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Hey Adrien! said:
We'll see the Blue Devils play in Bridgeport.

...the CCSU Blue Devils, that is. I'd bet CCSU will be in Bridgeport. In-state school and right near the holidays. They've booked Eastern Washington and Columbia in the past, so it's not like they book marquee teams for Bridgeport.
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Last year's Central game drew over 13K in Hartford. I'm not sure they would want to mess with that. I'm betting on Furman.
 
Inyatkin said:
If only Kevin Ollie were as smart as all of us
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Well, I'm no basketball expert like him, but I sure as tootin' know I'm struggling to get pumped about spending money for season tickets and watching that mobile bakery roll through town.
 
It would be fairly bizarre to play Central in Bridgeport. UMass-Lowell makes more sense and haven't the Bport games been on weekends (maybe Columbia was a Monday).
 
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Furman played in the CT Mutual Classic in the late 80's/early 90's? I seem to remember Central in the same field?
 
Inyatkin said:
What's a Furman?
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Bill Sussman said:
Good old , the Paladins... My sister and brother in-laws alma mater ... This should be fun
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Funny, I never knew anything about Furman until last year, when a friend mentioned it as a school that one of his kids was looking at. I've researched it quite a bit since and it sounds like a very good, historic university on a beautiful campus in a pretty nice corner of the country.

@Bill Sussman , I'm curious to hear whether your sister and brother-in-law think well of it. It's one (of many) I'm looking at now for my oldest daughter, who has it in her head that she wants to go to school "in the south" because of the weather. I don't think she understands the potential cultural differences she might encounter, and I'm interested to learn more about how pronounced (or not) those differences are in that area for, say, a fairly liberal kid from the Northeast.
 
Not every school wants to play us or fits our open dates. There was an interesting article a few years back about how the AD's have a web site they use for the openings and how difficult it is for some finishing touches to the schedule.

Maybe we're playing Furman as it was the only school with an open date that would travel at that time?

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather play Kansas or Duke or UNC than Furman but a lot of posters assume that the staff and AD are pure incompetants and choose to fill the schedule with creampuffs, let's give them a little more credit than that.
 
Drumguy said:
Not every school wants to play us or fits our open dates. There was an interesting article a few years back about how the AD's have a web site they use for the openings and how difficult it is for some finishing touches to the schedule.

Maybe we're playing Furman as it was the only school with an open date that would travel at that time?

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather play Kansas or Duke or UNC than Furman but a lot of posters assume that the staff and AD are pure incompetants and choose to fill the schedule with creampuffs, let's give them a little more credit than that.
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You mean KO and the AD staff aren't trying to tank the program and ruin our lives?
 
Drumguy said:
Not every school wants to play us or fits our open dates. There was an interesting article a few years back about how the AD's have a web site they use for the openings and how difficult it is for some finishing touches to the schedule.

Maybe we're playing Furman as it was the only school with an open date that would travel at that time?

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather play Kansas or Duke or UNC than Furman but a lot of posters assume that the staff and AD are pure incompetants and choose to fill the schedule with creampuffs, let's give them a little more credit than that.
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Website is basketballtravelers. It went private however, you need to be affiliated with a school to view it.

I think the issue people have with this schedule is the balance. We will be playing 6-7 top 100 RPI teams, and 6-7 teams likely to be sub-200 teams. There is no middle ground, if this schedule had an Ivy team or two I think this would be a great schedule. However, I won't be complaining about a schedule that could quite possibly be Maryland, Texas, Georgetown, Ohio State, Syracuse, Michigan, and Gonzaga.
 
Do I really have to sit through a game against Furman and Maine? Good grief. I understand the need to schedule lower level teams, but Maine won 3 freaking games last year. THREE.

What happened to Yale? Thought we had a good little rivalry going there... and I can't see why either team wouldn't agree to it/be able to fit it in...
 
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We are not asking for a game vs KU or Duke rather than Furman. We want a game vs. a Columbia or a Colgate, teams that aren't going to plummet our SOS. Teams have gamed the SOS before, it's not impossible, they need to do better.
 
BoatShow said:
Of all the nearly 400 D1 schools they play Furman?

Really odd schedule. Lots of top 30ish games and lots of 300+ games. How about pick some cupcakes from the 100-200 range?
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Furman did play in their conference title game last season and had 0 Seniors FWIW

They lost by 3 to a good Wofford team in the title game
 
Welp, here's to hoping that UCF, ECU, USF, Tulane and Houston all finish in the top 150 RPI (that ain't happening)
 
I will start off with quite frankly, because this won't please the sugar coating, koolaide drinking crowd.
With the early season tournament we play enough top teams - many away or on neutral courts. But, playing a 300+ RPI team works against the over-all RPI in a stupid way - since the chance of losing to a team 230 is not much greater than a team at 330 - if you are any good at all.

Given the weak conference and issues with attendance in recent years - they need to not just focus on who we play but who we play at home. We need another OSU level home game and a couple mid type teams.
Another thing are we going to schedule against the NFL again? How many 9pm games in Storrs?
You can never schedule perfect and lots of variables go into a schedule but we can do better.
 
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None of us know all the ins and outs of constructing a schedule. KO is fully aware of what impacts our RPI so leave the fine details to him and the other decisions makers and be happy we have some top notch non-conference games!
 
Matt1010 said:
None of us know all the ins and outs of constructing a schedule. KO is fully aware of what impacts our RPI so leave the fine details to him and the other decisions makers and be happy we have some top notch non-conference games!
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But everyone will think they can do better and can basically create a schedule of whatever teams they want on it
 
Dear Kevin:

In the future please contact The Boneyard before making your schedule.
If you chose to play some very weak teams to provide the coaching staff and players an opportunity to incorporate line ups and plays you could not otherwise try and develop when playing better teams that was a mistake.

You must put the cart before the horse and not worry about the teams development during the season. This forum has already declared the future is set in stone, the team is already polished. You should only worry about seeding in the NCAA tournament.

The fact that you lost your veteran point guard and back up point guard and probably will be bringing in at least two new players into the starting line up is irrelevant. The fact that you have two other new players (freshmen) on the team is unimportant. The fact that the team struggled last season is unimportant. You should only consider the emotional needs of the fans who are bored with cupcakes.
 
Matt1010 said:
None of us know all the ins and outs of constructing a schedule. KO is fully aware of what impacts our RPI so leave the fine details to him and the other decisions makers and be happy we have some top notch non-conference games!
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Don't act like it's rocket science.

The top half of the schedule is fantastic, but the sub 300 games aren't acceptable.

Sure, we need cupcakes to fill out our home schedule, but there has to be teams from 150-300 that would agree to a 1 off against us.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
Don't act like it's rocket science.

The top half of the schedule is fantastic, but the sub 300 games aren't acceptable.

Sure, we need cupcakes to fill out our home schedule, but there has to be teams from 150-300 that would agree to a 1 off against us.
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Have you spoken with teams and know why they do/do not want to play us? We finished #72 in Kenpom last year, does that mean we won't finish better this year? I'm not going to spend my time looking into whether teams like Furman and UMass-Lowell will be better/worse this year but the difference between a 305/311 Kenpom finish and 150-300 is minuscule.
 
Matt1010 said:
Have you spoken with teams and know why they do/do not want to play us? We finished #72 in Kenpom last year, does that mean we won't finish better this year? I'm not going to spend my time looking into whether teams like Furman and UMass-Lowell will be better/worse this year but the difference between a 305/311 Kenpom finish and 150-300 is minuscule.
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What do you mean by miniscule? Because kenpom is one thing but the rpi hit is definitely an issue.
 
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fleudslipcon said:
Dear Kevin:

In the future please contact The Boneyard before making your schedule.
If you chose to play some very weak teams to provide the coaching staff and players an opportunity to incorporate line ups and plays you could not otherwise try and develop when playing better teams that was a mistake.

You must put the cart before the horse and not worry about the teams development during the season. This forum has already declared the future is set in stone, the team is already polished. You should only worry about seeding in the NCAA tournament.

The fact that you lost your veteran point guard and back up point guard and probably will be bringing in at least two new players into the starting line up is irrelevant. The fact that you have two other new players (freshmen) on the team is unimportant. The fact that the team struggled last season is unimportant. You should only consider the emotional needs of the fans who are bored with cupcakes.
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Quickly frankly, I doubt playing a 300+ type team does anything to prepare for real teams. It does guarantee a win.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
What do you mean by miniscule? Because kenpom is one thing but the rpi hit is definitely an issue.
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What I'm saying is that those teams finishing at 305 and 311 are very very close to being 150-300. That small of a difference is a single W/L. They could easily finish this year top 300 and it will not negatively impact us.
 
Matt1010 said:
What I'm saying is that those teams finishing at 305 and 311 are very very close to being 150-300. That small of a difference is a single W/L. They could easily finish this year top 300 and it will not negatively impact us.
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I don't think that's true either.

Around 300 in KenPom are mainly teams well under .500 and 150 are over .500.

Same with RPI which is the only relevant metric with respect to this debate.
 
Can't have any slip ups. However it does hurt our RPI going into Selection Sunday. Could be pumped down a seed line or 5 considering our conference and the 300+ games. Hopefully those bad teams win though.
 
I don't believe that they can't find teams in the 150 rpi range to play. That's insane. I'm fine with CCSU because of Howie, but I simply don't believe that we couldn't land a game with a couple more non-tire fire programs.
 
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