choice Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 in talking briefly with earl austin at the game monday night, he said one of the positive aspects of being in the atlantic 10 was that we can still play a similar schedule and get home and home against teams from major conferences. it's just tough for those good mid-major programs to get those games on a consistent basis (other than those early-season tournaments). I think roy mentioned this earlier. earl said all you have to do is look at the non-conference schedules of the two leagues. that's what i did. here's what i found. St. Joseph dec. 9 - boston college dec 20 California feb. 2- at villanova Temple Nov. 21 villanova nov.29 Illinois dec 9 arizona state dec. 15 south carolina jan 3 at indiana feb. 14 georgetown rhode island nov. 30 at syracuse dec. 23 charlotte dec. 8 providence xavier nov. 29 indiana dec. 13 mississippi state dec. 23 at texas jan. 13 at alabama feb. 3 cincinnati St. bonaventure dec. 3 syracuse Richmond dec. 3 at uab dec. 6 wake forest Umass Dec. 30 at unconn jan 3 Tennessee Dayton dec. 23 Cincinnati by contrast missouri valley Smsu dec. 20 saint louis creighton Nov. 29 st. bonaventure Dec. 10 Nebraska dec. 13 fresno state dec. 22 wyoming bradley dec. 7 at depaul dec. 29 at unlv southern illinois jan. 2 charlotte northern iowa iowa *i won't bore you with everything, but i think you get the point. and notice how many home games that a 10 schools have against those programs from the elite leagues. that means a higher RPI and a better chance at the big dance. just look at creighton, which was a top 10 league last year at one time. the best they can do for nonconference game are the likes of nebraska, wyoming and fresno state. not bad teams, but it's not getting arizona, ucla, illinois, missouri in your house. sms should have a hell of good team this year, but the biggest name on their nonconference schedule this year is us. most of their top nonconference games are against other top mid-major schools. that's why they created that bracket buster deal, to hopefully give the mid majors a little bump. it's just tough for mid majors to get big time nonconference games because the big boys won't play them a home and home on a regular basis. we would have had the same problem in the mvc. we won't in the a 10. we can still have home and home with the big boys if we so choose for the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xu95 Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 Actually ours is correct except for Dec. 23 has been changed to @ Iowa St. (the Texas game fell through, I think they chose to play Duke instead) and the Alabama game is at home. xu95 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choice Posted November 5, 2003 Author Share Posted November 5, 2003 thanks for the correction. another example. xavier lost a big 12 team on the schedule and they are able to replace it with another big 12 team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwyjibo Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 Don't forget that UMass is likely on a temporary scheduling lull because they don't expect to rebuild a bit this year. They have been able to get ACC, Big East, and even Big 10 temas (Ohio State broke the ice 2 years ago) to come to Amherst. Actually Ohio State like UMass so much that stayed and practiced at the Mullins Center day of and day after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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