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Post by hchoops on Jul 30, 2019 10:09:31 GMT -5
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Post by rf1 on Jul 30, 2019 11:32:36 GMT -5
I wouldn't feel too bad for Dayton. They may be the only team in America not to play a true road game on an OOC opponent's home court. Eight games will be at their UD Arena and the remaining five games will be at neutral site venues.
DAYTON OOC SCHEDULE
Indiana State
Charleston Southern
Omaha
Vs Georgia
Vs Michigan State/Virginia Tech
Vs TBD
Houston Baptist
Vs St Mary's
Drake
North Texas
Vs Colorado
Grambling
North Florida
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Post by rf1 on Jul 30, 2019 11:33:38 GMT -5
Rhode Island released its OOC schedule with one home opponent (that is part of the Jamaica Classic tournament) that has not as yet been determined. It is rumored that this team will likely be either Samford, NC A&T, or UMBC.
RHODE ISLAND OOC
LIU Brooklyn
@ Maryland
Nicholls State
Alabama
TBD
Vs LSU
Vs North Texas/Utah State
@ West Virginia
Providence
Western Kentucky
@ Middle Tenn State U
@ Brown
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Post by hchoops on Jul 30, 2019 11:52:55 GMT -5
I wouldn't feel too bad for Dayton. They may be the only team in America not to play a true road game on an OOC opponent's home court. Eight games will be at their UD Arena and the remaining five games will be at neutral site venues. DAYTON OOC SCHEDULE Indiana State Charleston Southern Omaha Vs Georgia Vs Michigan State/Virginia Tech Vs TBD Houston Baptist Vs St Mary's Drake North Texas Vs Colorado Grambling North Florida The issue is not that Dayton does not have a favorable schedule, but that as a very desirable opponent,in a fine arena, they could not get a home and home with a top opponent. The sign of the future as power conferences move to a 20 game league schedule |
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Post by rf1 on Jul 30, 2019 14:12:40 GMT -5
Jamaica Classic in Montego Bay should be great for recruitment. Great warm weather during the cold months up north, beautiful scenery, great beaches, wonderful food & Blue Mountain coffee, Reggae and the opportunity to meet many really nice Jamaicans. LoveHC Rhody was in Hawaii for its tournament last year. The year before they did a summer exhibition tour in the Bahamas. |
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 2, 2019 22:00:32 GMT -5
Rhode Island released its OOC schedule with one home opponent (that is part of the Jamaica Classic tournament) that has not as yet been determined. It is rumored that this team will likely be either Samford, NC A&T, or UMBC. RHODE ISLAND OOC LIU Brooklyn @ Maryland Nicholls State Alabama TBD Vs LSU Vs North Texas/Utah State @ West Virginia Providence Western Kentucky @ Middle Tenn State U @ Brown RI is just the right sized state to have an annual "Governor's Tournament" between PC, URI, Brown and Bryant at the Civic Center during the OOC season each year. Brown and Bryant would face each other in the consolation game the second night most years but it would be fun for the denizens of the Ocean State. Perhaps the winner could earn the "Salty Brine Cup." |
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Post by rf1 on Aug 3, 2019 12:15:18 GMT -5
URI already plays both Brown and PC, two of its most played and oldest rivals, in an equitable rotating home and home series every year. It hasn't played Bryant since it went D1 as it will not agree to a H&H going to Smithfield as it does with the other RI schools as there is no shared history. Bryant chooses not to come to Kingston for a buy game as it can get more money elsewhere.
PC isn't even playing Brown or Bryant this season for the second straight year. It however somehow found a way to schedule their conference mates such as CCSU, Penn, Sacred Heart, and Merrimack.
Furthermore, why should PC get the advantage of playing even more games at home? Why should URI with its own nice arena agree to something like that? As noted above, it is already difficult enough for a school like URI to secure home games.
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 6, 2019 22:20:17 GMT -5
I suppose the Ryan Center should share hosting duties with the Civic Center. If Bryant hasn't upgraded it's gym, it's definitely a D-2 gym and Brown's isn't that much bigger. I just thought it could become a RI Christmas tradition local BB fans would enjoy. Should be able to get local sponsorship.
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Post by purplehaze on Oct 1, 2019 11:03:06 GMT -5
Looks like we might have had a chance to arrange a game with Iona this year (instead of UMass Boston) - the Gaels have released a '26 game schedule' including only 6 ooc dates - three games short of the usual 29 ! That is a very frustrating to their fan base especially when they're opening up their renovated Hynes gym this season. Seems they might have played hardball asking for 'home and homes' that they didn't get and then found everyone's schedule filled - the life of mid major scheduling icgaels.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball |
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Post by hchoops on Oct 1, 2019 12:10:30 GMT -5
Cluess is not an easy person to deal with
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Post by purplehaze on Oct 11, 2019 12:13:24 GMT -5
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Post by bfoley82 on Oct 11, 2019 12:41:22 GMT -5
As someone that has shot a few of the Colgate "buy" games, they aren't coming to the area for now the second straight year. That means BC, Providence, UMass, and UConn aren't scheduling them for a reason. |
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Post by bison137 on Oct 11, 2019 13:19:18 GMT -5
I think Langel is overstating their "problems" with finding teams willing to play them for publicity reasons. As it is, they got games with Clemson, Auburn, Cinci, and Syracuse. I doubt he wanted more than four games with teams at that level.
Bucknell has had a number of teams that were projected to be as good or better than Colgate's 2019-20 squad, and none of those teams had significant problems getting buy games and a good overall schedule. The only Bucknell team that struggled with scheduling was the 2005-06 team, which returned all five starters after beating Kansas. And their struggle was only to find home games. On the road, they were able to schedule Duke, Syracuse, DePaul, Northern Iowa, Santa Clara, Niagara, Rider, and a couple others. Also had Villanova and St. Joes at home - but those were already scheduled prior to the Kansas game.
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Post by DiMarz on Oct 11, 2019 15:33:07 GMT -5
Wasn't the scheduling problem one of the reasons Coach Willard decided to leave?
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 11, 2019 15:38:15 GMT -5
IIRC it was as his teams got better few of the better teams wanted to play HC. The pressure was something he complained about more than once.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Oct 11, 2019 18:58:37 GMT -5
IIRC it was as his teams got better few of the better teams wanted to play HC. The pressure was something he complained about more than once. You definitely recall correctly RGS. It got to the point where Jim Calhoun soilt his proverbial underwear when we were placed in the same pod as UConn in the pre-season NIT scheduled for fall of 2007. He demanded HC be moved to the University of Oklahoma's bracket. Out of frustration, we backed out. I believe a couple of other schools followed suit in protest and the tournament was sent scrambling for replacements. It was so late in the scheduling calendar, that the NIT was forced to invite at least one Division II school to fill the bracket. A shame that we didn't get to see the Blake Griffin-Tim Clifford matchup! During that same time period, BC took us off their schedule. My four years at HC were the first four years that men's basketball was not played between the two schools, basically ever. Obviously, post-Willard, UConn, BC and PC all trickled back onto the schedule. I hope that the Nelson era success creates similar scheduling problems!! |
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 11, 2019 19:07:23 GMT -5
Absolutely. Right now other top tea ms are far too comfortable scheduling HC.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 11, 2019 19:09:45 GMT -5
One key issue with Ralph's teams was the unusual defense we played. I believe some teams did not want to prepare for an unusual, tough defense that they'd never see again in the season.
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