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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4104705, member: 833"] Do college basketball teams do a lot of 2 for 1's? This isn't football. Playing a regional road team from the a A10 really helps the computer rankings if we win and is a reasonable road trip for fans. Losing on the road to a Top 50 team like URI doesn't hurt that much either. We don't want a schedule of just Top 25 and >200 ranked opponents. There is a risk to scheduling middle of the pack P5 teams that they may suck one year and go 3-15 or something in conference, which turns a good OOC game into a bad one. A team like URI is unlikely to ever get pummeled in league play after we play them. They will always be around the bubble. The only reason not to do it is that Rhode Island is pretty much a wasteland for recruiting. Fordham, St. Joe's or GW are better road trips from that perspective, but those programs all suck so URI is probably a better overall option. [/QUOTE]