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2026-2027 Non con schedule

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Anyone know who we have games with for the non conference schedule this year? I know we host Kansas but after that I don't know.
 
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blkknight1 said:
The just beat Illinois in Indy which is roughly the same distance to Chicago
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Didn’t say we wouldn’t win just that it’s the toughest. I think we beat all those teams setting ourselves up for another top seed
 
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gampelcrazies said:
I know a lot of people are gonna disagree but it’s true. They are slowly ruining the MSG games by playing too many
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Sounds like the too big for Notre Dame argument. Maybe we can get a politician to repeat past mistakes.
 
navery12 said:
Considering the East regional is at MSG next year, do not expect a ton of MSG games in the OOC
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How many games can a team play at a venue before they can't play in the NCAA Tournament there? I'm assuming the away St. John's game and the BET games don't count toward the NCAA Tournament maximum games at a venue?
 
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HooperScooper said:
How many games can a team play at a venue before they can't play in the NCAA Tournament there? I'm assuming the away St. John's game and the BET games don't count toward the NCAA Tournament maximum games at a venue?
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No more than 3 where they are considered the home team. If it is a neutral site game I don’t think it counts towards the total
 
HooperScooper said:
How many games can a team play at a venue before they can't play in the NCAA Tournament there? I'm assuming the away St. John's game and the BET games don't count toward the NCAA Tournament maximum games at a venue?
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Not sure if it's a firm rule but I remember Villanova only schedules 3 games at the Wells Fargo Center when the NCAA hosts the regionals there. Not sure if its different with a true neutral arena like MSG
 
blkknight1 said:
No more than 3 where they are considered the home team. If it is a neutral site game I don’t think it counts towards the total
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Isn’t this only for the opening rounds?
 
Why wouldnt Duke do a home and home series. They have the better home court advantage.
 
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navery12 said:
Not sure if it's a firm rule but I remember Villanova only schedules 3 games at the Wells Fargo Center when the NCAA hosts the regionals there. Not sure if its different with a true neutral arena like MSG
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According to the NCAA website:

A team cannot play at a venue where it has played more than three games that season (excluding exhibitions and conference tournaments).

I guess the away St. John's game counts towards those 3. So UConn could play 2 other games there. Which is a normal year. I expect they'll play one in Boston since Hurley said he wanted to again and the game against BYU was very well attended.

www.ncaa.org

NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Selections

NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Selections
www.ncaa.org www.ncaa.org
 
HooperScooper said:
According to the NCAA website:

A team cannot play at a venue where it has played more than three games that season (excluding exhibitions and conference tournaments).

I guess the away St. John's game counts towards those 3. So UConn could play 2 other games there. Which is a normal year. I expect they'll play one in Boston since Hurley said he wanted to again and the game against BYU was very well attended.

www.ncaa.org

NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Selections

NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Selections
www.ncaa.org www.ncaa.org
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It is a firm rule. Hence why Sampson had Houston not play at the Toyota Center last season and they wound up in the South regional.

MSG can be a regional but St Johns cannot play there much and neither can we.
 
I don’t think any of our games at MSG are home. They are neutral or road games
 
Lafayette said:
It is a firm rule. Hence why Sampson had Houston not play at the Toyota Center last season and they wound up in the South regional.

MSG can be a regional but St Johns cannot play there much and neither can we.
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Why wouldn't we?
 
Lafayette said:
It is a firm rule. Hence why Sampson had Houston not play at the Toyota Center last season and they wound up in the South regional.

MSG can be a regional but St Johns cannot play there much and neither can we.
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Yes, UConn can. BET doesn’t count. 1 away game vs SJU and 1-2 non-conference games and we’re good. Villanova did that one year when Philly was hosting some rounds, I forget which.
 
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Prediction

8 big games

at arizona
Kansas
Illinois in chicago
Arkansas in boston
Duke MSG
Kentucky MSG
At UNC
Michigan in Detroit

This would be reasonable based on Hurley saying next year would blow this years away
 
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I won’t go any further off topic, but not wanting Notre Dame to short end them on a football series is completely understandable. Notre Dame would not have salvaged anything regarding our current situation.
 
FightOnCT said:
I won’t go any further off topic, but not wanting Notre Dame to short end them on a football series is completely understandable. Notre Dame would not have salvaged anything regarding our current situation.
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Yeah let's not play a program that would give enormous exposure and credibility at a time when we needed it most and during a time that Notre Dame had become reasonably beatable. Would've been a positive in relations with the ACC to boot. Bad decision all the way around.
 
RuffRuff said:


That would be something - likely be playing the 3 of the top 5 teams not us. Too bad we didn't get Florida again.
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Kansas (H)
Arizona (A)
Illinois (N-Chicago)
UVA (N-MSG)
Duke (N-Vegas)
Michigan (N-Boston)

no idea of it's validity...but this would be incredible!!!

Hopefully the other two will be...

Florida (N-Philly/MSG)
Alabama (N-DC/MSG)
 
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gampelcrazies said:
I know a lot of people are gonna disagree but it’s true. They are slowly ruining the MSG games by playing too many
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The MSG games are great for the wealthy alumni in the NYC area and UConn does need the money. I think playing in Boston every year is good for the Boston alumni. Remember, most of these games are taking the place of playing in early season tournaments like Maui, Bahamas, ...
 
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