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22/23 schedule

Waquoit said:
I remember when we played 5 in one year. Went on to lose to George Mason.
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It was a George Mason freak show that year. They also beat UNC, Michigan State and Wichita State in the tourney. Playing tougher OOC games during the season lets you know where you really stand. Beating up on chumps proves nothing
 
Billy Bob said:
It was a George Mason freak show that year. They also beat UNC, Michigan State and Wichita State in the tourney. Playing tougher OOC games during the season lets you know where you really stand. Beating up on chumps proves nothing
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I mean we're playing in really tough in-season tournaments to start the year. I don't think who we schedule in November really matters that much for gaging where the team will be come March, especially since our in-conference schedule this year will be loaded with good teams.
 
Come tournament time there are a few things that spell success - luck/draw and tournament ready/tough are two of them
Luck and draw is beyond anyone's control for the most part.
Being tournament ready and tough is vital. A larger part of this is the schedule a team plays during the season. I fully understand that the NBE is going to be improved and a rough road but most coaches build their team to be successful in their league and every league plays a different brand of basketball. Yes, playing some cupcakes gives you that difference in exposure but in most cases these teams are not the top teams in their league and if not a P5 or one of the few other P6 (?) they are very weak. In most cases, if a team gets past the 1st game in the dance, they will face a P5 or very formidable P6 team.
If I had my preference I would play less cupcakes and more teams in the better leagues in the OOC schedule. I do feel, as a rule, UConn should play at least 2 in state teams and those may be the cupcakes.
Because of the in-season tournaments that UConn will play in this upcoming season the above may not be all that important, but UConn has had some very weak OOC schedules recently.
 
gtcam said:
Come tournament time there are a few things that spell success - luck/draw and tournament ready/tough are two of them
Luck and draw is beyond anyone's control for the most part.
Being tournament ready and tough is vital. A larger part of this is the schedule a team plays during the season. I fully understand that the NBE is going to be improved and a rough road but most coaches build their team to be successful in their league and every league plays a different brand of basketball. Yes, playing some cupcakes gives you that difference in exposure but in most cases these teams are not the top teams in their league and if not a P5 or one of the few other P6 (?) they are very weak. In most cases, if a team gets past the 1st game in the dance, they will face a P5 or very formidable P6 team.
If I had my preference I would play less cupcakes and more teams in the better leagues in the OOC schedule. I do feel, as a rule, UConn should play at least 2 in state teams and those may be the cupcakes.
Because of the in-season tournaments that UConn will play in this upcoming season the above may not be all that important, but UConn has had some very weak OOC schedules recently.
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The luck/draw part is the big thing for me. Everyone gets all bent out of shape about our NET and seeding all season, but in reality the matchups are much more important than the seeding. We should be past the point where making the tournament is a concern so schedule the tougher games and hopefully you get a good draw come tourney time.
 
I'm glad we at least confirmed we are likely getting a home game against a Big 12 team. I hope that team is either Texas or Baylor at XL. However, we need at least one more P5 opponent bare minimum. Preferably, we begin a permanent home and home series with Syracuse. They are our rival and a yearly home and home series would boost both programs.

For the other games, can we please not have a steady diet of Coppin State and CCSU as the article states?

What happened to scheduling Yale, Harvard, and Princeton? If we are going to schedule teams outside of the top 11 leagues (power conferences and multi-bid mid majors), can we at least schedule some teams from the Ivy League, CAA, Southern, or other middle of the pack Division 1 leagues. Why do we consistently have to grab teams from bottom barrel leagues like the NEC or MEAC?
 
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Not exactly sure how they could pull it off but a Baylor Men's x Women's Doubleheader would be very dope
 
navery12 said:
I don't know why you do this to yourself. Zero chance this happens
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What, you mean that's not our schedule?

Geez
 
Wish there was an ACC/Big East challenge. I like the conference challenge concept. We should get 3 of those a year- Big 10, Big 12 and ACC. Force Duke to play some road non conference games.
 
McLovin said:
The problem is, Hurley is a numbers guy. He’s going to look at the schedule we played this year (terrible OOC), the Big East games we could have potentially won (Creighton 2X, Hall, Xavier, PC), the fact that we finished with a mid-teens NET and say “if we won a few of those games we should have, we’d have been a top 10 NET team. So let’s run it back again.”

Would love to see a packed OOC schedule, but it’s clear the numbers the staff has feels the risk of an L outweighs the reward as long as we take care of business in conference play.

The thing is, they aren’t wrong. But is annoying as fans because a close loss in a packed Gampel to Michigan State would be way more entertaining than a 12 point win over Gardner Webb in an empty XL.

*we also get 2 challenge games added to the schedule this year, even less incentive for the staff to go out and schedule anymore P5 OOC games
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They don’t have to pay for the seats at the lousy games
 
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chrissy teigen life GIF
 
FWIW, OSU is the only fanbase I met at a Final Four that didn't suck.
 
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aburks41 said:
Such garbage. Another year of a terrible OOC home slate.
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I agree it's a little underwhelming, but this is still a top 30-40 team that's going to be a really good test going into conference play. Let's not overreact
 
navery12 said:
I agree it's a little underwhelming, but this is still a top 30-40 team that's going to be a really good test going into conference play. Let's not overreact
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It's not about Oklahoma State, it's about that this was the only game before New Year's that was going to be of intrigue at home. It had to be Baylor (or maybe Oklahoma) or it was going to be a disappointment. It will be a good game, fun atmosphere, but having to sit through CCSU, Coppin State, UMass - Lowell, New Hampshire, and Maine for 1 good game first two months of the season at home in the face of steep ticket price increases is a bit insulting.
 
Waquoit said:
FWIW, OSU is the only fanbase I met at a Final Four that didn't suck.
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I used to work for a subsidiary of MetLife that was out of OK City. I was in NYC, but most of the guys were OSU grads. Had a great time with them in San Antonio (until they had to go home early). Excellent fan base, hate UT and OU.
 
Storrs South said:
It's not about Oklahoma State, it's about that this was the only game before New Year's that was going to be of intrigue at home. It had to be Baylor (or maybe Oklahoma) or it was going to be a disappointment. It will be a good game, fun atmosphere, but having to sit through CCSU, Coppin State, UMass - Lowell, New Hampshire, and Maine for 1 good game first two months of the season at home in the face of steep ticket price increases is a bit insulting.
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That's fair, I just think that's setting some pretty unrealistic expectations. Complaining about the 300+ teams sure, that can and hopefully will change. But complaining about a game that UConn has zero control over, when all but one opponent is going to be deemed a disappointment just seems silly
 
Not sure why people expected that somehow this was going to be engineered to produce a premier matchup for UConn...guessing that if you asked Baylor, they’d not want to come to Gampel.

OSU is fine, not great, but fine.

The schedule will be underwhelming; the preference seems to be towards scheduling light. I used to really think the team benefited when Calhoun scheduled a serious OOC game in late January or early February. Would love to see that back.
 
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Fishy said:
Not sure why people expected that somehow this was going to be engineered to produce a premier matchup for UConn...guessing that if you asked Baylor, they’d not want to come to Gampel.
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Maybe because we are one of the two premier brands in the conference and are going to be one of the top 3 teams preseason?
 
Should be a borderline top 30 team at home. About as good as us. Q1/Q2 borderline.

Better than Oklahoma, West Virginia, or Kansas St. Baylor was the only better option.
 
auror said:
Should be a borderline top 30 team at home. About as good as us. Q1/Q2 borderline.

Better than Oklahoma, West Virginia, or Kansas St. Baylor was the only better option.
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WVU would have been a more exciting matchup from a fan perspective though. We have some BE history with WVU. Oklahoma State is just kinda a meh draw considering the other team we could have played...
 
Hey Adrien! said:
As long as we don't play Portland in PK85, our OOC includes FIVE high-major opponents: Florida, B12, and three PK85 teams (UNC, Alabama, Oregon, Villanova, Iowa State and Michigan State).

@shizzle787 will freak out at that, but that's as given as Abe Simpson yelling at clouds.
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I saw that Nova is in our bracket for PK85. How is that possible? I thought early season tournaments couldn't have match-ups between 2 teams of the same conference. Could mean we play Nova 4 times (maybe even 5) next season... just weird.
 
McLovin said:
I saw that Nova is in our bracket for PK85. How is that possible? I thought early season tournaments couldn't have match-ups between 2 teams of the same conference. Could mean we play Nova 4 times (maybe even 5) next season... just weird.
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We agreed to this before we rejoined the Big East. We will be in a spot we can only play in the Finals
 
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