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We have 10 conference home-and-homes and three PK85 games. By my count that leaves 8 open slots. What is known and what is being speculated about those games?
 
I think we still have a make up at Florida from the 2020-21 season? Don’t know if that will still happen or not…
 
my guess:

20- BE
3- PK85
2- conference challenges
4- cupcakes
2- midmajors (hopefully including the aac H/H we agreed to)
 
If we are going to be in PK85 + both conference challenges, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Hurley go cupcakes for all the rest.

There should be 5 good P5 OOC resume builders in those tournaments / challenges.

I’d love to see a few mid majors on the scheduled as a fan of basketball and because VCU is more fun opponent than MD Eastern Shore. But the “risk” of scheduling those is probably not worth the reward in Hurleys eyes.
 
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Dream OOC for me would be:
PK85
Gavitt Wisco
Big12 TCU
LIU
Farfield
Monmouth
Hofstra
Yale
Cinci
4 cupcakes in the 150-250 kenpom range so possibility of sticking Q3, a good local rival, an old "rival", 2 good tests in the gavitt/big12 games and PK85
 
MJKI said:
Dream OOC for me would be:
PK85
Gavitt Wisco
Big12 TCU
LIU
Farfield
Monmouth
Hofstra
Yale
Cinci
4 cupcakes in the 150-250 kenpom range so possibility of sticking Q3, a good local rival, an old "rival", 2 good tests in the gavitt/big12 games and PK85
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Your dream is to play against TCU?
 
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Dream schedule
PK85
Big 12/BE (Baylor-H)
Gavitt (Illinois-A)
H/H (Suracuse-H)
H/H (Arizona-A)
Yale (H)
Princeton (H)
St. Joe’s (H)
Fairfield (H)

7 P5
4 cupcakes
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
yeah, my thoughts exactly. if our Big 12 game (at home, no less) is TCU that's a big whiff. We want one of Baylor, KU, Tech, or Texas coming to CT next year.

The "dream" is KU @ Gampel
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KU will have a home game next year in the challenge as they played at SJU this year.
 
McLovin said:
If we are going to be in PK85 + both conference challenges, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Hurley go cupcakes for all the rest.

There should be 5 good P5 OOC resume builders in those tournaments / challenges.

I’d love to see a few mid majors on the scheduled as a fan of basketball and because VCU is more fun opponent than MD Eastern Shore. But the “risk” of scheduling those is probably not worth the reward in Hurleys eyes.
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We can’t afford to go cupcake the rest of the way . We did that this year and it burned us.
 
Hi-Low said:
Should play Vermont every year...seem to be in the mix with regularity.
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Agreed.

There's some value in playing 1 true early-season cupcake game in the first week or two just to give the team a chance to go through the motions and get out the cobwebs.

But a year to year November/December "cupcake" schedule including 3-4 from this list would be great:
  • Vermont
  • BU
  • Northeastern
  • Harvard
  • Colgate
  • Fordham
  • Siena
  • Iona
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
Agreed.

There's some value in playing 1 true early-season cupcake game in the first week or two just to give the team a chance to go through the motions and get out the cobwebs.

But a year to year November/December "cupcake" schedule including 3-4 from this list would be great:
  • Vermont
  • BU
  • Northeastern
  • Harvard
  • Colgate
  • Fordham
  • Siena
  • Iona
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It's all about the metrics now, NET, Kenpom, etc. So scheduling quality opponents is crucially important. The more opportunities the better. Opponents > 200 don't help. In many ways losing to a good opponent is better than beating a cupcake.
 
shizzle787 said:
We can’t afford to go cupcake the rest of the way . We did that this year and it burned us.
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I don’t think it burnt us all that much. Actually early in the year we lost all our close ones with teams that weren’t considered cupcakes if we lost a few more do we get in? Need to mix them in, next years inexperience will be a tough start.
 
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Get a Job said:
We have 10 conference home-and-homes and three PK85 games. By my count that leaves 8 open slots. What is known and what is being speculated about those games?
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Probably sub 300 teams. That cannot happen
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
Agreed.

There's some value in playing 1 true early-season cupcake game in the first week or two just to give the team a chance to go through the motions and get out the cobwebs.

But a year to year November/December "cupcake" schedule including 3-4 from this list would be great:
  • Vermont
  • BU
  • Northeastern
  • Harvard
  • Colgate
  • Fordham
  • Siena
  • Iona
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Vermont has consistently not been a cupcake. Iona is coached by Pitino who knows how to maximize his personnel. Colgate is a 14 seed playing Wisconsin tonight.

The above 3 teams are competitive but we can beat them on a decent night.

Any one of the others would be cupcakes except Harvard which does usually field a decent team.
 
If we're going to be playing 300+ ranked teams in buy games every year, I'd like to see us open with CCSU every year. At least that way the money moves between CT public universities, plus we help CCSU a bit with recruiting and maybe sell a few extra single game tickets
 
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MJKI said:
Dream OOC for me would be:
PK85
Gavitt Wisco
Big12 TCU
LIU
Farfield
Monmouth
Hofstra
Yale
Cinci
4 cupcakes in the 150-250 kenpom range so possibility of sticking Q3, a good local rival, an old "rival", 2 good tests in the gavitt/big12 games and PK85
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James Jones has stated the UConn refuses to play them, so take Yale off that list.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
Agreed.

There's some value in playing 1 true early-season cupcake game in the first week or two just to give the team a chance to go through the motions and get out the cobwebs.

But a year to year November/December "cupcake" schedule including 3-4 from this list would be great:
  • Vermont
  • BU
  • Northeastern
  • Harvard
  • Colgate
  • Fordham
  • Siena
  • Iona
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You need to look up the definition of cupcake.
 
WrenchFan69 said:
If we're going to be playing 300+ ranked teams in buy games every year, I'd like to see us open with CCSU every year. At least that way the money moves between CT public universities, plus we help CCSU a bit with recruiting and maybe sell a few extra single game tickets
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Agreed. We could use the local media exposure, plus the $$$ is good because we have virtually no costs (other than the bus) for this game.

I think Central would be fine with an every other year game, or 3 of every 4 years, especially if we are unable to keep it competitive.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
yeah, my thoughts exactly. if our Big 12 game (at home, no less) is TCU that's a big whiff. We want one of Baylor, KU, Tech, or Texas coming to CT next year.

The "dream" is KU @ Gampel
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Yeah that will be a hoot.
 
August_West said:
Yeah that will be a hoot.
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We are due a home game and Kansas played on the road this year so I doubt it would be them. If we don't have a home game against either Texas or Baylor, I will be disappointed.
 
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