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Post by timholycross on Jun 19, 2021 16:52:42 GMT -5
One out of HC, Bryant and BCookman have to trek to Utah or Oklahoma, if that format gerry mentions holds.
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Post by timholycross on Jun 19, 2021 16:53:44 GMT -5
One out of HC, Bryant and BCookman have to trek to Salt Lake City or Tulsa, if that format gerry mentions holds. No question AFA will head to one of those cities.
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Post by gerry on Jun 19, 2021 17:06:44 GMT -5
There are three natural matchups: HC-BC, Bryant-URI, AFA-Utah which would seem to leave Bethune Cookman with Tulsa. Given that they are hosting the tournament, them traveling would make sense. The question would be whether it's one unbracketed game or two
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Post by trimster on Jun 23, 2021 8:05:47 GMT -5
Hopefully UMass is in the mix. Makes a lot of sense to be playing them from an historical and geographic sense. Same can be said of BC, PC and UConn but as others have said, it takes two to tango. I thought that Nelson and McCall being close friends would make a game(s) with UMass a slam dunk - so to speak. According to the Fairfield board, we will be visiting them this year. With Alumni Hall being rebuilt, I assume the game will be played at the Bridgeport Arena. Fairfield has road games at BC, PC and UMass.
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Post by timholycross on Jun 23, 2021 8:18:34 GMT -5
Perhaps HC has a longer term agreement w/Fairfield to alternate games; they came to Worcester in 2019-20. Not a bad non-leaguer IMHO, nice to have another game semi-close to NYC like AWP.
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Post by hchoops on Jun 23, 2021 8:42:05 GMT -5
Even better to have a game in NYC or at least somewhat closer than Fairfield, like the recent ones with Iona and FDU
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Post by timholycross on Jun 23, 2021 9:38:34 GMT -5
Even better to have a game in NYC or at least somewhat closer than Fairfield, like the recent ones with Iona and FDU ...or a Matt Faw reunion game!
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Post by Tom on Jun 23, 2021 9:48:54 GMT -5
Sounds like re-shuffle for COVID. HC would have been heading there last year, but didn't play any OOC games
Very possible based on a two year grad program, but pushing the series back a year means former Crusader Caleb Green will need to play that 5th year at Fairfield to be the first former player to come to Hart in a very long time (covered in another thread. Not sure who the last was, but I'm thinking Doug McCrory)
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jun 23, 2021 11:48:28 GMT -5
Fairfield and Siena are two teams I would love to see on schedule 2 years out of every 4. Every year not really possible with the expanded PL schedule. But those games were a lot of fun in during the Willard era.
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Post by Tom on Jun 23, 2021 12:46:59 GMT -5
Fairfield and Siena are two teams I would love to see on schedule 2 years out of every 4. Every year not really possible with the expanded PL schedule. But those games were a lot of fun in during the Willard era. selfishly speaking, also drivable after work from Worcester
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jun 23, 2021 14:53:19 GMT -5
Looking at the Lehigh Board this afternoon, I found this posting. It appears that Lehigh will be playing against both Austin and Matt this year in the OOC schedule...
“Besides taking on Syracuse (at the Dome) on 12/18, it looks like we'll host NJIT as part of the Hoop Group Garden State Classic on November 13. A few days later (November 19-21) SBNATION reports we'll take part in the Islands of the Bahamas Showcase along with Charlotte (C-USA), Drexel (CAA), Toledo (MAC), Valparaiso (MVC) and 3 TBA”.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jun 23, 2021 15:48:34 GMT -5
Fairfield and Siena are two teams I would love to see on schedule 2 years out of every 4. Every year not really possible with the expanded PL schedule. But those games were a lot of fun in during the Willard era. selfishly speaking, also drivable after work from Worcester Nothing screams fun like 260 mile round trips after a day of day of work.
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Post by bigfan on Jun 23, 2021 17:34:49 GMT -5
Would like to see games with Manhattan & Fordham in the next few years to help recruiting in the NY area.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jun 23, 2021 17:57:26 GMT -5
Completely agree.
Every attempt to sked a game a year in NYC should be made for multiple reasons. And games 50 miles away in West Point or Fairfield don't count.
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Post by gerry on Jun 24, 2021 5:26:19 GMT -5
Brown released their schedule, but no Holy Cross on the docket even though they have two games with lower level schools Salve Regina and Johnson and Wales as well as Merrimack and UMass-Lowell. I've always found it odd that Holy Cross and Brown play each other so infrequently over the years in hoop given the proximity of the schools and the long history of competition in other sports, most notably football
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Post by HCFC45 on Jun 24, 2021 6:06:22 GMT -5
Brown released their schedule, but no Holy Cross on the docket even though they have two games with lower level schools Salve Regina and Johnson and Wales as well as Merrimack and UMass-Lowell. I've always found it odd that Holy Cross and Brown play each other so infrequently over the years in hoop given the proximity of the schools and the long history of competition in other sports, most notably football And, the reason is they do not want opposing fans making noise (known as cheering for your team) in their facility! The NAD (most wanted) poster still hangs in the hall of the Pizzitola Sports Arena! !!!
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Post by Tom on Jun 24, 2021 7:06:59 GMT -5
selfishly speaking, also drivable after work from Worcester Nothing screams fun like 260 mile round trips after a day of day of work. I've done it more than once. More fun after a W than an L
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Post by Tom on Jun 24, 2021 7:10:45 GMT -5
Brown released their schedule, but no Holy Cross on the docket even though they have two games with lower level schools Salve Regina and Johnson and Wales as well as Merrimack and UMass-Lowell. I've always found it odd that Holy Cross and Brown play each other so infrequently over the years in hoop given the proximity of the schools and the long history of competition in other sports, most notably football And, the reason is they do not want opposing fans making noise (known as cheering for your team) in their facility! The NAD (most wanted) poster still hangs in the hall of the Pizzitola Sports Arena! !!! HCFC45 - You were right in the middle of that getting chastised for cheering as well. Don't be shifting all the banning blame on poor NAD
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Post by timholycross on Jun 24, 2021 10:41:00 GMT -5
Nothing screams fun like 260 mile round trips after a day of day of work. I've done it more than once. More fun after a W than an L One of my friends has in effect commuted from Yonkers to Worcester once or twice a week to help someone coach a high school team. Couldn't do it this year because they banned anyone coaching who didn't live in Mass. (as they do a background check in a normal season, no way of getting around that). I have no idea how he does it, and he's pushing 70 just like me.
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Post by timholycross on Jun 24, 2021 10:47:23 GMT -5
Brown released their schedule, but no Holy Cross on the docket even though they have two games with lower level schools Salve Regina and Johnson and Wales as well as Merrimack and UMass-Lowell. I've always found it odd that Holy Cross and Brown play each other so infrequently over the years in hoop given the proximity of the schools and the long history of competition in other sports, most notably football And, the reason is they do not want opposing fans making noise (known as cheering for your team) in their facility! The NAD (most wanted) poster still hangs in the hall of the Pizzitola Sports Arena! !!! Just like the late, great John Meegan...banned from Fordham for razzing some referee. Wouldn't even try to go there a good 20-25 years after whatever he did happened.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jun 24, 2021 11:30:20 GMT -5
Brown released their schedule, but no Holy Cross on the docket even though they have two games with lower level schools Salve Regina and Johnson and Wales as well as Merrimack and UMass-Lowell. I've always found it odd that Holy Cross and Brown play each other so infrequently over the years in hoop given the proximity of the schools and the long history of competition in other sports, most notably football Brown is also playing Creighton, North Carolina, and Maryland - so don't throw stones at their sked.
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Post by gerry on Jun 24, 2021 13:03:41 GMT -5
How was I "throwing stones at their sked?" I merely commented that they are playing local teams, but not Holy Cross a mere 45 minutes up the road when both teams are seemingly playing multiple non D1 teams. Seems like a game that could easily have been scheduled and one that would have benefited both teams
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jun 25, 2021 12:52:58 GMT -5
As much as I've enjoyed the on-again, off-again football series with Brown, I don't have too much of an appetite for a regular basketball series. Same goes with Dartmouth.
As far as local mid-major BASKETBALL opponents that would play us home-and-home, Brown is less appealing IMO than a number of schools, including Harvard, Yale, Northeastern, Vermont, Siena, Fairfield and Albany.
That being said, Brown is a day trip. So logistically yes it would definitely a ton of sense as long as both schools have an opening.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 25, 2021 13:02:50 GMT -5
I think Northeastern has pleasant memories from their last trip to the Hart. We owe them a return whuppin'.
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Post by timholycross on Jun 25, 2021 13:31:11 GMT -5
Brown's gym is as bad as it gets. And it's an improvement on Marvel Gym, which was their home court until around 1990.
The old Ivy League gyms: Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown were incredibly inadequate.
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