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Non Conference Schedule Released

I’m personally excited about UB, if I can make it in November I’ll catch that game. That’s a good and well coached mid major.

They’re not the Nate Oats UB but they’re not some low level squad. IConn barely got them a few years ago in (?) Charleston.

The tourneys are where we’ll have to make our noise for résumé purposes, it appears.
 
The non conference schedule is fine. The home non conference schedule isn’t. When you are almost doubling seat prices over 3 years, to not correspond with more of an effort to provide better schedule quality, is frankly unexceptable.
I also question the basketball schedule wisdom. Basically the OOC quality games are over by December 7th. Jim Calhoun’s approach of having a quality late December OOC game and a quality mid season OOC game makes more sense. We are betting the house, we come out of the gates quick. If we fail at that we are in serious trouble.
Quite frankly, it is time to bring in a new schedule guy unless he is being overruled by Hurley.
 
DaveHuskiesFan said:
Projected 2023 Barttorvik

Stonehill - 363 (Q4)
Boston University - 324 (Q4)
Buffalo - 245 (Q4)
UNC Wilmington - 204 (Q4)
Delaware St - 349 (Q4)
Oregon - 33 (Q1)
Alabama - 37 (Q1) or Michigan St - 22 (Q1)
Oklahoma State - 30 (Q1)
Florida - 26 (Q1)
LIU - 293 (Q4)
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Projected 2023 Barttorvik

Final Game of the PKI will be one of the following:

UNC - 4 (Q1)
Villanova - 15 (Q1)
Iowa State - 46 (Q1)
Portland - 111 (Q3)

As an FYI, this system projects UConn at 59 (so Q2 for all other teams).
 
tzznandrew said:
Projected 2023 Barttorvik

Final Game of the PKI will be one of the following:

UNC - 4 (Q1)
Villanova - 15 (Q1)
Iowa State - 46 (Q1)
Portland - 111 (Q3)

As an FYI, this system projects UConn at 59 (so Q2 for all other teams).
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And that last line is why people should be putting zero stock into his projections for 2023 right now
 
Weak schedule imo. Hopefully the Big East ends up being better then projected.
 
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MrSec224 said:
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Ok let me take a stab at the location splits

Monday - 11/7 - Stonehill - Gampel
Friday - 11/11 - BU - XL
Tuesday - 11/15 - Buffalo - XL
Fri - 11/18 - UNCW - Gampel (WWE at XL)
Sun - 11/20 - Delaware St - Gampel (Women v NCSt at XL)
Thurs - 12/1 - Ok St - XL
Sat - 12/10 - Long Island - Gampel (Pack at XL)

Can’t see them leaving Campus on Fridays but i dont think it will be a 5-2 split. So lets guess one Friday at XL. Stonehill cant be at XL on a Monday, just can’t be. Had Delaware St set as an XL but gotta imagine Women vs NC State is a huge sales opportunity for XL. So then 4 - 3 Gampel OOC and assuming BE games go 5-5 to create 9 in Gampel and 8 at XL
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It seems like every year we have less and less Saturday home games.
 
It's a solid OOC schedule. Home slate could be better. I don't know if Hurley wants the easier games to avoid a potential loss, but it seems we could add a meh P5 team or an A10 level team. PKI is going to be great, except for the likely times.
 
The main concern I have with the OOC schedule is it puts a lot of stock in the PK85 games.

If we lose the first one, we could easily end up with zero quality wins through December.

The improvement in the cupcake portion of the schedule is welcome (more so for computer numbers than for home crowd excitement), but we really need to get another P5 home and home series in there, or an MSG game, or something, because having only one guaranteed solid P5 opponent plus the crapshoot of the Big XII pairing and early-season tournaments could leave our resume pretty bare.
 
Most national writers are saying that this is one of the better power non-conference schedules released. Complaints about the home schedule can be warranted but the schedule in it's entirety is strong.
 
MrSec224 said:
View attachment 77930

Ok let me take a stab at the location splits

Monday - 11/7 - Stonehill - Gampel
Friday - 11/11 - BU - XL
Tuesday - 11/15 - Buffalo - XL
Fri - 11/18 - UNCW - Gampel (WWE at XL)
Sun - 11/20 - Delaware St - Gampel (Women v NCSt at XL)
Thurs - 12/1 - Ok St - XL
Sat - 12/10 - Long Island - Gampel (Pack at XL)

Can’t see them leaving Campus on Fridays but i dont think it will be a 5-2 split. So lets guess one Friday at XL. Stonehill cant be at XL on a Monday, just can’t be. Had Delaware St set as an XL but gotta imagine Women vs NC State is a huge sales opportunity for XL. So then 4 - 3 Gampel OOC and assuming BE games go 5-5 to create 9 in Gampel and 8 at XL
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I didn't even realize we have a game on an NFL Sunday and against the worst team in CBB. Brutal.

Last time they did that against a low-major OOC was 2018 where they did it three times v. Maine, New Hampshire, and NJIT. Not sure why you would bring that back. At least it's only once, but yikes.

They did a better job last year of having all the OOC games on weekends be Saturday's as @lange10 noted (3 Saturday games v. CSU, Binghamton, and Grambling) last season.

I am guessing it is out of UConn's control and basically at the mercy of FOX/FS1.
 
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Storrs South said:
I didn't even realize we have a game on an NFL Sunday and against the worst team in CBB. Brutal.

Last time they did that against a low-major OOC was 2018 where they did it three times v. Maine, New Hampshire, and NJIT. Not sure why you would bring that back. At least it's only once, but yikes.

They did a better job last year of having all the OOC games on weekends be Saturday's as @lange10 noted (3 Saturday games v. CSU, Binghamton, and Grambling) last season.

I am guessing it is out of UConn's control and basically at the mercy of FOX/FS1.
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As a Cowboys fan I'm praying the UConn game has an early tip. Don't want to miss a regular season NFL game for a cupcake.
 
A step in the right direction, from last year. Our guys just have to stay focused and take care of business with blowouts against the cupcakes. Hopefully Hurley takes advantage of the cupcakes and gets the freshman early minutes to get their feet wet and ready to contribute when needed later in the season.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
The main concern I have with the OOC schedule is it puts a lot of stock in the PK85 games.

If we lose the first one, we could easily end up with zero quality wins through December.
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They play either Alabama or Michigan State in the second game and one of Villanova, North Carolina, Iowa State, or Portland in the third. Aside from Oklahoma State and Florida, they will also start conference play in December. If they don’t have any quality wins through December, the schedule is probably not the issue.
 
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MrSec224 said:
View attachment 77930

Ok let me take a stab at the location splits

Monday - 11/7 - Stonehill - Gampel
Friday - 11/11 - BU - XL
Tuesday - 11/15 - Buffalo - XL
Fri - 11/18 - UNCW - Gampel (WWE at XL)
Sun - 11/20 - Delaware St - Gampel (Women v NCSt at XL)
Thurs - 12/1 - Ok St - XL
Sat - 12/10 - Long Island - Gampel (Pack at XL)

Can’t see them leaving Campus on Fridays but i dont think it will be a 5-2 split. So lets guess one Friday at XL. Stonehill cant be at XL on a Monday, just can’t be. Had Delaware St set as an XL but gotta imagine Women vs NC State is a huge sales opportunity for XL. So then 4 - 3 Gampel OOC and assuming BE games go 5-5 to create 9 in Gampel and 8 at XL
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I’d think 1/2 of Buffalo/Ok State is in Gampel. If that’s not the case I might have to return my season tickets as I’m Gampel only (I’m aware I actually can’t do that but still). It would be terrible to not get one of the two “marquee” home opponents at Gampel.
 
Eardoc said:
And for that home schedule they raised their prices for season ticket holders? The athletic department should be ashamed. SMH
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Yes, and we wouldn’t have Oklahoma State if it wasn’t for the Big 12 challenge. why, just think, we could have played Trinity or Wesleyan instead.
 
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4xChamps said:
Most national writers are saying that this is one of the better power non-conference schedules released. Complaints about the home schedule can be warranted but the schedule in it's entirety is strong.
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It’s a little early in the day to be on the sauce isn’t it. This is not a challenging or impressive schedule at all. The out of conference schedule in its entirety is not impressive at all.
 
My only real head scratcher is Stonehill. They probably have no upside to help our numbers at all, plus a ton of downside if we don’t blow the doors off them.
 
Padutch5 said:
It’s a little early in the day to be on the sauce isn’t it. This is not a challenging or impressive schedule at all. The out of conference schedule in its entirety is not impressive at all.
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Pre-season #1 North Carolina OOC schedule with opponents Kenpom ratings
146 UNC Wilmington
144 College of Charleston
167 Gardner Webb
227 James Madison
180 PK tourney Portland
48 Indiana
241 The Citadel
31 Ohio State
27 Michigan

The Big East (2) has a higher conference RPI than the ACC (7) so having a lower ranked OOC schedule will not hurt the Huskies as much as the Tar Heels. I guess Davis doesn’t care.

At the risk of pissing off mau, I will invoke Geno’s name. Geno says he schedules teams that play a different style than conference teams so he can prepare his players for the tourney, where the Huskies will run into teams they don’t know. Maybe Hurley is thinking along the same lines.
 
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huskiesouth said:
Another reason why Stonehill should not be on the schedule.
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My buddy works for a lower division conference in New England as a commissioner, and he filled me in a bit on Stonehill. They weren't even good in their D2 conference. Haven't won their conference tournament since 2012, 10-9 in d2 conference last year. Graduating their best player, no good freshmen last year. Basketball gym seats less than 2k. Their school is literally 50% athletes (2500 enrollment, 1250 athletes). And now they have to do full scholarships lol. I have no idea how that math works out.
 
auror said:
My buddy works for a lower division conference in New England as a commissioner, and he filled me in a bit on Stonehill. They weren't even good in their D2 conference. Haven't won their conference tournament since 2012, 10-9 in d2 conference last year. Graduating their best player, no good freshmen last year. Basketball gym seats less than 2k. Their school is literally 50% athletes (2500 enrollment, 1250 athletes). And now they have to do full scholarships lol. I have no idea how that math works out.
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It doesn't. Which is why the Division 1 transformation committee is coming for schools like Stonehill. They should be in Division 3. They are milking off of the sweat equity of the 200-250 schools that have been Division 1 for 50+ years.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
The main concern I have with the OOC schedule is it puts a lot of stock in the PK85 games.

If we lose the first one, we could easily end up with zero quality wins through December.

The improvement in the cupcake portion of the schedule is welcome (more so for computer numbers than for home crowd excitement), but we really need to get another P5 home and home series in there, or an MSG game, or something, because having only one guaranteed solid P5 opponent plus the crapshoot of the Big XII pairing and early-season tournaments could leave our resume pretty bare.
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The main concern I have with the OOC schedule is it puts a lot of stock in the PK85 games.
If we lose the first one, we could easily end up with zero quality wins through December.

logic right thar. scary, uncomfortable, and disconcerting, yet logic nonetheless. only a fool would dismiss this possibility. likely? no.
possible? yes.
 
ThabeetDown said:
I’d think 1/2 of Buffalo/Ok State is in Gampel. If that’s not the case I might have to return my season tickets as I’m Gampel only (I’m aware I actually can’t do that but still). It would be terrible to not get one of the two “marquee” home opponents at Gampel.
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It just seems the XL availability is the roadblock to that. Can’t fathom Stonehill at the XL on a Monday. Maybe im wrong but they do typically like to open on campus
 
MrSec224 said:
It just seems the XL availability is the roadblock to that. Can’t fathom Stonehill at the XL on a Monday. Maybe im wrong but they do typically like to open on campus
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Gampel will likely get Nova, Creighton, and Providence this year so it will even out.
 
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