SLU is 5-4, and the only quality win we have so far is over Butler, but they had a small lineup and appear to be on the decline. So, you could argue that we have no quality wins.

We played Georgia Tech fairly tough, and that Arizona game was a heartbreaker. The crazy thing about the Billikens is that they have a knack for upsetting superior teams while losing to cupcakes. We also play very poorly on the road, so I don't think we have much of a chance tonight.

I think the UC blowout was just fluke; I think Dayton is a pretty good team. I can't wait for us to join the A10!

[grasscat]

Well, UC has blown out everyone (all 9 games) by 20+ points, but the only good team they have played is Dayton. Last year, Dayton won @ UD. UC blew out Miami at the US Bank Arena.

Enjoy joining the A-10. It's half-crappy. It did wonders for XU and UD, but there are some dogs in there. I mean...LaSalle? Duquesne? Fordham? The St. Bonaventure Quitters?

I suppose that after C-USA collapses that the A-10 will improve somewhat. And I'm glad that SLU will play XU again. It's like the old MCC days. But the A-10 will never rise to the top in the RPI with the several weak programs within it.