I hope Hurley reconsiders his stance on preseason tournaments

[jibsey]

Those type of tournaments serve as rewards for the players too. Having a trip to Maui, Atlantis, etc. is a great team bonding trip and pay off for their hard work. Places that they may have never been before and get to experience as a group.

Really? When you win the bonding somehow works better. The jet skiing was nice but…..

 

[BFieldHusky]

'The MTE model is outdated': November's nonconference scheduling is getting a shake-up

In college hoops' new era, traditional multiteam events are less attractive for high-major programs. Are alternatives such as the Players Era Festival the answer?

www.espn.com

TWO DAYS AFTER UConn returned home from a disastrous 0-3 trip to the Maui Invitational, Dan Hurley took to the podium following the Huskies' 99-45 win over Maryland-Eastern Shore -- and dealt a blow to the multiteam event (MTE) format that has been a mainstay of the college basketball calendar.

"I'm not doing another three-game MTE again," Hurley said. "Moving forward, we will only play home-and-homes and single-game events in big-time arenas. I don't think I'll ever do a three-game MTE again."

While it might have come across as sour grapes, Hurley's comments were not just a reaction to the previous few days. The Huskies had expressed their future nonconference scheduling plans to multiple entities prior to the Maui Invitational, sources told ESPN.

They aren't the only ones taking this approach. High-major programs, including UConn, are steering away from eight-team events and moving toward four-team events, one-off neutral-site games and home-and-home series. At least five teams ranked in the top 20 of this year's preseason AP poll are in various stages of discussions over home-and-home series beginning next season, sources said.

 

[Dooooooomed]

 

[RuffRuff]

I will say I wish we would at least consider coming back to Maui, it's an important tournament in the 'lore' of UConn basketball. The rest of the tournaments I could live without.

It’ll be dead after 2028. Not sure why people care so much about these meaningless tourneys, the only one that matters is in March. As long as you are playing good competition play it wherever it make sense. Do what’s best for the program economically and to build the type of roster that wins when it matters.

 

[Huskyforlife]

It’ll be dead after 2028. Not sure why people care so much about these meaningless tourneys, the only one that matters is in March. As long as you are playing good competition play it wherever it make sense. Do what’s best for the program economically and to build the type of roster that wins when it matters.

Tournaments like this actually tell you a lot about where your team is. I'm glad we had the opportunity to be exposed because it inspired the group to start fixing their problems. Beating Memphis and Colorado at home would've given us cover to make excuses.

 

[87Xfer]

The idea that UConn lost two games by a combined 3 points because they didn't play a top 200 team is completely insane.

Not really. In fact I disagree completely.

 

[Kolumbo]

3 games in 3 days in November really makes no sense, especially for young teams. You need to coach them up, evaluate, practice, teach after every game. This format just throws teams out there hoping for the best no matter how they are playing.

 

[3rdbass]

Charleston is a blast. Love it. But there's no way we're playing there again. They aren't pulling top teams, there's no money in it. I doubt even Atlantis will anymore.

These things popped up because there used to be an exemption. You got to play and extras 2-3 games a year if you participated. Now that's gone and it really doesn't make much sense to have 6 to 8 really good programs play in a 2000 seat arena.

This is the last year of the Charleston. It is ending.

 

[RuffRuff]

It’ll be dead after 2028. Not sure why people care so much about these meaningless tourneys, the only one that matters is in March. As long as you are playing good competition play it wherever it make sense. Do what’s best for the program economically and to build the type of roster that wins when it matters.

We would have found other ways to discover who we were. You don’t need a frenetic 3 day tourney 12 hours away to do that.

Try reducing the slate from 5 sub 320 KP tomato can to maybe 2-3 as a start. Anything beyond 2-3 to get the legs warm is pointless.

 

[7774]

I can’t imagine we‘ll quit the 4 team MTEs because then you’re giving up games on the schedule.

 

[Scottobot]

It’ll be dead after 2028. Not sure why people care so much about these meaningless tourneys, the only one that matters is in March. As long as you are playing good competition play it wherever it make sense. Do what’s best for the program economically and to build the type of roster that wins when it matters.

If they really replace with it with the same number of quality matchups against good teams than I am fine with not doing the MTEs, but if they replace it with more sub 150 team matchups than that will stink. Right now because of UConn recent success they might be able to get some good scheduling options, but there have been some years where these tournaments are the only exciting games on the pre conference schedule.

 

[Viet Vet]

Isn’t the Big East tourney MTE?