TOP MID-MAJOR TEAM BY STATE

Vermont - Vermont: Here is my bold prediction for next year..... Vermont will make the Sweet 16.

Would like to see UVM back on our future schedules.

America East and the Patriot League are both ranked somewhere in the mid-20's among the D-I conferences.  I don't recall HC ever setting up a 2-1 with a school from a conference that wasn't ranked in the top 10.

Home and home was set up with Albany when they were the top dog in American East, if both schools were interested, this of course would be a home and home as well

This may be primarily because of Uconn and their NCAA championships

All you need to know: "Massachusetts - Harvard: Tommy Amaker has found a way to bring in high-end recruits to Harvard and it has payed off."

Payed???

The whole notion of "mid-major" is absurd in my opinion

Since there's no official classification of "mid-major" and it's just a made up thing that us sports junkies like to talk about, there's no clear definition of what is or isn't a mid-major - especially since there's no such thing as a low major

No one would dare say it out loud, but I'd call a mid-or low major as a school that does not pay guarantee money.  We all know that URI paid HC a guarantee so they don't count.  On the other hand, I don't know if their A-10 brother Fordham offers guarantee games (I'm also pretty sure HC wouldn't be interested in a 2-1 with them)

Perhaps we assumed.  In terms of "we", all of us that follow HC hoops know HC played down there two years in a row.  It had been reported on this board that at least the first game was a guarantee, and I saw an ad on TV that said everything on the internet was true.  That's where my liberal use of "we" came from referring to Crossport'ers

There was an article linked on the board a year or so ago from the ProJo about URI guarantee games.  They liked having either a Brown or Bryant on the schedule most years as they could pay a smaller guarantee for someone who was only a short bus ride away.  

To my original point, I'll consider the ProJo a reliable source and say that URI pays guarantee games.  I would not label a school that pays guarantee money to tip their OOC schedule heavily home (last year 7 home, 3 road, and one in season neutral tourney vs HC which was 4 at Hart, 8 away, and one semi-home neutral)) a mid major

URI does pay opponents for guarantee games in Kingston. URI however plays Brown in an even alternating home and away series due to the long history between the schools. URI has offered Bryant a guarantee game but they have declined since going D1 as they can get more money from other schools. The current series with Holy Cross does not have a guarantee game from what I understand. I believe it is a 2-1 with URI owing a return game at the DCU Center from what was reported by a URI employee last year. I believe that URI plays about three guarantee games in Kingston most years. Dartmouth, Belmont, and William & Mary were such games this past season.

I believe the games that Holy Cross played at the Ryan Center prior to 2016 were one time guarantee games.

There are no HC hoop (or hockey) games sked for the Centrum in '17-'18.

According to an employee of URI that posted schedule information per a question I posed on the URI Fan Forum, the game in 2015-16 was a one time guarantee game which predated the three game series:





This same person posted that the game in 2016-17 was the first in a three year 2-1 series.  It seems however that the return game in 17-18 which he wrote about last year is not happening.   It is unknown whether this simply got shifted to 2018-19 or the series was completely restructured with no trip to Worcester.