kwyjibo Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 http://www.slubillikens.com/SportSelect.dbml?ATCLID=211088996&DB_LANG=C&&DB_OEM_ID=27200&SPID=93216&SPSID=632637 Frankly, this is disappointing. If SLU is going to go to the NCAA it needs to give itself a better chance by playing more quality opponents. They could rack a nice W-L record here but not get much credit. I do not know how good teams are going to be next year but using last year as a guide Missouri is a quality opponent. Little Rock and SIUE are decent. E. Kentucky might be OK. Washington St. has a nice RPI but they were a near-bottom team in the best conference in the country. Lots of bad teams otherwise. The good news is they play 7 road games (including 3 of the 50 worst teams in the nation last year--Bradley, Lipscomb and UC-Irvine) that are all winnable so that might help. I am hoping some of these teams get a lot better this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 -there was a post in a women's thread that the ooc schedule for this season was going to be much improved, whoever posted that, is this the case? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMM28 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 coach definitely has a type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Remember that it takes two to tango and a historically garbage program like SLU WBB, even though they had big success last season, is going to have a tough time convincing the Big Girls to agree to potentially lose to said historically bad program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwyjibo Posted July 29, 2016 Author Share Posted July 29, 2016 1 hour ago, billikenfan05 said: Remember that it takes two to tango and a historically garbage program like SLU WBB, even though they had big success last season, is going to have a tough time convincing the Big Girls to agree to potentially lose to said historically bad program. It may or many not be difficult to schedule the "Big Girls" but it is not that difficult to schedule harder. If you are traveling all the way to California or Nashville to play one of the worst D-I teams it is obviously intentional. The issue is not even that there are a few really bad teams but that there are so few even mediocre teams. It would not be hard to schedule the better teams of Valley conferences or any number of top 150 teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Question - is not the A10 considered a pretty decent WBB league. Do they not usually have a couple of teams ranked each year? Could it be that she wants a more balanced schedule given the A10 league? I don't know I am just asking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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