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The CBSSN games are going to cause me some headaches.

Need to find a streaming service for CBSSN.
 
JonnyRI said:
I've been to a few games at xl and have had season tix at gampel for six years. You'll get overall better teams at xl but the atmosphere at gampel is light years better.
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If by light-years you mean occasionally better, I agree.
 
Chin Diesel said:
The CBSSN games are going to cause me some headaches.

Need to find a streaming service for CBSSN.
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Depending on tv provider you can stream CBSSN now.
 
Hope to make a weekend game up at Gampel or XL this winter along with the Sunday game at Temple, which is just a 2 hour drive from North Jersey, and the G-Town game in DC, though that is inauguration weekend, which means that 1) hotel rates will be high and 2) the city maybe burning down if Clinton or Trump get elected. Made that it looks like I will not be able to catch the 'Cuse game at MSG as I will be in the Philippines for work.
 
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raf46 said:
Northeastern, wagner, BU. Awful ! yet, I will be there. Do our young players gain anything playing those teams ? May be in a few years it will be Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas.
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Waquoit said:
If by light-years you mean occasionally better, I agree.
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No one can ever say you are not consistent. Wake up, search posts involving XL, defend XL to death, go to bed. Repeat.
 
raf46 said:
Northeastern, wagner, BU. Awful ! yet, I will be there. Do our young players gain anything playing those teams ? May be in a few years it will be Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas.
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I do not think you understand how scheduling works............

A potential OOC schedule of Ok State, UNC, Oregon, Gtown, Ohio State, Syracuse, and Auburn is pretty darn good.
 
Waquoit said:
If by light-years you mean occasionally better, I agree.
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The environment around say Oklahoma at the XL will of course be better than Gampel when Wager is visiting. But, if the quality of the opponent is the same, I'll take Gampel. More students, closer the to the floor, on-campus, etc. I would rank Gampel first followed by MSG and then XL in terms of best home game environments for the Huskies.
 
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There's the big word - potential. Potentially we don't play UNC and Oregon. Then our sos takes a hit.
 
ucp990411 said:
There's the big word - potential. Potentially we don't play UNC and Oregon. Then our sos takes a hit.
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The potential is there for our SOS to take a hit, but it is unlikely. We already play Oklahoma St. Assuming we win, we play the winner of UNC/Chaminade. I would expect UNC to win that game meaning we play them. In the third game, no matter what, I think we would play either Georgetown, Oregon, Wisconsin or Tennessee. So assuming Chaminade doesn't beat UNC at minimum from Maui we end up with Oklahoma St, UNC and then either one of those four schools. That isn't bad at all. Throw in Georgetown again (our regular OOC matchup), Ohio St, Syracuse, Auburn and that isn't a bad schedule. Again, we need to win our games. We win our games and SOS isn't a problem.
If we were to lose to Oklahoma St, get Chaminade in the second round and then get Georgetown or Tennessee in the third game then the potential isn't as good. But if that happens we aren't going to be that good anyway most likely. We don't have to worry about SOS if we win our games.
 
80shusky said:
The potential is there for our SOS to take a hit, but it is unlikely. We already play Oklahoma St. Assuming we win, we play the winner of UNC/Chaminade. I would expect UNC to win that game meaning we play them. In the third game, no matter what, I think we would play either Georgetown, Oregon, Wisconsin or Tennessee. So assuming Chaminade doesn't beat UNC at minimum from Maui we end up with Oklahoma St, UNC and then either one of those four schools. That isn't bad at all. Throw in Georgetown again (our regular OOC matchup), Ohio St, Syracuse, Auburn and that isn't a bad schedule. Again, we need to win our games. We win our games and SOS isn't a problem.
If we were to lose to Oklahoma St, get Chaminade in the second round and then get Georgetown or Tennessee in the third game then the potential isn't as good. But if that happens we aren't going to be that good anyway most likely. We don't have to worry about SOS if we win our games.
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Georgetown, Ohio St and Auburn are not very good teams. Contrary to what most seem to think they will not boost our RPI much.
So if we lose to Oklahoma St we may not play a top 15 team all year.
 
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ucp990411 said:
Georgetown, Ohio St and Auburn are not very good teams. Contrary to what most seem to think they will not boost our RPI much.
So if we lose to Oklahoma St we may not play a top 15 team all year.
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the team has to come out of the gates winning i agree, you can't get behind the eight ball like last year.
 
ucp990411 said:
Georgetown, Ohio St and Auburn are not very good teams. Contrary to what most seem to think they will not boost our RPI much.
So if we lose to Oklahoma St we may not play a top 15 team all year.
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Ohio State should be at the very least a tournament team. They return pretty much everybody from a group that went, I think, 11-7 or 12-6 in the Big 10 last year. I'd be surprised if they weren't a top 50 team, and top 25 isn't out of the question at all - they have a lot of talent, and even though they were very young last season, they made a lot of progress over the course of the season and may have had a chance at dancing had injuries not bit them. Going to their place in early December, I think we'll be dogs. That would be a great OOC road win.

Georgetown was a mess last year, but they have talent (a guy like Copeland could break out), and they're typically not bad two years in a row. Again, that game being on the road, the committee will look fondly on that sort of win in March.

Just like it was obvious that a team like Ohio State was going to struggle last year, even when they were branded as a marquee opponent, it's equally evident that assuming a team that was mediocre last year is going to be mediocre again is overly simplistic.
 
ucp990411 said:
There's the big word - potential. Potentially we don't play UNC and Oregon. Then our sos takes a hit.
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Yup, Chaminade is going to beat UNC. Our out of conference schedule looks pretty good to me.
 
I didn't say Chaminade is going to beat UNC. If we don't bear OK St, then our schedule takes a hit. Like James said, we had better start the season strong. I just don't see why so many are building our schedule up. Our conference is so bad that we should be playing the elite teams and if for some reason we don't play UNC then there is not an elite team on our schedule. And don't tell me we tried to schedule them but we could not make it work. Then someone needs to try harder.
 
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ucp990411 said:
I didn't say Chaminade is going to beat UNC. If we don't bear OK St, then our schedule takes a hit. Like James said, we had better start the season strong. I just don't see why so many are building our schedule up. Our conference is so bad that we should be playing the elite teams and if for some reason we don't play UNC then there is not an elite team on our schedule. And don't tell me we tried to schedule them but we could not make it work. Then someone needs to try harder.
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The chances of us not playing UNC are pretty slim. I think they beat Chaminade. Again, our schedule could be better. It can always be better. However, it is good enough. But we have to win our games. If our schedule is so weak then we should go 28-2 or something. If we go 28-2 and get a 7 seed then I think there is more afoot than our strength of schedule.
 
ucp990411 said:
Georgetown, Ohio St and Auburn are not very good teams. Contrary to what most seem to think they will not boost our RPI much.
So if we lose to Oklahoma St we may not play a top 15 team all year.
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No one can predict the future and historically Georgetown and Ohio St. are pretty safe bets. UConn scheduled a home and home with UNC in the early 2000's and UConn just destroyed UNC in the first game by 30 something. That happened to be the worst UNC team in probably a lot of our lifetimes. No one would have predicted that when the deal was signed. It happens.
 
Leebo said:
Sounds like our first "is this a must win" topic is right around the corner.
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I can answer the question: it is. That first game against Oklahoma State could be worth 2-3 seed lines based on that win and the resulting SOS opportunities.

If we lose to them, win a meaningless scrimmage against Chaminade, and then play Tennessee (or whoever), that really limits the quality of our resume. We'd have to go like 26-2 the rest of the way to get a top 2 seed.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
I can answer the question: it is. That first game against Oklahoma State could be worth 2-3 seed lines based on that win and the resulting SOS opportunities.

If we lose to them, win a meaningless scrimmage against Chaminade, and then play Tennessee (or whoever), that really limits the quality of our resume. We'd have to go like 26-2 the rest of the way to get a top 2 seed.
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I sort of agreed until the last sentence. We still play Ohio State, Georgetown, Syracuse, and whoever else we draw in Maui in addition to Cincinnati, Memphis (they should be a tournament team), SMU, Temple, Houston, etc. Not great teams but squads that can get to the tournament. If we lose only one OOC game and go 15-3 in conference, we'll be in position for a 2 seed or better even with a loss in the ACCT.

Now, that said, you're right, the Oklahoma State game is vital. To the extent that it is a 'must win' is semantics but there is a huge difference between playing UNC and Oregon/Wisconsin and Chaminade and Tennessee.
 
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