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Freeman staying with UConn men's program

Future foes

UConn athletic director David Benedict, who stopped by the football team’s morning workout Tuesday, said that Hurley and he have already had discussions about scheduling games in the future against former Big East opponents.

The Huskies are scheduled to play Villanova next season at Madison Square Garden and are likely to match up with Syracuse as part of the 2K Classic as well. Benedict said games against Providence, St. John’s, and even Boston College, are likely to occur in the near future
 
The exhibition game against Providence was fun last year. I'd be down for a 3-game series similar to what UConn signed with Villanova with the third game at Mohegan Sun instead of MSG. Seems more than likely with Hurley as head coach now.
 
tcf15 said:
The exhibition game against Providence was fun last year. I'd be down for a 3-game series similar to what UConn signed with Villanova with the third game at Mohegan Sun instead of MSG. Seems more than likely with Hurley as head coach now.
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Been saying this for two years now. Now that providence is becoming relevant, a H and H with a third game at Mohegan would be awesome. Place was 2/3 full for a preseason game when tix went on sale 4 days before. I’d love to see that local rivalry return
 
FriarJ said:
the messenger!

Freeman staying with UConn men's program

Future foes

UConn athletic director David Benedict, who stopped by the football team’s morning workout Tuesday, said that Hurley and he have already had discussions about scheduling games in the future against former Big East opponents.

The Huskies are scheduled to play Villanova next season at Madison Square Garden and are likely to match up with Syracuse as part of the 2K Classic as well. Benedict said games against Providence, St. John’s, and even Boston College, are likely to occur in the near future
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Why would anyone think that games with regional opponents is a bad thing? FWIW, this mitigates one of the stronger arguments for joining the NBE.
 
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Jaker said:
Nova. St Johns. Cuse. Georgetown, Providence, if we could play them every year in the garden we would not need to join the big east.
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I've wondered about this. If two or three old rivals are on the schedule every year it would help. There place, ours, msg, Mohegan. We need less games against teams we don't care about. I.e. Coppin States. We have enough of that in conference.
 
I’d rather play PC etc. at home than any of the crap schools. A reality of this conference is we need to step up our home scheduling big time to keep fans coming. I’d love 2 for 1 so it would be easier. PC wouldn’t go for that but maybe URI or UMass would. Whatever can be arranged to minimize games people don’t want to see needs to be take very seriously. There are so many levels of interesting opponents. St Bonaventure, Davidson, St Joe’s and so on are so much more appealing than the crap schools that we see sometimes. I know it is easier said than done but geez.

I’d also like to play Vermont over a Coppin St. They are pretty good, don’t kill our RPI and their fans would drive down and help sell some tickets.
 
Jaker said:
Nova. St Johns. Cuse. Georgetown, Providence, if we could play them every year in the garden we would not need to join the big east.
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It could be kind of like Philly's Big 5 round robin, which includes Penn, Temple, 'Nova, St. Joe's and LaSalle. That gives them each short (non-existent) travel for four "neutral site" games against quality opponents. This would be a much better version.
 
Kembacity said:
There should be an "old Big East" tournament in the pre/mid season. Grab 8 teams and play a bracket out over a long weekend
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I've had this idea of a"Northeast Invitational" or something every thanksgiving at MSG. Hosted by UConn, Syracuse and Georgetown (or Nova or St Johns or whomever) (3 different conferences so conference scheduling isn't an issue).

Invite a 4th "major team" from anywhere, a different one every year.

I think that would be "lit"
 
Go AAC with (2) Uconn/Cinci, ACC with (2 of) Cuse/Pitt/BC and Big East with (2 of) Prov/SJ/Nova/Gtown and alernate Rutgers and WVU. 8 teams, 2 brackets so conference mates don’t play. Like the Nike event. Maybe rotate venues every year.
 
nadav said:
Go AAC with (2) Uconn/Cinci, ACC with (2 of) Cuse/Pitt/BC and Big East with (2 of) Prov/SJ/Nova/Gtown and alernate Rutgers and WVU. 8 teams, 2 brackets so conference mates don’t play. Like the Nike event. Maybe rotate venues every year.
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You have too much time on your hands
 
Kemba429 said:
We should play BC every year for what they did to us... Do it.
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I have zero interest in playing BC in basketball. They're a boring program with a nothing fan base. I despise them, but not in the sort of way where I would take a ton of pleasure in beating them. When we played them in the 2013 2K classic, it was like pulling teeth. Everything to lose, not a lot to gain.

Holding a grudge against someone to your own detriment is bad and that's why we play Syracuse. But even with it looking like BC might be turning their program around, they don't have the juice to get me to withstand the sheer contempt I have for them. Cuse, Georgetown, St. John's, Providence, and maybe even UMass/URI rank before them for me.
 
UConn Men's Notebook: Salary For Assistants, Benedict Discusses Recruiting
Look for UConn to take a more regional approach to its future out-of-conference scheduling, with more focus on former Big East rivals. UConn officials like the idea of a yearly or near-yearly game with Providence at Mohegan Sun, if possible, where proceeds would be split and both teams get the NCAA metrics benefit of a “neutral site” game. UConn and Providence played an exhibition game there last September
 
I think the regional focus for basketball and football is the way to go. Stir up the hype in the northeast first...get back to our roots.

I want to see games annualy against Providence, Syracuse, Georgetown, Pittsburgh, and Villanova.

Secondary options of Boston College, Rhode Island, Seton Hall, St. John's, UMass, and Rutgers would be nice.

Then if we need some warm-up games schedule Holy Cross, Yale, Vermont, Hartford, Fordham, Harvard, and Colgate.
 
UConn's Top 20 foes:

Syracuse - 94 games
Boston College - 86 games
Rhode Island - 71 games
Georgetown - 66 games
Providence - 65 games
Villanova - 64 games
Seton Hall - 62 games
St. John's - 62 games
Pittsburgh - 60 games
Massachusetts - 58 games
Holy Cross - 53 games
Yale - 52 games
Rutgers - 51 games
New Hampshire - 50 games
Maine - 45 games
Boston University - 43 games
Vermont - 39 games
Fairfield - 34 games
Manhattan - 31 games
Notre Dame - 28 games

Looks like Benedict and Hurley have a clear list for non-conference foes.

Cincinnati comes in at 21st with only 26 games and South Florida and 26th with only 21 games.....the two highest played current conference opponents.
 

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