Sophomore point guard Marque Perry (5, above), a Chicago native, must come up big if his team, the St. Louis University Billikens, are going to succeed in the jungle that calls itself Conference USA. Perry and the Bills travel to Carbondale Tuesday, Nov 21, to play the Salukis of Southern Illinois University. Both teams won their first regular season games (SLU vs Illinois-Chicago; SIU vs Long Beach State).

Click here to listen to Salukis' head coach Bruce Weber talk about his squad and its chances against St. Louis Univ.