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22/23 schedule

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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Nov. 24-27, PK85 Tournament: UConn will be among the teams in this loaded 16-team tournament to be held in Portland, Ore. The field will be separated into two brackets, with UConn in a bracket that also features defending national runner-up North Carolina, as well as Alabama, Iowa State, Michigan State, Oregon, Portland and Villanova.

Villanova, you say? How did two Big East teams wind up in the same bracket? Well, when the field was originally formed, shortly after the inaugural PK80 Tournament in 2017 concluded, UConn was still in the American Athletic Conference. Two Big East members were invited, Villanova and Xavier, with the understanding that they would be separated into different brackets.

Once UConn joined the Big East, the tournament elected to keep the field as it was and put the Huskies in the same bracket as Villanova. It’s likely the teams will be placed on opposite ends of the bracket, but there still remains a chance that they could meet in what would be a non-conference game. That would mean they’d face each other three times in the regular season alone — and possibly again in the Big East tournament.

www.ctinsider.com

Here’s what we know about UConn men’s basketball team’s 2022-23 schedule

The UConn men’s basketball team’s 2022-23 schedule won’t be finalized until around September, but it will include the Big East/Big 12 Challenge.
www.ctinsider.com www.ctinsider.com
 
aburks41 said:
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...
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I don't know. It's possible WVU would be a Q3 game if they were our opponent, although projections vary wildly on them. I can't get too excited about that. I also never felt much rivalry with WVU outside of like the Pittsnoggle years and that was almost 20 years ago.

I think it's also possible they wouldn't schedule the same teams 2 years in a row, so maybe it wasn't even an option.
 
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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When are schedules usually finalized? Would people be happy if this is the biggest OOC home game, but all the other OOC home games are the likes of Yale, Vermont, etc?
 
How Sway?! said:
When are schedules usually finalized? Would people be happy if this is the biggest OOC home game, but all the other OOC home games are the likes of Yale, Vermont, etc?
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Some of us would be happy with that, but it will never happen. Not any time soon, anyway.
 
How Sway?! said:
When are schedules usually finalized? Would people be happy if this is the biggest OOC home game, but all the other OOC home games are the likes of Yale, Vermont, etc?
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It IS The biggest home OOC game. That’s already a fact.
 
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I haven't read more than the first page, but I love seeing the OP keeping Coppin State on the schedule as a true geographically distant cupcake game. "Cupcake" has a nice sound to it, and I wonder if somebody has already suggested an annual trophy for a 'wordplayed' "Cops & Cons" nickname for this game, now that UCF is no longer a conference rival.
 
TLDR: playing too many cupcakes is bad and can build unrealistic expectations, especially in the 06-07 season.

I'll never forget the 06-07 season where we started 11-0 due to having more cupcakes than a first grade classroom birthday party. We were pretty highly ranked by the end of that stretch, though the rest of the season was kind of a disaster.


Even though it went poorly, it was a really fun season to watch. We had 8 freshmen (Hasheem Thabeet, Jerome Dyson, Stanley Robinson, Curtis Kelly, Ben Eaves, Jonathan Mandeldove, Doug Wiggins, and Gavin Edwards), along with sophomores Jeff Adrien, Marcus Johnson, Rob Garrison, and Craig Austrie. AJ Price was a redshirt sophomore after missing one season due to AVM and another due to you-know-what.

Some of my top memories from that season are Thabeet trying to pass the ball to Calhoun, Marcus Johnson's dunk-filled 16 point game against West Virginia, seeing Ben Eaves score his sole point at UConn, and Price and Austrie's different styles yo-yoing them in and out as starting PG. Also, Mandeldove showed flashes, sinking a mid-range jumper against Pitt and blocking 5 shots in as many minutes in another game.

Seeing Johnson flounder at the 3 after a really encouraging freshman season (he was projected as a #9 draft pick for 2007 when the season started) and Rob Garrison's lack of success after a summer where he put in a ton of effort were saddening. Otherwise, it was in many ways a really fun season. Except for all of the losing.

Speaking of Marcus Johnson, he's the only guy I remember who played in one exhibition game prior to transferring, rather than doing so in the off season.

This probably should've been it's own thread, as I'm way off topic by this point.
 
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UofCT said:
BY would meltdown if we won by 50.

"Why did Hurley leave in the starters"
"We should have played zone"
"Not happy X or Y"
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"Why did Hurley leave the starters in for too long"
"Why did we play zone, they hit one open 3"
 
Peacefrog said:
Ack. Not excited to read this. I was really hoping to see them game the system a bit more with fewer Q4 games in favor of Q3 cupcakes. Did we really need to play a transitioning Div II school?
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...said Gonzaga fans last year when they played Dixie State.

...said Kansas fans last year when they played Tarleton State

...said Baylor fans last year when they played Incarnate Word

...said UCLA fans last year when they played Bellarmine
 
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If we're going to play a horrific NEC team every year, we might as well open against CCSU every time. Keep buy-game money in CT, help out the only other public D1 school in the state with recruiting, maybe sell a couple extra tickets to CCSU alums who are on the fence about going to a UConn game.
 
Not an opponent that is worth seeing but I am not at all surprised
Kansas, UCLA, Baylor and Gonzaga can play these teams and still get into the dance and win some NCAA games.
This season, however, to be fair, UConn does play some different but better national opponents early.
This team needs to get that recent NCAA monkey off their backs
 
Hey Adrien! said:
...said Gonzaga fans last year when they played Dixie State.

...said Kansas fans last year when they played Tarleton State

...said Baylor fans last year when they played Incarnate Word

...said UCLA fans last year when they played Bellarmine
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Did those schools just raise prices through the roof and bleed out long time season ticket holders?
 
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Storrs South said:
Pretty sure they have a basketball analytics consultant they use to help with optimal scheduling. The problem is even with how bad the non-con was outside of the Bahamas, it has likely minimal impact on the season.

UConn's NET hovered around 15-20 all season long. Partly this was because they played pretty well all season, but also because the Big East had such a strong year. Despite this, I hope the administration and staff realize how bad it is to play so many garbage opponents at home.

I think we all understand a couple games to work on things, give younger guys some minutes, play with rotations and so on, but there is a point where folks are looking for semi - competitive games OR games that have a little regional juice to it. And continually playing teams with no one over 6'7" can only be so instructive. I understand Hurley wants to get some HBCU's in the building like we saw with Coppin State, UMES, and Grambling but these are non-competitive games and can't make up such a substantial portion of the schedule.

They should be looking at reviving the East - West game with Gonzaga from a decade ago, a home and home (NOT MSG, we get SJU at the Garden now so these games need to be deprioritized in neutral venues) with Cuse needs to be brought back, Hurley should be talking to Willard about playing Maryland if it isn't going to happen already via Gavitt Games, Benedict should get another home and home with Auburn his old employer, now that Cox is gone from URI and his former players are gone they should be scheduling URI, the one exception for MSG since they never would come to Connecticut would be Duke at the Garden, Notre Dame would be a fun WBB / MBB doubleheader (at MSG, not Newark yuck), they were supposed to play some games against AAC schools get Memphis back to XL again before those sanctions kick in.

I dunno there are just so many options and obviously can't please everyone, but they just got to stop with playing games in New Jersey, MSG if only necessary, play less teams in the 300+ range, and get better games in Gampel non-con.
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UConn’s record with Consultants, doesn’t exactly have a record of producing stellar results.
 
Fishy said:
I don’t much care who we play - I just want them to stop inviting the absolute dregs.

There’s no reason to play a 300+ team. Do we owe Coppin State money from a gambling debt?

Also, I used to love the mid-season OOC matchup. A good made for TV matchup in late January or early February is great.
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I agree about a mid season match-up. Gives a team that may have developed since early on a chance of beating a National type team. Calhoun was so smart in so many ways.
 
businesslawyer said:
You think major college sports programs care about what they're giving their fans? That's so cute.
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Only when it hits them in the pocket - and that likely happened a week ago. But, Hurley will need to be nudged by the AD.
 
Chief00 said:
UConn’s record with Consultants, doesn’t exactly have a record of producing stellar results.
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To be fair, most organizations records with consultants don’t exactly have a record of producing stellar results. Just sayin…
 
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